ISLE OF FRANCE.

Wellington Independent, Volume I, Issue 15, 21 May 1845, Page 3

ISLE OF FRANCE.

We have received our regular files of papers from this colony, by the Guiana, at Adelaide; but there is nothing contained in them, that we see, of interest to our readers.

The Adelaide Journals have some commercial information which we make use of.

The disease amongst the cattle, which we have noticed before, is stated to have almost ceased; but the total loss to the end of Nov. is said by the same authority (the Chief Commissioner of Police) to have amounted to 13,314 head, of all descriptions.

The small-pox, which was fearfully prevalent at the date of our last advices, had subsided.

The Guiana left Port Lous on the 15th of December. Sugar continued high and scarce ; and after two months detention, she got only one-third of a cargo. This vessel's cargo froiu Adelaide sold advantageously, the flour realizing about £14 per ton, and the whea: 4s. 3d. per bushel ; but previous to the sailing of the Guiana the market was depressed, 6,000 bushels having arrived from Bengal, besides quantities of flour from America and the Cape.

Twelve ordinary cows from Swain River, netted very nearly £10 each. It is said that docile cows of good breed, with calves by their side, have frequently sold as high as £21 the cow and calf, and that they are always saleable.

Messrs. Davey and Robertson, a highly respectable firm, addresses Messrs. Samson, the shippers, as follows : —" If cows with calves by rheir sides, and docile, had been sent, higher prices would have been obtained. A second year's calf would have been preferred. They would always bring £22. They do not object to give for a good and handsome cow, at times £10 more. The horses sent were adapted for agricultural purposes ; these are not wanted. Horses for harness, paired, if you can value them with you at £30, will pay well. Half-bred ponies entire, will sell."

Some horses sent from Swan River, although of a breed pronounred not to be wanted, were sold at from £20 to £40. It is evident all depends upon the breed of both horses and cows. Some of those referred to above sold at £20 per head.

Good sheep ordinarily sell at 6 dollars eacn. The market for hay is precarious ;. and potatoes should only be shipped so as to arrive

between April arid September, when, if they are in good condition, they are likely to realise £15 per ton;

South Australian corned beef and pork have realised Bd.. per lb.; best lard, in bladders or small kegs, lOd. to Is. per lb.; hams and bacon, lOd. ; imported, well-cured dry fish, was selling inquaumies at about 2d. per lb. The disease which had been so fatal to the cattle of the Island was a species of typhus, which the population had happily escaped. The small-pox had disappeared.