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Melbourne.—Price rife Flour at the Town Mills.—Saturday,'loth December:— DiGHT's Mill.—Fine flour, £32; seconds, £20; Chilian, £31 ; bran, 25.; wheat bought al from 10s, to 12v Fbi/jton's and Smith's Mills.—Fine flour, £33 per ton ; seconds, £'31; branjff2s. 3d. per busli. •.wheat bought at 12s. to 13s. do. BEVIEW" OF THE IMPOIIT MARKETS. (From the Melbourne Journal of Commerce.) A fair bushiefcs has bee»> doing during: the past week, several articles have been in better demand,"and uflairs generally have worn a more cheerful and promising aspect. Day Goods.—No alteration in price'worth noting; this brunch of our trade hns-been comparatively quiet during the past week. Flouu and Orain,~Tl!o flour market has, during the entire week been in a state of panic, uud whilst importers have endeavoured, to uphold the market by asking prices Cor flour and grain perfectly out of consonance with the general feelinsr, prices have dropped from day to day, ami at the mills from £38 to £33- liven al the hitter u»ure, which is so very much lo'.ver than it lias lieen for a long time past, business has -been but sets limited, and cnufino'i .solely to supplying- pressiujr and iinmcdi.-tttt nauts. The public have-seeniinjjly made their mmd up that flour*is to fall to £"2"> a ton, and under thia impression keep entirely out of the market. Thw ndvices from Adelaide would l^ad »»s to infer that wheat can now be "bought there at Bs., which would allow of flour" being made nt£'2l ; but even the millers in town can now afford, from recent purchases of wheat, to f-ell flour al M'2.~> without losing money. The cargo offbeat per- '/Vrcluun'dcs ch»in«r«d Imuds at lls.; the wheat porTultal Coin has aiso been sold, hut the price bus not transpired.—Oat?: The market continues very dull, no change in quotations. There is a, large <}uuutuy of musky

in the market—the sulphur used iti kiln dryiug, in order to whiten, the grain, has a bad effect, producing a disagreeable smell, and horses frequently refuse it.—ln rive, the transactions during the week have been large, and with an evidently increasing demand ; the price of Palnu is firm m £27 16*. The cargo per Plumstead sold at £25 10s. nctt cash.

ADKr,,VII>B GItAIN AND FLOOR MaRKKT.— Adelaide, Thursday, Dec. 0. —New flour, £.38 per ton ; old do,, £tiO do. ; new wheat, 10a. per bushel ; English barley, 6s. to 7s. per bushel ; (Jape do, 4s. fid. to s«s". do. ; oats, colonial, ss. Gd. ; bran, Is. 4d. do.

City Cummkiiciai, Report.—Mercury Office, Uouauton, , December 20.—The decline! in bread stuffs is steadily progressing, and the genial rain, which has recently fallen, has had a most beneficial effect upon the tjr;»in crops, generally^ filling out the ears of the corn, and (living to the whole a remarkably fine appearance.

The Chilian flour by the Yarra, put up by auction on Wednesday by Brent and Westbrook, was bought at £34 per ton ; bul some small parcels have been since sold by private sale at that fijrure. The price of colonial flour rules from £36 to £42, but none at the mills ; Degraves' £36 is only asked, wheat is scarce at from 15s. to J6s. per bushel, with every prospect of a downward tendency. From all parts of-the colony we receive the most encouraging reports of the coming harvest, which, with the importations daily expected, will render the price of the staff of life accessible to all classes. New potatoes are plentiful at £14 per ton, and must --'decline,- from the large quautity ready for market. Old "potatoes are almost unsaleable at £o per tun. — Uobarton Mercury.

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Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 336, 19 January 1856, Page 5

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Untitled Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 336, 19 January 1856, Page 5

Untitled Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 336, 19 January 1856, Page 5

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