AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT.

Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume VI, Issue 23, 15 November 1859, Page 5

AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT.

From the Ist to the 15th November. By the latest dates from Sydney, which are to the 2nd of the present month, the corn markets of Australia continued to be in a very unsettled condition, no tranactions taking place in wheat and flour beyond the immediate necessities of the day. The large dealers hold out for 25/, to 23f. 10s. for best Adelaide flour, a price which the consumers are not disposed to give. Dry weather, at a critical perio! appears to' have «et jn.| The Maitland

newspaper of the Ist instant says—"we hear that h the neighbourhood of Singleton (an extensive grain producing district) the dry weather has told severely on the wheat Cr p, and that in several place? it has been cut down for hay, or cattle have been turned into it. In tbe NVoHornbi district the crop is said to be a very fine one though rain is required there also." Whichever way the Australian harvest may turn out, it is fortunate there has been so large a breadth planted here. Our farmers can never cultivate too much; and we are happy to learn, from various quarters, that the crops never presenteda more promising appearance than now. On reference to our shipping reports, it will be seen that the Breadalbane brought back from Sydney her cargo of Chilian flour, which has since been sold in Auckland at 23£ AOs. per ton. On the other hand, the Moa, and also the Breadalbane, have taken a considerable quantity of wheat to Sydney. A sufficiency of wheat and flour remains for consumption; and it is earnestly to be hoped that should this coming harvest be safely garnered, there will remain, after outown necessities are supplied, a large surplus for exportation. The arrivals from other ports have been the Surprise, cutter, SO tons, Captain Braund, from Napier, with 90 bushels, wheat; Zephyr, schooner, 56 tons, Captain Clarke, from Napier, with -4 passengers; Breadalbane, barque, 215 tons, Captain Phillip Jones, from Sydney, with her cargo of Chilian flour and wheat, sundrv merchandise, 5 passengers:—Maori, ship", 799 tons, Capt. Peiherbridge, from London, with a cargo of merchandise, 152 passengers; Pegasus, ketch, 45 tons, Capt. Brier, from Napier, in ballast, 1 passenger; —Miinmie Dike, schooner, 91 tons, Captain Kensett, from Otago, in ballast Ann Sanderson, brig, 250 tons. Captain Barton, from INapier, with sundries. I passenger; While Swan, steamship, 19* tons, Captain Cellem, from Wellington and Napier, with sundries; - Ann, schooner, 7>l tons, Captain Wallace, from Napier, in ballast; Provens-ale, barque, 6<»o ions. Captain Martin, (Frcneis Transport with 2-20 troops) from New Caledonia and Sydney, called for supplies ; —E'.iczer, schooner, 56 tons,

Captain Kean, from Napier, in ballast;— Gil Bias, brig, 175 tons, Captain Bull, from Newcastle, with 200 tons coals, 500 bushels maize, 30 tierces salt beef. There departed the Thomas and Henrv, brig, 234 tons. Captain Paton, (or Otago, with I 5-2,300 feet sawn timber, 30 bags of flour, I case leather, 10 passengers; Dolphin, schooner, 41 tons CaptDoughtv for Napier, with 3832 leet timber, 4000 shingles, 400 palings, 8500 bricks, 120 bags flour, sundries, 2 passengers;— Ann, schooner, 37 tons, Capt. Wallace, for Napier in ballast; —Traveller's Bride, ketch, 50 tons. Captain Richards, from Manukau for New Plymouih, with 25,000 feet sawn timber ;—White Swan, steamship, 198 tons, Captain Cellem, for Napier and Wellington, with 10,000 feet sawn timber, 33 tons flour, 500 feet house blocks, sundries, 35 passengers; Moa, brig, 237 tons, Captain Anderson, for Sydney, with 3000 bushels wheat, 481 bushels bran, 6900 lbs. butter, 4240 lbs. wool, 260 gallons of whale oil, 222 hides, •24 tons kauri gum, sundry merchandise, 17 passengers;— Zephyr, schooner, 56 tons, Captain Clarke, for Napier, with 6110 feet sawn limber, sundries, 12 passengers; Breadalbane, barque, 215 tons, Captain Phillip Jones, for Sydney, with 72h tons kauri gum, 750 lbs. wool, 800 horns, 570 bushels wheat 125 gallons black oil, 10 passengers ;—Mermaid, ship 1233 tons, Captain James While, for Wellington and London, villi 52 tons copper ore, 3 tons kauri gum, 1000 lbs. wool, 1 passenger; Provencale, 600 tons, Captain Martin, French Transport, with troops, for Toulon ; —Surprise, cutter, 50 tons. Captain Braund, for Napier, with 25,000 feet sawn timber, 20,000 shingles, 5 tons flour, sundries. There arrived, coastwise, 64 vessels of 1410 tons, with 157 passengers,23B4 bushels wheat, 385 bushels maize, 6 cwt. potatoes, 144 cwt. salt pork, 14 cwi. bacon, 708 lbs. lard, l ease eggs, 10 sheep, 24 pigs, 42 head cattle, 1 horse, 2 tons humpback oil, 3 ions lanner's bark 49A tons kauri gum, 52 ions copper ore, 16 cwt. flax, 693 tons firewood, 100 lbs. wool, 2600 feet and 15 tons house blocks, 24 kauri logs, 1210 posts, and rails, 5000 laths, 30,000 palings, 83,0,0$ shingle?,. 81,200 feet sawn timber, 1 whaleboat. I

The departures, coastwise, were 69 vessels of 4551 tons, with 215 passengers, and the usual trading cargoes and supplies. The following are the market prices current, corrected to dale. Bread Stuffs. Flour, fine, 2U. per ton Flour, second quality, . . 201, per ton Flour, of native manufacture, from!4Z to 16£. Biscuit at from . . 225. to 265. per cwt. Bread per loaf of 21bs 6d. Bran Is 3d. per bl. j Groceries. Tea .... 91.105. to 10J. Pr chest Sugar . . . . 4d. to 6d. per lb. Coffee .... lOd. per lb. Rice . . . • 2d to per lb. Soap .... 55s per cwt. Candles . . . . lOd. per lb. Beef and Mutton from . 6d. to7d. per lb. Pork (fresh and salt) . . sd, to 6d. ditto Live Stock. Dairy Cows . . SI. to 121, each. Calves from . • 255. to 40s. each^