MELBOURNE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 226, 10 September 1862, Page 4

MELBOURNE.

(From thp Artjm, Sept. 3 ) Transactions in t!io import market continue devoid of animation, and business generally has been inactive. Flour remains in steady inquiry, and prices firm Sales of best brands of Adelaide silk.dressed bave been ffk-o!ed at LIS per ton. Wheat is iv fair demand ; Gh pi.T bushel U rei>orted lo have been ottered lor a considerable parcel of Caliiornian, imd rejected. Transactions in colonial outs, to a moderate extent, li.ive been made at Gs 81 per b.-hl. Messrs. (Jreig find Murray offered the cargo of Mauritius sn^ars ex Sea Shell, nnd placed about 1,-100 lijtjp at ab.jiit previous r.-.tos. The residue wa-j withdrawn, the offer.* made not reaching the importers' limits. 'The pnci* realised were a? follow : —Yellow crystals, L3J) *2s C"<l to LU9 10.*; low yellows, L 32 to L'M 5* j mtii-n sort." to low btown, !/>.'> 10-i to 1.31 10s per ton. The same linn al>-> placed a parcel of Java st.wj, <;x l-o-'r'o' 20 aw"e ' ;a vory tin" rates. White brought 1!R) 12s 01; jel lows, LOG 103 and rations, 1/2;) 10* per ton. Tlx-y nh;o placed ijVht wci-'ht candles (al: f;u;!U). at lOfd to lOjJd per packet; ten* totMcro •• iMIeV 3s perl!.; l.OO'ihoxe.s Livcnwosoap, " (Vey s" 1.-ather LI9 to L2ij 12s (id p.-r ton • Caseys double crown, L' 23 5s per ton; Limerick lann, Is pcrih; currants (a!i iau!t*), 4J-i to-I'd per l.»; oysters, pint liv.*, Ifn p-r dozen ; <10, half pint d<>, isiio; salad, jiiuts, 12s do; do, lull-pints, 7s &: <!<> ; do, three ci-lith pint«, G.s o'd do ; et.-t<;i oil pmr.v 10*-Ui do.; .Calcutta lines (We sizes), L.o per ton; Barcelona nuts, 4.'d per ll* • Liverpool t:oar>« s;ilf, L 37* 01 per tm ; sardines, hn!i* tins, >Ji id per doz,-n ; do, quarter tins, Cs Id do; p.ism-trre «t»itva. llsodperoa.se; Stewart's Kirkhsto!i_ wmslcey, 14s do. ile^w. F m >er a-id Cohei su.imitrcd a .'ar^e quantity of tobacco for sale by auction, lac aUciitbiK-c of all parties int-re ß ted in tlit tra-.o was r.um-.-rous, but !»uy,rsstill appearreluctam to pay the paces reijjirea by holders, and no salt* were HLcf.-l, The ntrs sought for were 3 5 Gl pei Jo for t ras, and is for fulf-poua*! lumi)<.