SYDNEY COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 730, 13 April 1853, Page 2

SYDNEY COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

[From the " Empire," March 20.j Wheat and Flour.—T. Barker and Co.'s Mills; Flour, fine, £27, seconds, ,£25. Wheat 9s. 6d. to 10s. 6d. per bushel; bran, 2s. Flour has been in great demand during the week, and in consequence of the scanty supply from the country and by import, it has risen in figure, and even now stands with an upward tendency. Sydney Flour Mills : Improved prices for wheat have been given this week, good samples realising from Ps. (id. to 10s. 3d. per bushel. A further advance has been made in the price of flour, fine being now i/i'7 per ton, and seconds £'if>. Bran £lO per ton of 2000 lbs. Furlong and Kennedy (Dixon's Mills) quote the s;imo prices in Flour, but give bran at 2s. 6d.; pollard, 25.; wheat 10s. 9d. These are perhaps the highest prices quoted. The reports from Mr. Smart's Mills have not come to band. BnEAU —7d. the 2lbs. loaf. In consequence of the rise in flour, the loaf will take a much higher figure. Forage and Grain.—Hay Market:—Hay, from £l2 to £lB per ton; straw, £7 to £7 10s.; wheat, 10s. to 10s. 6d. per bushel; maize, 10s.; green stuff", Is. per dozen bundles; oats, barley, and bark, nil. There has been but few loads during the past week, and these went off at very high prices. Growers seem rather inclined to hold on for tbeir own stock than offer for the market. Maize is fetching a very high price; this may be attributed to the partial failure of the crops in the Ilawkesbury and other districts. Few farms are showing well excepting those on marshy ground; (he others, situated on higher localities, have had their crops withered, and rendered nearly valueless. Cattle Sales.-—Royal Bank, 100 head, averaging 6001b5., at 505. ? Hamilton; Hamilton; Lawe, °42°,

7001b5., at 605., York ; Dr. Mitchell, GSOlbs., at 40s. Peislev; Mrs. Hughes, 185, GOOlbs., 405., Hamilton ; Fitzgerald, 45, 800lbs., at 10;ls., Cleeve. Ibis last lot were of a very superior discription, in fact the best that have been brought to market for some time P Sheep Sales.—Royal Bank, 1700, 541b5., at 7s. 61., Hamilton; Hawke, 800, 481b5., at ss. Id., Neale and Onus; Hosking, 1300, 4 libs., at 4s. Gd., Argent, n , Horse Stock.—Stewart's Horse Bazaar—Mr. liurt reports as follows :—The past week's sales have shown an upward tendency, both in price and demand, tor every class of harness horses and especially heavy draught stock. The immense inland traffic (now daily increasing) consequent on the discoveries of gold in all parts of the colonv, has not only caused a very large additional consumption of- draught horses, but is daily rendering the hall-made roads of the interior, there being no labour to ivpair them, still more impassable, so that where, five years since, four horses were sufficient for an ordinary team, eight are now barely enough. These circumstances, combined with the fact that for years past, only two districts in all the colony, Wollongong and Windsor, have bred heavy stock to any extent, must tend to increase the prices very materially. The following is a memorandum of the prices obtained during the week :—Heavy draught horses, from ,£3l to £4O each; light draught horses, from £l4 to £2O; hacks, from £8 to £lB ; drays, from £IG to £2O; light carts, from £9 to £ls; gigs, none for sale; Puibtons, from £4/5 to £BO ; spring carts, £3O. Coals remain as at former quotations—£3 ss. to £3 10s. Timber.—Australian Steam Saw Mills,—Cedar, 1incb, 6d.; |-inch, 5Jd.; 1-inch, 4|d.; I£-incb, 7£d.; l.'-inch, Bfd. ; 2 inches, lOd.; and all above, sd. superficial. Kauri, i-inch, 4^1.; |-incb, 5Jd.; 1 inch, s|d.; 1 ) inch. 6|d.; inch, 7Jd. ; 2 inches, 10d.; all above 2 inches to be charged . f jd. superficial. Kauri scantling forbuildiing purposes, 40s. per 100 feet. Weatherboards, 465. superficial ; prepared kauri flooring-boards GOs. per 100 feet; battens, 40s. per 103 feet ; shingles,' £2 ss. per thousand. Leather.—Thomas Hall and Company's prices: Sole leather, heavy, lOd. per lb; kip, ditto, 2s. Gd. per lb.; harness leather, Is. Gd. per lb.; calfskins ss. per lb. ; kangaroo, 555. to GOs. per doz. ; bazils, 12s. to 15s. per dozen. It will be perceived that with regard to calfskins and bazils the market has taken an extraordinary rise. The demand during the past week has been very heavy, and a first-rate article not only has, but always will, fetch a first-rate price. Hall and Co. have had more demand, even at high figures, than they were well able to meet.

