TASMANIAN COMMERCIAL.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 92, 22 September 1863, Page 2

TASMANIAN COMMERCIAL.

We have Hobart Town and Launceston files to the 3rd instant.— Tho H. T. Mercury of that date

says, ' < Flour has advanced in price and may now be quolcd nt from £12 10s to £13 per ton at the mills. ] Wheat at from 5s 3d to 5a 6'd per bushel, and oats < tit from 6s to 6a (id per bushel (scarce.) The , principal stocks of potatoes, have entirely cleared out for export to the other colonies, at prices vary- I in<r from £o 103 to £(S (bags included), and there j is now a demand existing for fresh parcel?. Few r are, however, arriving. Prices of other descriptions ' of produce remain as follows.— Hay, loose, £5 to « £5 15s per ton ; country pressed, from £4 to £6, . according to quality ; hydraulic pressed, £6 10s 10 £7; chaff, £9 per tor.; onions, £20 to £22 per ton. The Lannccslon Examiner of the 3rd, says . — < There appears to be erery probability that flour | and wheat will continue to advance. Sales of the former have taken place at Ll2 lOss; and we quote < at Ll2 to Ll3. Wheat is iirni at oa to 5s 3d, 1 higher figures being asked. It is said that a con- , siderable parcel of wheat found its way lately from this port to Adelaide via Melbourne, and that 1 this is likely to occur ngain : if ecieh be the case, j it is not probable that prices will recede here. ( Hay is quoted at L 5 to L 3 10s for trussed, and L 8 to L 3 lUs for hydraulic pressed. * < Gold.— Our market continues inactive, there | being no demand for export. The arrivals are the ( Shannon, from the West Indies, with L 251.00 0; ' the Edmond Graham, from Melbourne, with i L 75 500; the Lincolnshire, from Melbourne, with , L 43.00 0; the Ahoukir, from New Zealand, with , L 120.000. The Great Britain »nd the Glendower sir- the only gold ships from Melbourne of which ; we have advices; the former brings a large amount ; the latter has only L 31,000 on board. — Economist.