AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT.

Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume II, Issue 9, 30 September 1856, Page 14

AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT.

FOR SEPTEMBER. A comparison of the exports of produce during the present month with that of the preceeding will show that every advantage has been taken of the recent advance in the Australian corn and flour markets; but as \ve anticipated in our last months report, the rise has only proved of a temporary nature prices having again receded at Che date of the last advices, leaving the markets in an uncertain and inactive stale. In Auckland, flour yet maintains its price: but wheat may be considered at least a

shilling a bushel lower. We are sorry to "hear rumours from the coast of an unwillingness on the part of the producers to sell at the rates which are.mw current. If this be correct, it is much to be regretted, not only for the sake of New Zealand, but for the best interests of the naiive farmers. Business in Auckland has been very dull of late, and there Jiave. few .vessels arrived from any quarter—not a single ship from England, although Uvo may be immediately looked for. The arrivals from Sydney have been the schooner Pacific of 60 tons, and the brigs Heather Bell, 198 tons, and Gertrude, 120 tons, all with goods, and 20 passengers. The schooner Sybil 108 tons from Melbourne, via Olago, in ballast, with 5 passengers; and the briganline Harp, 136 tons, from Hobart Town, via Wellington, with a cargo of Van Diemen's Land hardwood, and 4 passengers, are also among the arrivals of the month. The departures have been as follow: For Sydney, the brig Algerine, 160 tons with 5 bales wool, 559 packages kauri gum, 51 i packages rope, S3 bales flax, 2146 bushels -wheat, 15 casks pork, 5 casks tallow, sundrv merchandise, and 25 passengers:—The cutler Peveril, 60 tons, with 43,000 feet timber :—The schooner Pacific 6') tons with 320 .bags wheat, 23,000 feet timber, and 3 passengers :—The brig Heather Bell, 198 tons, with 700 bags flour, 426 bags wheat, 5 0 bags potatoes, 420 sacks kauri gum, 2 casks oil, 500 pieces junk limber, 15 coils rope, arid 9 passengers:—The ship Lord Burleigh, 625 tons, with 5 bales wool, .52 kegs butter, 17 bags horns, 7 casks pork, 285 bags kauri gum, sundry merchandise, and 49 passengars. And the schooner Sybil, 108 tons, for Melbourne, with 349 bags (1 oOObushels) oats, 37 packages (2 tons) N.Z. rope, 13 tons potatoes, 17 cases pipes, 55 cases pegs. We are happy to have to note a marked improvement in the receipt of almost every description of produce coastwise. In wheat Jhere is an excess of 3864 bushels over that of last month; and of 1524 bushelsin maize. ft is only by realising at fair and reasonable prices that the commercial and agricultural resources of New Zealand can ever hope to i>e satisfactorily deyeloped. Eighty-lour vessels of 2504 tons carrying 97 passengers have entered coastwise with 71,128 bushels wheat, 22.84 bushels maize, 1000 bushels oats, 20 bushels bran, 100 bushels rye grass 57 tons potatoes, 71 kits

onions, 100 pumpkins, 45 cwl bacon, 78 casks pork, 150 lbs jam, 59 casks butter, 25 > lbs lard, 2 casks tallow, tons oil, 217 sheep, 34 head rattle, 125 pigs, 125 fowls, 4 horses, 4 goats, l n cwt leather, 16 spars, 100 feet house blocks, 454 > posts and rails, 15,000 laths. 9 \OOO shingles, 1<!8,8 »o feet sawn timber, 857 ton * firewood, and 97 pkgs. kauri gum. Seventy nine vessels of 2479 ions have proceeded coastwise with 142 passengers, and the vsual supplies of goods and merchandise.

The following are the Auckland Market prices corrected to the 3 th inst. Bread Stuffs. Flour, fine, . . . . . 25J. per ton. pour, second quality, . . 23J, per ton. Biscuit (prices unsteady) at from . . . „ . 255.10505.per cwt. Bread per loafof2lbs. .. , 7d. Bran • 4 s. 3d. per bushel. Butchers Meat. Beef and Mutton from . . 7d. to 9d. per lb. Pork (fresh and salt) . . sd. to 6d.ditto Farm Produce. Wheat, (scarce) . . 7s. Od. to 7s. 6d.per fcushel Maize, <plenliful) . . 4s. to ss. per bushel. Oats, ... 4s. to 4s. 6d. per bushel Potatoes, . 2?. 10s to 51. 10s. per ton Onions .... I id, to 2d. per lb. Hay (pleniiful) . . 51. to 6/. per ton. Dairy Produce, Butter .. . . Is. 3d. to Is. 6d. per lb. Eggs .... ls.6d. perdoz. Poultry . . , 4s. 6d. to ss, per couple Durfts . . . . 6s. to 7s. per couple. <Geese . . . . t)s. to 10s. each. Tui-kies . . . . 10s. to lis. each. Bams and Bacon . lOd. to lid. per lb. Groceries. T*a .... 51. to 51. ss. per chest. Sugar , .. . . 3?, d. to sd. per lb. Coffee . . - . 10d. per lb. Bice . . . . 2d to 2J per lb. Soap ..... "355. per cwt. Candles . ; . . 10d. per lb. Tobacco. . . . Id. to Is. per lb. Live Stock. Horses from . . 15J. to 60J. per head. Working Bullocks 25£. to 55*. per pair. Sheep from . . 20s. to 28s. a head. Dairy Cows . . 10J. 10s. to 15/. each. Calves fcom . . 255. to 40s. each.