Markets.

Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 544, 20 January 1858, Page 4

Markets.

Messrs. R. Waitt and Co. held an auction sale of Horses at Christchurch, on Saturday last There were 30 mares and geldings in the lot' being the cargo of the brig Firefly, from Hobart Town, all broken in to saddle and harness: the whole were readily disposed of at from £42 10s. to £67 10s., averaging £53 all round. m Wool is coming down freely; the stores on the rivers are full and the wool ships in port are filling up. The Glentanner has about 300 bales on board.

Commercial affairs in Victoria and New South Wales are by the last accounts improving. The depressed state of trade is still, however? a subject of great importance in the journals. The Melbourne-Argus' and the Sydney 'Moraine Herald enter deeply into the bearings of the question in articles which we hope to rive in our next. ° .

Flour has fallen on the Plains to £20 per ton owing to advices from the neighbouring colonies! A considerable quantity of flour brought from bydney by the Dart is perhaps the active cause in promoting the decline. ' Retail Markets.—Tuesday, Jan. 19. Christchurch.—Flour, 20s per looffis.; bran Is 3d sharps, Is9dperbshl.of2olbs. ; bread, Is 2d per 41b loaf; eggs, Is 6d per doz.; butter, (fresh) Is 2d; do. (salt) Is 2d; cheese, (new) lid; lard Is; beef, 6d to 8d; mutton, 5d to 7d; veal Bdcandles, lod per lb. ' '

Lyttelton—Piour, 25s per lOOlbs.; bread s 3d per 418 loaf; eggs, 3s per doz.; iiulter'

(fresh) Is 4d; do.,(salt) Is 4d; cheese, (old) Is Sd, do., (new) ls.j lard, Is 2d; becf,7d andßd; mutton, 5d and 6d 5 veal, 9&; pork, 9d; candles, Is; per ft.

KAiAPOL—FIour, 22s per lOOHJs; butter, (fresh) I Is 9d; do., (salt) Is 6d; beef, 6d and 7d; mutton, 4d to 6d; pork, 6d and 7d; lard, Is; candles, Is per 16; timber, 20s and 21s per 100 ft., delivered on the river. OTAGO. Since our last report the arrival of the Thomas and Henry from Melbourne, and Content from Sydney, have so far supplied the market with colonial produce, of which there was then little or none. The prices of tea and sugar, however, rule much higher than they were wont to do, in consequence of the great rise on the other side. Flour continues at 265. for first. The advices from Australia with respect to the grain and flour markets are very discouraging to the holders here; how or whether or not these advices may effect prices here we cannot tell. Unless flour which is quoted at Sydney at £15 shall be imported, we do not suppose that any material alteration will take place, as our own consumption will pretty nearly require all that remains of last year's crop; at the same time it becomes a ticklish matter for dealers to purchase wheat for grinding at 7s. 6d„ with the chances of a cargo of flour finding its way into the market at £8 to jEIO under present prices.— Colonist Jan. 8.