AUCKLAND.

Press, Volume VII, Issue 691, 16 January 1865, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

The following commercial reports are given by the Southern Cross of the 7th instant:— Owing to the holidays there has of course been very little doing during the week, and business men are principally engaged in balancing their accounts and making all straight and fair for a fresh start. There have been two English arrivals this week —the Matoaka and the Victory, both bringing large additions to our stocks of goods, which are still abundantSugar is scarce, and some disappointment is expressed at the non-arrival of the Waverley, which, it will be remembered, has a cargo of sugar especially selected for here. She called in at Adelaide, and her departure from there is not yet announced. Buoyed up with the expectation that the Waverley's cargo would arrive in time to supply our wants, importers are now beginning to be afraid that it will be sold in another market, or at least that only half a cargo will be brought on here. There is a good demand for bottled ale, and supplies are low. In other respects there is no alteration in the market. MB. BUCELAND'S BEPOBT. At the Haymarket on Saturday last many sales of low-priced horses were effected. For good animals there was no inquiry. The American buggy brought £62105. At the Newmarket Yards on Thursday store cattle were in short supply, and those brought forward sold at low rates. Working oxen were lower in price ; one pair brought £30 ; others sold for not more than their value as store cattle. Dairy cows were in fair supply and of good quality ; they brought from £14 to £16 each. A full market of fat cattle of large size, but not many of choice quality, sold at low rates. For the imported Lincoln rams there was good competition ; they brought from £40 10a to £12 10s, and averaged £26. Store sheep were scarce, and higher in price, half-bred wethers bringing 26s each. Best fat sheep were better worth; they brought 7d per lb. Lambs were in usual supply, and brought fully late rates. There were few pigs brought forward, and those were dull of sale. WOOL SALE. The wool sale held yesterday at the Haymarket was numerously attended by buyers. The quantity offered for sale was less than expected, 160 bales and about 40 bags being the quantity disposed of. Prices obtained were much the same as on previous sales of this year, best clips of washed wools bringing 18_d to 204 d; unwashed, but otherwise clean, lid to 13d ; inferior washed wool, Isd to 17d ; wools in grease and dirty, 8d to lOd. The description mostly in request were bright long wools. Three tons of tallow were sold, and fetched £31 10s per ton. THE MILLS. Wholesale. —Fineflour (silk dressed), per ton, £25; seconds, £20; sharps, £11. Wheat, per bushel, Adelaide, 12s. Bran, 25.. Retail. —Kne flour, per 100 IBs, 157s ; seconds, 225; sharps, 13s. Bran, per bushel, 2s 3d.