TASMANIA.

West Coast Times, Issue 138, 27 February 1866, Page 2

TASMANIA.

The Hobart Town Mercury of tho 6th inst., ;ives tho following market report : — '

Business during to-day has beon slack, and wo havo no important transactions to report. Tho breadstuffe murket is steadily declining. Colonial wheat was sold to-day at 8s 6d per bushel, and 9s is now tho outsido price. At tho mills, first-class colonial flour is quoted at £22 por ton, and foreign flour is almost unsaleable. Othor produco continuos at our former ratos, viz. :— Sharps, £9 por ton ; bran, Is 3d por bushol ; oats, old, 5s per bushol ; new, 43 to 4s 3d por bushol j barloy, English, 5s 6d por bushol; Capo, 4 s por bushol j hay, pressed, £4 10s to £5 por ton ; buttor, Is 8d to Is 9d por lb.

Tho Launccslon Examiner of the Bth inetant, reports as follows : —

This being holiday time, business Imb boen at a stand still. Tho quotations romaiu an before, with tho oxcoptiou of hay, which would, had any arrivod in town, havo fotchod BA> 10«. to £4 15s. This rise, howovor, is moroly temporary, and owiug to tho email quautity being brought to town. Flour, £20 ; wheat, 7s. 6d. ; oats, old, -is. fid. to 4s. 9d. j new, 4s. j bran, Is. 7d. ; Tntunaniau oatmeal, 30s. to 325. ; fresh buttor, 1&. Gd,

Tho value of imports at Hobart Town for tho month of January was £14,050 j and of oxporta, £116,085; tbo duties collootod amounted to £5826 11b. lid. At Launceaton tho imports were £86,760 j onions, tfiß.Oftl ; dut^s rolloctwl, J?fi373 Us. 8(1,