MELBOURNE COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 713, 12 February 1853, Page 2

MELBOURNE COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

[From the “ M. Morning Herald,’’ Jan. 22.] Gold.— Purchasers were giving, yesterday, from 3/. 11s. 9J. to 31. 12s. per ounce. 11. M. Martin and Co. sold yesterday, at their rooms. Great Bourke-street, pickles (pints), 16s. 6d. to 18s. 3d. per dozen ; sauces, Bs, 6d. to 9s. per ditto; capers, 11s. to loa. ditto ; bran, 2s. 3d. per bushel; oats, 10s. 9d. ditto; cracked maize, 6s. 3d. to Bs. lid. ditto* sugars, 26/. to 29/. per ton ; Madeira wine, 255. to 30s. per dozen; sherry, 8/. per quarter cask; Sydney flour, 17/. 10s per ton. Messrs. Dobson end Gill sold yesterday the cargo of the Victoria Packet, fiom Hobart Town. The following were the prices realised ; a six-rooraed wooden house, 115/.; quartering 36a. to 395. Cd. per 100 feet; joists, 365. to 455. per ditto; posts and rails, 465. 6d, per ditto; hoards 435. to 465. per ditto; palings, 5 feet, 40e. to 4ls. ditto ; 2J feet, 245. to 255. ditto; shingles, 47 s. tools, per thousand; panneled doors, 3 Is. to 345.; flooring boards, 375.; ditto 325. per hundred feet; sashes, 275. ditto: spokes, 31s. to 325. per bun* dred ; box carts. 29/. Stubbs and Son sold yesterday, ex Winderoere, an invoice of—Prince George boots at 16s. Fancy ditto 2os. to 2Cs. 6d. Youths ditto 9s. to 10s., Clarence ditto at 13s, Bodies do., 13s. to 14s. 6d., Ladies slippers 6s. 6d. to Bs, Little and Co. sold yesterday at their produce sale rooms, 68, Queen-street, Oats 12s. per bushel. Bran, 2s. Crushed maize 95., Potatoes 9s. to 9s. 3d. per cwt.

V. D. L. Bacon per lb., Westphalia Hams lid, Dutch Chese 6d. Tobacco 2s. 9d. to 3s. General Market.—Friday, 21st January. There has been a much larger supply of vegetables in our market this week, and prices have fallen slightly. Cabbages, 20s. per dozen; cauliflowers, 20s. ditto; turnips, 6s. ditto; carrots, 6s. ditto; parsnips, 6s. ditto; asparagus. Is. per bundle; spinage. Is. ditto; sea kale, Is. ditto; new potatoes, 6d. per lb.; old ditto, 175.-per C wt.; lettuces, 6a. per dozen; plums, 3s. per lb.; French beans, Is. per lb.; pears, 6s. per dozen; gooseberries, 2s. per quart; cherries, 4s. 6d. per lb.; green peas, lOd. per quart; butter, Ss. per lb.; eggs, 6s. per dozen ; geese, 20s. each ; turkeys, 20s. each; ducks, 16s. per pair ; and fowls, 16s. ditto, Price of Flour. At Alison and Knight’s mills.—Fine Flour, 2 51. per toa; Second ditto 23/. ditto; Bran, 2s. pej bushel. At Bight’s mills.—Fine Flour 25/. per ton Second ditto 2 31. ditto ; Bran, 2s. 3d. per bushel. Hay Market. About 240 loads have reached town during the week, being a much larger quantity than reported last week. The price has ranged from 21/. to 24/. per ton for the week. Yesterday early in the day, good samples realised 23/., but gradually declined to 21 per ton. A larger quantity of green stuff has been offered than last week at about 8/ per ton, and at 6«. per dozen bundles. Provisions.— Cheese, English Is. 2d. to Is. 6d.; Dutch, lb. Is.; American, lb. Is. to Is. 6d.—Ham, English, lb. Is. id. to Is. 3d.~Bacon, lb. Is. to Is. 2d. Pork, barrel 61. to 71. —Bran Is. 9d. to 2s.—Oats lls. to 12s. —Lard, lb. Is.—Potatoes, ton 10/. to 12 L SYDNEY MARKETS. [From tbc “ Empire,” Jan. 29.] Wheat and Flour.—T. Barker and Co.’s Mills, January 28: No alteration is quoted this week iu the price of flour, which continues at £2l per ton fine, and A‘lß seconds; bran Is, 9d. to 2s. per bushel.—Sydney Flour Mills, January 28: Small parcels of wheat are now gradually beginning to find tbeir way to market, and readily purchased at 7s. 6d. to Bd. per bushel. Flour is still being sold at .€2l per ton fine, and €l9 seconds ; bran la. 9d. and 2s. per bushel.—Victoria Mills, January 28 : The transactions in wheat this week have been limited, and prices are nominal; flour fans been in demand at previous rates, viz, £2l for fine, and £lB for seconds per 2000 lbs.; bran is without alteration. Bread.—6d. the 2lb. loaf. Biscuit.— T. Barker and Co.’a cabin, 30s. seconds, 245. per cwt. Wilkie’s cabin, 305.; pilot, 27s ; ship, 245. per cwt,; meat buiscuit, 20s. per cauuister of SOlbs. Forage and Grain.— Campbell-street Market, January 28tb.—Hay, £9 to €l3 per ton ; Straw, £2 15s. to £3 10s.; Wheat, Bs. 6d. to 9s. per bushel; Green Food, Is. to Is. 3d. per dozen bundles; Bark £7 to £Q per ton. SETTLERS WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT, Wheat—Best samples readily command Bs. to Bs. 6J. per bu-hel. Flour—Fine is still quoted at 21/. per ton, and 18/. for seconds, but tliere is a reluctai.ce on the part of holders to sell at these rates. Ma^ze—Best samples are worth about ss. per bushel. Barley, English—None offering. Ditto, Cape—ls worth from 2s. 6d. to 3s. per bushel. Hay—Varies from £9 to <£l2 IDs. per ton. Butter is worth Bd. to lOd per lb. Bacon—Best samples are worth about 9d. ; ordinary, 6d, to Bd. per lb. Cheese—ls worth (id. to Bd. Eggs—ln demand at lod. to lOd. per dozen. Fat Pigs—ln demand, at advancing rates. Fat Calves— Scarce. Fat Sheep—Ready sale at an advance on last quotations. Fat Bullocks—Brisk demand and prices generally looking up Tallow—Fit for shipment saleable at last week’s rates. Hides—Are worth oa. to Bs. each. Tobacco —Dull. Henry Ferris, Commission Agent, 291, Pitt-street. Sydney, January, 28, 1853.