NELSON.
(From our own Correspondent.) Business is very quiet in' Nelson just now and the market is fully stocked with most goods, excepting tobacco, which has advanced 3d. per pound. The Knight Bruce, from London, is daily expected with a large cargo of good^. In produce, not much surplus exists except in the matter of potatoes, which can be shipped in any quantity at about £4 10s. per ton. Chrome is daily brought into town from the Dun Mountain by. the railway, and about 900 tonshave been shipped dnrhig 'the past week, viz. : —OS tons by Lord AVorsley, 162 by Hebe for .Sydney, 50 tons by the Lalla Rookh, and 600 tons by the Eli Whitney for Melbourne.
More than one company has been formed to work the coal on the West Coast, and the Provincial Council has voted £300 for the purpose of sending a sample to Auckland to be tested by H.M. war steamers.
The gold fields of the province are progressing steadily, but unlike those of more iavored Otago, yield only hundreds instead of thousands of ounces. A small parcel of plumbago has also been brought to town lately, aiid is of excellent quality.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 185, 19 June 1862, Page 4
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