AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT.

Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume VII, Issue 6, 31 March 1860, Page 7

AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT.

From the 16th to 51st March Since we last wrote, there have been further arrivals from Australia; and by these we learn, that a slight reaction in the grain markets had taken place, flour having risen fully 2/* per ton. It is very difficult to form any correct idea of the probable state of the markets during the approaching winter, and following spiing, but as it seems to be the general impressiom. that the newly discovered gold-field at. the Snowy River is likely to prove a large and productive -one, a great influx of people may be looked for, as soon as the winter shall have passed. This will necessarily demand for supplies to that quarter, and as its shipping port lies in Twofold Bay, the : nearest, perhaps, to ourselves, the: New ; Zealand farmers and millers will be apt to derive a store of the trade. - At the latest dates, the following were the Sydney prices Flour, fine 22k Seconds, 20k Wheat, Bs. 6d. to 9s. per bushel. Bran, ; is. 3d. Potatoes, 12Z. to 14k- Onions, 9f. to 12k per ton. Tlie following ships have arrived during the last fortnight :—Rlue Jacket, clipper ship, 986 tons, Captain Clarke, from Liverpool, with a full cargo of merchandise,, and 227 passengers. Mpa, brig, 257 tons, Captain Anderson, from Sydney,: with goods and 12 passengers. Lord Ashlcv, steam ship, 296 tons, Captain Kennedy, with goods and 8 passengers. Frenchman* ship, 1156 tons, Captain Rennant, from London, with a general cargo, and 250 passengers. : Lord Burleigh, ship, -629 tons, Captain Smith, from London, with good?, and 124 passengers. White Swan, steam ship, 198 ions, Captain Cellem, from Wellington and Napier, will) 20 head caille, and 22 passengers, Shamrock, brig, 184 tons, Captain Dixon', from New Plymouth, with 200 sheep, 42 kegs butler, 87 bushels grass seeds, 15 cwt,.

onions, and 1 passenger. Airedale, steam ship, 286 tons, Captain Johns, from New Plymouth,*with sundry goods, and 20 passengers, Dart, cutter, 24 tons, Captain Webster, from Napier, with 750 bushels wheat. Swordflsb, brigantine, 155 tons, Captain Roberts, from Lyttleton, in ballast. Her Majesty's steam ship Niger, 15 guns, 1072 tons, Captain Cracroft, from Taranaki, for military stores. There sailed :—Breabalbane barque, 215 tons, Captain Barron, for Sydney, with 80 tons potatoes, 20 tons kauri gum, 20 bales sheepskins, 127 hides, 4 tons sharps, 3000 feet sawn timber, 1000 lbs. cheese, 15 hhds. brandy, 291 sacks salt, and 56 passengers. Pegasus, ketch, 38 tons, Captain Brier, for New Plymouth, with 26,000 fe°t sawn timber, 150 feet house blocks, 1 ton flour. White Swan, steam ship, 198 tons, Captain Cellem, for Napier and Wellington with fonr tons flour, sundry iron work, 4 passengers- Aquila, cutter, 27 tons, Capt. Austin, for Napier, with 2,500 feet sawn timber, 2000 shingles, 2700 palings, 16 tins nails, and 3 passengers. Airedale, steam ship 286 tons, Captain Johns; for New Plymouth, with 100 soldiers of the 65th regiment, a quantity of military stores, and 16 passengers. Moa, brig, 237 tons, Capt. Anderson, for Sydney, with 80 tons potatoes, 8771 lbs. wool, 370 bushels sharps, 13 bushels bran, and 27 passengers. Lord Ashley, steam ship, 296 tons. Captain Kennedy, for Sydney, with 110 tons potatoes, 3 cases jams, 3500 lbs wool, 1 bale sheepskins 1 167 bides, and 46 passengers. Kale, barque, 542 tons, Captain Philip Jones, for Sydney, with 147 tons potatoes, 48 tons kauri gnm 9000 feet sawn limber, 2450 lbs. wool, sundries, and 50 passengers. Dolphin, schooner, 41 ions, Captain Doughty, for Napier with U.OOO feel sawn limber, 5000 shingles 3 doors, 8 packages, and three passengers.. Osprey, schooner, 47 tons, Captain Irvine, for Nelson, with 8700 feet sawn timber, 10 cwt.J.flour, sundries. Blue Jacket, clipper ship, Capiain Clarke, for Wellington, wilh part of her cargo and 22 passengers from Liverpool. The departures for the coast consisted of 71 vessels of 1428 tons with 211 passengers, i and the usual amount gf trading cargoes Supplies,