COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 789, 5 November 1853, Page 2

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

MELBOURNE. (From the “ Argus,” October 10.) Ope-ing of tub Li.ovn's Exchange Rooms.— On Saturday, Messrs. Shiilinglaw and Wilson opened tlieir new Lloyd’s Exchange Rooms, in Queen street, by a "c’-nupngne lunch. About sixty gentlemen attended. Mr, Locke presided a n) Mr. M‘Dougall acted as croupier Among the company were a large proportion of mercantile gentlemen recently arrived from America, The entertainment was got up by M. Louis, of the Union Cafe and Restaurant; Hourke-street, and both eatables and drinkables did him infinite credit. The roorn'was most tastefully decorated with flags, and the table itself was quite resplendent with plate, boquets of native and European flowers, and a most inviting display of everything that could tempt the appetite of an epicure. After the refection, Mr. Locke, in very pleasing and appropriate style, proposed successively the health of the Queen, the Presidentof the United Slates,the Governor, the Consuls of Foreign Nations,the Tradeand Shipping of England and America, and prosperity to theTradeof Victoria, The United States Consul and the Dutch ( onsul addressed the Company in reply to toasts. Captain Caldwell, of Messrs. Caldwell, Train and Co., in reply to the toast of Trade and Shipping, made an aMe and appropriate address, in which he commented on the shipping and commercial rivalry of the “mother and daughter,’’ the two great branch's of the some stock. He reviewed the effects of that rivalry in the prodigious strides which had been made in steam and sailing vessels, and in the progress of trade with all parts of the world. He pointed out that they were the only two great nations with really free institutions, and expressed his strong anxiety that, for the sitke of the interests of humanity, a perpetual friendship should extet between them. Captain Caldwell’s sentiments were mucb applaud*d. Mr. M'Dougall proposed the health of the I’reaident, Vice President, r.nd members of the Chamber of Commerce. Mr- Dickson responded and proposed “ the ladies,’’ in a humorous and effective speech. 'I bis was drunk with all the honors. After a few other toasts, the Company separated, highly pleased wiuh the handsome entertainment; and we' may safely conclude by recording the fact that the Lloyd’s Exchange Rooms have been most auspiciously opened. E. Gilbert and Co. sold at the Victoria Mart on Saturday—Rutter, Is. tkl. per lb; sherry, 18s. (id. per doz. ; oats, Bs. (id. per bushel; port wine. 90s, per octave ; tobacco, 3s. 4d. per lb.; cheese, Is. 4d . do.; brandy, 425, doz.; champagne. 3Gs. do.; soft goods in Rourhe-sfreet 30 per cent, on cost prices. Arthur H. Bayly sold in Gore-street, Coliingwood An Allotment of land 33 feet by 120 feet at £'IO per foot for cash ; Newlanda Estate, adjoining Pentridge, lot No. 39, containing 4 acres 3 roods 19 perches, at J0.50 per acre; lot No. 40, containing 4 acres 3 roods 24 perches, at £45 per*-acre ; lot, No. 42, containing 4 acres 1 rood, r.t £.59 per acre ; lot No. 42, containing 6 acres 10 perches, at £6O per acre. Messrs. Vieusseux and Taylor have sold lately a frontage of (3C feet to Stanley street. North Melbourne at £lO per foot 0 the lease of business premises near the Bull and Mouth, in Hourke-street, for a term of fi re years for £2BOO ; also the lease of land with frontage ol 54 feet to Boi rxe-street, near the corner of Wil-liam-street, by a depth of 100 feet, for seven years, at £l4 per foot per annum ; frontages of 22 feet, 18 feet, aud 9 feet, by 50 feet, in Rouike-street, near Swaaston-

