WELLINGTON.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 487, 4 July 1857, Page 4

WELLINGTON.

We have little change to note in commercial affairs this week, the average amount of business has been transacted, and prices generally, though low, are remunerative. Only two auction sales have taken place, one by Messrs. Johnston and C0.,0n Monday, who sold the schooner Shepherdess, of about 40 tons register, with her masts, sails, anchors, and chains complete, for £315, A. Hort, Esq., being the purchaser. A quantity of farm produce was sold at the following prices : 90 bushels wheat at 6s. 9d. per bushel; 79 bushels barley, at 7s. 3d; 18 bushels maize, at Bs. 9d; 3| tons potatoes, at from 4s. 6d. to 4s. 9d. per cwt. On Tuesday, Messrs. Hervey, Smith, and Co. sold by public auction an extensive assortment of merchandise, ex Alma, Maori, and 'late arrivals, consisting of boots and shoes, oilmen's stores, currants, &c.; 10 tons soap fetched from £30 to £33 per ton; Liverpool salt from £4 to £4 10s. per ton; 175 ■ cases oilmen's stores, books, ironmongery and linen drapery, realized fair prices.— lndependent, June 20. If the preceding week was one of activity, the past has been rather one of pause. There have been no arrivals from beyond seas ; auction sales were confined- to the first two days of the week, and speculation seems almost limited to the articles of flour and wheat, of which supplies continue to reach us from our sister province, Canterbury.— Spectator, June 20. On Wednesday, the 24th June, Messrs. R. J. Duncan and Co. sold by public auction about 200 bushels of Chatham Island wheat, at ss. 6d; another lot, of a superior sample, of about 300 bushels, was withdrawn at 65., the large quantity at the mills (waiting to be converted into flour) and large private stores being the principal cause of the dullness reigning. Canterbury flour fetched £14 10s., and some Wellington ground £15.