SYDNEY MARKETS—FRIDAY, Dec. 9.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 44, 30 December 1842, Page 3

SYDNEY MARKETS— FRIDAY, Dec. 9.

Wheat.-— We have had upwards of fifty loads' 4 of new wheat brought to market during the week, which brought from 6s. to 6s. 6d. per bushel, at the mills. The quality, generally, is very superior. Flour. —We have no change to report in this market since our last; the cargo per Margaret, from South America, is being stored by the importer. The mills quote as per last week, namely : Fine 18s to 19s Valparaiso 16s to 17s Seconds 14s to 15s Ration 12s to 13s Bran, Is. 6d. to Is. Bd. per bushel. No. 1 biscuit 24s per cwt. No. 2 biscuit 19s do. Maize has undergone no changes during the week; the wholesale prices were from 5s 3d to 5s 9d per bushel; the retailers are charging from 6s to 6s 6d per bushel. Oats are in great request; the small quantity that is in the market is in the hands of the dealers and cornfactors, who are retailing it at from 5s 9d to 6s per bushel. Barley. —During the last fortnight but little barley has been received frofri the interior; that which has come to hand has met with a ready sale, at from 3s‘ 7d to 4s per bushel. Good Cape barley will realise 4s per bushel wholesale, but cannot be had in small quantities under from 58 to. 5s 3d per bushel. Hay is at present plentiful, but the sak-ris dull. Of about eighty loads on sale since the week began, not more than one-half had been disposed of by nine o’clock yesterday morning. Horses. —For the last fortnight the price of this description of stock is merely nominal: good colts being offered at from £lO to £ls per head —even then it is with difficulty that sales can be effected. Fat Cattle are at present plentiful, and apparently of an average quality; the prices, according to size, range from £3 10s to £6 per head. Milh Cows, of an average description, are fetching from £4 to £6 per head. Sheep for slaughter are fetching from ss. to 9s. per head. Butchers’ Meat of every description is plentiful; the prices have undergone no change during the week, and are as follow : beef and mutton l£d to Ifd per lb.; pork, 4£d to 5d ; veal, 5d to s|d. The retail prices are : beef and mutton, 3d to 3jd; pork, 7d to 7-jd ; veal, 7d to 8d per lb. Dairy Produce. —There lias been a pretty large supply of Bathurst cheese received during the week, the retail price of the best is is per lb ; of an inferior quality there is abundance; the' prices of inferior cheese range downward to 6d)* Butter is somewhat scarce; the Glenlee has been raised to 2s 9d per lb; other sorts are selling at from 2s 6d to 2s 3d. Good salt butter is 2s per lb; inferior sorts are from Is 9d downwards. Salt pork is from 4d to 6d per lb.- There is an abundant supply of excellent colonial bacon and ham, the former by the side at from to lOd, and cut from 9d to Is; colonial ham is from Is to Is 3d per lb. Potatoes are somewhat scarce. The wholesale prices are from £5 10s to £8 10s per ton. Derwents are retailing at from 14s to 16s per cwt.; old colonials, from 6s to 8s per cwt.-, and new colonials are charged from 7s ’6d to 10s per cwt. Building Materials. —The timber market is still in a very depressed state. Cedar is. selling at from 10s 6d to 16s per 100 feet in the log. Buildings throughout are supplied with timber at 15s per 100 feet, and delivered within two miles of the wharfs, at 16s per 100 ; the best shingles are 15s and 16s per 1000; laths are 12s per, 1000; posts and rails at the wharfs' are from £2 to £2 2s per 100; bricks from 40s to 50s per. 1000.