street, for a term of seven years, at £2O per foot per annum. Also a frontage of 95 feet by 90 feet in Lomsdale-street, near Spring-street, for a terra of five years, at £2OO per annum. HAY MARKET. Saturday, Bth October, 1853. The market has not been so well applied this week as usual. Good hay sells for from £3B to £4O per ton. Green stuff, £7 per ton. PRODUCE MARKET. Saturday, Sti> October, 1P.53. The market is still badly' supplied, and prices are rising, They may be quoted as follows ;—cauliflowers, 18s.1o 245. per dozen; cabbages, lSs. to 255. per dozen ; carrots, (is. per dozen bundles; turnips, ss. per dozen bundles ; onions, 4s. per dozen bundles ; celery 2s. 6"d, per bead ; asparagus, (is. per bundle ; spinach, 2s. per basket; green peas, is'od. per quart ; lettuces, 4s. per dozen ; eggs, 4s. to ss. per dozen ; geese and turkeys, 40s. per pair ; fowls, 16s. per pair; ducks, 20s. per pair ; potatoes, JSOs. per cwt.; butter, 4s. 6d per lb.; Swedish turnips, £l2 per ton; Van Diernen's. Land apples, 2s. 6d. per lb.; new potatoes, 2s. per lb.; milk, Is. 6d. per quart; bread, Is. 9d.. the 4-lb loaf; beej. 7d. and 9d. per lb.; veal.7d. to 9d.; mutton, 7d. and 8(1. ; lamb ss. 6d. the quarter; pork, 15.,t0 Is. 3d. dairy fed bacon, Is. 2d. to Is. 4d. FLOUR AND CHAIN MARKET. Saturday, Bth October, 1853. Dightand Rucker's Wills.—Fine flour, £33 seconds, £B2 bran, ss. 6d.; wbeat bought at lis. \V Degraves and Co.'s Mill—Fine flour, £3O; seconds, £ l Jo bran, ss. 6d.; ;ivheat bought at 12s. STOCK MARKET. Saturday, Bth October, 1853. Cattle. —The market has been glutted this week, and stock has become depreciated in value. Prime fat cattle are not worth more than 265., per 100 lbs, or £i) to £lO per head; middling quality, 26"5. per 100 lbs. or £6 to £3 per bead. Inferior stock are unsaleable, except as store cattle j 650 head of cattle and 11 calves have been in the market yards this week.

From the " Argus," October 13. Business in wholesale transactions is still dull. There has been a further decline in brandy, offers of Martell's at lis. 9d. having been made and refused. There is no change in flour. Mercantile speculation at present is very hazardous, partly from the uncertainty respecting supplies, which are pouring in very irregularly from all parts of the world, but chiefly from the number of new houses, many of them with insufficient capita!, who, in consequence of high rents and high rates of storage, are forcing goods upon a glutted market. Another evil is the too lavish system of credit, which is inexcusable in a city overflowing with money capital. The banks are, of course, liberal, as they are well paid ; but our mercantile men will find, in the end, that they pay too dear for what they really do not require. CiIAMBEK of Commerce.—A special meejing of the committee was held yesterday at the Exchange Rooms, in Queen-street, J. B. Were, Esq., chairman. It was resolved that Monday next be appointed for electing the new memhers of the committee, and that a meeting of the committee be called for the purpose. Letters from Mr. Murray, the commercial editor of the Jrgu.i, and Mr. Flood on behalf of himself and brother pilots, were rea'l and postponed for further consideration. The meetin"- then adjourned, and a meeting of the sub-committee appointed at the last general meeting to prepare a petition to the Government, and to carry out the measures then brought forward concerning a Marine Hospital and the desertion of crews. Mr. Thorp brought up the draft of a memorial be had prepared o.i the subject, which, alter mature discussion, it was resolved to submit to the chairman and Mr. Thorp to perfect. Stubbs ami Son soil yesterday the store ship Clara Symes. for '27001. \V. M. Tenuent and Co. sold, yesterday, on the ground, Collins-street, east, adjoining the residence of D. Benjamin, Esq., an allotment of land, containing in all a frontage of 6G feet, at rom 80/. to Bt/. per foot. The allotment fronting Flinders lane were bought in at 38/. per foot. Also, ut their rooms, on allotment at Brighton, consisting of 100 feet frontage to a private road, at 51. per foot; and the schooner Perthshire for 1500*.

