MELBOURNE COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
[Tuesday, May IT.] Ro.sa and Co, sold yesterday, 5 feet paling 58?. to 705.; bar iron 3d. per lb; lire-bricks, .£ls ss. a n( l £l6 15s. to £T7 7s. per 1000 ; English rope, Bd. per lb.; Oatmeal 21-d. per, lb. ; herrings, £4 ss. to £-4 JOs. per barrel; salt 7s. per cwt.; Liverpool soap, £23 per ton pickles, 18s. per dozen ; butter, 2s. lOd. per lb.; ships bread, ,£l4 10s. per ton; pork, £8 to £S 15s. barrel; smith’s coals, £6 per ton. Stubbs and Son sold at their Rooms yesterday—Mattel 1 ’s brandy, in hhds., at 17s. per gallon ; pickles. Ids. to 17s. 6'd. per dozen-; barley, 14s. per bushel; anchovies, curry p nvder, &cc., 8,-. to 9s. per dozen; cheese lid. to Is. per lb. ; oats, 12s. per bushel ; moist sugar, 355. per cwt.: oatmeal, 3|d. per lb.; tea, 275. pe f chest; rice, Ijd. per lb.; oranges. Is, 6d. per port wine, 225. per dozen ; flour, .£23 per ton ; window sahes, 9s. each. VAN DIEMEN’S LAND MARKETS. Hobart Town.— May 12 — Wheat has received » slight advance since our last report, and was yesterday sold at 12s. 91. per bushel. English barley is eagerly enquired alter for home consumption, aa well as I iC ‘ tona and Sydney. A lot of 3000 bushels was yesterday sold at 12s. 6d. per bushel. Flour remains at about £33, firm. I’otatois are dull of sale at j£l3 p er ton. May 14.—Wheat, from 12s. to 12s, 6J. per bushel; oais, 14s. (kl. to 155.; English barley, 12s, to 12s. 6J»j t ape do., 125.; flour, flue, £3O ; Lay, loose, £ls P er
ton - Jo. hydraulic pressed, £l9 to £2l; straw, £5; potatoes, £l2 to £l3 per ton ; Port Arthur coals, nominal ; Schouten Island do., £3 2s. 6d. per ton; sawn timber, 30s. per hundred feet; palings, 30s. per 100 ; shingle’s, 30s. per 1000; laths, 275, do. Launceston.— Way 14—Flour, £27 10s. per ton ; wheat. 10s. 3d. per bushel; oats, 14s. 6d. per bushel; English barley, 13*.; hay in bales, £2B per ton; potatoes, £l4; bread, Is. 2d. per 4 lbs. loaf; fresh butter, 2s. Bd. to 3s. per lb.; eggs, very scarce, ss. per dozen ; roasting beef. Gd. to Bd. per lb.; mutton, by carcase, sd. per" lb., fore quarter, 5d., hind quarter, 6d. side, s|d. .
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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 745, 4 June 1853, Page 2
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