AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT.

Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume IV, Issue 2, 15 June 1857, Page 6

AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT.

From May 31st to June 15th. We have little to add to our last Report, unless it be to urge, more pressingly than ever, the many advantages thai will accrue to the native farmers, if they will only turn their immediate attention to the growlU of oats, barley, maize, and every description of horse corn, which continue to be more and more in demand, at increasing prices, in the Melbourne markets. For a bushel of wheat, weighing CO lbs., ibe price rauges from 6s. (3d. to Ts. 6d., whilst for a bushel of oats, weighing 40 lbs., from 10s. Gd. to 15s. 6d. can be obtained. Maize, 54 lbs. to the bushel, fetches from 10s. to i Is.—and, in Sydney, hay is at the enormous price of 257. per ton for best qualities. Seed time is now present, and advantage should be taken of it. The native farmers have the opportunity of very materially adding to their individual and genera! wealth. They can, if they choose, cause their farms to grow gold. We have shown them how ; it is their own fault, not ours, if they do not follow it. The following is the Maritime Report for which we had not sufficient space in our last. The report for June shall appear in our next number. The arrivals during the past month have been five vessels from Sydney,—namely, the brig John Wesley, 256 tons, Captain Bil'kenshaw, which called at Auckland on her missionary voyage to the Fejee and other islands ; the Gertrude, brig, i 18 lons, Captain Dunning; the Sporting Lass, brig, 185 tons, Captain I

Celluni; the Bristol, brigamine, 151 tons, Captain M'Lean, and the Moa, brig, 238 ions, Captain Thompson, all with goods and 28 passengers. Two splendid ships, ihn ■ Kenilworth, 537 tons, Captain Thorn, and the Tlarkaway, 898 tons Captain Stephens, both from Loudon, with general cargoes of merchandise, and 99 passengers. Thobri-, gamine Melon, 150 tons, Captain Clark, from \ ilobart Town and Wellington, with sundry! goods and 15 passengers. The schooner Eliezer, 56 tons, Captain Wallace, from the Chatham Islands, w'rth 6"() tons potatoes, and-' 160 bushels wheat. The steamer Zingari, MS ions, Captain Millton, from Wellington and the Southern ports with sundries,'and 32 passengers. And the Bishop of New Zealand's yacht, the Southern Cross 70 tons, Captain Suslins, from Norfolk and other of the South Sea islands. There have been three departures for Sydney, the brig Gertrude, Dunning, with 55£ ions kauri gutn, 2 bales woo!, 30 cwt. onions, 20 tons potatoes.. 620 hushes wheat, 275 bushels oats, and JOO tins cheese; the Sporting Lass, Celluni, with 1055 ba<*s wheat, 348 bags kauri gum, 10 hales wool, 10 barrels fish, 5 barrels slush, and 37 passengers; and the Bristol, M'Lean, with 35 tons potatoes, 1 ton onions, 475 bushels wheat, 91 tons kauri gnm, 5 hales wool, 5 tons slush, and 2 casks oil. The brigantine, Emily Jane, Beer, sailed for Melbourne with 150 tons potatoes, 5 tons cheese, i ton butter, and 17 passengers. The steamer Zingari, Millton, (which ceases to run), for Nelson and. the South, with sundries and 28 passengers. The ship Cashmere, Pearson, for Guam, in ballast. The steamer WongaWonga, Bowden, having been withdrawn from the Bay of Islands trade, has made one trip to Ahuriri, and is soon to start upon another. Produce continues to arrive in moderate quantities from the coast; there have been 60 vessels of 1822 tons, with 153 passengers, 5872 bushels wheat, II S3 bushels maize, 200 bushels barley, 73 .j tons potatoes, SI ew.t. onions, I 5& packages mixed fruits, 50 kits kumcras, 14 cwt. melons, 55. cwt. pumpkins, 20 bags grass seeds, 4 tons flax, 18 cwt. suit pork, II cwt. smoked fish, 22 cwt. bacon, 80 sharks. 9 cwt. butter, oOibs. lard, 30 lbs. honey, 80 pigs, 110 fowls, 16 horses, 54 head cattle, 863 sheep, 1 bale wool, 2 boats, 1100 posts and rails, 18i tons copper ore, 60.V tons kauri gum, 447 tons firewood, and 51",500 feet sawn timber. The departures, coastwise, have been 56

tcsscls of 1710 ions, with 106 passengers, and ihe-usual cargoes of native supply.

The subjoined are ihc Auckland Market ppices current, eic. Bread Stuffs. Flour, fine, . . . . m per - ton . Flour, second quality, . . 16l..perio». Biscuit (prices unsteady) at froni • • • • • 205.10255.per Bread pcr loaf of 21bs. .. .. 3d. Bran • •■ •■ • • . is. 3d. per bl. Butchers Meat; Beef and Mutton from . . 3d. to Gd. Pork (fresh and salt) .. . sd.ioGd.dido Farh-Produce.. Wheat, (scarce) ...... ss. Od. pcr . bushel Maize. . . 4s. Gd. to ss. Gd. per bushel iJ ats • • • . ss. to os. Gd. per bushel Potatoes . . . 5/. 10s. to 4*. pcrion Onions . . .. . Hd. to 2d. per lb. Hay (plentiful) . . si. ta GL per ton. Live Stock.. Sheep from . .. 17s. to 235.-ahead: Dairy Cows . . 91: to 12/. each. Calves from . . 235. to 40s. each; Groceries. J ea .... GLtoGZ. I Os. perches*. Sugar .... Ud. to 3d. per lb. Coflee .... JOd. per lb. !} ice .... 2d to 2J per lb. koap .... 335. per cwt. Candles . . . . iod. per lb. lobacco. . . . Qs.,Gd. to os., per lb. Dairy Produce, Butter .... 2s. lb. £SS S .... 2s. 3d. perdoz. Poultry .... ss. Gd. pcr couple Ducks . . . . ss. to Gs. per couple, tieese .... ss. to Gs. Gd. each, lurfcics .... 7s. to Bs. 6u. each. Hams and Bacon . iOd. to lid. pcr lb