MELBOURNE WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 292, 18 August 1855, Page 6

MELBOURNE WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT.

(From the " Argus " of August Ist.)

Fiour (Adelaide and Van Dieman's Land), £46, to £49, per ton ; Wheat (good samples), 20s lo 215., per bushel; Oats, 7s. dd. to Bs. 3d, do.; Barley, 7s. 6d. to Bs. 6d., do.; Bran, 3s. to 3s. 3d., do. ; Tea (Congou), in chests, £6 17s. 6d. to £7; Potatoes, (New Zealand), £21 to £23. per ton. (Jf i; bread stuff1" ihe correspondent of the *' ' rgus " writes, " high prices aye not likely to suffer any serious check for the next 6 weeks, ■Mid on tbe other hand, there is little probability of an advance."

Colonists for Parliament.—-From private information we have received from England, upon which we can place implicit reliance, we learn that Mr. William Charles Wentworth, the late member for Sydney in the . Legislative Council of New South Wales, has received a requisition from very influential quarters to staii'-'v. lor the city of Liverpool. .Mr. Moor also, ibe > solicitor, formerly mayor, and representative of Melbourne in the Legislative Council, has been invited to stand for an English constituency. These requisitions to experienced colonists to enter Parliament, indicate either great confidence in their powers, or their purses : but as far as Mr. Wentworth is concerned, his entrance into Parliament will be matter of gratulation, or the contrary, to the colonists, just, as he may he disposed, or otherwise, lo submit to reasonable views respecting the claims of the squatters, ot whom Mr. Wetitwnvtl, is one, and a leviathan 100. — Melbourne Weekly Herald.