BEND JGO MARKETS. October 3rd, 18.33. Trade is daily improving, and spring goods find a ready sale at slightly advanced prices. Our auctions on Wednesday and Saturday last were well attended, and goods were disposed of at remunerating prices:— Flour per ton, 651. ; oats per bushel, 355. ; oatmeal per lb., 6*d.; bran per bushel, 175.; bacon per lb., Is. (id.; cheese (fcoglish) per lb. 2s. ; coffee per lb., 2s. Id.; tea (congou) per cwt., 67. lbs.; sugar (Mauritius) per lb., 7]d. ; butter (V.D.L.) per lb., os. Id,; calico (double width) per yard, 2s. (3d., guernseys (red) per doz. 725.; regattas per doz. 405.; thigh boots (English) per pair, 21. 55.; bluchers (English), 13s, yd.; do., American, 7s. ; blankets, per pair, 355.; gunpowder, per lb., (3s. 6*d.; double barrelled guns, 3/. 15s. ; Colt's navyrevolvers, 71. do., small, 5/.; flannel drawers per dozen 2/. 10s.; moleskin and cord trowsers, Bs. each ; musical boxes, 50s, to 10/. ; jeweliery sold exceedingly well, and saddlery in great demand. The population is increasing in the township very rapidly a;id when the roads are made at all safe for travelling, business will settle down, no doubt, satisfactorily. The principal line of road from Haycock's Corner to the Manchester store, being totally impassable and ruinous to tradesmen. Gold is obtained in abundance, and readily purchased at 31. 15s. tid. and some very fine nuggets have been offered during the past week. Sheep, 14s. to lss>. 6d. Horses in demand. S. Jones and Co., Auctioneers. View Point, Bendigo. GOVERNMENT LAND SALE. The sale of Government lands yesterday, attracted a u large concourse of buyers, although the room was not so crowded as on the days of the last sale. The lots at Sandridge went off for high prices—--35.170/. having been obtained for twenty-six roads, which is at the rato of 54.55/. per acre. A corner allotment (No, 16) facing the present road, or Bay-street, as it is to be called, sold for 4200/. for one roed. The land at Warringal, about five miles from town, was bought at from 130/. to 4601. per acre, the average price being 256/. per acre. The Footseroy lots averaged about 29U. an acre; the Gisboru lots 9'.)/.; and the lots at Bulla at about 30Z. per acre. The allotments realised 12/>7O/. for about 33 acres, the highest price given for an allotment being 13601,, and the lowest 280/. The proceeds of the day's sale amounted to 52,4311.—Argus August b*tb. GEELONG COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Saturday Ist October, 1853. For produce and supplies, a recapitulation of last week's rates will be sufficient, there being no alteration. Fine flour, 35/. ; seconds, 32i.; bran, 4s. 6d. ; potatoes 15/. to 251.] wheat, 10s. 6d. to 125.; oats, 135.; maize Bs. to 10s.; three-bushel sacks, 20s. per dozen ; woolpacks, sa. each ; twiue, Is 3d. per lb.; hysonskin tea, fine quality, 5/ ; congou 51. 10s. for best brands; Sugar, zebu, 21/.; Pampanga, 24/.; Mauritius, 30/. to 34/.; Sydney pieces, 37/., loaf, 60/. to 70/. Tobacco Barrett's, Is. 6d. to Is. 9d.; Kerr's Is.; keg, Bd. to lOd. Cigars, No. 2, 4/. ; No. 3. Si. 10s., Soap, Liver pool, 25/.; Colonial, 32/. Candles, sperm. 25.; patent sperm, Is. 6d.; tallow, 7d. Bacon and hams, is to Is. 3d. Cheese Colonial, lOd.; English, Is. Hay, 20/ to 25/. Coals, 5/.. 10s. The stock market still continues dull, and a falling off in rates is observable, particularly in fat stock. Fat sheep, however, have risen. Good draught horses 90/. to 100/ Ordinary, 50/. to Gol. ; inferior, 30/, to 50/. good hacks, 25/. to 35/.; inferior, 15 to 20/. Superior, walking bullocks, 3Gi. to 3iU. per pair; inferior, 15/. to 24/, Fat cattle, b/. to 11/. per head; fat weathers, 18s. to 225. Horse carts and drays, 35/. to 40/. Bullock drays, 35/. to 40/.; Spring carts, 40/. to 501. GEELONG STOCK MARKET. The following is a list of prices realized in this market during this week. Good staunch draught horses, 90/. to 125/.; inferior ditto 70/. to 85/.; good light ditto, 18/. to 20/.; good horses, with carts and harness 90/. to 1(30/. ; working bullocks in good condition, 30/to 40/. per pair; inferior ditto, 15/. to 20/.; teanii of 6 or 8 bullocks, with tiny and mountings, 100/. to 170/. each: first class fat cattle, 8/. to 11/. per head ; inferior ditto, and fat cows, 6/. to 71. 10s.; quiet milch cows, in full milk, 8/ to lOC • good fat weathers, 20s. to ii s. fat ewes, 18s. (3d. to 20s. good light horse drays, 30/. to 38/. each ; ditto spring carts, 45/ to 55/.; ditto bullock drays, 30/. to 35/. The business done during the week in hor&es, especially draught stock, lias been but limited, backs having been mostly enquired for. Rates for fat cattle have al-o fallen off greatly, bullocks of good quality, which towards the early part of the week sold readily for 11/. each,have now declined to 8/. with every probability of prices continuing equally low for some time, the market being greatly overstocked. Fat sheep, though commanding excellent prices have not been sold in any considerable numbers nearly all that have come down having been sent to Melbourne, in consequence of the high rates prevailing there. E. & T. A Lasceiles, Juu. Horse Bazaar, 91 Ryrie-street.

