WELLINGTON.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 285, 18 November 1862, Page 4

WELLINGTON.

13th November, 1862. The miscellaneous cargo, ex Asterope, is fast passing into consumption. The con inued disastrous war in America, has caused a little speculation in cotton.3, which has had the effect of clearing importers of their stocks of that class of goods. Spirits, (except whisky) wines and beers, are in exce.ss. Oil-m-in's store.? remain wilhonb material change.

' No fresh sales of cattle of any magnitude, have been made sim-e my hist report, and prke? are firm, with a general iinytrrssion that beet must go up, and with loss apprehension of your threatened imports from Gipps L md, particularly since the Canterbury proclamation against importations from any of the Australian colonies, and Otago or Southland. " At the Htitt market, ia^t week, there was rather an upward tendency: cows readied L 4 17^ 61 ; hor-es, hacks of no great mark, realized LIS to L 23. A let of pii»s (.60 or 70) have been so!d at 3Ad, live weight. iiacon and hams have slightly ivceJed, owing c'iii-t3y to the warm weather. A goo.l parcel waa soid at 9d last week, and stocks are rather heavy. Lard is worth 10.1.

Butter is by no insans plentiful, and is sought for at Is 7d, but »ur dairymen who can afford to hold are looking for Is i)d.

FJour: Wellington, L 1.6; Adelaide, Ll7. The Tasnmnfan fl.mr, ex Claud Hamilton, was sold by auction afc Ll4.

Wheat, Gs 3.1 to 6s G.I. Oats, nominal, none in the market, except a small quantity of imported. Maze, New Zealand, G* to Gs 3;l; hay, 110 per ton, aud scarcely obtainable.

Potatoes: stocks are heavy, and prices receding, Very good parcels may lie bought at Lo 10s to L 6. Cattie exported, 480 ; hovses, '23.