TASMANIAN COMMERCIAL.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 73, 17 July 1863, Page 2

TASMANIAN COMMERCIAL.

HOBART TOWN. (From the Advertiser, July 9.) The weather is fine, and we may, therefore, expect some improvement iv the state of our markets, which are now very dull. The steamer Black S.van is due to-day nt Lnunceston, and the Tasmania is expected to arrive here. By these vessels we shall receive reports of the markets in the neighboring colonies, and they will probably in some way affect quotations. Wheat reinnins very dull of sale at 5i to 5s Gd per bushel. It, however, must be a really tiptop sample that will command the latter quotation. The flour market remains in much about the same state. Millers' quotations are £12 to £13 per ton. Horse feed of all sorts is firm, at previous quotations. Large quantities of potatoes are continually coming into the market, and these arrivals have had the effect of keeping quotations unchanged. Drier! bacon and butter are in fair demand at former quotations. The property known as Huan Island, advertised to be sold by auction, was on Tuesday disposed of privately, at a figure not allowed to transpire. On Tuesday, Messrs Brent and Co., at their mart, sold IS shares in the Tasmani.m Stoa n Navigation Company (£lO each) for £14 and £14 2s 6d per share. These are the highest figures ever obtained. A £100 Government debenture, payable in 1877, was at the same time disposed ol for £K'3. LAUNCESTON . (From the Chronicle, July 8.) The Dashing Wave, the last arrival at Sydney from California, brought 3,590 bags of 11 v-, 8.397 bushels of wheat, 4,572 bushels of oats, and 1,700 bushels of barley, and although sho also brought intelligence ill t no other vessels were laid on at San Fianc'sco for these coloi i?s, this addition to stocks ha< h-d a depressing effect on the grain and fl. ur markets. Floar from country mills has been fold at LU lO.s per ton, and the quotation at town mills is Ll2 to 1.12 10 s per t^n. Wh at. 4s 9il to 5s per bushel. Oats are still very scarce, and in demand at 5s 6tl to 6s pr bushel. Potatoes remain at L4 to Ll 10s pi r ton. bigs in. The Royal Shepherd cleared out for M< lbouruc yesterday, with only 50 bags of oats on board, the smallest cargo which any of the L. and 11. S. N. Company's steamers has ever taken henct!. The brig Mercury clears out to-day with 1.000 bags ot oats, and other produce, for Melbourne.