MELBOURNE COMMERCIAL.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 90, 15 September 1863, Page 2

MELBOURNE COMMERCIAL.

(From the Age, Sept. _.) The import market continues quiet, no sales of miy description coming under our notice, most of the business doim.-; heing transacted through tho ti net ion mart. Tlio flour market remains without alteration, attracting nr, speculative attention, sales bein-j confined to supplying trade wants at £14 lOs and Jj 1 5 for Adelaide silk dressed- Oafs arc very languid; and, as shipments not prcvi msly expected continue to arrive, dealers foul more and more disinclined to operate. T--haw> is still depressed. The Maria Gnrabroll, with 1.07. 0001 bs, is reported anions * , ' 1 ° arrivals to-day ; and since it has hecome known that nearly three-fourth.-} ofthe shipment consists of tens, a much better feeling has been evinced towards half-pounds, of which tho stock is comparatively small. Wo know ot offers fur this description, at a considerable advance on what, previously could be got, refused, since the circumstance to whicli wo have alluded became public. Sales of fine salt have/ been made at. .Eo IDs. Tlie. Melbourne Argus of tho 2fith ult. reports — "Business very Hat. There havo been very few orders received for the country trndc during the current week, while for export the demand appears to have died out altogether. The rise in tlie flour market is maintained, holders declining to sell except «t full rates, nnd the trado being under the necessity of purchasing for immediate u«e." Adelaide telegrams iv tho same paper state " that 1-ii-ge orders for wheat, had been received and executed for New Zealand at 5s 0d; and for flour at Lit, the price siill advancing." .> .