COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 2, 15 May 1863, Page 2

COMMERC IAL INT ELLIGENCE .

" I>'VERCAKGTLL TIMEs" OPPTCK,

Thursday Evening. 14th Mny,

The last week ha* been rather busier than its predecessor ; the weather has l>een good, the road* are rapidly drying, and a fair number of upcnuiitry buyers have visited us ; but tho ceils which .1 lethargic G- >vermnent enn visit upon un-c>fF-*rvlin2r f riders, have also assailed us. As ?oon ns we find the buyers hero, and the roads opon, we discover that the dr.ivinon, baffled nnd dismayed by the fearful roads they had to traverse for n month past, have taken their departure for Dunedin, from whence they are content to carry goods to the Like £5 to £10 lower than they will take them from this ; while, as regards supplies, several town draymen have abandoned their calling, and now so few are the drays trnfficing to the wharf that, with their hnlfloada and slow progress through the mud, it is found impossible to remove the very moderate quantity of goods daily landed These evils will doubtless work their own cure shortly. Even the Provincial Government is bestirring itself, and it is said have put a very pertinent question to the jetty contractors, to know why the works are at all but a stand still. Such email beginnings auger well, and it may yet be found that there is some vital energy left in that apparently inanimate body.

Prices have not been affected, except for a few bulky and low priced articles, which holders would be clad to quit, but which it will not pay to send to the diggings at present rate 3of cartage.