MELBOURNE.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3195, 12 October 1867, Page 3

MELBOURNE.

In the import markets a fair amount of business has been transacted to-day. In breadstuff's we note a decidedly firmer feeling: Buyers of Victorian flour are now more inclined to operate at £11 ss, while, on the other hand, holders are firm at # £11 10s, and, there being every prospect of realising this figure, refuse to sell under. A line of about 200 tons of Adelaide flour has been taken up, in bond, on private terms. There is no wheat offering ; prices are firm, at 4s lOd. Jn feed corn — viz., barley and oats — no sales have transpired ; maize, however, goes ste«dily into the hands of the trade at 3s. to 3s 2d. There has been more doing in rice, though only for trade purposes. Some thirty tons of Patna have been placed, in parcels, at up to £27. New season's teas are freely looked after. We hear of further sales of the • Ttk TiV cargo having been effected to the extent of 700 chests, at prices ranging, acoording to quality, at from Is 9d to 2s 7d, in bond. Orje or two small lines of the 'Hans ■hipment have also been placed at 2s to 2s 3d for chesti and half-che3ts. The cargo of the \Eno will be offered to the trade privately. ss * le * of medium counter sugars are reported at 31s. Dark half-pound tobaccos have been disposed of at Is 4d, and a shipment of a hundred bales of Calcutta leaf found a purchaser at close on If d per lb. In liquids, we learn of some 4,000 cases of common brandy having been purchased for shipment, on terms withheld — a very low figure, we understand, was accepted for the parcel. Renault's case brand has been disposed of at 22s ; about 600 cases changed hands. Trade parcels of Y. F. and Co.'i geneva have been quitted at 8s 6d. A parcel of Whitbread's stout in bulk was placed at £4. There is no alteration made this month in the rate of exchange on England, one per cent, premium being the rate uniformly charged by all the banks. — Argus, September 27. The Argus of the 26th ultimo says :— In breadstuff! we notice a decidedly firmer feeling. Buyers of Victorian flour are now more inclined to operate, 'at£llss, while, on the other hand.holders are firm at £11 103, and, there beiner every prospect of realising this figure, refuse to sell under. A line of about 200 tons of Adelaide flour has been taken up, in bond, on private terms. There is no wheat offering ; prices are firm at 4s lOd. In feed corn, viz., barley and oat, no sales have transpired; maize, however, goes steadily into the hsnds of the trade, at 3s to 3s 2<L In the Adelaide corn market there is no change in prioeß,