MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL Daily Southern Cross Office, Friday evening.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3971, 14 May 1870, Page 3

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL Daily Southern Cross Office, Friday evening.

The amount of business which has been transacted during the past week either privately or by auction has been exceedingly trifling, and we have no changes in value of goods to note. Quotations remain to a great extent nominal, there being but few buyers in the market. "We understand that the affairs of Mr. H. S. Meyers, who recently suspended operations, nave been arranged to the satisfaction of those interested, which we consider should have a salutary influence on commercial matters generally. We notice the arrival of a shipment of Hawaiian sugar per s.s. 'Wonga Wonga,' which has been sent to test our market. The majority of the samples are suitable for the trade, and, if it can be laid down at prices to compare favourably •with the product of Java and Mauritius, we shall doubtless have a large trade with these islands in the staple. Maize at the moment is scarce, and would fetch 5s 3d to 5s 6d per bushel in wholesale parcels. Oats remain as last quoted. Kauri gum may be quoted at 301. to 38Z. per ton, according to quality. For flax, the demand is limited, fh-st quality being worth £20 per ton. Candles remain without change of quotations. Belmonts, 11 id; other brands, full weights, lower. Confectionery.— Keillor's, 10£ d and lid per lb. Flour and Grain. — No alteration in prices. Auckland-grown, 14Z. and 121. Fish. — Lobsters, 8s 6d ; salmon, 13s 6d to 14s ; sardines, halres, 9s 9d ; quarters, 6s 3d. » * . Fruit. — Currants, scarce, 5d to s^d ; raisins (good Cape), 5d ; jams (Tasmanian), glutted, 6s to 9s. Hops.— Fair demand for '69 at 2s per lb. ; old, glutted and unsaleable. Malt. — Overstocked ; quotations, 9s 6d to 10a per bushel. Oils. — Kerosine, nominal, 3s 6d to 3s 9d for best brands and scarce. Linseed oil in drum, 4s 6d ; castor oil, ss, dull ; tea oil, 5s 6d, nominal. No black or sperm now offering in the market. Oilmen's Stores, etc. — Pickles, 12s 9d ; salad oil, scarce, pints, 13s 6d ; half-pints, 8s — for good brands. Starch and blue, no alteration from last week. Provisions. — Cheese : Fair demand, good quality, 6d to 7d per lb. Butter, lid to 13d for best corned. Bacon and hams : Good colonial, lOd to 12d. Sugar (in bond). — Stocks of white have been low ; white crystals are worth 4d to 4£d ; yellow counter and crystals, 3|d to 3£d. Tea. — Some portion of the ' Waverley'a ' cargo, we understand, has beea placed privately at fair prices. Tobacco. — Good, tena and twelves, 9sd to lOd per lb. in bond,; inferior sorts, overstocked and unsaleable. Beers, Wines, and Spirits.— Beer and ale in bottles, quarts, ' good brands, duty paid, 10a to 11s ; stout, Us to 11s 6d, with but littile doing.

SPIRITS IN BOND. Brandt. — Hogsheads and quarter-casks, Hennessy's and MarteU's, 7s 6d to 8a ; other brands nominal. In case : Hennessy's, 27s to 283 ; Martell's, -26s to-275.' '< " Rum. — 30 0.p., bhds. and quarter-casks, 4s 3d to 4s 6d ; 10 0.p., hhds. and quar-ter-casks, 3s 6d.V . • J ' ' : Whiskey.' '—. (In/ bond)- Campbelltbwn, quarter-casks;. 5s J6d to, 6a ;'Dunville's. in case, 168jtojl6^6a didL; '\ ' ', ' GBNKVA.- : -llea" cases,' "proof, l^s 6d to 15s; red cases, 18 ;a.p., lls; green, caßea, proof/ «a r Bd to Hti.iJ - - * ' r ?}>* -, -*> WiNKi.^-Notl4n§f of to" record,

tfastorns fteeeipts To-day :—79IJ: — 791J 939 3 id • light dues, 14s 3d ; M.S. fees, 9s ; arms foes, II 2s. Total, 793Z 14s 4d. Messrs. g. Cochrane and Son sold the following properties at their mart, Fortstreet, to-day :— 4OO acres, Waikato, parish of Pukekura, being lots 81, 82, 84, 85, 88, 89, and 95, at 7a 6d per acre ; 50 acres, Waikato, parish of Te Eapa, lot 117, 5s 3d per acre; 80 acres.' parish of Tokatoka, 2s 9d per acre ; allotment 14 of the subdivision of lot 15, s-ction 7, suburbs of Auckland, 40 feet frontage to Karangahape Road, 402. ; lots 17 aud 18, section 1, Otahuhu, 51. 105.