MELBOURNE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 434, 31 December 1856, Page 6

MELBOURNE.

The 'Arrr.s' of the kh report-on the flour market: —The total absence of farmers from t 4 .-vn. v.ko are busily occupied with the bay k.irve<:. enures a :hin attendance at market. In :he corn trade very little is doinsj. nor is any •.-h.injre nf importance likely to occur previous to ihe stew grain com in cto market. As iar as we can c-i'-her. the wheat crops are generally looking.- well. In some of the Western districts reports .. f fears have been rife, owing to alleged 0-0:1 tinned dry wer.iber. but we aro inclined to believe these'fears have been groundless.^ and that, t-i use the word* of the * Geelons Advcr-•;-:r.' " the fanners of the district will find out by the idosc vflb.e harvest that thoy have not bee;, so nnsuoeesi-ful as they might be." In S.-r.-.h Australia the summer heat appears to ; rive bffn jrre.-.t. and to have already matured -. •.* -vbt'.it harvest, which, a? we have previously remarked, ils most favourable. The latest .' iy:\'o< from ihe various dlstricis of New South V-Tab'S >t_>.'-ak generally of more favourable project-, and on the whole we think the prices of breid-;u:T? for the com in c: se-sscei must ride

yroT'O-rtionably tow. In flour the transactions are'limited chiefiy. we believe, to small sales of Adelaide at about: £20 10s. "Wheat is very dull. Barley is scarce, and but little doing. Colonial oats having attained a difference in y>ri''*2 greater than exists in quality over Scotch and Irish, growth, have received a cheek and are r.'.ther easier ; good Scotch are still worth 7s. "Maize is steady without change in value- Bran continues in improved demand at late rates, flay still comes forward freely and is a trifle lower. The crops of this article are proving -renerally liirht, though of v^ry fair quality, the sate rams having filled the grain.