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Grey River Argus, Volume VIII, Issue 568, 7 September 1869, Page 2

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Melbourne.- The Aye of the 3lstult. reports : — ' ■■.-.• We have no transactiors of an -important character to iecoitt 'to-day , ; thefmeiicautile, community having been engngeilKlitheperusal ! df their correspondence to-hautl. by the English mail. The market for breai f stung . 'still shows great firmness; i n Adelaide floilr we flo not hear df inly operations Laving taken place' ; the price' for town mills is Lls 10s'. Adelaide wheat has been placed at 6s 1044 } little or none offering. In maize we note the kJe of the car^o of the Emulous, consisting

of 2065 bags, at 4s 6d ; a like quantity was placed, in trade lots, 1 at thp same, figure.Sales of oats are repor fed'^ about 2000 bushels Tasmanian and New Zealand were disposed of at 4s lid Tin plates have been sold, to arrive, at 30s to 31s for I. C. coke. Caustic soda fetched Ll7 10s. A sale of Tennant's ale has been effected at 10s. Forty tons best English make of corrucated iron found a buyer' jvt a price equal to L 27. BoUei? plates are' in good 'demand; an_ct Ll'^ P^? * ou avlA be obtained on the spot or to arrive. The" pdrgo of the Notre dame de lai Providence, consisting of 413,5 bags and 3233 small bags Manritius. sugars, .pagaed the hjinimpr q.t prices fully sustahiing late quotations. On Thursday, the Eva Joshua-s sugars, . just landed, will be offered by auction. We now proceed to review our flies of British and foreign circulars received per Malta. New York dates are to the 3rd July. Th,e clearances for Melbourne were the Energy, from New York, with 3t»00 caaes kerosene ; and the Harestar, from Boston, with 5200 cases ; the shipments' to the other colonies being 4750 to Adelaide and 800 to Sydney. We note that the exports to these colonies for six months ending 3rd July show a deficiency of 29;00Cj cases as compared w^th the cqrres; ponding pejio^ of th.c previous year. The heavy shipments of candles, as advised- - nearly 500 tons— at first seemed likely to have a depressing effect on the market, but we learn that of the quantity named some 300 tons are for the Neva Company's agents, and that the extensive works of that company at St. Petersburg have been destroyed by tire ; if is to be expected, therefore,- that with these facts before us, holdefs. will be slow in making any material concession from present rates.