MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. Daily Southern Cross office, Tuesday evening.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXII, Issue 5238, 26 July 1876, Page 2

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. Daily Southern Cross office, Tu esday evening.

Tho Customs duties lecoivod to day amouutod to £2,27.") Is Id. Mi. K. Aithur hold a fiuifc and furniture sale to-day, at his new mait. Oianges realised 7», and apples 2\d to 3d. Small y aitides of fuinituie weie sold at fair pi ices. Mesiis. M. Jones and Co.'s pioduce fcale was postponed until to-monow. Mr. L. W. Eaton held a fiuit sale to-day, but with the exception of the lemons, the goods weie moie or less damaged. Lemons, good, fetched l.'Js ; oiangcs, infeiior, (is 3d to Gh Od ; mandaiins, Ss to Us M ; loquats, Id to l^d. Mr. Thos. MncfT.ulane lequests cieditois in the estate of Gooige Cook, omnibus propiietor, to prove their claims on that estate with him on or before the 31st instant, pi epaiatoiy to a first and final dividend being paid. MfIjUODUNE.—Tho following quotations ai« from the Australasian of tho 10th iust. :—"A fail amount of business has been dono. In some depaitments of tr.ide theio has not been tho average. Iionmongoi.s and metal de.ilois have p.issed a dull month. In all blanches complaints of unremunoiativo iates aio general. No calculation has cbaiactoiised tho businoss of tho month, if wo except a laigo purchase of woolpacks. Two or throe suspensions aie snmounced, calculated to bo felt iu business cncles foi some time. In teas, the tiade has been quiet. Merchants' held in bettor anticipation; bat there has been a gcneial decline in all grades. The sales wero, Juno 13, ex 'Singapore,' 168 J-chests chests congou, In 2d to Is 5^1 in bond ; ex 'Queensland' from Foochow, 1,332 packages, fiom 101 1 to Is 4 (d. June 1G, ex sundry ships, 5,329 packages, the greater pait sold at Is 3d to Is 7d. Coffee : Our bonded stocks compiled 2,708 bags, 77 tieices, 129 casks, and (512 barrels. No. 1 plantation is quoted at fiom Is 1\(\ to Is 1 ,'d in bond ; No. 2, Is Id ; native 11U to Is. Sugai : The maiket has boon ovei-suppliod. The mu tot opens foi this half ye.u languidly. liice : Tho l.ites foi 1'atna aio JUG in bond. A consideiable auiouut of Town null Java (dioised) I has changed liands at £19 per ton, d.p. Tho fmost quality commands £23, d p. Wines and sprits : I'usmess has not impioved sinco last mail. Hennessy's 1N75 is sold to arrive at 7s 4id to 7s (id. Homiessy's caso brandy is selling fieelyto .nine at .i0n Oil. Maitell's, accoichng to paicrls i %-i7i C<\ to 2S>j. Knm : 10 o.p., UWP, and Lemon (f.uts, 3s 7jd; Queens land, 2s (id ; geneva, JDKZ, 15 lxittlo plain, l.is (id, and IS bottle scaled and 1 ibelled, 12s ' (id. "Whisky. IJeitli, l?oss and Co., bulk, 'U 7 W; Dunville, 5s (id ; case whisky, Dunville's, 17s (id ; Red Dcor, 15s. Old Tom, Burnett's, 22-32 at 12s. 9d and 21-32 at 12h (id. Oilmen's stoios, limited tiado demand. The inaiket for cveiy line is almost fully sup])lied. Diysaltery : Caustic soda, 70 pel cent, is quoted i'19; (10 per cent, at tl(i. Soda ash i'13 to £VA UK; caustic poUsh, £.58 per ton : soda ciystals, t'f> ; wholcbalo and foi small lots, i'» 10s; ciiibonato of bodu. Jtl.5 10s in bond. Candles' .Stocks of foioujn leduced; ])KO have bad business at lOd d.p., and Goudas at 1» 4 M (duty, 2d pci lb.). Keioseno : The maikct is better foi holdeis than foi yeais; Price's, Is 3M foi Diamond, and Is ?>\t\ for Dcvoe'i in bond. Castor is woitli 2a 8d. LinBeed, raw, in drums, d.p., 3s Sd ; in wood, .3s 3d; boiled, in diums, 3s lOd, wood, 3s 5(1i;' col/.,i, diums, 4s 9d, wood 4h 3d ; olive, 5s (id in (hums, d.p , in wood Is 10d; Chinese, Hellois at 3s 9d dp. Fiuits- The lepoits aie a fine I m.ukct; cmiauts, old d.p. (duty 2d pel lb ); inisms, liinier; muscatels, lOd to Is Id d.p. ; sultanas, b\d ; olemes. Od ; valencias, (id to (>4d itll d.p. Fish : All descriptions dull. Malt: and hops. Little business in malt. Hops occupy t?ie same position, and quotations aie simply nominal. Silt is completely ovci stocked. Tobacco business lias lovived, owing to oideis for e\poit. Metals : GO iion (conugated), 20 gu.igi 1, assoilert ni/.os, is woith i!31 dp.; oib, t'_"l JO,; fencing wne, £17 15s; ciowii non, ISIill, c'lJ ."»•.. (£r.iicksilvei, a .shade undci 3sOd. Wiiolpacks, 2s .~xl to 2s (id; coinsacks, 7s to 7s .!il, d p. Timber stocks am consiileiably iudiicod. K.iuii pine imports, ail. The caigo, c\ 'Jiidy Fianklin,' about 18 months on stoic giound, was sold at> auction on 30th June, at 14s Oil to 15s; and a paicel of old stock, ex 'Fanny,' was sold yesterday at 14a 3d. White pine: New Zealand impoits 30,000ft. supei. This paicel of sawn white pine .iirivcd, cv 'Zephyr,' fiom Hokitika, and was sold at auction on the 30th June, at from lls Od to 13a 3d pei 100 super. Cement, lf»s (id to 10s 3d, accoiding to bund. Slates, U8 to til) for 2i x 12, £'10 10s to £17 for 22 x 12, £14 15s for 20 x 10."