Commercial Record.

New Zealander, Volume XVIII, Issue 1672, 26 April 1862, Page 3

Commercial Record.

New-ZeAlAnder Office, Friday, 25th April, 1862. There have been no foreign arrival* during the past week ; although much disappointment has been experienced at the non-arrival of the February Mail, which we had been given to understand might be calculated to m: ke its appearance, in the Waitemata, front Sydney direct, about Tuesday or Wednesday. The only conclusion at which we must needs arrive is that the arrangement has not been sufficiently perfected, and that we must patient!;/ abide the simultaneous commencement of the inter-provincial and inter-colonial mail service in the course of next month. From the other provinces, there have been several arrivals with a fair proportion of passengers ; whilst, in return, there hag been a goodly exportation of timber and general merchandise, showing a healthy balance in our favour. The foreign departures were the clipper barque Kate, and ship Chapman, both for Sydney. From the coast, the following is the amount of produce to hand:—2lßo bushels wheat. 198 bushels maize, 4G bushels oats, 42 bushels apples, tons potatoes, 20 cwt pumpkins, 3 cwt onions, 22 cwt gum, 250 lbs pork, 22 lbs butter, 8 barrels honey 20 dozen eggs, 12 fowls, 6 pigs, 1 tun humpback oil, 7i tuns sperm, 82 tons firewood, 5 bundles leather, 58 head cattle, 25,000 feet sawn timber. The Customs Revenue continues on the steady increase. We append the receipts of the last three weeks, April 5 £1403 ss. sd. April 12—±'1990 10s. 9d. April 19th—£l30J »■. 7d.

In sales of real estate, whether by the Government or by private persons, there is no slackness or falling off; a large attendence of buyers, a keen (and, as some folks imagine, an extreme amount of competition continue to prevail—such in fact as attest the rapidly onward progression of Auckland, and the earnest and all prevalent desire of the industrious classes to secure a portion of the soil in which they have struck root, and in which they discern the germs of a great and lasting prosperity. The latest sale was that of Dedwood, near Freeman's Bay, which was brought to the hammer by Messrs Connell & Riding's on Wednesday. The property consisted of nine acres and a half subdivided into fifty four lots, for which the sum of £l'M> was obtained. The attendance was not large ; it consisted chiefly of buyers, among whom the competition was extremely spirited. From Coromande], the auriferous intelligence becomes, day by day, more and more encouraging. Golden quartz, golden sand, and shotty gold is being received by every arrival from thence ; and stern and uninviting as the " wood crowned heights" may appear to faineants, to the diligent and determined it has been proved in the most satisfactory manner, that they have never yet failed to give forth a sterling return. Mr. Von Tempsky, one of the enterprising and intelligent Coromandel miners, in a recent able and interesting letter to our contemporary, the Southern Cross, alleges that the Press has impartad its own prismatic hues to Coromande). We confess that we felt staggered at such an accusation, knowing full well how guardedly we had toned down every impression conveyed to our minds by what we had seen and heard ; but when we read on and perused Mr. Von Tempsky's details of four pound nuggets and else, we felt satisfied that whatever the prismatic hues of the Press, they were but feeble timings compared with the golden lights imparted by Mr. Von Tempsky, and which, we feel confident, will speedily be realised in their fullest brilliancy. In our last issue, we made mention of the valuable auriferous nuggets in possession of Mr. Keven. Since then, the Eclair and Thames have arrived, with several other lots of an equally valuable kind; and with an assurance that leads to quartz reefs of great richness are likely to be struck in more places than one. The season has been a singular one. At one time a gale of wind, with torrents of rain, and every indication of an early aud severe winter. Next day, a genial temperature, a brilliant aun, cloudless sky, and a return to lovely summer weather. As a whole the season has been a most favourable one. The pastures have never donued a russet hue, but have been, and •till are, clothed in emerald green.

EETAIL MAEKET. Biscuit.—Cabin, 275. Bread, per 21b. loaf, sd. Butchers' Meat.—Beef, per tb., Bd. to 9d. Mutton, 7d to8d; Pork, 7d to Bd. Farm and Dairv Produce.—Butter, (fresh) per lb., Is 6d; Cheese, (Colonial) per lb., Is. to Is. 4d ; Eggs, per doz. 2s; Milk, per quart, 5d.; Bacon, per lb., Bd. to Is.; Hams, per !b, Is to Is (id; Potatoes, per cwt., 3s. to 4s; Onions, per lb, 3d to 4d; Hay. per ton, £7 to £7 10s.; Straw, £4. Building Materials.—Boards and Scantling, per 100 feet. 14s. to Iss, Boards, tongued and grooved, 22s ; Shingles, I2s per 1000; Palings, 12s; Posts and Rails, £3 to £3 5s per 100: Bricks £3 5s to £3 10s per 1000; Lime, Is 4d to2s per bushel. THE MILLS. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. Wholesale.—Fine Flour £l6, Seconds £l2, Sharp?, £9 per ton, Bran Is (id, Oats ss. 6d.crushed. Retail.—Fine Flour 18s, Seconds 14s, Sharps lis pei 100 lbs.. Bran Is 9d, Oats 6«. 6d. STOCK IN THE BONDED WAREHOUSES, At the Port of Auckland cs 25th Apkii/, 1862.

1" Nelson Market. [Rrom ihe "Examiner," April 19.] Mr. Jaiy, of the Waimea-south Mill, quotes Fine Flour at £lB per ton of 2,000 lbs.; sharps, £«; bran, £5. Wheat, 7s. per bushel. Bread, 4-lb. loaf, It. ; Butler, freib, 1«. 3d. per fb.; Eggs, Is. fid. per doz. ; Cheese, Is to la Id per lb.; Lard, Is. per lb.; Beef, 4d. toßd.; Mutton, 4J. to Bd.; Veal, Bd. to 9d.; Poik. 7d. 10 Bd.; Bacon, Is. to Is. 2d.; Hams, 15.3d.; Candles, homemade, iod.; Potatoes, £6 per ton; Onions, 255. per cwt.; Fowl*, per p a j r> 4,_ to Si< . rjucks, «5.; Geese, each, ss, to G>.; Turkeys, each, 7s. Red and White Pine.—Boards, 175., Scantling, 15s„ per 100 •jjtl lotara and Bed Pine.—Board a 305., Scantling, 18s„ p»r r* f«t; Shinjles, best Totars, TB?, (id, per ijO|H,

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