AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT.

Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume VI, Issue 11, 15 June 1859, Page 6

AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT.

From the Ist to the 15th June. We are without any intelligence either from Europe or Australia since our last though more than one vessel, from both quarters, may be considered to be due. Tim Auckland Flour and Corn market continues Gnn at former prices—flour sell-

ing at 241, per ton for fine, ill. for second> quality. The only arrival from a foreign port is) that of the schooner Osprey, 47 tons, Cap-' lain Butt, with a cargo of oranges and' cocoa nuts from Tahiti ; there have likewise arrived, the steamship Lord Worsley, 290 tons, Captain Johnson, from New Plvmouth, ! and the other Southern ports, with 205 1 sheep, 14 bullocks, 40 quarters Taranaki ( beef, 80 kegs butter, 7 packages bacon, II I cases apples, i bale hides, 9 sacks oais,! sundry merchandise, and 51 passengers; the schooner Eliezer, 56 tons, Captain Kean, from Napier, with 4 passengers. • I Foremost in the list of departures stands the barque Breadalbane, 215 tons, Captain 1 Phillip Jones, until now employed in the 1 trade between Sydney and Auckland. She has sailed for Valparaiso, for the purpose ofj purchasing a cargo of wheat and flour,' which, we think, our own farmers ought to have been, able to have supplied in sufficient quantity for our necessities, great and increasing though those necessities be; besides 60 tons of coals, 72 tons of firewood, 14 tons of potatoes, and 11,000 feet of sawn timber, the Breadalbane has taken away 5000 sovereigns to pay for a cargo of wheat and flour. Surely this ought to act as an incentive to our grain growers to be up and stirring so that this heavy loss of money mav be guarded against in future, seasons. If New Zealand should, next season, have as heavy a drain on her finances as that which she has had to contend against during the present, both Natives and Europeans will feel the effects of having so little to sell, so much to buy-, and so small an amount of money to pay for it. Now is the time to plough and to sow, and to make abundant provision for the future. The other departures have been the steamship White Swan, 198 tons, Captain Cellem, for Napier, and the South, with 6 tons flour, sundry merchandise, 11 passengers; the schooner Kiwi, 40 tons, Captain McGregor, for New Plymouth, with 8000 feet sawn timber, and snndry goods; the brigantine Spray, 100 tons, Captain Anderson, for Sydney, with tons kauri gum, 55 tons potatoes 1424 Ilk wool, 58 cwt. flax, 10 passengers; the cutter Surprise, 50 tons, Captain Braund, for Napier, with 1000 rails, 242 posts, 1700 shingles, feet house blocks, 5 tons flour, and sundry goods; the cutter Fanny, 20 tons, Upiain Hannah, for Canterbury, with 7500 t-et sawn timber, 5 tons flour, and sundry goods; the French whale ship, General

D'tlaulpoul, 6i7ions, Caplain Darni'andarilz, for Ilavrc, villi 2400 barrels whale, 115 barrels sperm oil, 24,000 lbs. whalebone, 4 passengers; ihe culler Annie, 23 tons, Caplain Ilerwin, for Napier, willi 13,000 feet sawn limber, 1200 palings; the stearic ship Lord Worslev, 290 ions. Capita Johnson, for New Plymouth and Nelson, villi sundry merchandise and 14- passengers. There have arrived from the coasi, CO vessels of 1 202 ions, wilh 227 passengers, 4890 bushels wheal, 590 bushels maize, 260 bushels oats, 101 bushels apples, »2 tons potatoes, 2 tons pumpkins, 8 cwt. onions, 96 cwt. salt pork, 4! ewt. bacon and hams, 200 lbs. honey, 1480 lbs. butter, 500 lbs. cheese, 58 lbs. jam, 41 cwt. larJ, 44 pigs, 150 sheep, 2 horses, 79 fowls, 50 turkies, 144 fruit trees, 1 hide, 67,500 feel sawn limber, 528 posts, 571 rails, 1200 palings, 41,000 shingles, 2JO feel house blocks, I boat, tons flax, 72A tons kauri gum, 50 tons copper ore, 624 tons firewood. The departures, for the coast, comprised 54 vessels of 1196 ions, wilh 157 passengers, and the usual trading cargoes. The following are the Market Prices current corrected to dale. Br.EAD Stuffs. Flour, fine, . .... 241, per ton. Flo.»r, second quality, . . . I7f. per ton. Flour, of native manufacture, from 161 to 18 Biscuit at Irom , . 225. 10265. per cwl. Bread per loaf of 2lbs. . v . . . . 6d. Bran . . . . , ... \ s 6J. per bl. Guockmes. lea ... . 91. to9J. 10s. per chest Sugar . . . . 4d. to 6d. per lb. Coffee .... lOd. per lb. Bice .... 2d. to per lb. Soap • . . . 55s per cwt. Candles .... 10d. per lb. Tobacco .... 2s. 6d. to ss. per lb. Farm Pkoduce. Wheat 40s. per bushel Maize ss. 6d. per bushel Oats . ss. per bushel Potatoes .... &l. to 4/. 10s. per ion Onions .... sd. per lb. Ilay (plentiful) . . Si. per ton. Kauri Gum ... 91. to 10/. Butler .... 2s. sd. to 2s. Od. Eggs .... 2*. 3d.