Syuney, September 27. Sales, both by private contract and public auction, are progressing- favorably, and in most instances former quotations aro being sustained. Wines, spirits, champagne, cider, provisions, &0., were sola by Mr. Newton, on Monday, at the following prices, viz. :—Port wine, ex Waterwitcb, in quar-ter-casks, hogsheads, and pipes, 4s. fid. to 5s -Id. per gallon : fine old port (Hunt's single diamond), in quar-*' ter-casks and pipes, sa. 6d. to ss. lid.; gold color sherry, in quarter-casks, hogsheads, and butts, 6s. 3d. fine pale sherry, in octaves, 6s. (id. ; ditto, in cases, 2.35. to 255. fid. per dozen; old torn, in cases, 13s to 155.; brandy, (Demy, Mouiney, and C'o's), 1 to 2 U.P., lt)». per gallon ; sparkling champagne cider, in dozen cases, lfis. (itrt; double rose Cork butter, Is. -Jd. to Is. 2d. ; Gloucester cheese, 7d. j York hams, Od.; sound flour, in sacks, 16s. per 100 lbs.; and line Scotch oatmeal, lfs. to 12s. 6d. ditto. Eight hundred head of cattle were sold by Mr. Mort, at 425. 6d. per head. There were among them about 100 broken-in cows, and the usual proportion of bullocks, the herd not having been culled for the last two years. There were also twelve working bullocks for which a sum of one hundred pounds would he allowed. Delivery was to be taken in Bathurst in all October next. The only arrival since Friday, exclusive of our regular traders, is the John Sugars, barque, from London, with merchandize, a large proportion of her cargo being fluids. September 30th. The business of the week lias not been extensive,*) et there is a tone about the market which augurs favourably for " the holder." The absence of larger operations may, in a measure, be accounted for from the fact of merchants/holding for higher rates; and it is not surprising, perhaps, that dealers decline to purchase more freely when wo consider the heavy advances established during the last fortnight. Teas are held for a further advance; merchants refusing to sell under about 5/. 15s. for congous, and 51. 10s. for bysonskins. Italian goods and oilmen's stores are selling freely at an advance of 10 to 20 per cent.

