TASMANIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 398, 30 August 1856, Page 4

TASMANIA.

From the " Hobart Town Advertiser" of the Ist, we quote the following respecting the state .of the flour market: — We have no change in the markets to report; "business has been exceedingly dull during the last few-days. News respecting the forthcoming crops has been received in private letters, the exact nature of which has not transpired: it is understood, however, to be unfavourable to their healthy growth. Immense .quantities of rain, it is said, have fallen, and large quantities of land have been flooded, in consequence of which the yield is expected to be deficient; 9s. per '-bushel can be easily obtained. Flour . is' from £22 to £24 per ton. Potatoes are worth. £i and are firm at that figure. ' "Hay is without alteration. Coils and firewood are firm at the prices w£ have quoted. Gold.—Nothing whatever of interest has tranpired from Fingal. The Morayshire is laid on for Sydney, and takes a considerable number of passengers for the Rocky Hiver Diggings. The " Commercial Chronicle" (Launceston) of the 2nd, reports :— The advices from Melbourne and Sydney have, on the whole, produced a beneficial effect upon our grain markets^ We can now report a steady firmness in both wheat andflonr; the,former has come in more freely, and has been disposed of at Bs., and as high as Bs. 6d. per bushel. All the mills are again at work full time. Fine flour has been sold in quantity at £21, bags included, but the article is now quoted by" the mills at £21 to £22 without bag—the feeling is not to hold, but to supply Sydney and Victoria. Oats are as before quoted. Barley very scarce, and in great demand. Potatpes and hay nominal. '■ .