COLONIAIL MARKET

Wellington Independent, Volume XVI, Issue 1687, 22 November 1861, Page 2

COLONIAIL MARKET

COMMERCIAL iNTELLIG^NpE, during 1 the week has been very inactive, an&we have consequently but jiUlealieratioa to [report in our markets. „FJQur»:.-rf'l!iie market is still very, depressed, and., -prices; for the- present are almost nominal.. Fine flour; is quoted at* from £10 to £12 per ton; and at these *rate£* buyers are not -veiy much- inclined to operate*^ The millers; have reduced their: prices £2 pet ton, and now quote fine flour ai £14 per 'ton;Chili ,apd Calitornian £%3, seconds £lfy> iWffunderstand that ! the caigoes of the 'MattM Salvinius and Sancbes MaYtinasare^bestpred till the cost price of £16 : per ton can- be pb- , tamed. This fact, tpgelter/wijh, the loss .Of the John dmefud miiy 250 top's of 'A'delaid^llul^ may perhaps "''BaVe;/a'' : p*en'eh'ciar'effebf^ja|th^< * flour market, which at, present is in ;|?ve^ gloomy' state." Wheat is '4?6teU : at\ 4sf"6Brta ss. per. busliel— Liquids.A^le 1 "$»& «Psß|l»s|T bulk,' are finis at last week's qn.o.ta^ons. Bjand^ , is a Htjile firmer ,; MarteH's, "ii£ 3d. to 115:,, 6d.j aiid sales have b£e>; made at lls. 4d..r, Kum is steady, aud. 3o Jb^iis quiqted at 4s. Id. to 4s. 3d. Geneva is unaltered, j, l»f wines, there have been some transaction at auction. Good' Sherries ibroughtn from 7s. 6d. to 9s. 6d., in bond ; Mackenzie's best ditto duty paid, 12s. 6d. ; Mackenzie's "fbiiridiamorid port was sold at 9?. 9d. to 10s. 3d ; and double diamopd Bs. , ed.-r-Teas : ■, There, has . bp^a „ scarcely kny thing, doing ii^f as this wee^k, and 1 prices are, therefore nominally- the same as last week.— Sugars : Stoc.ks are veiy. heavy, ,apd aSj fresh shipments have l.atfely^coroeto hana.pricfek* have a downward tend'encyi, The China sugars ex Stately, were sold by "auction f aUhe following rates: White China, ;JG3B JOs. ;,sell(HL connter, £28 ; dark ration, £25 to £26;5™| is firmer, • Best-PatW is f|gi|l^^,. to £18 ss. per ton, and at these prices sales have been, made.- -.Coffee ; is, vSti)J .very,;dul». Manila, 7d.. per lb. in , bond.,— Candles^^are exceedingly jdull of , sale, and.prices nonjipl^ —In Oilmen's stores ,aud. other, articles, 'th^re,., has been very little doing, and. prices, rV}Je^ about the same as last report— Herald, Oct.. 26. t Sydney Flour., and Wheats MABKBT.-r-^i Flour: A ; further reductipn.of £2, perton has , taken place. The tniilers' qudta'tions .nbw>r« for fine £14, and for best seconds f £l3 person of 20001bs. Bran, Is. -4d. to Is. 6d. p.er buShelg wheat 4s. to 4s. 6d. per bushel,— XhidJ : ": s ' .**?* Sydney Pjrodooe MABKE^—Bark, £S XO^ to £6 per ton.— Fo'ragV : i; Hay ;£| r ;tp ;£BM straw £3 10s. to £4 ss. per tim, maize 4s. 3d. to 4s. 9d., oats ss. 6d.td 6s.,barley 5s i td'ss.'6d. . per bushel, green food 10d. tb Is. 3d. per dozen bundles.— lbid. Melbourne Flour and 'Grain Mabkej?.-— The flour trade may be almost said to have been suspendetl since the commencement of the week; as a natural consequence, with an almost panic-strikeu market, the trade hard been the only buyers, and that* to the 'smallest possible extent, Prices of flour and wheat are quite nominal. By f auction, : pargiK of the former, of Adelaide ; fair . j>randsfC s ha ( yey been placed at from £11 15s, to £13 perU6p."|\%o 'furih'er arrivals' (one -for '^.e«lpng)i ; iLfrpjta California, with flour and wheat ?#gff%tH to hand tbisr week* in addiliop tp;Ewa;yesse^ from Chili, and one from "the West Coast," at Sydney. Oats have been in'improyed demand, and iprices are" well sustained.— Flour : Tas--' manian, £12 to £13 ; Adelaide, v£42 40.313 10s. ; Californian, £11 to £12 peMoDjjHwwM and Gafiegor4l)s. per barrel.—; WheaU.. Vie* torian and Tasinanian, 4s. 3d. to4s.' #d.-j S6uth Australian, ss. 6d. per bushel. . vj^ Adelaide MABKETs.-^This" has been|a3iwst unprecedentedly dull week for produc^^^l recent arrivals from CalifpiiiiaYan.d the^|OT|of further cargoes loading ? hiaye "most imßteirffliiyinfluenced pvices... 'Tlie'fmUlerfe^ho'weverji are not heavy holdeis of flour, but there is a considerable quantity of ,'wheaVye^iii^f.^tidj^of the farmers; and as we are \vilhi'u a fe^ ; wleks of the new harvest, :it is very doubtful whether prices ca^n -, improve i ipuch t J-£Eioujr, been: quoted all the week at from £10 to £11. There, was a '■ sale of i silk-aressed paUet/si^ th^fittfes: figure about five or six dajs ag^/hutitjwnflw v quite ira'possibleto/obfeititßat priced $*§8S& k: '^ U difflblilt to fim *^»i^JfigffSg»S^ for favqritehbrjanjis^Wlieat has natu^llyjwwl 1 : .w\-',\>:ii i '- ■■'■•; •/'■•■■ ''*':"'.- ■' i^Cv-

