MELBOURNE COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Melbourne Argus.)

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XI, Issue 746, 22 August 1854, Page 2

MELBOURNE COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Melbourne Argus.)

Saturday, July 29th, 1854. Grain and Flour.—-W. F. A. Ruckeis's Mills.—Fine flour, £35 per ton; seconds, £33; bran, 55.; wheat bought at los. W. Degraves and Co.'s Mills. —Fine flour, £34 ; seconds, £32 ; bran, 55.; wheat bought at 15s. Fulton and Smith's Mills.— Fine flour, £34 ? seconds, £30 ; bran, 55.; wheat bought at 15s. Butchers' Meat. —Beef, Bd. to 9d. per lb.; mutton, Bd. to 9d.; pork, Is. to Is. 4d.; veal, lOd. to Is. 6d. Dairy Produce.—Butter, 4s. to ss. 6d. per lb.; milk, 2s. 6d. per quart. Bread.—ls. 9d. the 4lb. loaf; flour, s|d. per lb ; best do., 7£d. per ft. Potatoes,— Derwent, £30 ; New Zealand, £28 ; New South Wales, £28. Timber.—New Zealand pin-, £1 2s. to £1 10s. per 100 feet ; Baltic (flat), £2 10s. to £2 15s. Amongst the imports at the port of Melbourne for the week ending 29tn July, there appear 246£ tons bread and flour, 23 tons oatmeal, 520 bushels barley, 4,183 bushels maize,, 36,599 bushels'oats, 42 tons rice, 59| tons butter and cheese, 171 cwt. coffee. 600 packages fish, 21 crates poultry, 237 ton's potatoes, 19 packages preserved provisions, 84 tons salt do., 26J tons sugar, 42,540 lbs. tea. Flour at Adelaide, is quoted at £30 to £32 per ton, at the port including bags.