AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT.

Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume VII, Issue 8, 30 April 1860, Page 6

AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT.

From the 16th to the 30th April. There have been two arrivals from Sydney, and intelligence from the several ports of Australia and Tasmania, since our last number. From what we have been able to learn, ft would appear that although the flour market had given way a little, in Sydney,—in consequence of some large cargoes that bad

arrived—lhat at Melbourne small supplies of colonial grown wheat were finding their way to market, and lhat the stocks in the hands of the millers having falling very low an advance in the price of flour had taken place,—22? per ton being the quotations for fine, and from Bs. 6d. to 9s. per bushel for wheat. At Adelaide wheat was Bs. 7d. to Bs. Bd. Flour 20H0s. At Hobart Town, Flour2!Uo22f. Wheat Bs. to 9s. Potatoes 71 40s. to 8/, and in demand. Launceston. Flour 18*. to 191 10. Wheat 7«. 6d. to 7s. 9d. Potatoes 8J 40s. to 9*. During the past fortunight, business in Auckland bas been greatly affected by the unfortunate affairs at Taranaki, which are calculated to have an injurious tendency upon the commercial industry both of the Natives and the Europeans. It is to be hoped that these dark clouds may soon pass away, for it is only by a mutual good feeling between the races, and by a wholesome competition in the arts of industry that the prosperity of New Zealand can be secured whether for the Maori or Pakeha. It is satisfactory to observe, in the midst of these unfortunate conflicts, that from the North and East coasts, produce comes to market much more freely than during the year 1859, as will be seen by the shipping report : The arrivals during the fortnight have been chiefly from ports of the other New Zealand Provinces, namely: Airedale, steam-ship, 286 tons, Captain Johns, in the Manukau from the South, with sundry goods 27 passengers:—White Swan, steamship, 198 tons, Captain Cellem, from Wellington and Napier, with 42 packages goods, 30 head cattle, 12 passengers :—Surprise, cutter SO tons, Captain Braund, from Lyltleton, 2218 bushels wheat:—Gil Bias, brig, 172 tons Captain Butt from Otago, with sundry merchandise:—John Lawson, barque, 295 tons, Captain Bell, from London via., Lytlleton, with amunition-and military stores: —H.M. Ship, Iris, 26 guns, 920 tons, Commodore Loring, C.B. from Sydney:—Rose, cutter, 25 tons, Captain Joiner, from Napier, in ballast:—Dolphin, schooner, 41 tons

Captain Doughly, from Napier, in ballast; East Coast with wheat:—Pegasus, ketch, 38 tons Captain Brier, from New Plymouth with 277 bags g-ass seeds, 2 tons onions ; Lord Worsley, steam ship, 290 tons, Captain Johnson, from Sydney, with merchandise, 45 passengers:—Breadalbane, barque, 215 ions, Barron, from Sydney, with goods, 8 passengers :r-Heather Bell, brig, 488 tons, Captain McEachern, from Launceston, with 3748 bags wheat, 4000 palings, 2 passengers:— George Henderson, brig. 471 tons, Captain James, from Nova Scotia, with sundries, 22 passengers. , there have sailed:r-Emiiy Alison, brigantine, .99 tbiis, Captain Langley, for ( New Plymouth and Wangahui, with sundry commissariat stores, and merchandise, 4 passengers:—;Elleh, schooner, 30 tons, Captain JUchatds, for Orago, with 28,000 feet sawn timber* 6 passengers :—Zillab, schooner, 68 tons, (Captain Williams, for Nelson, with 37;00Q feet sawn timber, 4 tons flour:— j Zephyr, schooner, 58 tons, Captain Clarke, for Napier, with 496 packages goods, 400 bags flour, 7000 feet sawn timber, 41 trusses hay, 496 house blocks, 8000 bricks: Airedale, steam ship, 286 tons, Captain Johns, from the Manukaufor New Plymoutband Nelson, with sundries:—Lord Burleigh, ship, 623 tons, Captain Smith for Callao. in ballast: —Eliezer, schooner, 38 tons, Captain Kean, for Napier, with 20,000 feet sawn timber, 6000 bricks, 23 tons flour, 4000 shingles, 6 bags sharps, 30 packages goods:—Frenchman, Ship, 4456 tons, Captain Renant, for Callao, in ballast:—White Swan, steam ship 498' tons, Captain Cellem, for Napier and Wellingtdn, with sundry goods, 7 passengers:—H.M. brig Elk, 8 guns, 484 tons, Captain Campion, for England, having landed four of of her great guns and 25 of her ship's company .•—Southern Cross schooner, 66 tons, Captain Grange, for a Missionary voyage to the South Seas with 43 passengers :—Comet, briganline 92 tbiis, Captain Cork, for Otago, with 70,000 feet sawn timber, sundry goods, 4 passenger:—Lord Worsley, steam ship, 290 tous, Captain Johnson, for Sydney, with 57 tons potatoes, 23 bales wool, 200 hides, 6800 feet sawn limber, 1 tun 5 .casks oil, 68 passengers i Airedale steam ship, 286 tons, Capt. Johns, from the Manukau for New Plymouth aud tb« South; with sundry Conimisariat stores: *~Q»I Bias, brig, 172 tons; Captain, ButtVfor Melbourne, with 59 tons potatoes, 45,000 feet sawn timber, 6 tons flax, 51 casks salt pork, 5 casks oil, 2000 bushels bran. 43 passengers.