COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 47, 21 April 1863, Page 2

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

DUNEDIN COMMERCIAL,

(From the Daihj Times, 18th April.)

The Aldinga arrived yesterday. Up to the date of her sailing no news had been received of the English mail. Shipments from Melbourne to this colony were on the decline — there was a comparative cessation of emigration. The import? of flll descriptions of goods, especially spirits, had been unusually heavy — 15,000 cases geneva had come in odp shipment. Butter and flour wer4 firmar, with an upward tendency. Sinre our last summary the Star of. Tasmania and Aboukir have

Sailed, the former with 1,655 bales wool, and 34,5880z ldwt fjold ; and the latter with 2,529 bales, and 3*,4190z ldwt gold. The Chariot of Fame is announced to sail to the advertised time, the 2nd proximo, and will take about 1,500 bales wool, and a heavy shipment of gold, as the stock in the Treasury and Banks must approximate 87.0000z. . The tn?t weekly escort. just arrived, brought down 16,3800z gold, and we have great satisfaction in recording tho ffood average yields of oxir Kold-fields, which, without boasting, must occupy the attention of our friends in the other hemisphere. Tho Arrow and Shotover rivers have hitherto contributed the heaviest quantities, and the Lake districts are extensive and comparatively untried, as also the country further west, and will employ a much larger mining population. Townships have sprung up in the interior of the Province like magic, and the miners show every disposition to remain during the winter. Tho business transactions during the past month have been extensive and very satisfactory, and prices of all descriptions of goods have been sustained with a profitable issue to traders. Tho city trade, which is at present flull, is expected to improve shortly. r The market is tolerably well stocked. Great caution must bo exercised 'in directing our winter supplies. Storekeepers and diggers have laid in stocks. Tho squatters are now provided for, and only a steady business can be looked for. Credit has been well sustained, and the banks have been liberal with their constituents, and a general feeling of confidence exists. The Customs officers refused tho required statistics of imports and exports for the past quarter. It is strange the Government cannot balance their books, ns a mercantile firm would do, a week over the quarter. The interests of the colony require accurate information furnished for any outgoing mail, and the only source of information is the Customs.