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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume V, Issue 253, 17 April 1865, Page 2

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/ ' OTAGO. •shb Daily Times of the 3lst ultimo reports“ A little more ~ .actjyitx has been manifested in the day’s business. limited ” purchases: of miscellaneous goods are making both for . tdwntrade and for shipment, but po particular impulse has been given to the 1 market in any one article. ITour ■ remains without alteration, but no heavy transactions have been reported. Sales have been made to some extent in ' sugars and teas, but hot with any effect in altering quota--turns. The auction sales of general merchandise have been unimportant, but Messrs M’Landress, Hepburn, * Co succeeded in placing by the hammer sundry properties to the ■ extent of abdrittwo thousand pounds." •; The Odmani Times gives the following report of the state ,Of business, in that district:—“We have to report ah in- ' dressing degree of quiet and depression in business, aggravated materially by the exodus to the West Coast. "She ’ rush; which’«et ih ; sddh'siEier'the beginning 6f the . month, reafclied Its salminatinsting point, so far as we are able to fu&iHr last week, andis now considerably slackened. Wo'hhve observed turn along, the main North road, passing ■ this town, the numbers of drays and diggers have - fain-h - decreased.- Still the'Gdelcalg, on Tuesday morning. took on board no fewer than 1 29 passengers for Lyttelton, The Waitaki river, winch 1 was’ flooded by the late rains ’ ’ presented agendas obsimfle in the way of the numerous . heavy- drays, Iff the beginning of the week it was , imported that about 60 of , these, with their teams, . Verd' waiting to be ferried across —aaoperatlon which could riot be carried on faster than at.the rate of about, four or, five a day.’ Some few dray-loads of wool are still expected ,in town to be shipped per Geelong, but the wool season is ‘ virtually at an end. We quote Adelaide flour at £62 to 1534t0n; Chilian, £2B to £2B do.; wheat, from 7s to 7s ‘ (id bushel." -