AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT

Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume V, Issue 3, 15 February 1858, Page 6

AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT

From the Ist to the 15th February. There has not been a single arrival from any foreign port since our last issue; conse-

quently we have nothing new in our commercial article to report. A considerable degree of anxiety lor the arrival of the English mail for December, (which may shortly be looked for,) prevails; inasmuch, as upon the subsidence of the money and mercantile crisis, which bad so fearfully disorganised the principal States of Europe and America, much of 'the immediate prosperity Of this and the neighbouring colonies must necessarily depend. A greater degree of commercial dulness than that which now exists In Auckland we have never witnessed,—not even when California, and subsequently, Australia were drawing our population to their golden shores. We hope ere long, that we may be enabled to present a brighter picture of affairs. There have been four arrivals from the more Southern Provinces, —namely : the cutters Glance, SO tons, Captain Rattray, from Port Napier, Ahuriri, with 400 sheep and 5 passengers ; jand the Surprise, SO tons Captain Braund, from thesame quarter with i 720 bushels wheat, 392 bushels inaiie, 3( >tutis sperm oil, 10 cwt salt pork, 10 cwt bacon and hams, 40 cwt onions, 2 tons potatoes, and 3 passengers:—the schooners Henry, 43 tons, Capt. Butt, from Nelson, New Plymouth, and other Southern ports with 80 sheep, 150 lbs butter, 65 bushels grass seeds, 7 passengers ; and the Emerald Isle, 33 tons, Capt. Oakes, from New Plymouth, with 3 kegs butter, iOO bushels grass -seeds, and 25 passengers. The departures to the other New-Zealand settlements have been the schooner Ann, 37 toss, Capt. Williams with 12,000 feet sawn timber, a general cargo of merchandise, and 6 passengers; and the Eliezer, 56 tons Capt Wallace, with TO tons firewood, 4 tens potatoes, 45 c<vt hay, 4 barrels biscuit, and sundry merchandise, both for Port Napier; and the schooner Kate Kearney, 85 tons, Capt. Dixon, with 30,000 feet kauri timber, 44,000 shingles, a general cargo, and 49 passengers, for Nelson. There have arrived, coastwise, 33 vessels of 980 tons, with 36 passengers, and 3834 bushels wheat, 640 bnshels maize, 139 fcushels apples and pears, 43 cwt. potatoes, 47 cwt onions, 40 cwt salted fish, 43 cwt bacon and hams, 52 cwt salt pork, 20 cwt salt beef, 3 cwt lard, 43 cwt flax, 3464 lbs wool, 6 casks oil, 390 gallons sperm oil, 360 sheep, 4pigs, 12 geese,! boat, 140 rails, 460 feet kauri blocks, 2000 feet sawn timber, 88 tons copper ore, 741 tons kauri gum, and 351 tons firewood.

The departures cbatwise, during the past Ton night have amounted to 41 vessels of 4 290 ions,, with 99 passengers, and the usual coasting cargoes. The barque William Watson, tons, Ciai.pt Brown, is rapidly loading, with wool, oil, kauri gum, copper ore, and other produce for London. When we shall see ten or a a dozen- ships instead of one taking away the productions of the country in payment of the European goods they bring into I it, then indeed we may look.to behold New Zealand developing some of the qualities of a great and prosperous country. The ships Joseph Fletcher and Bride both from London with goods and passengers way be immediately looked for, as well as a troop ship with a reinforcement of 200 soldiers and munitions for the 58th Regiment. There is no alteration in the AucklandMarkets. We give the Prices, Current corrected according to the last quotations. Bread Stuffs, Flour, fine, . . . . . 16*. per ten. Flour, second quality, . ■ . Uj. per ton. Flour of native manufacture from to. 12. Biscuit at from . . 20s. to 255. per cwt. Bread per loaf of 21bs. ; . 4d. Bran . . . . . . Is. Od. perbl. Beef and Mutton from . 3d. to 6d. per lb. Pork (fresh and salt) . . sd.io6d.diuo Farm Produce. Wheat » . . » . ss. per bushel Maiie . . . . 6s. 6d. to 7s. per bushel Oate . ... ... 7s. per bushel Potatoes . . 6MOs. to 71.- ids. period Onions . . . .3d. per lb. Hay (plei/.iful) . . 51. per ior. Kauri Gum . . . no quotation Live Stock, Sheep from . , 475. to 255. a bead. Dairy Cowa . . SI, to 12/. each. Calves from . • 265. to 40s. each. Groceries. Tea . . . . 9i.t091»105. per chest Sugar . . . . 7d. to Bd. per lb. Coffee . . . . lOd. per lb. Bice . . . . 2d. to 2£ per lb. Soap • . . v . 358. per cwt. €aifdto& . .... iOd. per lb. Tobacco. . . . 2s. ©d. to 3s. per lb. Dairy Produce, Butter .... : . .. . . Is. lb. Ef« . . , . is. per.doz. Pdultry . . ... 3s. 6d. per couple