HOKITIKA, June 30,

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 104, 5 July 1866, Page 2

HOKITIKA, June 30,

Business for the past week has been extremely dull,, the weather having been, without scarcely a day's: exception, extreme Avinter, continuous rain, hail,, and squalls, causing arrivals to be ,'Nil" for the Avhole Aveek, Avith the exception of the p.s. Bruce, frpin Okarita on the 25th,inst., with" 3000 ozs of gold ; the departures same day being four sailing craft, and the. s.s. Kennedy, and oirthe 26th the Bruce for Okarita. The remainder of the Aveek, as regards s-hipping matters, has been rendered inoperative on account of the severity of the weather.

; The Tjsamjß' remarks" jwill apply to Icountry trade,;; which; has- been » extremely:: dull ; in; fact,' v'all;: but: stopped by^floods and ■freshets, and business confined . to town trade, which musii have been, with such "a week as we have had, limited, as no goods have arrived during the week, and scarcely any offered .. at the auction rooms. An adjourned meeting in the estate of S. L". Marks & Co., lately trading at Okarita, was held yesterday, at the office of Messrs. Oakes & Button, solicitors, for the creditors,* to receive, and consider an offer made at' the previous meeting by one of the creditors, who, after further consideration, withdrew the same. We understand the liabilities in this estate are something over £3800, and assets shown quite. equal} but the obstacles thrown in the way of realising, by the insolvents and several other complications which have arisen, tend to show but a small dividend. — W. C. Times.