MAURITIUS.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 18, 12 July 1864, Page 2

MAURITIUS.

Vid Adelaide^ we' have commercial, advices from the Mauritius. '.to: the. 6th May: VTlie .-Commercial Gazette of that date thus' reports:!, on;. '.the state ol the sugar market :— Of the crop of sugar about, to be brought toa close 104,000 tons have been shipped, and about

19,000 tpns remain, say 123,000 tons. The de- : maud for A uatraha has not been so active as ex-/ pected, and a considerable portion of the sugAtsm ; store is vacuum made, much of it "of superior ■• quahty. Since the arrival of the mad there has been a complote inaction, purchasers reiusing to '"moVriii'demandr can" be barely quoted afc Idol. 25c V / .-: .- - : sv*-.---- "'A v '■'/' (l '-*' i. ' With- regard' to* our future? production; we'repeat, with still more ..confidence, what.wehav^al;,. ready stated— % ere will be a falling off in the coming crop; -Very little rain has fallen since our :-la3t-mail-lcft,-and* thoToductiou'in the windward districts generally wiH- be. .very considerable, j In the interior' there willbe a fair crop, notwithstanding the p.oublam,.)yatv(o .do net considen-ourselves aullidriS'ed^O'ekimafe the next crop at more than 1 10,000 tons. „ "V."." ,:--;> rt y. ■ ■ . '.T!efdrp^,the'£imval.6f,.tlic mail, inferior' qualities of sugar were in d^iiiaiKl/and last' month'sqiiota'-, .tions were readily'jpaidV'or these descriptions. The , : transactions in vacuviny for , tlie' Aus t raliali market " have been atiroin B.dol. '60 c. for No. 10 to 7 dol. 25 c. ; 7 dol. 50 c. for !N T os. 18 to 20.— Ibid.