COMMERCIAL RECORD.

Auckland Examiner, Volume 1, Issue 12, 5 March 1857, Page 1

COMMERCIAL RECORD.

We can this week make a favorable report upon the state of our markets. Potatoes, as an export, are readily asked for, and holders are now unwilling to sell under £4 10s. In Sydney and Melbourne they are becoming scarce, and our farmers will not have, as they had last year, to regret a superabundance of crops. Grain of all kinds is not likely to receive any advance ; the question of profitable exportation of wheat from Adelaide to the mother country will no doubt soon be tried. Wheat, Oats, and Flour remain at our last quotations. Bread at its present price—sd. the 21b. loaf, is w 4 proportionate with the price of wheat, which can now be purchased for 4s. 6d. An open export has been duly registered at the Customs in the shape of dried fish, from our own waters. Many parties are now engaged in the fishery, and we do not doubt but that, ere long, we shall be in a position to record the production of fish individually worth some hundreds of pounds sterling. The “William Denny” sailed on Monday evening, with potatoes,' kauri gum, and New Zealand rope, 500 bags sugar, &c. The “"Gertrude,” brig, lately from Cape Breton with emigrants, has been purchased by Messrs. Henderson and Macfarlane. Capt. Wedgwood, of the “ Ellen,” schooner, is to take charge. She is laid on for Melbourne.