Beer, wine, spirits, cigrrs, and hops were sold on Wednesday, by Mr. Dean, and the following are the prices realised, jviz..—Hervey's ale, 5/. per hogshead ; Haddington's d tto, SI. 17s. 6d.; Truman's porter, 01. ; Tennent's ditto, 51. 55.; Byass's bottled ale and porter, with a proportion of pints, 12s. lid.; Bas/s ale and Barclay's potter, 10s. 6d.; Beard's ale, 10s. 3d.; ule (purporting by the label to be Byass's, but declared by the auctioneer not to be genuine) Bs. 6d.; port wine, in hogshead and quarter-casks, ss. 9s. to u's. ; ditto, in bottle, 195.; London bottled sherry, 225.; champagne, in dozen and three dozen cases, 335.; ditto, (Sillery Mousseaux) 355. 9d. ; ditio. pints, 19s. fid. to 20s. fid. St. Julieu's claret, 14s. ; Marsala, 4s. per gallon; Martell's dark brandy, 12s. 9d.; pale brandy, 10s. 9d.; rum, 28. Id.; gin (cases) 215.; ditto (half-cases) 10s. 10d.; whiskey, in hogsheads, K 1 ?. 9d. to lis. 3d.; No. 2, Manila cigars, 70s. to 735.; No. 3 ditto, 645.; Havannah cigars, 455. fid. to 525.; imi ation ditto, 225. ; and Belgian hops, in bales, 4J per lb. The price of flour at the mills remains at 25/. for fine, and 23/. for seconds ; bran, 3s. fid. per bushel; « heaf, in moderate supply, 9s. fid. to 10s. 3d. per bushel is freely given. A sixty-acre farm, situate at Lane Cove, on the Great North Road, about nine miles from Sydney, was sold by Mr. Mort, on Tuesday, for 1(350/. The whole was stated to be enclosed by a substantial fence, and to embrace the following improvements, viz.—a six-room weatherboard cottage,detached kitchen, two-stall stable, hay.shed pigstyo, well of good water, gardener's cottage, twelve acre orchard, vineyard, kitchen garden, and a quantity of standing timber, for which the purchaser could get one hundred and twenty-six pounds. A building: allotment, si'uatd at the corner of FJizabetb and John-streets, with a frontage of twenty-six feet to the former, and fifty feet to the latter, was sold by Mr. Mort on the same day for 260/. Fifty acres of land, embracing the whole frontage to Chowder Bay, and a large portion of the frontage to Taylor's Hay, the property being known as Cliffeton, was sold by Messrs. Bowden and Threlkeld, on Thursday, for 3800/. 'the improvements were stated to comprise a six-roomed stone-built cottage, kitchen and servants' room detached, orchard, and a two room cottage, with an adjacent stone-built store, the whole being fenced in.

House Mamki.t.—The horse market is still prospering. The sales are weP atended, and there is a gieat anxiety to purchase. '1 he buyers evidently anticipating higher maikets. The supply has been larger than that of previous weeks for some time pasf. is still a great scarcity of heavy draught, coach, and gi.jy Worses, carriage pairs, and strong - journey cabs, well broken, and fit for immediate use. The prices obtained have been as follows : — Heavy draught, from 60/. to 87/. each ; gig horses, from 25/ to 60/. each ; carriage pairs, from 30/. to 84/. per pair; saddle horses, from 15/. to 551. each ; journey cobs, from 20/. to 45/. each.

METEOROLOGICAL TABLE FOR THE WEEK ENDED FRIDAY.— from the royal engineer observatory.

Oct.. 1853 9 HALF, A.M. - I FROM 9J A.M. OBSERVATIONS, Weather, &c. 3-HAtF, P.M. WIND. RAIN. In inches on the ground iu previous 24 hours Barometer. Thermometer in shade. Dew Point. Huiniditv. Saturation 1-000 barometer. Thermometer in shade. Dew Foint. Humidity Saturation 1-000 Direction. Max. force in Iba. per sq. ft. in previous 2A hours. 9J A.M. 3.J f.M. S. 22 29-9C 62-5 53-6 •80 29-90 65-0 62-6 •92 W. \v. 2-00 •00 Fine, but dull and close. Su.23 29-03 66-3 64-0 •92 29-90 72-0 61-0 .70 W. W.N.W. 2-00 •00 Fine. 1 M. 24 29-8D 65-8 ei-o •85 .29-77 65-0 58-6 •81 w. N.N.W. 2-00 •00 Ditto. Tu.25 2973 65-3 57-5 "77 29-75 592 49-5 •72 S.S.W. S.S.W. 2-50 ■00 Ditto. VV. 2fi 29-90 59-0 46-6 •G7 29-83 56-2 48-6 •77 s.s.w. S.W. 4-75 •00 Ditto. Th.27 .30-01 CO-8 46-9 •62 30-01 62-8 49-5 •64 s.w. S.S.W. 4-00 •00 Ditto. F. 28 30-2L. ■ ..-59-8 48-6 •68 30-19 63-8 51-0 •G5 s.w. S.S.W. 2-50 •00 Ditto.. Means . 29-95 • 02-9 54-7 •77 20-90 6 3 4 54 4 •' M •00 1