Markets.

Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 570, 21 April 1858, Page 4

Markets.

AUCKLAND.

There has been more commercial activity exhibited during the past than for many previous weeks, several vessels being busily employed taking on board cargo, as well for the'"neighbour colonies as for the sister provinces. The ehee--ful tidings conveyed by the English January mail, although it has had no efiect in these operations, has caused a feeling of buoyancy, and may, we trust, he hailed as a promise of brighter and herter tunes.

We have had the e'hiper Gazelle with a full cargo of merchandise and passengers from Sydney -, the schooner Acis from Lyttelton, in quest of cargo, and now loading timber and potatoes for that port.

The departures have been the barque General Wool, for Melbourne, with 72 tons of kauri gum, 60 tons potatoes, 1 cask onions, 5 cwt. flax and sundry merchandise; and the schooners Emily Allison, Dolphin, Ann. and Travellers BHde for Napier, with, bricks, shingles, timber, lime, xnevchan ise. and some 2ootons firewood,. •Voin which latter trade our Auckland'lumberers seem likely to de-ive a ftviv share of beneficial employment. The Gazelle is a^yin on the Sydncv berth; the William Wa'son is .now a bumper si-'p, and will sail for London in the early part of next week: and the Joseph Fieteher, is, we learn, about to ship ti~:iher and potatoes for the East.

The weather hns been serene and beautiful for the bsL ten or twelve rl;-ys ; but with a sufficiency of jnoisiu-e to maintain the autumnal pasturage in excellent condition.

The Customs Tfew.me received during the week <:ndecl.the 27t!i u't. a- (Ounted to £1223 3s. 10;'., bti'i-r .<;.->72 12s. 1 Id. in excess of the returns of iV.- previous veak.

Ilu'i "mjr Materials. —Kauri trnber boards and scaniiMK;. 18s. per JOO feet; tcn^ued and grooved •£1 os.: swingles. l"s. to 145.; palings, 155.: b"ioi;s. C4 io .£4 10s.; posts awd rails, £3 ss.— A'/.v; Z:o'ti,ider, Apr'! 3.