Trade Report.

Press, Volume III, Issue 130, 31 March 1863, Page 2

Trade Report.

There is some enquiry V "*. to bo left for another winter t l le it was in last, winter, and many '"J* 1 "" Kab S) in respect to fuel It appeSh.SSS h> are lit present about 1200 tons of ¥ hands of the wharfingers BeS? Vi ■**'*& ing cargoes are on their at no distant date. *' l ma > ** epetfei The brig Siusan, 300 tons, * , and Co and Aikman, Knigk S°c o ° Jl^ldWaveW.oJ-^. In addition to which the Indus F«,fi and Wild Wave, will return for fu£ r c nnmefliately on discharging There is also a quantity of coal, ofwlu c u,, not know the amount, expected in soveS? from England. «"p! Towards the end of the winter the Little Hi mmway will probably be opened *fc Eiirko s bush, and will supply wood at aimL, reduced rate And by August or railway ought to be approaching completion il to brnig he coal at a very low rato Ci! ferry. The completion of tho brid Re otw ? Harwell, and the opening of the road from uJd! tlirough the swamps to the base of thehilkoy, to place firewood within reach of all £ in tlie Lake Ellcsmere and Lincoln districts wta have hitherto been almost wholly dewndUT Christchurch for fuel. 3 FM "* Oa

At Mr. Ladbrooke's sale, by Mr. OUitier which took pliicc to-dny at CowpasturoFaniLon the Springs Eoad, there was a fullattendwceof purchasers, and prices -were considered g00 J milch cows especially fetching quite as mS former quotations, as follows : Milch Cw ß £jj to £21 each; heifers, £12 to £13 13s; <& & six months to ten months old, £410 a; draueht horses, £66 to £73 10s ; well-bred colts, £25 mi upwards; pigs, brooding sows, £4 to £i fo; boars, £5 5s ; store pigs, 34s to 445. Jam implements and sundries realized good prices.