AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT.

Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume VI, Issue 13, 15 July 1859, Page 6

AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT.

From the Ist to the 15th July. By the advices last received from Sydney, we learn that the Markets have again undergone a change, an advance of £2 per ton having taken place in flour, which the Millers have raised from 125 to £27 per ton of first quality. Wheal is said to be scarce; but the quotations given do not exhibit the same rise as that which has occurred with flour, the highest prices being from 10s. 6d. to Us. per bushel. Potatoes were still low, fetching from £3 10s. to £5 per ton. At Melbourne the price of flour was from £26 iOs. to £27 for fine. Wheat 10s. Gd. In Auckland fine flour has also advanced from £.24 to £27, and bread from 6d. to 7d. per 2lbs. loaf. The cause of this sudden and almost unexpected rise in the Australian markets, is an alleged deficiency in the crops of all the colonies, and an inferiority of quality in those of New South Wales. To this has to be added the news of a revolution in Chili, ■whither many ships—the Hreadalbanc from Auckland amongst the number—had gone to purchase cargoes of wheat but which,'in consequence of the civil war then raging, they would be altogether unable to procure. It is much to be regretted that last season so little attention should have been bestowed in the New Zealand cultivations. Had our growers been but diligent they might not only have saved the country the heavy expose ef importing foreign", but have acquired much money by the sale of surplus stores. It is idle, however, to regret the

past, all we can do, and that which we earnestly counsel our farmers to do, is not to allow the present seed time to pass away without planting wheat to the very utmost of their power; they may rest assured if thev do so that they will not fail to be very abundantly recompensed. There have arrived, during the past fortnight, the schooner Gazelle, 212 tons, Caplain Cunningham, from Sydney,- with a general cargo of merchandize, and I passenger; Isabella Hamilton, barque, 258 tons, Captain Wittellon, from Newcastle, with a cargo of coals; Moa, brig, 237 tons, Capt. Anderson, from Sydney, with an assorted cargo of goods, 159 sheep, and 12 passengers; Henry, schooner, 42 tons. Captain Wallace, from Christchurch, with 1700 bushels wheat, 120 bushels oats; Her Majesty's sloop of war, Elk, 12 guns, 484 ions, Commander Campion, from a cruise amongst the Southern settlements; Spray, brig, 148 tons, Captain Scott, from Lyttelton, in ballast; Swordfish, barque, 3i5 tons, Captain Dundy, from London, with a general cargo, and 18 passengers. There have sailed—William Watson, barque, 480 tons, Captain Macfarlane, (or Newcastle.in ballast; Osprey, schooner, 47 tons, Captain Bull, for Napier, with 8000 feet sawn timber, 20,000 shingles, 12 tons flour, 2 tons bran, sundry merchandize, and 4 passengers; Dolphin, schooner, 41 tons, Captain Doughty, for Napier, with 4 tons flour, ISO posts, 500 rails, 9 tons firewood, and sundry merchandize; Frowning Beauty, barque, 367 tons, Capt. William Dunning, for Sydney, with 73 tons kauri gum, 65 tons potatoes, 42461b5. wool, 27 hides, sundry merchandize, 20 passengers; Traveller's Bride, ketch, 30 tons, Captain Richards, for Otago, with 31,888 feet sawn limber; Sarah, brig, 121 tons, Captain Firth, for Sydney, with 24 tons flour, 12 tons kauri gum, 26 bales flax, sundry merchandize, and 1 passenger; Mimmie Dike, schooner, 87 tons, Captain Kensett, for Lyttelton, with 30,000 feet sawn timber, sundry goods from Melbourne, 4 passenger; White Swan, steamer, 498 tons, Captain Cellem, for Napier and Wellington, with sundries, 30 passengers; Gil Bias, brig, 175 tons, Captain Gallois, for Sydney, with 1540 bushels wheat, 62 tons potatoes, 501. pieces timber.

; There have arrived from the coast, 5o vessels of HBl tons, with 144 passengers, 6644 bushels wheat, 938 bushels maize, 200 bushels apples, 4 tons potatoes, 130 cwt. pork, 600!bs. lard, 8 cwt. bacon, 100 sheep, j J4 head cattle, 76 pigs, 52 fowls, Sdoz. eggs, 42cwt.flax,20 cwt. leather,4s tons kauri gum, 649 tons firewood, 860 feet house blocks, 400 rails, 42,400 feet sawn limber, 1 cwt. tallow, 20 pigeons, and 26,000 shingles. . The departures for the coast were 56' vessels of M 59 tons, with 127 passengers, and the usual trading cargoes.