Commercial.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 242, 14 February 1860, Page 2

Commercial.

MELBOURNE MARKETS.—Jan. 25. Tlie Mills—Business continues brisk for trade requirements and prices continue steady. Fine dour, £18 ; Haxall and Gallego. £22 per ton"; bran, scarce, ls Bel per bushel; wheat, but little offering foi* sale, 7s 9d to 8s per bushel. Retail:—Bread, lOd the 41b loaf* beef, 4£d fo 7d; mutton, 5d to 6d ; veal 9d to lOd ; pork lOd to lsper lb.; eggs, 2s 9d to 3s per doz. Hay.—-The supply brought in during the week, although ample, has been considerable less than that at market last week. Trade has been tolerably brisk, and but few loads hr.ye remained undisposed of at the close of each day. Bent hay brings from £4 to £4 10s; inferior and coarse from £.1 to £3 15s per ton. ~~ ADELAIDE. ~ We (Melbourne Argus) have Adelaide papers to the 20th ult. We subjoin the latent commercial:-— The corn market continues firm ; the farmers keep back the wheat, and supplies are very limited. Mil-1 •lers are giving 6s 8d to 6s lOd per bushel for dray loads, and 7s is given at the port. Flour £10 10s to £17 per ton. . Returns of all wheat, flour, bread, and (Train, the produce,of South Australia, exported during the week ended-Saturday, 14th-January, IB6o:—Wheat, 735 qrs.; flour, 120 tons; grain, bran, aud pollard, 18 toce,

LAUNCESTOX. Tho Cornwall Chronicle reports of tho markets at Launceston:-_.,.

Business in the wheat and flour market remains confined to supplies for local consumption. Scarcely any wheat has arrived in town from the country districts this week, although the demand for it continues fair. ?t about 7s 3d to 7s Gd per bushel. There is a steady and extensive business doing in oats, tit about 3s 3d per bushel.

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