: membranes, exhibited no departure from the healthy state. ;;;, .No. 3. !.'.,* *: . Aged seven years. A case noi ..• at all of slow or insidious approach, as in , the two previous instanoes, but symptoms . by account, ran high from the first. On opening the thorax and abdomen, nine or ten hours after death, the lungs, and, except the larynx which was inflamed, tbe air passages, heart, and investing serous membranes were found in hale integrity ; the Hv.er, spleen, pancreas, and the entire length of the large intestines were n also in normal state; but the portion of 1 the peritoneum in connection with the stomach and small intestines was considerably inflamed. The stomach in situ was flaocid, and when slit open was found to contain some flatus, and a little over an ounce of a dark-ooloured muddy fluid, probably altered bloody ooziugs from thJ3 ii small secretory vessels of the organ itself. In the preceeding, cases both the convo'lutiona or rugoe, and the villosity of thj? mucous membrane, were almost flattened ; Jdown to comparatively a smooth surface;; but in this oase the;reverse obtained/both -rugce and fibrill« being more than ordinarily conspiouous, and throughout no,t «dnly of a deep dusky -red colour, but numerously studded -with , pin head sized .drops of recently exuded blood over its • entire surface. It is to be remarked, too, that this membrane was very considerably • thickened compared with the usual natural state, and that both it and muscular tissue had lost their normal coherence; and though this was not so advanced to dissolui. tionasin the oase of Nos. 1 and 2,yetgene- , rally, they could be detached from one another so readily as to evince that the •former. had been in progress to similar disorganization when death occurred. The duodenum also was considerably inflamed, greatly Jess, however, than the ' stomach, and gradually so lessened downwards to the caput ccecum coli. The -jejunum, it may be remarked, though ; without reference to the disease, was pro? •fasely lined by a viscous bilious tinged mucous, whioh seemed to have formed '■the nidus of worms,as six of the lumbri- ■ coid species were found imbedded in it, ivaryirig in' length from eight to twelve Inches ; and it may be further, noted that the patient, two days before death, vomited three more of the same. All, excepting , one, were dead, and that one showed no "■sign* of active vitality, thus demonstrating 'that, whatever the nature of the morbifio : matter was, it was alike fatal to them as vto humanity.- The asophagus, excepting an inoh or more of its pharyngeal extremity/ which was inflamed, exhibited a fully healthful aspect. But the pharynx *wa& one entire mass of dark-coloured un- ; broken inflammation, excepting both ton..•sils whioh were ! considerably furrowed by . uloeratio.n. Not a partiole of the membrane which popularly characterizes the /disease remained ; but the mother reported that on the night before death when, in act of vomiting, large portions of that deposit came away. .The tongue, excepting a small bit at the back part covered ■ with a dark fur, was in nearly the normal state. The cellular tissue all over the front of the neck was infiltrated considerably by dark mcoagulated blood. In conclusion, I may notice that, while in the latter stages of the case the odour -was so offensive that no attendant could ' continue long in the- apartment, during ■the autopsy no ; one was sensible of a more than ordinary disagreeable smell, so that no deodorizing means were resorted to or found necessary. . . As, of the preceding cases, No. 1 was under my oare, though not under altogether the treatment! now recommend, I tjiink it is well to append a short history of her case. . On Thursday, ,4tb, July, * * aged 4 yeais, complained of a soreness of throat, which, on being examined on the following morning, it was. observed that on the right tonsil there was, a cream-coloured speck less in size than. an ordinary split . pea. On ■. re-examining the throat two hours afterwatds, the speck was noticed "to have increased in sizeV and. that now there was a, film of the; same, substance on the membrane, behind, the velum. About, an hour and a half after this the jqtijer.side of the posterior pharynx exhibited9liglit patches of the samelymphy deposit.: At these examinations the pharynx generally exhibited^ no obvious deviation from the normal healthy, state, whether as referring to tumefaction or inflammation ; uqr[indeed,was there any appreciable general febrile action. : JBut.some days previous; it was remembered afterwards, she jdemonsiratedso far premonitory symptoms as to.be less lively and active than was .her wont . Frflm the sth up to the close 'of. the /10th the disease progressed so islpMy*. *** S P . fe r as, the throat affection, as apparently to be kept. in oheck by the means employed, though occasionally she complained to her nurses of a feeling of pain in ; the , gastric region as well asthroat Early on the. morning of the •lllh she, began to.evince great restlessness, but without.raarkedrelerence of pain to Jtny ( parjticular ; part, though every now #nd again she desired the region of the stpraaoh and. legs; to be gently handrubbed. This morning, was the last time from ,the commencement that the ctiustio solution "was applied, to the pharynx, ■when a considerable portion of very tough matter covered the sponge. Henceforwardno lymphy deposit was to be observed on any part of th,e pharyngeal japparatus, still it was manifest that though there was no such formation, and no particular heat of skin, or even dryUiQSS; thereof, or that the pulse ever beat hjgh pr than a hundred and eight, and rarely so high, the disease though somewhat, otooure was neither oyeroome nor

