AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT.

Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume VII, Issue 3, 15 February 1860, Page 6

AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT.

From the Ist to the 15th February. We have had no arrivals from any of the Australian Colonies, since our last; and there has been but one departure thither. In whatever way the flour and grain markets may ultimately settle down, it is quite clear that, at the present moment, there is much uncertainty with respect to the prices likely to prevail during the approaching winter. Of this, we feel firmly persuaded, that the New Zealand farmers will do well to cultivate as largely as they possibly can, not only as a source of export to neighbouring but as a means of providing for iherequiremenis of the numerous settlers arriving here by every English shipj not less than 640 persons being on board of three ships expected to arrive during the present month; and these to be successively followed by larger ships which are notified to sail from England every month.

This season, potatoes must command high prices in all the Australian Colonies where the crops have proved an almost total failure; unfortunately, in consequence of the long prevailing drought our own stocks will be sadly deficient, and we fear that the export which is now taking place, must be greatly limited. There have been but few arrivals, and these almost exclusively from the other Provinces, namely;—the Traveller's Bride, ketch, 50 tons, Captain Parker, from Otago, in ballast;—Eliezer, schooner, 56 tons, Captain Kean, from Napier, with 50 sheep, 150 bushels wheat, and sundries; —Louisa, schooner, 25 ions, Captain Bristow, from Napier, in ballast:— Phoenix, ship, 906 tons, Captain Brown, from Liverpool, with a cargo of merchandise, and 136 passengers;— White Swan, steam ship, 198 tons, CaptainCellem, from Wellington and Napier, with 20 passengers;— Glance, cutter, 20 tons, Captain McNeilage, from Napier, in ballast, two passengers. There sailed,—Sattelite, cutter, 50 tons. Captain Cleaverland, for Napier, with 20,000 feet sawn timber, 30 tons firewood; —Surprise, cutter, 50 tons, Captain Braund, for Nelson, with 54,426 feet sawn timber, 5 tons flour; —White Swan, steam ship, 198 tons, Captain Cellem, for Napier and Wellington, with 69 packages merchandise, 100 bags flour, 16 passengers;— Eliezer, schooner, 56 tons, Captain Kean, for Napier, with 29,000 feet sawn timber, 5400 shingles, 160 packages merchandise, 2 passengers, - Breadalbane, barque, 215 tons, Captain Philip Jones, for Sydney, with 1150 lbs. 04 fcruiri <rum. f nr i

timber, 300 bushels brari, 3QO gallons oil, 60. tons potatoes, 200 bags salt, 23 casks slush, 30 bags pepper, 47 passengers;— Will Watch, cutter, 32 tons, Captain Winter, for Napier, with 4 tons flour, i ton bacon, 50 bushels oats, 12,000 feet sawn timber, 109 packages merchandise;— H. M. ship Iris, 26 guns, 920 tons, Commodore Loring, C. 8., for Sydney. -■ The arrivals from the coast obniprised 69 vessels of 1609 tons, with 295 passengers, 80S bushels wheat, 140 bushels maize, 120 bushels oats, -920 bushels apples, 99 bushels ets shells, tons potatoes, 93 cwt onions, ~3ocwt cheese, 1160 lbs. butter, 4 barrels •fish; 2;boxes eggs, 3 casks slush, 40 gallons oil, 7 hides, 40 cwt. flax, 3 tons straw, 1 bark, 50 tons kauri gum, 2 spars, 1340 posts and rails, 14,725 palings, 67,000 shingles, 85,888 feet sawn timber, 502 tons 'firewood, 1595 lbs. wool, 200 sheep, 2head cattle. The departures coastwise were 67 vessels of 1573 tons, with 241 passengers, and the customary supplies.