MAURITIUS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3511, 16 October 1868, Page 3

MAURITIUS.

The Argu* correspondent, writing from Mauritius qa September 2nd, reports :— - Shipments to Melbourne, and, in faot, %\\ the Australian -ports, continue -to be .made only aft long interval*'; and as the sugar of the new crop has only Just begun 1 to- arrive in town, it is probable that exports from -this will continue on a small scale for six weeks or two months more. Now that -the sugar season has 'begun many of the planters complain that the canes do not yield well ; and'ft is 'in consequence «xpeoted by 'some 'persons that the crop will fall ■lightly short o£ the quantity it was estimated wdold be made, viz., 139003 ton's. This, however, I think hardly likely. ' The island during last crop and the' two-' or three -previous ones each season made 1 rather more-angar than was anticipated. Prices of onr'«tapl« I d6iJnotfshow much change :— First quality white ory*taiHi*efy'7 dollar* to 7 dollar 3 25 cent* per 1001b,; middling to good cttgo dicto, 6 dollars 15 cents to 6 dollars 75 cents 'ditto ; finest 'yellow crystals, 6 dollars oXKoentfttf 6 uiollwrs 60 cents ditto; best ditto counter*, s 6 dollars^ cents to 6 dollars 60 oe'ntsditto ; middling ditto ditto, ' 5 dollars 65 cents to 6 dollars ditto ;' ordinary ditto dittoed dollars 40 osnWto 6'dOllarjß 50 cents' ditto ; good to fine yellow ■yrups, 5 dollars to 5 dollars 60 cents; low -to medium ditt6, -4 to 4 dollars 40 cents^ditto. Owing to the number of large ressels which have arrr- jr *vire since the* termination of -the Abysßiuian war its have a considerable-tendency to decline. thd k diffionlfc to gireqaotitions, as rates are norn iwing to the 1 few charters- which have been conok latterly, freight is offering for London «t>£2,' I«t £2 5a aud-£2 7s-6d for Cork, if or orders. 'or the Australian .colonies the rates ruling AM from w£ to £2" 16s£ according to port and-size. Tht principal article imoorted' hither from Austra* Uayviz.v flour,' has decline t agaia' in valnei and <«» H sale ha*>)eenmadeabsdollirs per loolb>,> but holders are^now asking 5 dollatrs 25 cents; - Salt 'beef 'is worth 23 dollar. >to 24 dollaraper tierce ; market declining. ' - CoW^New rtbuth Walei- coals tars quoted at 8 doUarM 50 Cents to« 9 dollar* per ton, from alongside Tlfc utocfc in the island in very mo-ter*te<-Tallow, 19 doll»N t » 20'dol(ars per 1001b. Prioen fatlibri ' • ■ < Brio., "2 dollars 30 cents to 2 dollars 40^cents - ' W*ths»'fsar <!rdp in prospect and economy strictly pfactisbd'in all the public departments, the future of ♦4 ( 4he' colony is beginning to look brighter-' once mnn.*- ■'Up td the middle' 6f last-month, whenr last O>*r>^li<ished,' the'value of 'the augar exported 'fromMauritius was in excess of that of 'goods' imported, fosffhei'obiisu'mptiAn of ■ all artiole* of luxury has T*jysfttloh I decr»Used— io some caies^as uaucb as' fifty! per ceut. Moreover, the revenue is on the increase a**la.M- > >■'>.■>' '' \