MARLBOROUGH.
We hare dates to the 10th iust. Tlie Press (Picton) thus reports : — Business on the whole has been very satisfactory, and the excellent accounts received from the Wakamarina diggings have revived tho fading hopes of the trading community. The exodus has now ceased, and as spring advances we may look for a steady inilux of population. We give the following wholesale quotations : — Potatoes, £10 per ton ; oats, 6s. per bushel ; onions, 255. to 30s. pev cwt. ; butter, potted, Is. 3d. ; tea, per chest, £3.1 to £11 10s. ; sugar, counters, 50s. to sos. per cwt. ; carcass beef, aid. to 6d per lb. for good quality ; wheat, 11s. per bushel ; flour, £34 per ton.
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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 35, 20 August 1864, Page 2
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113MARLBOROUGH. Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 35, 20 August 1864, Page 2
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