. lin abeyance. This was made manifest /on the morning of the 14th by vomiting up at successive times small quantities of t a coffee ground looking fluid, which at 1 first gave uneasiness to the attendants, i they supposing, that these ejectments 1 were the strong beef tea which, to save 1 disturbing the stomaoh, for some previous , days had been exhibited in the fovm of 1 enema. Her bowels were at no time confined, but about two hours before death she passed a copious slaty-coloured stool, and about the same time there issued a considerable bleeding from the nose. P. Wilson. : Colouial Surgeon, Taranaki. -

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Spring Handicap:— Lamb's Attil'a, ; 1 W- Pearson's Duke, 2. The fastest rac '•' of, the meeting.— The Handicap Hurdl O&tce:. Young Camel, I; Wild iris] .. Girl, 2.— Selling Stakes: Cardigan, 1 <>■' Marchioness, 2. Orlando and two othe ; ; horses fell in the hurdle race,, and om jockey was badly hurt. Stormy Petre died yesterday from the effects of an acci dent on the course. Saturday, 1 p.m. - The Governor was received with im mense favor at Balaarat. Jockey Club Races.— Third Day.— Fine racing weather ; wind north. About noon •it was very hot.— Subscriptioi: •Handicap: S-. .Watson's Bolero, 1; T, < J. Bavin^Flateatcher, 2. — Jockey Clut Derby; Henderson's Camden, 1 ; Hendersons Medora, 2— Handicap Steeplechase: Kelly's Donovan Brown, 1; B. Warly's Wild Irish Girl, 2. Tuesday, 7 p.m.— The Governor and . party have returned from their tour.— The Assembly met to-day, and the Estimates were laid upon the table. — At the - trial of Costello and others, for con- •' spiracyattheMornington election, a ver- <■ /NiKßt'bf guilty was found. One point was Preserved, and the .defendants "were admitted to bail. "^Wednesday, 23rd Oct., 7 p.m.— The Budget is promised for Tuesday next.— • In the Assembly it is 'generally believed that the Ministers will be defeated on the financial policy.— Dr.JE vans is elected •for Maryborough,— The Government propose reducing the gold duty to Is. 6d. per ounce.— Nothing doing in markets. Thursday, 24th Oct: 7 p.m. A severe thunderstorm swept over this city, the lightning striking in four several places, between nine and twelve. . At npon the wool sales were held, but buyers were very chary and prices ruled low. A thund&r-storm, with heavy rain, . passed over Melbourne to»day. Eliza-beth-street was impassable. Gold has been discovered at Tolac, ...west of Geelong. . : < The Assembly has appointed a committee to io quire into the Parliamentary ; f Friday, 25th Oot., 7 p.m. : The mail steamer North am arrived in •ihe' bay. at ,10 o'clock' last nigh£ She bails for Gall^e on Saturday, at 2 .p.m. , ' The panic in the flour market is subsiding. Prices are a fraction firmer. The Oscar brings Otago news to 17th; No further discoveries. K The Assembly business was unimportant, and the house adjourned early. The execution of Sannders, for the "Keilor outrage, is fixed for next week. I'fae sentence of death passed on Johnson has been commuted to imprisonment for life. Saturday, 26th Oot, 7 p.m. The North am, for Galle, sailed from the Bay at 2.30 this afternoon. Civil Service Regulations Bill, introduced last night, which is likely to be strongly opposed on second readin. , Weather fine. No business doing. . ' ' Olago news to the 19th, via Hobart /Town. Escort ' arrived with 15,000 ounces of gold. Those who just got olaims doing well, but outsiders returning unsuccessful There appears every prospect of several thousands doing well during summer. . Thursday, Oct. 31, Evening. In the Assembly, the motion in favor ■ of the establishment of a Mint has been carried. • " The elections committee has deolared Mr. Chapman of Castlemaine, not duly elected. This strengthens the opposition. A verdict against the same tyLr. Chapman has been given in the Supreme ;€J6art to-day, for £200. j Saunders, for the Keilor outrage has Jbeen executed. He made no confession.