SOUTHLAND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 242, 29 September 1862, Page 5

SOUTHLAND.

(From the Southland Xcws t 20th Sept.) The firei pile of the Presbyterian Church, Taystreet, was laid on Monday last, nnd rapid Droeress is bplns made with the building. The architect is Mr J. E. Clnrke ; tlie contractors, Messrs Moffit and Newton. The church will s»at 400 persons. ■ Durinpr his recent visit to Melbourne, Mr H Homer, of the finn of C. N. Campbell & Co., Invercar- & par Tcl^v- apo)verfuJ fit; et nsLne' afc a «** of ±,<ioo it m shipped on board the Esoeranza which may be expected any day. v This purchase will, we StloSXlß^e. 0' «" Timber and bricks are now fetching very Men— almost Prohibitory prices. For bricks we hear that • JI 2A 1 £ t^fn* * »*cd, Hobarton paling ••are fctchins 25*. and more perhundred-at least, that figure m nsked-for-them. but we doubt if laxge S f m! em ? re, beJI) X effected at that figure. '«™ -f eiT hofe of 'H wtteMiro block of buildings just erected by Messrs Lockhart lias been leased by a new comer who has gone over to Melbourne to pr/pare for the importation of his stock. : , ■? ■ "v: ■ •■ jyimt are the draymen of Invcrcargill about In T U , ext- niva? an6.P riceß " ™> have been in?«?i ?Ji 8 t. otl 1S s? rely to° h! Btt a «Baro for draying along bo level a roai aa the Great "N^rth road »f;tf mT li» eastoreS r T cc an U ■CMted from IWverton for halfttiat figure. Units? thfsratoh lowered, it will bejheapar for the Invercargill storekecpets to ship good* by the ApUrasta to Uivert«n, ami cart them from thence to the diggings.' H k well to .*.* make hay white ihe sun shines." but it is not wise vto be ever waitmj? for n clou Hess summer day Thenewaoftheopaning of the Nokomai eold-fielJ his already hail the effect of bringing to this Province several new prospectors after customs for the wholesale traders of Danedin and Melbourne. Some of the furmer have been rather surprised to find that we have storekeepc-s in " little p&tifo-jrin? Southlarniv who coukf sell to them ns'elieapTv as iffy canoffer tjoirova wares—but still moro'surprwed to earn the very lu«Ii fi-ei-hts charged by our one useful n^'rl °^ tm? Btcamec P^iag between b«e and Uunevlin~7oi a ton. »Wi are t.Rla/1 t0 learn thnt Mr J. R. Mills, of by the destraction of his former store. He la* already got a new store erected.