WEEKLY TRADE BEPORT. Empire Office, Friday Evening. The* arrivals during the past week have been numerous, and have added largely to our stocks. Business has been in consequence very brisk, and all the various parcels of goods suitable to the season have been laken on arrival. The news from the Southern port 3 is highly satisfactory—prices are maintained, ;nd orders continue to pour in upon us. We are without any further arrivals of tea, and prices have slightly advanced, say Hysonskin of good quality, very scarce at 955. per chest. Congou in good demand at 87s. (3d. per chest. The arrival of three vessels from Manila with full cargoes of sugar has slightly depressed the market, but the high rates at which these cargoes are laie down here must necessarily preclude any material reduction in prices. Sales at public auction are rioted for the coming week, and prices will be fixed. Cigars—-Have been taken, ex recent arrivals, in large quantities at 70s. per thousand for for g's and 3's, and releases have been made for exportation at 755. per thousand. Coffee.—A large paicel ex Mount Stewart Elphinstone will be submitted to public sale, and will no doubt realise a high rate. Rice.—Heavy of sale at 20s. to 2R per bag. Spirits.—Brandy, Martell'a has advanced in price, and sales have been made at 15s. to 1 (is. per gallon ; holders ask advanced rates. B.P. Rum, 10 0.1'., i 3 in demand; sales at 4s. per gallon. Ditto, 3) 0.P., sales rt 3s. 9d. to 4s. Case gin, sales at 245. to 249. per case. Cured Frsa.—The cargo, ex Cheetah, from Labrador, has been taken in one pared ; the bulk is for exportation to the southern markets. Sardines are very scarce, and saleable at 20s. for ] to 265. for L . Oilman's Stores.—At publia sale continue to realise eetreme high rates, and will, no doubt, for some time to come. Belmont Sperm Candi.es. —Are in demand; ai Is. 4d. per lb. Frults.—No arrivals and stocks very light. Soda Crystals.—ln demand at £ll to £l2 per ton. Soda Ash.—Ditto, at £22 to £24 per 'on. Rosin.—Ditto ; sales at 255. to 30sJ per barrel. Three-bushel Bacs—Ditto; sales at 15s. to per dozen. Gunnies.—Ex Monterey ; sales at 6s. 9d. per dozen. Liverpool, Coarse, Dairy, and Rock Salt.—Jn demand, at high rates. Raw and Boiled Oil. —In demand; sales at OS. Id. to 6s. 6d. per gallon. White Lead. —No. 1. ditto, sales at 275. SETTLERS' WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. Wheat—ls in demand, and good samples are worth from 9s. to 9s. 6d. per bushel. Y lour—A rise of £2 per ton has taken place, and fine is now quoted at £27, and soconds £25 per ton. Maize —Sells readily at from 10s. to 10s. 6d. per bnshel. English Barley —In great demand, and very little in the market. Cape ditto —Scarce, and mu'b enquired for. IJ (l y —] 3 mtill in demand at high prices. Butter—Very scarce, and in demand. Cheese —Is worth from 7d. to Bd. per lb. Bacon and Hams —Realise from <id. to 9d. per lb., according to quality. Fat Pigs—Small sizes continue to sell readily, at good prices. Fat. Calves—Meet with ready sale. Fat Sheep —Plentiful, at fair prices. Fat Bullocks—Prices continue the same, with a brisksale. Tallow—For shipment and home consumption, is in demand, and but little coming to market. Tobacco—Stocks heavy and sales dull. Henry Ferris. 291, Pitt-Street, Sydney, March 25, 1853. Empire Office, Friday Evening, April 1. By overland advices, we learn that the Melbourne flour market has been affected by a depressing influence from recent heavy importations from America. The price had receded, but the letter before us does not givo any quotation. The latest reports from San Francisco—naturally an important point in our new commercial relations—also present a depression from a succession of arriving cargoes. Without other operating cause, this effect will scarcely extend to Sydney ; and in all the central points of Australian population, the price must be sustained for a considerable time to come, at a figure remunerative to distant growers. At a sale of assorted merchandise on the 3lßt ultimo, Mr. Newton realised the following figures : Raisins, 100 boxes, at 3d. to b\ per In. Sperm caudles, 450 boxes, at 13d. to I Id. per lb. Mauritius sugar, 400 bags, at £lB to £29 per ton. American, flour, 96 barrels, at 535, Coloniid ditto, 4£ tons, at £23 10s. Coffee, 453 bags, at 9sd. per lb. 205 " 10.|d. 56 " lOd. Nutmegs, 9 packages, at 3s, per lb. Mace, ;i cases, at Is. 76, per lb. Cinnamon, 2B packages, at 2s. 2d, per lb. Cloves, 17 bags, at I2d. per lb. Rice, 16 tor.a, at £l4 to £ls. Herrings, at 455. per barrel. Sugar, 10 tons, at £27. Cabin biscuit, fine, 50 barrels, at 295. Rum, in bound, 10 puncheons at 2s. Id. per gallon. Owing to the non-arrival of English cargoes, orders in various departments of business remain unexecuted, as" the import market is quite drained of saleable descriptions of British goods. Nearly all the extensive sales held recently have been of Eastern produce ; and the high prices obtained in many instances will doubtless lead to still further importations from China and India.

Wheat and Flour.—T. Barker and Go's Mills : fine Flour, £27 per ton ; seconds, £25. The demand for flour has been very biisk, and in the absence of any extensive imports is likely to obtain higher prices. Wheat has received a further advance on the rates quoted last week, being from 10a to lis. per bushel; bran, 2s.—Sydney Flour Mills: Advanced prices have been given for wheat and flour, consequent on the growing scarcity, and the prices quoted are similar to those given above.—Victoria Mills; The supply of

wheat in the market tbis week Las been moderate, at pries varying from 10s. 3d. to lis. Gd.; fine flour is readily taken-at £-27, and seconds £25, per 20 0 lbs.« bran, 2s. per bushel.—Furlong and Kennedy (Dixson s Mills) : Fine flour £3O, and seconds £ L H ', per ton ; wheat, 10s. Gd. to lis. 9(1.; bran, 2s. Gd. per bushel. 13BEAD.—7d. the 2lb loaf. Biscuit.—T. Barker and Co's, and Mr. Wilkie 8, run at 40s. per cwt. for cabin biscuit; 325. pilot; an 28s. ship ditto. Wilkie's meat biscuit, per tin of 30 lbs., 20s. The demand for this latter article is still very brisk.