AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT.

Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume VI, Issue 23, 15 December 1859, Page 7

AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MARITIME REPORT.

From the Ist to the 15th December. By the latest advices from Sydney, which are to the 3rd instant, the grain markets continue in the same unsettled state as that which we have latterly reported. Flour has again given way in price, the latest quotations being 20J. per ton for fine, 18J. for second quality. Wheat commanded a much better price than flour. A cargo had been sold at 7s. 3d. per bushel, and as high as Bs. was quoted in the Melbourne Prices Current. Some samples of new wheat, good, sound, and fine had been sold in the Adelaide market at 7s. Cd., but that price was not expected to be maintained. In several parts of New South Wales, the wheat crops are represented as being so indifferent as scarcely to be worth the reaping; in other quarters there are great complaints of a prevailing drought, and without speedy rain it is said much of the wheat would be lost. The season had arrived at its dullest period, and with respect to the ultimate produce of the harvest, much was mere matter of conjecture. Prices in all likelihood will not rule very high, but we incline to think that they will be such as ought to yield a fair profit to the growers. The arnvals of the fortnight have been the ship Shooting Star, 1160 tons, Captain E. J. Allen, from Liverpool, with a cargo of merchandise and 175 passengers. White Swan, steamship, 198 tons, Captain Cellem, from Wellington and Napier, with 238 sheep, sundries, 2 passengers. Nourmahal, ship, 846 tons, Captain Brayley, from London with a general cargo, 125 passengers. Zillah, schooner, 68 tons, Captain Williams, from Hobart Town, with a cargo of Tasmanian building stone, timber, 6 passengers. Catherine Pemberton, barque, 519 tons, Captain Harris, from Lyttelton, in ballast, to load for London. Southern Cross, schooner, 69 tons, Captain Grange, from a Missionary voyage to the South Sea Islands, with the Bishop of New Zealand, and 58 youths brought hither to receive instruction. Zephyr, schooner, 56 tons, Captain Clarke' from Napier, in ballast, 5 passengers'. Frowning Beauty, barque, 3G7 ions, Captain Dunning, from Newcastle, with a cargo ol coals. Tyne, schooner, 84 tons, Captain Riddle, from Hobart Town, with building stones, palings, shingles, and merchandise" 10 passengers. Spray, briganiine, 10G tons,'

Captain McDonald, from Sydney, with goods, 6 passengers. H.M. S. Iris, 26 guns, Commodore Loring, from Sydney, on a cruise. The departures were White Swan, steamship, 498 tons, Captain Cellem, for Napier and Wellington, with 2 tons flour, 10,000 feet kauri timber, 500 posts and rails, 2 passengers. Jane, brig, 200 tons, Captain Comstock, for the whaling grounds. Gil Bias, brig, 175 ions, Captain Butt, for Adelaide, via Wangaroa, with 100,000 feet kauri timber, 50 spars. Dove, schooner, 21 tons, Captain Jones, for Lyttelton, with 13,000 feet kauri timber. There arrived from the coast, 59 vessels of 1564 tons, with 185 passengers, 1154 bushels wheat, 747. bushels maize, 117 cwt. salt pork, 15 cwt. bacon, 50 lbs. butter, 336 lbs. lard, 27 cwt. onions,.. 5 cases gooseberries, 2 cases cherries, 1 horse, 27 bead cattle, 32 pigs, 160 sheep, 14 tuns whale oil, 1 tun sperm, 6 cwt. whalebone* 1 boat, 1127 posts and rails, 120,000 shingles, 18 spars, 98i tons kauri gum, 5760 lbs. wool, 662 tons firewood, 94,600 feet sawn timber. The departures for the coast consisted of 68 vessels of 1475 tons, with 173 passengers, and: the customary trading cargoes and supplies. The following are the Market Prices Current, corrected to date. Bread Stcffs. Flour, fine, 24k per ton Flour, second quality, . . 20J. per tonFlour, of native manufacture, froml4l to 16J. Biscuit at from . . 225. to 265. per cwt. Bread per loaf of 21bs 6d. Bran ...... Is od. per bl. Groceries. Tea .... 01.10s. to 10/. Pr chest Sugar . . . . 4d. to 6d. per lb. Coffee . . . . lOd. per lb. Rice . . . . 2d. to per lb. So&p .... 355. per cwt. Candles .... lOd. per lb. Live Stock. Dairy Cows . „ 81, to 121, each. Calves from . . 255. to 40s. each.