HOBART TOWN.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 47, 30 August 1845, Page 3

HOBART TOWN.

Wheat. — The sale of imported wheat in Van Diemen's Land is a feature of a novel character, and more particularly worthy of remark when we call to mind that we are now purchasing this grain, the produce of a colony that — three or four years only ago — was dependent upon \ an Diemen's Land for its supplies. We were selling our wheat then at a most extravagant piice. Our flour was £50 .per ton. The Sfrath Australians are now supplying the Sydney, Cape, Mauritius, and this market, and glad to receive a sum that we have been in the habit of considering as scarcely remunerative — five and six shillings a bushel. Yet we are told by the advocates of the Probation system, that through it we have cheap labour, and without it labour would be dear. We leave them to reconcile the problem, and tell us how it happens that South Australia has managed to pay the greater portion of her debt incurred in importing free labour, and yet can produce and undersell us ill that most important article — the staff of life. Our settlers must look to this fact. — Hobart Town Courier.

Wheat. — The cargo of the Timbo, from Adelaide, consisting of 1300 bushels, was sold by auction at Mr. T. Y. Lowes' Mart on Monday. The sample exhibited was of a fine bright colour, clean and plump in the grain, altogether a very creditable specimen of our South Australian farmers. The first 100 bushels sold at 6s. 7d. ; the second at 6s. 6d. ; and the remainder, upwards of 1000 bushels, was knocked down to Mr. Brock, the purchaser of the first sample, at 6s. 7d. About 400 bushels of oats were sold at 4s. and 3s. lOd. — Ibid.

Hobart Town Markets, August Ist. — Wheat, 6s. to 6s. 3d. per bushel ; Barley, 4s. 6d. per bushel ; Oats, 4s. per bushel ; Maize, 4s. per bushel ; Hay, pressed, £3 10s. to £3 15s. per ton ; Potatoes, £3 ss, per ton. Shingles, 6s. per 1000; Sawn timber, 6s. per 100 feet ; Posts and rails, 18s. to 255. per 100 ; Broad palings, ss. 6d. to 7s. per 100.

Launceston Markets. — Fineflour, £l3; Seconds, £12 per ton; Bran, lOd. ; Pollard, Is. per bushel.

Adelaide Markets, July 12. — Wheat, 3s. to 3s. 3d. per bushel ; Oats, 3s. per bh. ; English barley, 3s. 6d. per bushel ; Cape, 2s. 6d. per bushel; Fine flour, £10 per ton ; Seconds, £7 to £8 10s. per ton ; Hay, 30s. per ton ; Bran, 9% per bushel ; Maize, 2s. 6d. per bushel ; Malt, ss. to 6s. per bushel.