AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT.

Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume V, Issue 19, 16 November 1858, Page 6

AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT.

From the Ist. to the 15th November. Our latest intelligence from Sydney is to the 3rd instant. At that date, the grain and flour markets were without chauge, nor did there appear to be any immediate prospect of alteration. Flour was still £22 for Aae, £2O for seconds* Bran, 25., and wheat Bs. 6d M to 9s. but none bad arrived to market for some lime previously. At Melbourne, flour was from £49 10s. to a2O 10s. At Hobart Town it is quoted at from 18 to! £2o,—prices firm, and a good business doing. Wheat is reported to be scarce and fetches from Bs. to Bs. 3d.. At Adelaide the flour market is reported as being very dull; holders offering at £l4 but no buyers. The tidings from the Fitzroy Diggings continued to be unfavourable, the crowd flocking back from them as wildly and as Inconsiderately as they bad previously rushed to them. Upwards of 3000 persons are reported to have got back to Sydney; and of these a very large number had*taken the unfavourable report with the same degree of credulity with which they bad received the favourable one, and had turned their backs upon the golden land without so much as having set foot on its shores* There are others, however, who are resolved to explore for themselves, and amongst several persons there is a conviction that gold exists and will yet be found in remunerative quantity. The arrivals since our last have been the' Lord Worsley, (another or the New Zealand Mail Steam Ships) 500 tons, Captain Johnson, from Wellington and Napier, with sundry merchandise, and 16 passengers; the ship Harwood, 462 tons, Captain Forsyth, from Londou, with a general cargo, and 90 passengers; the brig Gertrude, 118 tons, Captain Dunning, from Sydney, with goods, and 8 passengers; the schooner Eliezer, 36 tons, Captain Kean, from Napier, in ballast, 1 passenger; the ketch Pegasus, 43 tons, Captain Brier, from Napier, with 50 sheep, 10 cwt tallow, and 2 passengers;

the barque Breadalbane, 224 tons, Captain I Philip Joues, from Sydney, with a full cargo j of goods and 3 passengers; and the brig Moa, 237 tons. Captain Bowden, with a general cargo, and 11 passengers. The departures were the brig Gil Bias, 175 tons, Captain Wedgwood, for Lvtlelton, wiih 132,000 feet sawn timber, 2 passengers; the ship Zealandia, 1032 tons, Captain Foster, for Guam, in ballast; the steam ship Lord Ashley, 500 tons, Captain Stewart, for Sydney, with 3 tons flour, 6 tuns oil, 3 cwt cheese, sundry merchandize, and 56 passengers; the steam ship White Swan, 330 lons, Captain McLean, from the Mauukau, for New Plymouth, Nelson, and other Southern ports, with sundry goods and 16. passengers; the schooner Acadian, 45 tons, Captain Forrester, for Napier, with 2 tons flour, 33 tons firewood, an assorted general cargo and 4 passengers; the schooner Salcombc Castle, 124 tons, Capt. M'Allistcr, for Sydney, with 32 cwt. potatoes; the steamship Lord Worsley, 500 tons, Captain Johnson, for Napier, Wellington. Nelson, New Plymouth, and Manukau, with sundry merchandise, and 13 passengers; and the brigantine Spray, 106 tons, Captain Ander son, for Sydney, with 1118 bushels wheat, 5 tons wool lashing, 6 tons flax, 21 tons kauri gum, 9550 lbs. wool, and 2 passengers. There have arrived from the Coast, 40 vessels of 1041 tons with 59 passengers, 4211 bushels wheal, 336 bushels maize, 55 bushels bran, 200 bushels shells, 15 tons potatoes, 2 boxes fruit, 1 box eggs, 54 cwt salt pork, 23 cwt bacon, 50 lbs lard, 57 pigs, 40 bead cattle, 90 sheep, 3 cwt wool, 25* tuns whale oil, 7 cwt whale bone, 9 tons bark, 2 tons flax, 24£ tons kauri gum, 63 tons copper ore, 328 tons firewood, 3 boats, ii^A 1 * 1 ?* 350 house Mocks, -|i piles, 26 £2L* hlD & ,es ' 26 ' 644 feet sawn timber! and 2560 posts and rails. There departed, coastwise, 42 vessels of 927 tons, with 7| passengers, and the usual trading cargoes. The following arc the Market Prices* v-urrent, corrected to date:~ •

SRE*I> SfttftS. flour, flue, ..... 201. per ton, Fluor, second quality, . . till, per ton. Flour, of native manufacture, from 141 to 16 Biscuit at from . . 245. to 28s. per cwt. Bread per loaf of 2lbs. . . . . . t>d. Bran . . . . . . is. 3d. per W. Groceries. Tea .... &. lot), 10s. *per chest Sugar .... 7d. to Bd. per Hj. Coffee .... lOd. per lb. Rice . . . . 2d. to 2£ per lb. Soap • . . • 355. per cwt. Candles . . • . fOd. per lb. Tobacco . . . . 2s. 6d. to 3s. per lb. Farm Produce. Wheat . . . 7s. to 7s. 6d. per bushel Maize .... 3s. 6d.to6s.perbasheJ Oats ....... 7s. per bushel Potatoes (new) li. per ton Onions • . . . 6d. per lb. Hay (ptentifnl) . . St. per ton. Kauri Gum . . . 9/. to lOC. Live Stock. Sheep from . . 235. to 345. a bead. Dairy Cows . . W. to 12*. each. Calves from . . 235. to 40s» each. *eef and Mutton front . 6d. to TO. per bl. Pork (fresh and salt) . . sd, to 6d. ditto Dairy Produce, Butter .... is. lb. E SS* • • , . 4s. 3d. per doz. Poultry .... 3 5 ,6 d. per couple