MARKETS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 8, Issue 379, 18 February 1864, Page 4

MARKETS.

Wanganui, Feb. 18. Wholesale Floury Wanganui Steam Mill, silk dressed. £2Ol Os per ton jSetlye Mill, £lB per ton. Wheat, 7s perbushel; potatoes, £5 to £7 per ton. Retail—bread, 6d 2 lb loaf; butter, Is 3d ; beef, 6d to 8d; mutton, 7d per lb ; eggs 2a per doz; milk, 4d per quart. Dunedin, Feb. 6. —Messrs. Driver, Maclean and co. report: We have no important change to notice during the past fortnight. The cattle market is still in a very unsettled state ; though „ the excitement relative to pleuro-pneumonia has somewhat subsided, as we have no proof of it in any other herd than those mentioned in our last report. Rumours continue to, reach town that the disease has broken out in various parts of the province, which must be attributed tointerested motives or ignorance of the disease. During the fortnight 1200 cattle have been imported. The last cargo (of 326 from Twofold Bay) has been condemned and not yet permitted to be landed ; 26,900 sheep have been landed, all from Australia, except 600 from Napier.. The market is glutted with fat cattle,of which we have-sold 100 head at an average of 45s per 100 lbs. Of fat sheep there is a full supply,, and prices cannot improve till the imports lessen. 1500 imported wethers sold at 25s to 28s. Notransactions in store cattle. We have sold 2000 provincial bred store ewes 2 to 6 tooth at 30s, and 1000 mixed lambs at 17s 6d. The Australian importations are mostly inferior and unsaleable ; fair quality, however, bring 23s to 25s for wethers, aud 26s to 28s for ewes. For horses, the prices current are:—First class draught, 45i to aol; second do 281 to 40 1 ; inferior--121 to 281; good hackneys 25 1 to 35 1 ; light harness and packer sjl 21 to2oi; inferior do Si to 13£. We have' sold the Bellamy station near Tuapeka 35,000 acres, with 600 head of cattle, for £BOOO. Also one half interest in the Hyde House station, on the Mataura river, 50,000 acres, with 2,800 mixed sheep, for £6*ooo.