AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT.

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

AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT.

From the Ist to the 15th August. There have been no arrivals from any of the Australian ports since we last wrote, and we, consequently, are naturally anxions for further advices which we may look for heurly by the brig Moa, now fully due. In Auckland, the millers have made an advance of 2J. per ton in the wholesale price of flour. Maize is quoted a shade lower, and wheat about a shilling a bushel higher. There is, however, little steadiness in these figures, which will be apt to rise or fall according to the tenor of the next Australian intelligence. We have but one arrival from abroad to notify, the ship Dirrapore, 789 ions, Captain Loulit, from London. This fine vessel brings a full cargo of merchandise and 89 passengers to these shores. The barque Cornubia, Captain Ellison, sailed from London for Auckland, with goods and passengers, on the 7th May, and may, therefore, immediately be looked for. There have been two departures for Sydney, with full cargoes of colonial produce namely, the brigantine Bristol, isi tons! Captain McLean, with 2000 bushels wheat 95 tons potatoes, GOOO feet sawn timber' and i passenger; and the brig Sporting Lass' 184 tons, Captain Cellum, with 5700 bushels wheat, 600 bushels bran, 40 tons potatoes ' A ! ,n f s cheese > J cwl - bl »eon, 5 bags seed', 4000 feet sawn limber, and 11 passengers. The demand for kauri timber In the Southern pons continues to increase. The schooner Adelaide Packet, 120 tons, Captain wkh to£ f T ? r Ne,SOn with 2b,000 feet sawn timber, 25 000 shingles, 148 house blocks, and 'palings. She has taken away 50 passengers, most of tbem to try their luck at the Nelson Gold Diggings, of which the most favourable fltelljgeuce continues to be received. Anion*-

die number attracted thither we perceive Uie name of Tamati Waka. The ship Kemlworlh is faking on board a cargo of colonial produce for London, kauri gtim, copper ore, wool, hides, horns, flax etc., It is expected that she will be ready to sail by the end of ihe present month, and that her place will then be taken by another vessel for the same port. When our native friends become as large producers of wool as they already are of wheat, potatoes, and the like, instead of an occasional iiig with New Zealand produce, we shall witness a succession of uoble vessels competing to be the carriers of those industrious products which are yet destined to render this country one of the most rich and prosperous of ihe South Pacific. The change from stormy to pleasant weather has had the effect of bringing to port a goodly array of coasting craft. The supplies have been abundantand seasonable. By 43 vessels of 1150 tons, with 96 passengers, we have received 6055 bushels wheat, 2273 bushels maize, 440 bushels oats, 114 ions potatoes, 77 cwt. hams and bacon, 103 ewt. salt pork, 10 cwt. pumpkins, 8 cwt. lard, 3798 lbs. butter, 736 sheep, 87 pigs, 9 head cattle, 2 horses, 50 fowls, 25 tuns oil, 12 casks polar oil, 18 tons copper ore, 8A tons kauri gum, 25 cwt. towai bark, 4" cwt. leather, 1 whale boat, 500 fire bricks, 450 feet house blocks, 18 piles, 1£ cwt. turnips, 600 rails, 34,100 feet sawn timber, 39,000 shingles, and 29J tons firewood. The departures, coastwise, have been 55 vessels of SOOrtons, with 59 passengers, and the usual cargoes of goods and supplies. Since the above was in type, the brig Moa has arrived Sydney," with a general cargo of merchandise and 10 passengers. She brings intelligence to the 51st July. Flour had experienced a further advance of 2/. per ton, the prices being 25J. for fine, 25£. for second quality. Wheat 9s. per bushel. The prospects "next season for New Zealand produce continue to be encouraging The Hoods have prevented the ploughing of the low alluvial lands, and no extension has been made in Hie agricultural industry of the Country notwithstanding the large and increasing influx of population. * <

The following arc tlie Market Prices cureent corrected to date:

Bread Stuffs. Flbur, fine, 181. per ton. Flour, second quality, . . 16*. per ton. Biscuit (prices unsteady) at from ..... 22s.to28s.pcr cwt. Bread per loaf of 2fbs. . . od. Bran ... . . . Is. 6d. perbl-. Beef and Mutton from . . sd. to 6d. per lb. Pork (fresh and salt) . . od. ;o6d.ditto Farm Produce. Wheat, (scarce) '. . . §s. 6d. to Ts. per bushel Maize ... 6s. 6d. to 7s. 6d. per bushel Oats . . . , 7s. to 7s. 6d. per bushel Potatoes . . . 41.\05.i05i. per ion Onions . . . . 2d. to 2d. per lb. Hay (pleniifuJ) . . 41. to 57.~per ion. Liye Stock. Sheep front . . 17s. to 255. a head. Dairy Cows . . 9*. to 12/. each. Calves from . . 235. to 40s. each. Groceries. Tea .... 6/. to 67.105. per chest. Sugar .... s|d. to sd. per lb. Coffee . . . . lOd. per lb. Rice . . . . 2d to 2J per lb. Soap • . . ■ 535. per cwt. Candles . . . . 10d. per lb. Tobacco . . . . 2s. 6d. to os. per lb. Dairy Produce, Butter .... Is. 3d. to Is. 6d. lb. Eggs . . , . Is. od. perdoz. Poultry .... os. 6d. per couple Ducks . . . . ss. to 6s. per couple. Geese .... ss. lo 6s. 6d. each. Turkeys. ... 7s. to Bs. 6d. each. Hams and Bacon . 10d. to lid. per lb.