Commercial Record.

New Zealander, Volume 12, Issue 1028, 23 February 1856, Page 2

Commercial Record.

New Zeai.ander Office, Auckland, ■'■■ Friday, February 23rd, 1856. The past week has been one of unusual dullness. "We have had but one arrival, the ship William Prowse, with lit) head of cattle, 55 horses, 51-0 sheep, and 9 tons of bran, from Newcastle; N.S. W,< The departures havebeen the schooners Sybil; and Blue Jacket for Melbourne; with 2611 bags potatoes, 28 casks and B% bags kauri gum, 10 bags onions, and sundry merchandise;: and the brig Vulture, for Sydney, with "24!i3 bags potatoes. : ' .The' imports, coastwise, are limited to 300 bushels maize, 'h) bushels wheat, i tons onions, a quantity of rfmit; 12 head.cattle, a ! raft of riokers, 300 posts and rails, 11,000 feet sawn timber, 108 tons firewoodThere lias.been comparatively done at the Auction Sales of the past week. On Saturday, Messrs. Gonnell;and Ridings, in addition to their usual miscellaneous sales,- offered for pubiio competition a. variety of allotments of land and houses in Wakefield street, the property of Mi\ McDonald. The following prices were obtained;

with frontages of ?7 leeteacli/toWakefiekl street, with j a-depth s 'pi' 7 5 feet each, sold'i'or: Sls.per-foot for the two first, and ob's. per foot for the last; lots 4, s<\and 6, witli k7 feet frontage, each to Edwardes street, and of an equal-depth as the previous lots, (etched 805... '/75., and Sis. per foot respectively; lots 7 and .8, .with HI feet j (3 inches and 38 feet frontage to Edwardes street, brought 31s. and 295. per* foot frontage ; lot 9, being,a corner with 53 feet frontage to Wakefield and 43 feet to Abercrombie street, sold for 6'l.s, per foot; for lot 10, , which possesses a frontage of 26 feet to Wakefield , street with a depth of 73 feet, and on which a double; cottage is erected, the sum of £f»t'o was obtained ; lot [ 11 contained a four-roomed cottage, with 32 feet frontage to Abercrombie street,-—for this lot £ 180 was obtained ; "lot 12 fold for £l5O ; it also containeda' four-roomed cottage with 32 feet frontage to Abercrombie streets A farm of 261 acres at Mahurangi was put up, but there was no offer for the property. Wilfcie's Aberne'hy biscuits, in 28lb. tins, sold lor 16s. fid. ; maize, at 4s. 6'd. per bushel; cyder, 10s. per 'dozen.

Messrs.. Thomas Weston & Co. sold, on Monday,Painpanga sugar, at 2d per lb,; Feast's pint pickles, Bs. per dozen ; ginger wine, 16's. Gd. per dozen ; cherry cordial, 235. per dozen ; peppermint, lis. per doz' j n ; eating apples, 3.\d. peril).; baking apples, 3d. per lb.:; swan-egg pears, Bd. per lb; Cowper large pears, 6d. pei' lb. At Messrs. Newman &Bucklarid's Stock Sale, at Newmarket, on Tuesday, there was a fair displayof cattle of mixed quality—fat and store,' and about SO head of fat sheep. The attendance was limited, but previous prices were maintained. The amount realised was upwards of £220. Th's'day, the horses and sheep, ex William Prowse, from Newcastle, are to be brought to the hammer at Newmarket by Messrs. Newman & Buckland; and, on Tuesday next, the cattle imported by this vessel will be sold at the same place. ; The ■-shipment, as a whole, isreported to be.a very good onei and will, no doubt, attract a large attendance of those,<in want of the several varieties of stock then to be offered. .'■< MELBOURNE CORN MARKETS. , From the produce report of Messrs, Bale and Cowie, of the 17tb January we derive the following items : -rThe first meeting was held.to-day at Gieen's Exchange Rooms as a ,public corn market, and tlie attendance of tbe millers, farmers, exporters, and others interested in tlie trade slipwed-a lively interest in ih'is.nnw movement, so well calculated to bring both seller and buyer together, and to facilitate the business of both. 10,000 buslnls of wheat are reported to have been sold at from 9s. to 9s. CJ., according to the time of delivery, and after tbe c'ose of the market some transactions took place at 95.-6i.1. Another corn market is proposed to be established in PHe-street, but whichever of the two becomes adopted by tbe general consent of, the trade, it seems evident there is room for one, and that the growing inteiestsof both tbe farmer, tbe miller, tbe exporter, and the speculator will be promoted by tbe facilities such a meeting of the trade will give in comparison with the present clumsy mode of dealing. We quote flour at £to to £'2Q for town brands, and i? 24 for second-rate mills. The demand and deliveries only keep pace with the wants of consumers and exporters. Bran is steady at Is to Is Id ; oats, 4s to 53 : barley. Cape, 4s ; Chilian, 4s j English, 5s 6'd to G*.; potatoes 13s to 15s per cwt.