MOCCERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 21, 24 December 1863, Page 2

MOCCERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

LATEST MWLBOURiJfE CO.VIM?:RCIAL.

(Prom the Argus, 17th. instait.) The mail steamship Bombay arrived in fJobson's Bay early this, morning, and sailed for Sydney at half-past one p.m., aft r having delivered her mails for this colony, for 0.1 Ago, and f-.>r Tasmania.' The late hour at which advices were in the hands of consignees has' -prevented the effect of the nc»vs from being made known. The increasing fl-jods have chocked the up-country trade, and put a stop to loading from outlying districts. Sales of-malt have beeu elf'eetcrl at 9s 6d to 10s per bushel, duty paid, the moderate extent of shipments advised leading- to speculation. The Su-rar Cnnouny has advanced its prices for all descriptions of sugars, rates ranging- from £35 10s for yellow counters to £45 to £48 for finest white, lluldt rs of t-alt are asking advanced rates, owiag to tbe repeated destruction of considerable parcels by the floods. Flour has been in much improved demand, chiefly for country supplies- Sales of best Adelaide have been effected at £11 10s per ton. . Messrs Greig- and Murray sold, at Beck-.vith's stores, 280 ba»s Coesipore su^iir .(all. fnulls), at £4& 2s 6d per toD; at Messrs Smith, Strachan, nnd Co ,s stores,. 300 casks and eases Barclay's stout (all faults), at 4s to 8s per dozen. Messrs J.Xevyand Sons report Hie ealc of the balance of the cargo of tea ex Charlotte, at full rates. "