MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4636, 4 July 1872, Page 2

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

Southern Cross Office, Wednesday evening. Afc Mr. R. Arthur's sale ef fruit, &c, there was a good attendance, and the following prices were realised: — Apple?, l$fd to 2Jd ; pears, 2|d to 3d j hops, season 72, lid per lh. Mr. S. Jonea held a trade sale of groceries, oilmen's stores, Jc, to-day. The attendance was good, and the following prices were realised : — Fine salt, £5 2s 6d ; whiting, 9s 9d ; IC sugar, 4|d ; white Java crystals, 4Jd ; Kaisow congou, half-chests, ox 'Delta, 1 la 8.Jd and Is 9.1 ; Hankow congou, chests, ex 'Rose of Australia,' 2s; Kaisow congou, half-chests, 'Bernard,' Is 9jjd ; scented orange pekoo, boxes, 2a lOd ; Brandon's candles, ll^d j Young's paraffin candles, ll£d ; crushed loaf sugar, 6d j McConnell's bacon and hams, 84d ; Canterbury bacon, 7d ; Otago oatmeal, 15s ; rice, 3^d ; Devoe's kerosine, 2s 8d.

THE SHAREMA.KKET. Mr. E, B. Robinson reports : — " Market has been exceedingly depressed during the last two days, a panic' having taken place in Green Harp shares, which receded to 35s. I sold— City of London, 83 ; Pride of Tokatea, 5s 6d, 6s ; Bismarck, £5. 10s ; Green Harp, 60s, 37s 6d, 35s, 40s, 41s ; Caledonian, £17. Market closed firm, with a good demand for Green Harp and Ooromandel Beach." Mr: J. M. Lennox reports : — " The sharemarket was very dull until the olose of the day, when there was considerable excitement in Green Harp shares. Shares were sold as low as 32s 6d ; they afterwards rallied, and closed with buyers at £2 2s. BUmarok shares are rather easier, closing with sellers «t £5 5s. There is no change in Caledonians. My sales compriie— Caledonian, £17 5s, £17; Bismarck, £5 7s 6d, £5 5s ; Green Harp, £2 2s: Insurance shares, £50. Closing sellers : Caledonian, ,£17 6s,; Thames, £5 15s ; Green Harp,.£2 4i 5$ ; , Biamarok, . £5 69. Buyers : ' Caledonian,. j£17 j , Thames,. £5 10« ; Bismarck,.^ 2« 6d,- Gas shares,- £9 10s. »— -— Mr. £«mdeM jfcjiorte £-t" Saksnt^siday. u Biimaroki* tyjMMp*>^m*WX» ® B» ; Beaoh, ' 9§, ; ';6t,t t closing buyers )6i:6d ; Thames, £5 12s 6d j Tokatea, £3 5s ; Green Harp, £2, £1 161, dosing buyers £2. Fall in

Qrcon Harp shares, causing quite a panic in Coromandel stocks." - _ Mr. J. Hendry reports:— "No improvement in the sharemarket. Coromand el Beach, 8r and 9a ; Caledonians, £17 ; Thames, £5 12s 6d ; Ofcago, £1 5a j Green Harp, £2 10s ; Pride of Tokatea, 5s 9d ; Tokatea, £3 5s ; Moanataiari, £4 17o 6d ; Shotover, 4s 3d. Buyers : Tokatea, Alburnia, Moanataiari."

AUSTRALIAN. MiaBOTravn. — From the Warrnambool Advertiser of June 19 we clip the following repoit of the Melbourne markets, compiled ■ for tho Warrnambool Advertiser of June 18, being four days later than that received by the 'Hero :' — "Mr. W. Lawr»nce reports a steady market for breadstuff's and horsefeed. Potatoes are le«s active, and prices are down fully 5a per ton to-day j there appears no export order in hand at the moment, while supplies from the interior seem on the increase, which possibly may have Borne effect on the market. Provisions are without change ; butter ia lower in price, the quantity of fresh coming to hand being on the inorease. At auction sales flour fetched £15 15a ; wheat, 4a 3d to 7s 3d ; oats, 2s 8d to 3s 3d j barley (malting), 6s. Closing quotations : Flour, £15 15s to £16; wheat (Victorian), best milling samples, 6s 7d to 7s 3d j Adelaide, 7s 4£d ; oats, 2s lOd to 3s 3d ; barley (Cape), 4id ; malting, 5s to 63 ; maize, 3s 4d ; bran, Is 2£d ; pollard, Is Id to Is 6d; potatoes, ex ship, on wharf, £3 15s. Provisions : Potted butter, lOd to Is ; cheese, 3d to 8d ; bacon, 7d to 9d : hams, 9d to lid." Warrnambool.— From the Warrnambool Adiert'mr of June 19 we clip the folowing : — " Messrs. Jones and Uo. report :— Flour, at £16 per 2, 0001b. j bran, Is 3d per 201b. pollard, Is 3d per bushel ; wheat, 5s 6d to 6a per bushel ; Cape barley, 2a 3d to 2s 9d per 601b.; oats, 2s 9d to 3s per 401b.; peas, 3a 6d perbushel ; hay, £2 15s per ton, or 4s per cwt.j chaff, £3 10s per ton or 4s percwt. Buyers' quotations of potatoes yesterdaywere £2 15s to £3 per ton. Supply still veryscanty."