COLONIAL MARKETS. Saturday Evening, Oct 20

Otago Witness, Issue 207, 10 November 1855, Page 3

COLONIAL MARKETS. Saturday Evening, Oct 20

Sydney.— Fine flour has risen suddenly from £40 to £15. The price of seconds is merely nominal, as scarcely any parcels are in the market ; and stocks of fine are leported to be low. For Van Diemen's Land wheat the piicc is 18s.; for Chilian wheat, fiom 17s. Gd. to 18s. There seems to be a gcneial impression that, from advices as to shipments to the&e colonies, the high prices now quoted will not lone; be sustained.

Scotch oats ss. to ss. 9d. Potatoes quoted at from Bs. to 12s per cwt.

Wool.— The favourable accounts from England of the July Wool Sales have influenced buyers here, in Sydney. Prices are quoted as follow : — Scoured Is 6d to Is 9d ; superior clips Is od to Is 7d ; fair to good, Is 3£d to lsod; low to middling, Is Id to Is 3d ; handwashed Is to Is sd.

Melbourne, Oct. 17. — Flour is looking up here. The consignees of the last two caigoes from Valparaiso, continue out of the market. It is understood that they are held for £40 per ton. The millers still quote Chilian flour at £36 to £37 to their customers, but refuse to clear out at those pi ices. Gold remains at £3 16s. 3d.

Adelaide, Oct. 11.— The nominal price of flour is £52, but there is no fixedness about it. Buyers are shy, expecting heavy anivals from Melbourne. The emigrant ship Warren Hastings ariived yester•day from Southampton, bringing OGmorc young Irish women. We have about 753 already living at the public cost, and for whom no employment can be found. Many of them have been more than three months in this indolent position.

London Wool Sales — July. — Sydney clothing Is 7M to Is lOd ; handwashed Is 4Jd to Is Sd ; skin Is 2d to Is 6d. South Australian," clothing Is 4id to Is lOd; scoured Is 51A to Is ll,d ; lambs Is 6d to

Is 10.} d ; handwashed Is 4d to Is s}d; skin Is l^d to Is G£d. Port Phillip, clothiug Is 4d to 2s 1 U\ ; scoured Is 6|d to 2s2id; handwashed Is 4sd to Is 7d; lambs Is 2.1 to 2s 2Jd; skin Is Id to Is 7d. Van Diemen's Land, clothing Is 2d to 2s 2d ; scoured Is 3d to lsSd ; lambs Is 6d to2s9d ; handwashed Is 5d to Is Gd ; skin Is 2^d to Is 4Jd. New Zealand

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