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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 722, 16 March 1853, Page 2

A reference to the amount and kind of the Exports from the Port of Auckland which will probably have left our harbour before the issue of our next number, though it may have none of the charm of novelty for the local reader—(as happily it has frequently fallen to our lot of late to make such references)—yet is, for that very reason, the more encouraging, as indicating the steady continuance of an export trade from this district, in commodities which we are able to supply in large quantities, and for which a brisk demand at remunerating prices exists, and is likely to be maintained, in New South Wales and Port Phillip. The Spencer sails this day for Melbourne, between which city and Auckland she has now become a regular trader. She carries sawn timber, shingles, laths (for which the New Zealand Kauri is so admirably adapted], potatoes, onions, and cheese, all the produce of the Auckland district. Though less in bulk and value, yet perhaps not undeserving of special notice, is an exportation by her also of several cases of water-tight boots, manufactured, we are informed, for the most part by shoemakers amongst the Enrolled Pensioners.

The brig Kirkicood will leave to-morrow, also for Melbourne, filled with a similar cargo. It will be her first trip with Auckland produce, but we anticipate it will be only the forerunner of many others. The barque Royal Shepherdess will sail about Saturday, filled chiefly with timber,—the cargo for which she specially came to our port.

The barque Daniel Webster sailed for Sydney a few days since, having, in addition to many thousand feet of baulk and sawn limber, and other produce, a large quantity of oats, for which there is now a greatly increased demand in the neighbouring colonies. The samples of this grain exhibited at the Agricultural Society's Show yesterday gave cheering evidence of the adaptation of some of the soils in this neighbourhood to produce oats in fine quality. All these vessels have been filled up in a very short lime, and such is the abundance with which we are blessed here thai we could spare equally full cargoes for many more. Although wheat docs not appear amongst the articles we have enumerated, yet so far from there being any deficiency of it, an unprecedentedly abundant crop has been produced in the Auckland district this year ; and should prices rise in Australia—as seems almost certain when we remember the amazing influx, of immigrant population—there will be large quantities of wheat available here for exportation, leaving still an ample sufficiency for our home consumption. We shall only add that we hope the prices of New Zealand farm produce in Australia will soon be so generally settled, on as near an approach to a fixed scale as circumstances may admit, and that this scale will be so understood by all the parties concerned, as to lead, so far as practicable, to an equitable distribution of the profits between producers and the shippers. Both these classes deserve remuneration for their works and labours, and the profits likely to be realized, will, we confidently anticipate, prove sufficient to remunerate both.