MELBOURNE COMMERCIAL.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 107, 28 October 1863, Page 2

MELBOURNE COMMERCIAL.

(From the Argus. Oct. 21sfc.'j The amount of business in the import market, has been light, and there is every appearance of a dull time, until the weather is settled; Somo small sales of English cheese, and of Sinclair's bacon are reported at full rates. Mauritius sugars haye sold readily in trade lots. Bottled iruits have been in demand, and havo clumped hards at as high a rate as 15s 6(1 per dozen. Case brandies have been doMtinin tolevab'e pareels. Messrs Gemmcll, M'Caul, and Co. sold at their rooms, Ramos's blasting powder ofd per Ib; do, damaged, 4d pev lb-; American tubs, all faults, 9s 9d per nest-; do, badly damaged, 8s 6d per nests ; American three hoop pails, do, 7s per doz ; perforated zinc, 6s fid per sheet ; and an assorted invoice of kerosene lamps, &e, at fair prices. M.ssrs Fraser a d Cohen sold this day, at their room«, threo bushel bags, with nil faults, at lis 6d per dozen ; Navy canvas, No 3to 5, from 11 -£d to 12Jd per lb. Messrs Greig and Murray sold, at their rooms, M mvitius sugars, L2l 5s pev ton for very davk rations, to L22 for medium do ; low browns, 1.2"> 2s 61 to L25 7s 6d per ton ; good coun teiM. L29 10s per ton ; grey crystals, L3tlos to Loi los per ton ; full weight candles, 10^1 to lo.\d per lb ; foreign full weight, candles (all faults, form fc cash), at. 9M to Oj-dperlb; Tasmanian hops, 1863, 10£d to 17d per lb; Kent hops, old, 6id to lld pev lb; Liverpool fine salt, L4l7s fid per ton ; Thin's salmon, lib tins, 15s 9d per doz; Whybrow's aud Molloy's pint pickles, -\ss per doz; soda cvystals, LS 12s 6d pev ton ; castor oil, half pints, fis per doz ; salad oil, half pints, 6s fid per doz; do pints, lis l^d to lls'fid per doz ; hams aYid bacon, 10^-1 to lld per lb; botfcled fruits, los fid per doz; and afc the Hobson Bay Railway, 200 firkins D. R. Cork buttrv, afc 7fd to B' s por lb;