COMMERCIAL.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume V, Issue 218, 25 January 1865, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The sale of land at Abbotsford, by Vautier Janisch was not so brisk as was anticipated, and only one J-acre section was sold at £7B, the remaining ones being bought in. For furniture there were no buyers, although the lots offered were of first rate make and quality. For horses there was no demand, and the list on the catalogue was a long one of both draught and saddle,—one light draught brought £26, one saddle do. £l3, one do. £7, and one do. £lO. MELBOURNE. Bt the Claude Hamilton we have Melbourne papers to the 31st ultimo. The Argus of that day reports:— The business for 1864 may he said to have closed today with transactions neither numerous nor important. Country orders have been lessening as the year drew to its close. To-day the principal inquiry was for wheat and flour, the country millers pressing for small supplies of the former, and the bakers seeking small supplies of the latter. Adelaide flour could scarcely be got, and realized from £22155. to £23. Chilian wheat (now out of first hands) has been sold readily at from 7s to 8s a bushel, according to quality. A lot of 600 bushels fetched 7s 6d. Chilian flour sells freely at from £l6 10s to £l7. Seventy tons of fine barrel flour from New York, ex Levanter, brought £2l per tan. Two thousand bushels Scotch oats were bought at a shade over 3s. 40 tons of fencing wire. Nos. 4,6, 6; 7, md 8, changed hands at prices fully sustaining the market. The cargo of Mauritius sugars, ex Francis Banfleld, was placed to-day by auction', at full rates for the better description of grocery sorts; but for inferior and low kinds a decline of from 39s to 40s f - ton was established. A parcel of kerosene, without brand, is reported to have been disposed of at 4s 3d, A small parcel of congou tea, in chests, went at 2s Id, and In half-chests at 10s IOJd. There was a slight inquiry for oilmen’s stores. Castor oil brought 5s 6d in half-pints; and Us 5d in pints.. Fine hops, of the crop of 1863, were sold at Is Sd.

TASMANIA. Via Melbourne tte have Tasmanian dates to the 29th ultimo. The Launceston Examiner has the following brief notice of the markets; Hour remains without alteration, viz., firm at £24. for home consumption only. There is no colonial wheat offering, and the recently-imported Chilian has not passed into the market, being turned into flour by the milling firm to whom it came. - Oats are in better demand, and sales have been made at Ss to 3s 3d. Sellers are, however holding back. ' The Jloiart Town Mercury states that the holidays had put an end to business *for the tame being. The same iournal of the 26th says . Theweek closed to-day has, owing to the preparations of the Christinas holidays, been , inactive commercially, and - business has also been otherwise interrupted by. the departure of the outgoing mail. The most noticeable features have been the firmness in the flour market, the sale of Mauritius sugars ex Caatero, and the arrivals of import a-

t ions of wheat, sugar, and tea. The hour market continues firm at £2O tor sound, with a good trade demand. Bran, Is 4d; little doing. With wheat the market was quite bare, until the arrival of the steamer Derwent this morning with 1,000 bags Chilian. The last sale was made at 7a 6d. Oats have realized 3s. 3d. and 3s. 4d., but barley has been quite neglected. MAURITIUS, We (Melbourne Argus, Dec. 30) have dates from Port Louis (Mauritius) to the 17th inst., by the barque Mary Miller, and files to the 16th inst. The Gazette states, on the authorty of an arrival from Port Natal, the Scotsman was to leave that port on the 25th of October for Melbourne via Mauritius. The Eliza Corry and the Miss Kilmansegg were to sail for Adelaide soon after the Mary Miller. The Commercial Bank was about to increase its capital largely to meet the requirements of the traders.