MELBOURNE.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 20, 16 July 1864, Page 4

MELBOURNE.

By the arrival of the Aldinga, we have files to. the Bth inst. The Argus of that date says:— ■. ■,: " There was more animation noticeable' in 'tho import market yesterday than for some time past; Some speculative purchases were made in anticx-! pation of the advices by the mail. 6,000 boxes of foreign full weight candled were sold at' 9f d., and. further sales, at the same price, were spoken? off in' the latter part of the' day as haying 'been miade. 1 Hales' pound packets were sold in/the' forenorar at 9jd., but the same price was afterwards refiised; An offer of 10£dJ net "cash: was made- for the\ whole of the stockof the]^evaSteaiTneC6mpanj r 'B candles, but though the price was higher t&an these candles have been sold at lately, the' offer was refused. The market was influenced^ no doubt*, by the .possibility of the news Tby^the* May B&il being of a war-like character/in : view 'pi the mbve» ments of the BVench army and English" ' cHahnei fleet, reported by the latest telegrams by the April mail steamer. \Tea.['w''&^i : y.3^\T^^'6liwta' o ci. very low congou changed hands at.is.'lO^d:, duj^ paid. Malt is more firmly held. ' : iJ Rice iig^^alsowell held, the recent sales at Sydney having' shbwii'an improved, market for the article there.;^ Woolpacks are wanted, but none 'are; to be, had. ' A specially fine ; sample, of Otard's 'pale brandy was sold'at considerable advance' 6n, ordinary prices/ *;FioT& is/in good demand for the : '.^^ <^untry ;districf s, and piiebs wee well sustained.; ■ 'Oats,'', maize and bran arein reguest^and are 'rea^ market quotations'. :^At Alburyirbfi Jffief4ffi ? iQßiu,i flour was quoted at £4Qi 's*s * ;nei '.9 Offering; ' Afc^ tVarrriambbcflj'^he 'range 'wwpTfroin

£22 to £26, and; 'for wheat,, from ,7s. to 7s. 6d. From our New Zealand files (to hand per Albion) * c find that on the; last day of June, flour was 'noted at £40 ; at .Invercargill . (where, the stocks „re very light) • at Dunedin, ..£34 ; . and at Havelock, ou the 21st ultj at from, £38 to , £40. Ihe amount of the wharfage ratescollected yesteiv Jj aY was £350, and in the month of June it was The English May mail is .due in Melbourne on SuncfciT, the 10th vast, . and we may, therefore, JiaTCOiir usual telegram by way r of Adelaide in fli'Csoursb of. Saturday.! This month last year .the "game vessels as ; will bring .tins mail— tli.e Madras and Rangatira— performed the service.- The^nia'l some thirty-six hoiirs late, an accident 'haying , disabled one of the engines of the Madras shortly; . a fti£ leaving Galle; : . •■•"■--;•' ; -' :; , '