MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. Daily Southern Cross Office,
Saturday Evening. Customs Receipts To-day : — Duties, £3.19 14s lid ; light dues, £5 IGs2d; arms fees, £."> 17s ; port charges, 15s lOd ; other receipts, £1. Total, £371 3s lid. Mr. J3. Tonks sold at his mart, Queeiistreet, to-day: — Honolulu treacle, duty-paid, 2]d per Ib. ;' bacon, 7d ; cheese, 7kl ; potatoes, 2/ 10s ; jams, 6s 6il I3er case ; onions, 2il ; mustard, Sd ; Lea and Perrin's sauce, 13s per dozen. Mr. S. Jones reports the following prices realised at his sa!e to-day : — Beef, 3-fd per lb. ; pork. 7d ; maize, 5s pet- bushel ; barley, 2s Gd ; potatoes, 21. 10s ; cheese, from Gd to 9d ; oats, 3s Gd ; onions, l^d to lfcl ; butter, 7d to 9d ; tea, 2s 2d; jama, 7d ; sugar, sjd ; spiced mutton, 3d ; pickles, 8d ; candles, 11 id ; kerosine, 4s 5d ; salt, _ 3s sd ; biscuit, 20s ; oatmeal, 3d ; soap, 225; rice, 3'jd ; port wine, 20s ; ginger wine, 16s. [ At Messrs. 0. Arthur and Son's sale of poultry to-day, the following prices were obtained :— Fowls, 3s Sd to 7s per pair ; geese, 10s to 12s ; ducks, 4s Gd to ss. I Mr. L. W. Eaton held a sale of timber on the Customhouse-street Wharf, to-day. There was a very good attendance ; pi ices ranging from 7s to 9s 3d per 100 ft.
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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 4002, 20 June 1870, Page 3
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214MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. Daily Southern Cross Office, Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 4002, 20 June 1870, Page 3
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