Commercial Record.

New Zealander, Volume XV, Issue 1422, 3 December 1859, Page 3

Commercial Record.

Nbw-Zkalandkr Office, Auckland, Friday, December 2nd, 1859.

The arrivals of the week have been the Hobart Town whaling brig Jane from the Bay of Islands; and the ship Shooting Star, with merchandise and 173 passagers from Liverpool.

The departures were the ship Maori, for Guam, in ballast : the inter-colonial mail steamer Airedale for Sydney, with sundry produce and passengers; and H.M. Steam Corvette Niger, from the Mauukau. for Nelson and other Southern ports with hi« Excellency the Governor and suite.

The following produce h<\s been received coastwise:—2:ll2 bushels wheat, 7t>s bushels maize. If)J tons potatoes, 2 boxes gooseberries, 50 lbs. honey, 1/2 lb*, bacon, |5 cwt. salt pork, 330 lbs. lard. 21 cattle, 7 horses, IS pig*, 3 tons flax, 4 tons bark, !(> tons kauri gum, 308 tons firewood, 7"2 d ths. wool, I boat, lltOO feet boats timbers, 2<><n» feet house blocks. 1800 palings, I3i>7 posts and rails, I»,UUO 'alius 21,000 shingles, 700 bushels shells, 95;000 feet sawn timber. The Customs Revenue received during the week ended the 2b'ih November amounted to £147!) 4s. sd. The leceipts for the month, ended the 3 th November, were (including a remittance of £152 2s fid, from an out port) £4.577 15s Bd. The receipts for November, tBSB, amounted to £3.545 Bs. Mr. W. Hunter held his weekly sale at Newmarket on Tuesday last, and sold a fair quantity of cattle at good prices. About 86 bead of tat cattle were sold at prices which fully maintained the average of the past few weeks, bringing from £'lo I2< fid to £l7 17s 6d.. for bullocks, and from £8 7s 6d to £l4 5s for cows and steers. Store cattle were not in demand; several lots, however sohl at fair prices, bringing from £3 los to 4.5 8s fid for voung cattle. Dairy cows of good quality sold well, bringing from £ll 15s to £IU. Sheep sold for 23s (id and iambs from Us 3d to 13s Bd. 3 young colts brought £'B 12s Cd £l2 10s and £l3 10s each. At Otahuh*. on Wednesday, Mr. Hunter penned and sold about 117 head of cattle, consisting principally of Store Cattle

and Dairy Cowg. These all sold well, bringing an advance upon the previous day's prices. 44 head of Young Steers sold in lots averaged £8 17s fid each. Several lots of Store Covs sold from £6 2s 4d to £8 1J" 8 6d. Mixed lots of Heifers and Steers brought from £4 7s 6rt to £7 12s fid. Yearlings brought from £2 19s to £3 10s.. and Calves from 17s fid to 4ts. Dairy Cows brought from £9 7s 6d to £l2 15s. A Yearling Pony Filly brought £lO. Mr. Alfred Buckland reports at his yards, Newmarket, on Thursday last a fair supply of stock and a good attendance. Fat Cattle were of prime quality'nnd sold freely : twenty-four head from Kawhia averaging £l2 :»s, each ; Store Cattle were. lower than the previous week. Sheep were in large supply and sold at low ratesj; Fat Sheep may be quoted at a decline of 2s fid per head on the previous week's prices, and stores were almost unsaleable, 15* being the best price offered for halfbred ewes in lamb; and half-bred lambs In the wool were sold at 7s each.

THE MILLS

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. Wholksai.k,—Fine Flour £22, Seconds £2O, Sharps £9 per ton, Bran Is 31, Maiza (cracked or whole) 4s (id, Wheat nominal. Rktail Fine Flour 275, .Seconds 225, Sharps 12s per lOOibs., Bran Is fid, Maize (cracked or whole) 5s Od per bushel. RETAIL MARKET. Biscuits.—Cabin, 345. Bread, per 21b. loaf, fid. Butchers' Mkat.—Beef, per lb., fid. to 7d.; Mutton, 7<i. toßd.; Pork, fid. to 7d. Farm and Dair\ Produce.—Butter, (fresh) per fb., Is. 3d. ! Cheese, (Colonial) per ft.. Is to Is fid; Eggs, per doz., Is. fid.: Milk, per quart, 5d.; Bacon and Ham, per ft., Is.; Potatoes, per cwt., 35.; new Potatoes, per lb. Id.: Onions, per ft., 3d. to4d.; Hay, per ton, £C> 10s.: Straw, £4. Building Materials.—Boards and Scantling, per 100 feet, 15s. to Ifis, Boards, tongued and grooved, 21s ; Shingles, 14s per 1000; Palings, 14s ; Posts and Rails, £3 to £'3 5s per 100: Bricks £3 5s to £3 10s per 1000; Lime, Is 8d to 2s per bushel, STOCK IN THE BONDED WAREHOUSES, At the Pout of Auckland, on the 2mu Dec, 1859

Tradk of the United Statks.— We take the following from the New Fork Herald: — The approximate aggregates of our commerce for the last year (ending 30th June) give a total import of 350,003,000

dollars, against 280,000,01)0, dollars the year before; and an export of 350,000,000 dollars against 325,01 J.OOO dollars in the year previous. There is one circumstance peculiar to our fiscal system which diminishes the value of these tables even as a measure of comparison. We assume to express the amounts imported and exported at their market values. The financial pinic which swept over the the civilised world at the close of the year 1857, which formed the beginning of the fiscal year 1858, had a marked effect on the prices of merchandise in 1858, from which those of 1859 present a partial and in some articles a complete recovery, Without the date necessary to know the amount of yards, pounds, or gallons, imported in each year, we cannot know whether our imports have really increased or not.

In our tables of imports and exports we make a distinct estimate, following certain old fallacies in political economy, of the amount of specie which has flowed to and fro in the course of the year. In many quarters this branch of trade is watched with great anxiety, and an undue importance is given to its aggregates. Thus, we are told that last year we exported 65,000.0(10 dollars of specie, and imported only 10,000,000 dollars, while the year before the figures stood at about 53,000,000 dollars exported, against 20.000,CJ0 dollars imported, and direful effects from this effect are prognosticated. Now, the sact is, we are a gold producing nation just as much as we are a cotton, or tobacco, or grain producing nation, and if we were obliged to keep our surplus gold at home the effect would be just as disastrous to our true interests as it would bs to keep our surplus of cotton, tobacco, or grain at home.

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