WELLINGTON MARKETS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 10, 14 December 1844, Page 1

WELLINGTON MARKETS.

First flour, per ton, £14 ; bread, per 21b. loaf, 3| r^nW» to 9d. per Ib, ; mutton, Bd. to lOd. per lbv; pork, 3d. tb 4d. per lb. ; fowls, per pair, 45. ; ducks, per pair, 65. ; geese, 10s. each ; turkeys , 13s. 6d. each ; fresh butter, 1?. per lb. ; potatoes, £3 per ton; eggs, per dozen, Is.; cheese, N.Z., Is. 6d: per lb. ; hams, N.Z., 6d. per lb. ; maize, 2s. 6d. per bushel ; ale, Is. Bd. der gallon.

Wool, — The last accounts from England received in Sydney, mention great activity in the wool market. — " The June sales are said to have realized an advance of 'from 7 to 10 per cent upon those of April, and in Liverpool the sales on the 4th August, are stated to have commanded an advance of two pence per pound on previous sales. The condition and quality of Australian wools were also appreciated. The increase and production of wool in the United States, is noticed as follows : — '• The Morning Herald tells us, that if we are to credit the amount lately received from the United States, that section of the globe will almost immediatly become a most formidable competitor with sheeps wool, as it is already with cotton. The production of the Western States of the Union, in 1843, is stated to have been as high as 85 millions of pounds, which is an increase of 50 millions within four years, and about one-third more than the estimated comsumption of all the mauufacturersujn th» Lfnion* If the flock owners of New South Wales exercise due skill and caution, they will have but little to fear from the competition of America ; but if in an over eagerness for gain, they once permit quantity to form an object paramount to quality, they will have reason to repent their folly:" The export of wool last year from New South Wales to Great Britain, amounted according to the best accounts, to 12 millions of pounds. Which may be valued in round numbers, at £750,000.

London Markets, July 16, 1844. — Oil Southern good, £32 10s. to £34. Inferior, £31 to £32 per tun. Some holders will not take these rates. Sperm oil is wanted, but the supply at market falls short of the demand : prices are firm, and the best British has been selling at £83 to £84 per tun. Bark, Memosa, £7 10s., to £9 per ton, duty Id, per cwt. Extract of ditto, £10 to £20 per ton, duty Is. per cwt.

The Wesleyan Church and Congregation have at length entered upon their spacious and beautiful chapel. We heartily congratulate them on the completion ot one of the most substantial and ornamential buildings which the town of Wellington possesses. It is 39 feet by 48 feet. The style is very chaste, and does credit to the architectural skill of R. Stokes, Esq., according to whose design the'bUildmg has been erected, and, although the elevation is rather high for such a place as Port Nicholson, yet as the walls are 18 inches thick, and the timbers which bind "the building and those which support the roof are proportionally strong ; there is no fear but that the building will stand Tor; many years, and long continue to accommodate that activejportion of our community, through whose zeal and perseverance it has been erected. The opening services, both" on Thursday and Sunday were well attended, and the collections which amounted to nearly nineteen pounds, were exceeding liberal, and afforded a good test of the benevolent feeling of the public of Wellington. We have no. doubt that had the times been better, the sum which was realized would have been doubled. "' It gave us great pleasure to hear that the friends in their canvas^ of the town, had obtained voluntary aid to the amount of upwards of tiro hundred pounds, and if the Government fulfill its promises, and the ..Company-bold out its friendly help, as the Principal- Agent, we believe, gave them reason to expect; the debt which now remains upon tlife Ifchapel 'will T>e liquidated, and funds will be in hand to put the finishing touch to it.— iCommvnicated.']