AGRICULTURAL COMMERCIAL AND MARITIME REPORT.

Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume V, Issue 15, 31 July 1858, Page 6

AGRICULTURAL COMMERCIAL AND MARITIME REPORT.

From the 15th to the 31st July. The latest intelligence from Sydney is to the Ist of the present month, and has been received from Nelson by the White Swan, thereby affording a clear proof of the importance of steam ships in insuring rapidity of communication. The Australian Produce Markets are without change since our last. Flour continues firm at 20/. for first quality, iBJ. for seconds. Wheat exhibited a slight tendency to advance ; best samples fetched from Bs. 6d. to 95., and in very superior instances 9s. 6d.; .inferior samples were being purchased at from 7s. 6d. to Bs. and were crushed and employed for horse feed, for which necessary commodity the demand appears to be on the steady increase. Oats range from 7s. to Bs. according to kind and quality. Barley 7s. 6d. to Bs. Maize Bs. to Bs. 6d., but very dull of sale. Peas and Beans are scarce, and no price is quoted, but for these andwfctsorts of horse corn there is a ready marßfct.

At Adelaide, the grain supplying Colony of Australia, the Markets were more than usually active at the dateof last advices, and vesssels waiting for cargoes or wheat for -shipment for Sydney, had to lake their departure in ballast on account of the scarcity of the article, and the high price (Bs. peri bushel) at which it was then selling there. Wheat was arriving slowly in the Adelaide ! and other Australian Markets, and the general impression of those who arc best informed was that not only would prices be no lower than they then we're, but everything favoured the belief of a moderate advance! Altogether the prospects are very encouraging for our own New Zealand growers, both '"or the present and the approaching season's crop, and we can only earnestly reiterate the advice which, at this period, we have, year by year, striven to enforce—to put as much land under crop as the, means and appliances of our farmers can possibly admit. The arrivals, during the last fortnight, have been the ketch Pegasus, 43 tons, Captain Brier, with a cargo of merchandise, and one passenger, from Svdney ; the ketch Travellers Bride, 50 tons," Captain Marks, from Port Napier, with 12 bushels apples, and 8 passengers; the screw steam-ship While Swan, 550 tons, Captain John Mac Lean, from the Southern Ports, with 2 tons cheese, 458 sheep, 1100 lbs. butter, 18 bushels grass seed. 52 bushels oats, sundry merchandise, and 17 passengers, This fine ship has only been 28 days go«ng from and returning to Onehunga, and during that lime, she has been to New Plymouth, Nelson, Wellington, Lytielton, and" Oiago, remaining at each port for two days, both in going down and coming back. This is a matter of great importance, as communication can now be had between the Northern and Southern points of New Zealand, and with the utmost regularity, once a month ; the fine barque Swordfish, 345 tons, Captain Joseph Gundy, from London, with a large cargo of merchandise, 18 passengers, a valuable bull, and the very best thorough bred horse ever yet landed in New Zealand. » The departures have been the schooner Henry, 42 tons, Captain Wallace, with 21,686 feet sawp limber, 6000 shingles, and 12 tons firewood; the schooner Emily Allison, 99. tons. Captain Ruxton, with 100 tons firewood, 20,000 feet sawn timber, 1000 palings, sundry merchandise, and 3 passengers; and the schooner Queen, 53 tons, Captain Edwards, with-10,000 feet

sawn timber, and a full cargo of merchandise, all for Port Napier;. the cutter Surprise, 49 tons. Captain Braund, with a quantity of merchandise for New Plymouth, trans-shipped from the London ships Egmonl and Bride; the ship Egmont, 767 tons, Captain Gibson, in ballast, for Guam; the brig Moa, 237 tons, Captain Bowden, with 87 tons potatoes, 3 tons flax, 2 cwt. cheese, 690 bushels bran, 1600 lbs. onions, sundry merchandise, and 13 passengers; and the brig Swan, 149 tons, Captain Anderson, with 67 tons kauri gum, 47 J tons potatoes, 40 cwt. onions, sundry merchandise, and 3 passengers, both for Sydney , There have arrived" from the coast, 28 vessels of 837 tons, with 42 passengers, 3207 bushels wheat, 442 bushels maize, 11 bushels apples, 1 case lemons and guavas, 5 kits sweet potatoes, 30 pumpkins, 41 bundles fruit trees, 10 cwt. turnips, 10 cwt. flour, 2 cases fish, 100 lbs, butler, 20 lbs. honey, 20 cwt. bacon, 70 cwt. salt pork, 20 cwt. flax, 43 cwt. onions, 34 tons potatoes, 3 tuns oil, 9 pigs, 61 head cattle, 109 totara piles, 1300 fencing slakes, 3030 posts and rails, 247 tons Grewood, 31,000 feet sawn timber, 34,000 shingles, and 2 boats. The departures, coastwise, have been 30 vessels of 734 tons, with 46 passengers, and the usual trading cargoes. There has been no material change in the Markets since our last. The following are the Prices Current corrected to date.— Bread Stuffs. Flour, One, 20/. per ton. Flour, second quality, • . 18.'. per ton. Flour of native manufacture from 441. to 16 Biscuit at from . . 245. to 28s. per cwt. Bread per loaf of 21bs 3d. Bran 4s. 3d. per bl. Beef and Mutton from . 6d. to 7d. per lb. Pork (fresh and salt) . . 3d.to6d.ditto Farm Produce. Wheat per bushel Maize. . . . 6s. 6d. to 7s. per bushel Oats . 7s. per bushel Potatoes . . . . SJ. 10s. to 6f. perton Onions . . 2d. to 3d. per lb. Hay (pleuiiful) . . bl. per ton. Kauri Gum « . . 9/. to 10/.