Oamaru Times Office, Wednesday Evening.
Business continues satisfactory, although we have as yet but little improvement to notice. Election matters have monopolised a considerable amount of public attention during the week. The Geelong, on her last trip to the Vorlh, took a large cargo from this place, and the schooner Dolphin has been despatched with a cargo of wool, for transhipment to the s.s. Omeo, for Melbourne. The prices ruling in our market are as follows :—Adelaide flour, L26 to L28, according to brand ; Oarnaru eilk-dressed, L21 ; wheat, Gs to 6s 6d per bushel; seed wheat commands 8s to 9s per bushel ; oats are selling at fiom 3s to 3s 6d per bushel ; potatoes, 1A to L5 per ton ; hay, L5 to L6 ; chaff, L7 to L7 10s. Mr W. L Leps, auctioneer, sold on Tuesday, in his Auction Room, Tyne-street, a large assortment of goods, * consisting of groceries, provisions, station goods, &c, at sntisf ictorv prices. To day he held n sale of live stock, agricultural implements, crops, he, at Oamaru Plains, in the Trust Estate of Messrs Every. Tho attendance was large, and every lot was spiritedly competed for ; draught colts bringing from L17 to L32 each ; li<;hfc harness rolts from Lll to L13 ; entire horse, aged, L -: $8 ; hacks, from L14 to L26 each ; working bullocks, fiom L20 to L36 per pair ; litters of pigs, from 13s to 17s each; sows, 453 to 80s. Implonionts brought extreme prices. Grain sold— Cape barley, 4s per bushel ; ontfl, damaged, 2a ; seed, do, 2s 9d ; broken wheat, 5s 6d per bushel.
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North Otago Times, 3 August 1865, Page 2
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261Oamaru Times Office, Wednesday Evening. North Otago Times, 3 August 1865, Page 2
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