AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT.

Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume VI, Issue 12, 30 June 1859, Page 6

AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT.

From the 15th to the 30th June. Since our last, we have had several arrivals both from Sydney and Melbourne, with intelligence to the 12th instant. The produce markets remained in the same dull, inactive, state; a slight rise in flour having taken place, notwithstanding a strong prevailing opinion that prices must give way. From Melbourne, under date of the 10th instant, they write—"There is a fair inquiry for flour for country orders, and a slight decline on quoted prices; but, as holders will make no reduction in their demands, no transactions are reported/' At Melbourne, as in Sydney, fine flour is quoted at i2o, second quality £25 per ton—Wheat 9s. to 9s. 6d.—Bran Is, Gd. In Auckland wheat fetches dOs- per bushel, and we regret to remark that the supply comes but slowly to hand. Fdr next season's crop, the prospects are

very promising, not only for the purpose of export, but for home consumption In New Zealand. This year, in New South Wales, Victoria, and New Zealand, the crops have been not only greatly deficient in quantity, but so badly harvested as to require to be immediately used. This will occasion an enhanced demand for the ensuing crop in the Australian colonies, whilst a far larger quantity will be required for home consumption than has ever yet been known since the arrival of Europeans in this country. Before the harvest can be gathered there will be many hundreds, if not thousands, added to the population of the Northern part of this island; indeed from the commencement of the present year to the close of the present month upwards of 4500 persons were calculated to have sailed from England for Auckland. These new-comers must be fed. Now then is the time for the New Zealand farmers to prepare to enrich themselves. The arrivals, since our last, are the schooner Zephyr, 56 tons, Captain Everinghim, from Melbourne, with goods and 7 passengers; the barque Frowning Beauty, 567 tons, Captain Dunning, from Sydney, with a large cargo of merchandize, and 2 passengers. Tnis fine vessel has been purchased for the Auckland trade, and is intended to sail early next year, with a cargo of wool, gum, oil, flax, and other New Zealand produce from Auckland to London :—the Jiishop of New Zealand's schooner, Southern Cross, 69 tons, Captain Grange, from the South Seas, with 3 passengers; the steam ship Lord Worsley, 290 tons, Captain Johnson, from Nelson and New Plymouth, with 21 bags 46 boxes onions, 4 case bacon, 5 bullocks, 40 quarters beef, 2 sheep, 2 sacks wheat, 1 cask butter, 42 passengers; White Swan, steam ship, 498 tons, Captain Cellem, from the South, with 144 bushels wheat from Napier, sundry goods, 45 passengers; Sarah, brig, 421 tons, Firth, from Sydney, with a general cargo ; William Watson, barque, 480 tons, Captain Macfarlane, from Nelson, in ballast; Mimmie Dyke, three masted schooner, 96 tons, Captain Kensett, from Melbourne, with an assorted cargo, 6 passengers; Gil Bias, brig, 475 tons, Captain Gallois, from Melbourne, with goods, 5 passengers. There have sailed, Lochnagar, barque, 580 ions, Captain Jenkins, for London, with 280 i tons kauri gum, 70 tons copper ore, 46V tons flax, 6£ tons towai bark, tons tuns oil, 87 gallons head matter, 4 ton whalebone, 4 bale sheep skins, a quantity of natural curiosities, old metal, and 10 passen-

gers; Ariel, schooner, 22 ions, Capt. Ryan, lor Napier, with 16,000 feet sawn timber; Eliezer, schooner, 56 tons. Captain Kcan. for Napier, with 12,500 shingles, 2000 palings, 8200 feet sawn timber, 28 bags oats, 10 bags flour, 6 trusses bay, a.id sundry merchandize; Lord Worslev, steam ship, 290 tons, Captain Johnson, for Sydney, with sundry goods, 1 1 passengers; Zephyr, schooner, 56 tons, Captain Everinghim, for l.ytteitori, with goods, 5 passengers; Caducous, ship, 1106 tons. Captain Cass, for Hong Kong, in ballast, 6 passengers. Time have arrived, coastwise, 45 vessels or I0:i5 tons, with 112 passengers, 3742 bushfls wheal, 460 bushels maize, 25 bushels apples, 10jf- tons potatoes, 10 cwt. kumeras, i cwt. onions, 51 cwt. pumpkins, 6 cwt. lard, 20 cwt. salt pork, 22 cwt, bacon, 50 lbs. butter, 1 box eggs, 6 head cattle, 4 horse, 50 fowls, 68 pigs, 270 sheep, 1000 palings, 20,000 shingles, 550 posts, 1257 rails, 52,000 feet sawn timber, 5£ tons flax, tons kauri gum, 409 tons firewood. The departures, coastwise, were 42 vessels of 1018 tons, with 93 passengers, and the usual trading cargoes. The following are the Market Prices Current corrected to date:— 'Br.bad Stuffs. Flour, .fine, ... . . 2U. per ion. Flour, second quality, . . 17J. per toiu Flour, of native manufacture, fromlGJ to 18?Biscuit at from . . 225. to 265. per cwt. Bread per loaf of 2lbs Cd. Bran . . . . , .1$ (Jd. per bl. Gnocmiis. IPa .... 9/. to 9Z. 10s. per chest Sugar ■ . . • 4:1. lo 6d. per lb. Coffee . . , . iod. per lb. Bice . . . . 2d. lo per 1!). Soap , , . . 555, per cwt. Candles. . . . lod. pcrlb.