MELBOURNE COMMERCIAL.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 206, 22 January 1866, Page 2

MELBOURNE COMMERCIAL.

(From the Argus, January Id.) r The import markets still wear a quiet aspect. All speculative feeling is dormant, and the dealers are firm in their resolve not to enter upon any extensive engagement in the continued absence of the mail. Operations have consequently been quite unimportant. A decidedly easier feelinf is apparent in breadstuff's. Sales of best Adelaide town brands have been effected at £24, and les3 money would be accepted for country brands. This, however, is the only description saleable, as no offer can be got for Chilian at all as the market now rules. Sales of small parcels of Chilian wheat are reported at 9s. Maize attracts more attention. Early in the morning some 600 bags changed hands at ss. 6d. Larger quantities are likewise said to have been placed at an advance on this figure, hut though this is questioned, there is a strong upward tendency apparent, which must very shortly lead to higher rates. MartelTs and Hennessy's pale brandies have been in request for New Zealand, and we hear of some sixty or seventy quarter-casks of the former having been disposed of at 7s. 6d. Numerous sales of Bvass's stout to arrive are reported at 10s. A parcel of Taylor, Walker, and Co.'s stout has been quitted at £5 7s. 6d. in bond. Transactions in Kirkliston case whisky are mentioned as high as Bs. 9d., and importers now refuse to sell under 9s. Sales of Bass's ale No. 4 have been made at £6 ss. Malt is wanted at 10s. to 103. 9i., at the latter figure the sale of a bin of about 1,800 bushels has transpired.