SYDNEY MARKETS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 198, 23 June 1847, Page 2

SYDNEY MARKETS.

Wheat. — The continued wet weather during the week has prevented much from being brought to market. At the corn market ten loads paid dues, and brought from 3s. to 4s. per bushel at the mills. Flour. — In this article the usual business has been done at the mills, and the price of the best quality remains firm at £11 per ton of two thousand pounds. Bread. — The 21b. loaf is sold generally at 3d. t Bran. — Wholesale, Bd. per bushel ; retail, 9d. per bushel. Biscuit. — No. 1, cabin, 19s. per cwt. ; No. 2, ship, 15s. per cwt. Maize. — There is still a limited supply forwarded to market. The wholesale paces { are from Is. Bd. to Is. lOd. per bushel; the retailers are charging from 2s. to 2s; 3d. per bushel. Barley and Oats are ranging, wholesale, fronv2s. to 3s. per bushel, according to quality. The retailers are charging in general 3s. 6d. per bushel. Hay. — About seventy loads of hay have paid dues, all of which were disposed of yesterday at from £3 : 10s. to £4 per ton. Straw. — Twenty-three loads passed through the Campbell-street market, aud were readiJy sold at from a@2 to £3 per ton. —

Export Market. — Tallow is it) demand on English account, but owing to a rise of fifty per cent, on freights, and an uncommon scarcity of tonnage, purchasers are not in- > clined to go into the market until they can" secure conveyance to London. ■ Prices range from 30s. for the worst, to 335. 9. for the best mutton ; but should the freights fall to their usual rate, in all probability it would fetch ten per cent, raore. The quantity expected to be ready for shipment within the next six months is 10,000 tons, and there is not expected to be laid on in that time for London sufficient vessels to tjke half that quantity, unless entirely loaded with it. Freights for wool 1^ per pound ; tallow, from £4: : 15s. to £5 per ton ; hides, £3 per ton. — Sydney Morning Herald, May 29.