COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
" Ikvercargill Times " Office, Thursday Evening, May 7. The supinoness of the Provincial Government threatens successfully to overcomo tho utmost energy of the merchants and traders who have for some months past been endeavoring to establish a trade between Invercargill and the Lako Diggings. When too late to do any thing in the way of permanent road making, an experiment was tried on tho North Road to keep open tbe traffic by means of a temporary tramway, whioh has been laid down with so little- judgment or engineering skill, that draymen are unanimous in pronouncing it the worst part of the road ; while our Town Board, by their improvements, have raised tbe rate of cartage from the jetty to the stores in town from 4s 6d to 10s. Cartage |to the diggings is £75 to £80, and scarce at that. Goods have no market value in such a state of things, bu-; holders are selling as opportunity offers, without any advance on former quotations.
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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 52, 8 May 1863, Page 2
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165COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 52, 8 May 1863, Page 2
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