AGRICULTURAL COMMERCIAL AND MARITIME REPORT.

Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume VI, Issue 10, 31 May 1859, Page 7

AGRICULTURAL COMMERCIAL AND MARITIME REPORT.

From the 15th to the 31st May. Intelligence has been received from Sydney to the 18th of the present month, and from the other Australian colonies to a lale dale. In the Wheal and Flour Market, an advance in price had taken place, fine flour selling, in Sydney, at £24; second quality at from ±. i 9 to .122 per ton—wheat at from 9s. to 10s. per bushel. At Melbourne and Adelaide, prices are nearly the same; but there appears lo be a strong impression entertained in Melbourne that the rise will not be a permanent one, and that prices must ere long give way under the importations which are anticipated from America and elsewhere. The Maize crop in Australia has been not only good but abundant, and was arriving freely at 2s. 9d. per bushel. Oats were plentiful, and potatoes continued at a low figure, from £3 to 14 per ton. It seems to be generally believed that there will be a full demand for next season's crops and that prices will range high; we hope our Native growers will not let the present seed lime pass by without improving it to the utmost. The arrivals since our last have been the schooner Gazelle, 212 tons, Captain Cunningham, with goods, and 1 passenger; the brig Moa, Captain Bowden, with goods, and 5 passengers, both from Sydney; the schooner Effort, 52 tons, Captain Frost, from Lyttellon, with 540 bushels wheat and tons sugar; the ship Caduceus, 1106 tons, Captain Cass, from London, with a general cargo of merchandise, and 243 passengers; the barque Breadalbane, 224 tons, Captain Philip Jones, goods, and 7 passengers, from Sydney;

ibe steam ship Lord Ashley, 290 tons, from Sydney and Nelson, with sundry merchandise and 9 passengers; the sleam ship White Swan 198 tons, Captain Celluiii, from Wellington, Napier, and other Southern ports with sundry goods, 436 sheep, 51 passengers; the briganline Spray, 108 tons, Captain Anderson, from Sydney, with goods, 8 passengers; the French whalipg ship General D'flautpou!, 647 tons, Captain Darmandaritz, from [Akaroa and the fishing grounds, wilh 2400 barrels whale, 115 barrels sperm oil, and 24,000 lbs. whalebone. 'I he departures were the barque Isabella Hamilton, 258 tons, Captain Wilielion, for Newcastle, in ballast; the schooner Gazelle, 212 tons, Captain Cunningham, wilh 1 tun oil, 8 cwt. cheese, 51 cwt. flax, 56 tons potatoes, 11,000 feel sawn limber. 50 tons kauri gum, 15 coils woo Mashing, 25 passengers; the brig Moa, 257 tons, Captain Bowden, with 15| ions kauri gum, 500 hides, 2047 lbs wool, 2 tuns oil, 5 cwt. whalebone, 18 bags hooves and horns, sundry merchandise, 17 passengers, both for Sydney ; the schooner Eliezer, 56 tons, Captain Kean, for Napier, with 414 posts, 578 rails, 7 tons firewood, 528 pieces limber, sundry merchandise, 5 passengers; the schooner Effort, 32 tons, Caplain Frost, for Lyttelton, wilh 26,000 feet sawn limber; the steam ship Lord Ashley, 290 tons, Captain Stewart, wilh sundry merchandise, 12 passengers, for New Plymouth, Nelson, and Sydney. It affords us very great satisfaction lo be able to report of a considerable activity in the coasting trade, the truest source of wealth both lo Natives and Europeans. During the fortnight, there arrived 62 vessels of 1555 tons, wilh 194 passengers, 8045 bushels wheat, 520 bushels maize, 177 bushels oats, 155 bushels apples, tons potatoes, 4 cwt. onions, 18 baskets pumpkins, 5 casks beef. 1100 lbs, bacon, 57 cwt. salt pork, 592 lbs. lard, 1100 lbs. butler, 50 lbs. honey, 1 box eggs, 6 fowls, 4 horses, 120 sheep, 52 pigs, 1 hide, 600 lbs. wool, 200 lbs. whalebone, 72 tons kauri gum, 40 tons copper ore, 4j tons flax, 570 ions firewood, 15 totara piles, 170 feet house blocks, 15,500 feet sawn limber, 1054 posts, 1229 rails, 116,000 shingles. The departures coastwise were 54 vessels of 1197 ions with 67 passengers, and the usual trading cargoes.