MELBOURNE.

Southland Times, Issue 1717, 21 March 1873, Page 2

MELBOURNE.

Th« Argus of tht 13th inßt. reports : — In the import markets we note a better inquiry for goods to-day, and a fair business has been transacted. Breadstuff's are marked by a totul absence of anything like animation. Flour U moving off at £12 10« to £12 15a for trade purposes, but only small lots can be got rid of. By auction this forenoon country brands Bold at £12 to£l2 2s6d. Wheat was offer* d at the same time, but the bidding being too low, the whole vras withdrawn. Privately, 5s 2d to 5s 3d might be got, but nothing more. Oati, though quiet, are Tery firm. Sales of feeding are mentioned at 3s 4£d. Victorian malting barley was quitted at 6b 9d to 5s ll^d. Maize has commanded mdre notice ; we hear of 1300 bags, beirg the Mury'g cargo, baring changed hands (1000 bags in one line) ct up to 2s lid. Small parcels are still quoted at 3s. We learn that the entire cargo of plantation coffee just arrived by the June Bell was told afloat some time ago, and has ugaiu been resold at a satisfactory price. The native by the same vessel, about 20 tons, has also been taken up at about 9d. Sugars are exceedingly firm, indeed we are informed of firms who were telling yesterday having to-day withdrawn their stock, refusing to quote a price. The Faif Haven, which has juit arrive! at Adelaide in ballast, brings dateß from Mauritius to Bth February. She reports the Kacer as having sailed lor Melbournje on the 7th, and the Umgeni for Adeiai le on the Ist. A private communication, dated 16th January, received by the £1 ei-elie, states that the Noemi (given in a previitus tulegram us loading for Melbourne), is rather gointi to -yd n«"y. Teas are moving more freely. We lu-ar of the quittance of a thousand half-cheßts low ordinary congous at lid, and medium congous at Is 6d. New hops meet with a good inquiry! Sales of Tasmanian have been made at all prices, rising from 1b 5d to Is 8d and Is 9d, the latter figures having been got for Shoobridge's. A liw of 200 cases of oilmen's e tores, comprising Lea and Ferrine! sauce, salad oils, pickles, mariualkti?, &c, has been placed at iull rates. Cornuacks •till continue to meet with favorable attention. Seventy bales have been quitted in parcels at 14s. New Patna rice metfts with favor ; wu hear of a line of 150 tons, ex Delaware, having changed hands on private terms, and further sales are etill pending. For ling tilth we understuud 5Jd is now atsked. The

tobacco side 'his forenoon wa very miscnblone. an i it i* clear thu' (lie mtirke" Ims rem-lnnl a point that mist at'ra- 1 the notice of spei-ul.it ts. 113 packages were quitted, when fives brouglit 10i:i j tens, lid ; fours, lOd ; sixes, lOd ; fancy, 9£d to Is H). Fnultt twist at same time realised Is 3id to Is 3fd. Advices to hand regarding timber are most favorable to that market. A private communication states that deals had further advanced in the Baltic, and that the quantity for export would be 30,000 standard less this year than formerly. London advi<e& regarding brandy coofi'in what was received by telojrai;i some ti r i:e ugr>, viz., thit the leading c-oi;oa • ehrnpmß ha I fixed the opMi ing price of 18T2 br/mdy »t i'2o fram-s— the same quotation ub that "for 1871, th* year previous. Messrs Alfred j;Larab and -jiencer, •->? London, in their circular of 6th January, state regarding ruiu : — " Wo believe that Demerara rum must advance considerably, at lea*t until planters see the prospect of obtaining a more remunerative price for rum than syrup sugar." Sales of Hennessy's case brandy have been made at the advanced figure of 26s 3d. A shipment of Jeffrey's bottled ale has been placed at 11s lOid.