SYDNEY MARKETS.

Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 112, 7 November 1846, Page 3

SYDNEY MARKETS.

October 22, 1846. Wheat was ranging from 6s. to 7s. per bush 1. Flour remained firm at £18 per ton, first quality. Bread the 21b. loaf, 4|dM Afzg, fair samples, 3-t. 6<l. per bush, y retail price,4k 6d. per bushel. Barley, s >ld readily at 4?. 61, per bushel. Potatoes, £A lo £5 per ton. Mtlch Cow-;, were being sold at prices ranging from 30-. to 70s. per head, calves under six months given in. Half-fed calves, in good condition, from 17s 6d. to 30*. each. Botchers' Meat. — Beef; from l|d. to2|d.per lb.; retail Irom 3l.'to'4|d.; pork and veal 41. to 5d ; retail from 6d. to 7d. ; mmton, 3J. to 3£d.; retail from 4d. to s|d. per lb.

Horses.—Good roadsters were selling at from £12 to £14 per head; mares from £13 to £16 per head. Dairy Produce.—Bacon, from 6d. to 7d. per lb. ; retail, 81- to lOd. per lb.; ham, retail, 9d. to I*. per: lb. ; lard, 6d. retail Bd. to lOd ; fash butter, 2s. 6d. per lb., salt butter Is 2d.; cheese, best colonial, lid. i inferior, 6i1.; eggs, 9.1. to lOd. per dozen.

Dungog.—All' about the country looks most beautiful. The pleasant hills and ridges " in verdnre clad,'* ever and anon remind us of the vicinity of fair and courtly mansion s, creating impressions which years of absence from England have not worn away.—Maitland Mercury, Oct 21.

Dr. Leichhardt's party were seen in Stroud last week preparing to start for the interior. They are represented as wearing red shirts and cabbage tree hat*, and were at time our informant saw them grumbling at one of the party who had gone to tune a piano for a lady instead of assisting them to saddle the mules. They were neverthele=s very cheeiful, and looking anxiously out for the Doctor. —Ibid.