MELBOURNE MARKETS. (From 'Goldsbrough's Circular'—March 17.)

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XVII, Issue 1285, 13 April 1860, Page 2

MELBOURNE MARKETS. (From ' Goldsbrough's Circular' — March 17.)

Flour. — The market being bare of supply, prices have been upheld, but only a limited business has bpen done, and wo conßider a small extra supply would cause a decline in present rates. Adelaide is quoted at £20 to £21 j Town Mills, £18 10s. to £20 ; Tasmanian, £19. Wheat. — Supply small ; demand good. Fine wheat brings Is. 3d. to Bs. Od. Oats. — All speculative feeling in this grain appears to have subsided with late advices from Euiope that shipments had not ceased, 41,000 bushels being reported for the month of December from British ports alone ; wh.it quantity from other poits we have no data. It is quite evident that greater losses must still be made, before importers or shippers will listen to common sense— that is to give up shipping an article of which the colony can grow sufficient for its own wants. Colonial are offering in small parcels from 3s. 6d. to 3s. 10d.; fine descriptions, for seed, is. Foreign grain is quite neglected, and holders may sooner or later look out for another market to dispose of their stocks. Potatoes, — Wo have no alteration to note in prices this week, but an extensive business would be gone into if there was a supply. The reports fiom all parts show a short crop, and we shall have prices this season as much above a reasonable figure as last season they were below.