AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT.

Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume VI, Issue 17, 15 August 1859, Page 7

AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT.

From the Ist to the 15th August. The latest intelligence from Sydney, which is to the 18th of July, exhibits no alteration in the prices of wheat and flour in any of the Australian markets. Business everywhere was slack, and little of commercial interest was stirring. There, as here, considerable numbers of emigrants continued to arrive from Europe, so that, year by year, there must continue to be a great and increasing demand for bread stuffs and every other description of food. Although the weather for the last four or five weeks, in Auckland, has been as fine and beautiful as that which we enjoy in summer time, it has been very different on the coast where strong gales with a tempestuous sea have prevailed; and, as these gales have been chiefly from the eastward, the ships from England and Australia have been making long and boisterous passages. The only arrivals, during the past fortnight have been the Pegasus, ketch, 45 tons, Captain Brier, from Napier, in ballast ; but wiih sundry wheat and other produce, 4 passengers, from the East Coast; the steamship While Swan, 198 tons, Captain Cellem, from Otago, Wellington, and other Southern ports, with sundries, 14 passengers; the Effort, schooner, 52 tons, Captain Frost, from Lyttelton, with 4228 bushels wheat, 3 passengers; the City of Melbourne, barque, 176 tons, Captain McLean, from Sydney, with a general cargo of merchandize, 9 passengers; the White Swan, steam-ship, 198 tons, Captain Cellem, from a pleasure trip to Mahurangi, Matakana, Kawau, Kororareka, Wangaroa, and Mongonui, with 50 passengers; the Traveller's Bride, ketch, SO tons, Captain Richards, from Otago, in ballast. The departures were the Spray, brig, 148 tons, Captain Scolt, for Lyttelton, with 97530 feet sawn timber, 8 tons potatoes; the

Ann. schooner, 37 tons, Captain Wallace, for Napier, with 2289 pieces timber; the Louisa, schooner, 27 tons, Captain Brislow, for Napier, with 150 posts, 150 rails, 15 tons firewood; the White Swan, steam-ship 198 tons, Captain Cellem, for the North, on a pleasure trip, wilh sundries, 30 passengers; the Surprise, cutter, 50 tons, Capt. Braund, for Napier and the East Coast, with 3330 pieces timber, 2500 palings, 10 tons firewood, 1 ton flour, 50 bags oats, and sundry merchandise. It is satisfactory to find that produce continues to come from the coast, although more slowly, and in less ample supply than the friends of the merchants and farmers could wish. There arrived 57 vessels of 1225 tons, with 143 passengers, 3170 bush, wheat, 418 bushels maize, 600 bushels oats, 3 tons potatoes, 3i cwt. onions, 6 cwt. turnips, 39 cwt. bacon and hams, 88 cwt. salt pork, 350 lbs. lard, 1 box eggs, 23 fowls, 1 horse, 60 sheep, 31 pigs, 18 tons copper ore, 69 tons kauri gum, 21 tuns, 32 barrels, humpback oil. 599 ions firewood. 10 cwt. flax, 10 bundles whalebone, 1208 feet house blocks, 1563 posts, 2952 rails, 9200 palings, 69,000 shingles, 46,200 feet sawn Umber. The departures, coastwise, were 57 vessels of 1189 tons, with 138 passengers, and the usual trading cargoes. The following are the Market Prices Current, corrected to date:— Bukad Stuffs. Flour, fine, 24/. per ton. Flour, second quality, . . 17/. per ton. Flour, of native manufacture, from 16/ to 18/. Biscuit at from . . 225. to 265. per cwt. Bread per loaf of 21bs 6d. Bran ...... Is 6d. per bl. Groceries. Tea .... 9/. to 9/. 10s. per chest Sugar .... 4d. to 6d. per lb. Coffee . • . . lOd. per lb. Rice . . . . 2d. to 2£ per lb. Soap .... 35s per cwt. Candles . . . . lOd. per lb.