HOBART TOWN MARKETS.

Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 437, 31 December 1861, Page 2

HOBART TOWN MARKETS.

Grßin, &c — Wheat is at 4s 6d to 5s per bu-hel, and there is a limited demand for really first-clas-* samp es, for which 5s 3d is the highest price. Flour 1* at. £12 to £13, with a fair local demand, and a pamjl of ; 25 tons has been purchased for shipment to New Zealand. Bran is Is 2d to la 4d. Oats can scarcely be quoted, as there is no demand for them, and very few are offering. Potatoes.—Very few sales of old potatoes can be effected, and the price is nominal. The new crop is now coming in freely, and at low rates. Hay.—Old hay is at from £5 to £6 per toi.; new hay, loose, at £2 10s to £3. The supply is equal to the demand.— Mercury, Dec. 10. TOTAL WREOK OF THE S.S. OSCAK. We (Daily Times, Dec. 20) regret to have to chronicle the total wreck of the s.s. Oscar, in the New River, Invercargill. The captain is perfectly free from blame as the vessel was in charge of the pilot. The agents, Messrs. Dalgety, Rattray, and Co., with praiseworthy promptitude chartered the s.s. Guiding Star to call at Invercargill, and the Omeo will leave the port this afternoon to take the passengers, mails, and gold on to Melbourne. We understand that when the messenger left there was eight feet of water in the hold. Everything was saved out of the vessel. The following letters have been placed at our <lisposal:— - [per special messenger.] Invercargill, Dec. lsth,l 30 a.m. Messrs. Dalgety, Rattray, and Co., Dunedin. Gentlemen —We regret to inform you of the total wreck of the Oscar, steamer, after crossing the bar at. this port yesterday forenoon, while in charge of ihipilot Will you have the goodness undev the disastrous cir. cumstances, to leave accommodation in the Omeo for the passengers and crew of the ill-fated Osi<ar. and instruct Captain M'Lachlan to ctll in here to take then to their destination. We mity mention that the gold, cargo, &c, are al safely landed. / You will please, take in consideration that the passengers can scarcely find accommodation in a placa ■ f such limited resources as this, consequently the necessity of a vessel being sent with the least po.isible delay. We are, dear Sirs, Yours truy, (Signed) 0. N. Campbell & C!o. Invercargill, 2 a.m., 18th Dec , 1861. Messrs. Dalgety, Hattray, and Co. Gbntlesien—lt is our painful duty to inform you that the steamship Oscar ran aground about 12 o'clock, on the 17th, opposite the pilot station, in the New River Harbor, while under the command of the pilot. We may here briefly state that no blame can be attached to Captain Steuart, who did all that a skilful commander could do, and we deeply deplore his unfortunate position. We may state that the undersigned have been appointed a deputation from the Captain and passengers to wait upon the Superintendent, to uij>e upon him the necessity of despatching a mounted trooper, to request that you will immediately cause the Omeo to call and remove usi'rom our unfortunate position. The gold, also the passengers and crew, numbering some two hundied, are safely landed ; but it is utterly impossible to house them, and it therefore becomes more imperative that no time should be lost in despatching the Oaieo to our assistance. Trusting you will lose no time in the matter, wo beg to subscribe ourselves, , .. , , (Signed) Thos. S. Marks. John Fokster, M.D. John Thompson, MARRIAGE. Hilt,—Hall.—On the 29th Nov., at Brisnane, Queensland, by the Rev. B. G. Wilson, 8.M., Thomas Woodward Hill, of Bedford, England,'and late of Nelson, to Agnes Curoline Rains, daughter of Mr. John Hull, architect, Sandgate, county of Kent, England. DEATHS. Sdluvan.—On Sunday, Dec. 29th, Margaret Sullivan, wife of Mr. Thomas Sullivan, Trafalgar-6quare, aged 5-t years. LiMBEiT.—At Devonhill, on the 19th iustant, William Lambert, late proprietor and editor of the Olago Colonist.