COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume III, Issue 624, 11 January 1872, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Evening Star Office, Thursday afternoon,

Messrs. L. D. Nathan and Co. held to-day, at their stores, an extensive sale of fruit, etc. The following are the quotations :-20,000 oranges, 9d. per dozen ; 30 bundles bananas, 4d. per lb. ; 400 pines, 7s. per dozen ; 10 tuns lime juice, Is. per gallon ; 2 and a-half tuns cocoanut oil, L3O per tun ; cocoanuts, Bs. per 100.

' Messrs. S. Cochrane and Son held to-day at their auction rooms a sale of groceries, stout, &c; Also, a freehold estate at Coromandel. The following are the quotation :—Mauritius crystals, 4 11-16 d per lb. ; 20 half-chests tea, Is. Bd. per lb. ; 20 cases sardines (halfs) 11s. 9d. per dozen ; 13 cases (quarters), 6s. 9d. per doz ; salad oil (halfs), 7s. per doz ; 16 boxes white starch, 3d three-farthings ;20 casks Byass' stout. 6s. 4d. per dozen ; 20 casks Young's do, 6s. 3d. per dozen ; 6 bales merchant navy canvas, Is. per yard. Also, allotments at Coromandel: lot 1, 17s. per foot; lot 2, 16s. 6d.|; lot 3, 16s. ; lot I, 15s. ; lot 5, 18s ; lot 6, 10s. ; lot 16, os. The remainder of the allotments unsold.

MINING. The following are the current calls and dividends payable in the companies named below :— CALLS Occcidental .. ..010 Jan 13 Neptune .. .. ..009 Jan 17 Key of Tokatea ..003 Jan 18 Golden Calf .. ..010 Jan 20 Murphy's Hill .. ..003 Jan 20 Nolan's Candlelight ..010 Jan 21 Vulcan 0 6 0 Jan 24 Central Italy .. ..020 Jan 24 Sailor Prince .. ..010 Jan 25 English 0 0 6 Jan 27 Ked Queen .. ..006 Jan 29 Alburnia .• .. 013 6 Jan 30 Shotover 0 2 0 Feb 1 MEETINGS TO COME. Bank of Tokatea, Metropolitan Hotel, Auckland, January 13 Hazelbank, company's office, Auckland, January 14 South Lead, Grahamstown, January 15 Neptune, Coromandel, January 15th Overland Koute, Grahamstown, January 10 St. Lawrence, Grahamstown, January 16 Bank of New Zealand, Grahamstown, January 16 Belmont, Grahamstown, January 18 Durham Ox, Grahamstown, January 18 Crown Prince, Queen's Ferry Hotel, Auckland,

January 18 Matawai, company's office, Auckland, January 19 Morning Light, Grahamstown, January 19 Californian, Governor Bowen Hotel, Grahamstown,

January 19 Eoyal Oak, Coromandel, January 19 Virginia City, Grahamstown, January 22 Nil Desperandum, Coromandel, January 22 Morning Star, Grahamstown, January 23 Bed Queen, Mechanics' Institute, January 23 Lowland Lass, January 24 Kohinoor, Coromandel, January 24 Argo, Coromandel, January 25 Cyclops. Grahamstown, January 25 Una, Shortland, January 2G City of Boston, Grahamstown, January 26 Thames View, Mechanics', at 3 p.m.Jon January 30 Tiki, Coromandel, January 30 Emily Coromandel, January 31