AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT.

Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume V, Issue 13, 30 June 1858, Page 6

AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT.

From the 15th to the 30th June. The last advices received, acquaint us that there is a tendency towards a rise in the flour and corn markets throughout Australia. • This is nothing more than what we ourselves expected; and our readers need only turn to the February and .March numbers of the Maori Messenger, to discover the grounds upon which we founded our belief that a rise must inevitably take place. We felt persuaded that the floods which, last winter, crashed away com and corn fields, followed by the intensity of the summer's beat, and the prevalence of bush fires, must have occasioned heavy losses to the. farmers, and that when the harvests came to be correctly estimated, great short comings would be discovered. These calculations have now been made, a considerable deficiency has been ascertained to exist, and It is to be hoped that the New Zealand growers will prudently and rationally avail themselves of the Market that thus presents itself for their surplus produce. The advanccthat has taken place, lliey must,, how- : ever, bear in mind is but slight, and unless they are content to sell at a reasonable fignre, they may drive those willing to purchase from the New Zealand to the Chilian growers. Flour is still 20/. for fine, 18/. for second quality per ton Wheat Bs. to Bs. 6d. per bushel. A reference to our present shipping report will show that a good deal of business has been doing; and we beg to impress upon our Native readers that it is their fruest interest, by activity and modera-

(ion, to extend so beneficial a trade to the very utmost. The arrivals from abroad have been the barque Bride, 580 tons, Captain Spowan, from London, with a general cargo of merchandise, and 13 passengers. This vessel brings in addition one fine horse out of three, two others having died during the passage; she has also brought 10 valuable sheep, and 1 boar'and 2 sows of a superior breed; — the brig Gertrude, 420 tons, Captain Dunning, from Sydney, with goods, and 3 passengers ; the screw steam-ship White Swan, 330 tons. Captain John Mac Lean, from Melbourne, Nelson, Wellington, and New Plymouth, with goods, an J25 passengers; the White Swatt is a very fine, swift, ship, built of iron; she has come to replace the Zingari which used to rnn between Manukau and the several Southern poris of New Zealand; there are four other steam-ships coming out from England to be employed in the tradei between New Zealand and Australia, and between the different ports of New Zealand; two of tbese vessels, fine iron-built ships, or 440 tons each, may be expected to arrive within the next six or eight weeks - one called the Lord Ashley comes to Auckland—another the Lord Worsley to Wellington j the remaining two will follow some lime' afterwards;—the schooner Henry, 42 tons. Captain Wallace, from New Plymouth, with 4 5 sheep, 2 cases cheese, 4 passengers; and the schooner Gazelle, 212 tons, Captain Philip Jones, from Sydney, with a general cargo of merchandise and 4 passengers. The departures have been the brig Sarah, 121 tons, Captain Firth, for Melbourne, with 120 tons potatoes, 5 cwt. onions, 7 passengers;—the schooner Caroline E. Foole, 445 tons, Captain Worth, for Sydney, with 50 tons potatoes, 30 cwt. butler, 6 cwt. onions, 4140 bnshels bran, 1700 bushels wheat, 2 passengers,—the barque Mousam, 498 tons, Captain Macdonald, for Melbourne, with 113 tons potatoes, 50 tons kauri gum, 30 cwt. butter, 219 bushels wheat, 13,000 feet sawn timber:—the brigantine Spray, 106 tons, Captain Anderson, for Port Napier, with 46,000 feet sawn timber, 401,000 shingles, 41 bags flour, 2000 bricks, ank sundry merchandise;—-the screw steam-ship White Swan, 330 tons, Captain John Mac Lean, for New Plymouth and other Southern ports, with goods and 10 passengers;—the barque Breadalbane, 224 tons, Captain James, for Sydney, with 152 tons potatoes, 113 cwt. onions, 27 cwt. cheese, 36 cwt. butter, 1050 bushels wheat, and 5 passengers,

The steam-ship William: Denny, so long stranded at the North Cape, after having been folly repaired and ready Tor launching, was unfortunately washed off during the heavy gales at the early part of the present month. She has now broken up and become a total wreck. The arrivals coastwise have been 29 vessels or 680 tons, with 56 passengers, 6250 bushels wheat, 420 bushels maize, 449 bushels apples, 34} tons potatoes, 40 cwt. onions, 4570 lbs. butter, 500 lbs. lard, 435 cwt. salt pork, 4 8 cwt. bacon, 40 lbs. honey, 35 dozen smoked fish, 52 head or cattle, 30 pigs, 3 horses, 4 tun humpback oil, 2 lons flax, 2 tons kauri gum, 2 bundles forest, 2 bundles and 400 fruit trees, 2 bundles sheep skins, 400 ship timbers, 650 posts and rails, 222 tons firewood, 38,000 feet sawn timber, and 43,000 shingles. The departures from the coast have been 20 vessels of 433 tons, with 67 passengers, and the usual trading cargoes. There has been a corresponding rise in the Auckland Markets with those of Australia —flour has advanced 2i. per ton, and bread one penny on the 2 lbs. loar. The subjoined are the prices corrected to date. I Bread Stuffs. Flour, fine, ..... |BJ. per ton. Flour, second quality, . . 46;. per ton. Flour of native manufacture from 4 21. to 44 Biscuit at from . . 245. to 28s. per cwt. Bread per loaf of 2lbs. . . 4d. to sd. Bran .••••• 4s. 3d. per bl. Beef and Mutton from . 6d. to 7d. per lb. Pork (fresh and salt) . . sd. to 6d.ditlo Farm Produce. Wheat ...... ss. per bushel Maize • ... 6s. 6d. to 7s. per bushel Oats . . . . . . . 7s. per bushel Potatoes • ... . 51.405. to 61. per ton Onions . . 2d. to 3d. per lb. Hay (plebiiful) • . 51. per ton. Kauri Gum « .'. 91. to 402.