AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT.

Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume VI, Issue 20, 30 September 1859, Page 6

AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT.

From the 15th to the 30th September. The arrivals and departures during the past fortnight have been both numerous and important: and, on reference to the lists, it will be seen that a very large accession has been made to the population, there being 444 persons who have arrived against \52 who have departed. This influx of population is certain to continue; three large ships had sailed from England full of passengers in July last, and advices have been received that these were to be followed by monthly succession of other ships; it will iherefore be seen that a large and increasing demand will be made upon our farmers for enhanced supplies of every description of food. In the Australian markets wheat and flour were on the slow but steady advance. Stocks were found lobemorescanty than they were supposed to have been; and the weather which, as here, has been bright and dry, was not the most favourable for the growing crops, so that should a thoroughly dry season set in, there will inevitably be a great demand upon any surplus that New Zealand may be able to afford. Since we last wrote, the Auckland barque Breadalbane has arrived from Valparaiso, after a swift and excellent voyage, with a full cargo of wheat and flour; that cargo she has not only carried on to Sydney, but 55 tons of Auckland flour and 1940 bushels of Wheat have been sent to Melbourne by the Gazelle, a ship belonging to the same owners. It is some time since New Zealand

wheat and flour have been shipped to Australia from the port of Auckland ; but it only requires industry and energy to create a continuous and profitable export of those and similar commodities, which can be water-borne from hence at a cheaper rate than they can be conveyed from the interior of Australia, by land carriage, either to Sydney or Melbourne. There arrived the barqiie Breadalbane, 224 tons, Captain Philip Jones, from Valparaiso, with 3100 bags flour, 285 bags bran, 511 bags wheat, 100 bags walnuts, and I passenger;—the steam ship Lord Ashley, 296 tons, Captain Stewart, from Sydney, with sundry merchandise and 8 passengers; »he brigantine Spray, 406 tons, Captain Macdonald, from Sydney, with goods, and 15 passengers; -the iron ship Tornado, 1075 tons, Captain Aikin, from Liverpool, with a general cargo, and 245 passengers;—the ship Matoaka, 1095 tons, Captain Stevens, from London, with a general cargo, and 170 passengers;—the ship Mary Ann, 725 tons, Captain Ashby, from Lyltelion, in ballast. 5 passengers ;—and the culler Surprise, 50 tons, Captain Braund, from Napier and the East Coast. Ihere sailed, the steam ship White Swan, 198 tons, Captain Cellem, for Napier and the South, with sundry merchandise, 15 passengers;—the barque British Queen, 569 tons, Captain Nott, for Callao, in ballast;— the barque Swordfish, 545 tons, Captain Cundy, for London, with 65 tons copper ore, 232 tons kauri gum, sundries, 25 passengers;—the barque Breadalbane, 224 tons, Captain Philip Jones, for Sydney, with her cargo of wheat and flour from Valparaiso. 13 passengers ;—the three-masted schooner Mimmie Dike, 97 tons, Captain Kensett, for Olago, with 80,000 feet sawn timber, 6 passengers;—the schooner Pioneer, 25 tons, Captain Mucklejohn, for Olago, with 26,000 feet sawn timber;—the steam ship Lord Ashley, 296 tons, Captain Kennedy, for the Southern ports, with sundry merchandise, 56 passengers the schooner Gazelle, 212 ions, Captain Cunningham, for Melbourne, with 55 tons flour, 1940 bushels wheat, 10,000 feet sawn timber, 9 passengers;— the schooner Mary Louisa, 18 tons. Captain Bryant, for Christchurcb, with 8000 feet sawn limber, sundries; —the jschooner Dolphin, 41 tons, Captain Doughty, for Napier,

With 5.7 tons firewood, sundry merchandise, 2 passengers; —the steam ship Airedale, 286 Wins; Captain Johns, for Sydney*.with sundries, 8 passengers;—the barque Isabella Hamilton, 258 tons, Captain Wittelton, for London, with 200 tons kauri gnm, 40 tons • copper ore, tons flax, 4312 lbs. wool, 56-cwt. whalebone, 22 bags hoofs, 26 bags dnd *2 tons bones, 9 bags hornsthe ship Sir 'George Pollock, 630 tons, Captain • Withers,'fur Shanghai, in ballast. arrived coastwise G6 vessels, of .4,470 ions, with 225 passengers, 2655 bush els wheat, 840- bushels maize, 28 tons potatoes, 42 tons 2 cwt. salt pork, 50 cwt. bacon and hams, 698 lbs. lard, 53 pigs, 6 head cattle, 167 sheep, 25 fowls, 5 "horses, 6 goats, tons flax> 601 tons firewood, 5000 Jalhs, 4850 posts and rails, 60 dozen eggs, 50 tons kauri gum, 5 tuns towai bark, a 4| oit, 4U cwt. whalebone, 4 bOat, s'kits apples, 4 boxes lemons, 46 tons house J?locks, 93,000 shingles, 8700 palings, 200 .feet ships' timbers,-48,900 feet sawn timber. The departures coastwise consisted of 65 vessels, of . 1420 tons, with 206 passengers, and the usual trading supplies. The following are the Market Prices Current, corrected to date: Bread Stuffs. FJcuuv fine, 50/. per ionFJ©ur, second quality, . . 22/. per tonFjlour, of native manufacture,'(Yoni2o;-to 22/■ Biscuit.at from . . 225. io2os. per cwt* Bread per loaf of 2lbs. -. . . . 7j. • • • • • • ! s (;d. per bl. -v. : GnOCliiiltiS: ~t . • • 91.105. to 40/. Pr chest Spg? l> . . 4rJ'. to 6d. per lb. tyce : ' • .v' - 2d. to 2{> per lb. ' Soap! ..... -555. per cwt. Candles ; . . . . 40d. per lb. Beef and Mutton from . Gd. to oii. per lb. Pork (fresh and salt) . . 5cJ, f) Oil. ditto- *' I-ivrc Stock. Dairy Cows . . 8/. to 12/. each. Calves from . . 235. to 40s. each,