COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume II, 8 April 1843, Page 227

COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Adelaide Markets. — Bread, 21b. loaf, 3d.: flour, £16 per ton; butchers' meat — beef, 3d. ; mutton, 3d.; fresh butter, Is.; cheese, 9d. to Is. ; eggs, per dozen, Is. 6d. ; potatoes, 7s. to Bs. ; per cwt. ; wheat, 4s. 6d. to 6s. per bushel ; oats, 7s. to Ba. ; barley, 4s. to 55. ; maize, 7s. to 10s. Launceston, March 2. — Fine flour, 16s. per 100 lbs. ; barley, 75. ; oats, 55. ; mutton, 2sd. per lb. ; beef, 6d. : pork, 6d. ; wheat. 4s. 6d. ; fowls, 4s. per couple ; ducks, 55. ; apples, 6s. per bushel ; Irish pork, £4 15s. Whale Fishery. — It is reported that Mr. Wheland, in conjunction with one or two other parties, have purchased one of the whale fisheries. The high price of oil and whalebone in England, which has risen, the one to £40, and the other to £200 per ton, offers great inducement to speculations of this nature. It is the price of oil in England that makes the good season for the owners, as even a comparatively poor catch of fish will produce as much money some seasons, as a very successful fishery at another time. — Adelaide Examiner. Wool. — It will be important that our readers should know that what the English staplers find fault with, is not altogether the bad quality of the whole batch of fleeces, but that so little care is taken in shearing and packing them, good, bad, and indifferent being oil mixed together. — Hid.