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Otago Daily Times, Issue 384, 14 March 1863, Page 4

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DAILT TIMES OFFICE, Friday Evening,

Export entries for .1,225 oz? 11 dwt gold were passed at the Custom House to-day ; the duty paid being L 153 3s lid. The Customs Revenue on article* cleared fjr consumption amounted to LI 096 17s 2d ; the items being—Brandy, 184 gals, LB2 16s ; whiskey, 293.4 gals, L 129 7s 6d; rum, 147 gab, L 55 13s; wine, 154 gals, L 23 2s ; buttled beer, 384 uals, Ll9 4s ; tobacco, .679 His, LSO 183 <M; tea, 1,800 lbs L3O; sugar, 39,288 lbs, L 163 163 6tl; miscellaneous, L 529 7s 4d.

Mr M'Combe yesterday effected a lease on behalf of Air Harrfe of 41 feet of land, in Mf.e!aggan street, adjoining the old Club building (now Waters and Morton's Hotel), for fourteen years, at L 2 103 per foot per annum. Caktaob Report,—Messrs Pickford and Co report that during the week cartaga has continued to advance; rates may be quoted now as follows: - Wakatipu, L 52 10* to L«sj Diinstan, L 34 to J36; timber, L 10; bullock teams, L 33; Tuapeka, Lls. Freight from the foot of the Lake Wakatipu to Queens!o\vn, per steamer, L 4 per ton measurement. Mes srs E De Carle and Co. report the rate of cartage as risingl, on account of the large quantify of goods required at the diggings, and so few teams now in town. The- following are current rates : — To the Lake, from L 52 10s to I«): Bunsfan, L 35 to L3B; for gener.il leading, L4o.' Timber—Bullock teams, L 33 to L 3 4; Wetherstone's. H6; Moa Flat, L35t0L45; Long Ford, LSO to JLSS. These prices nre now being offered, and there is no probability of any reductiou during the season.

WAKATIPO TRADE REPORT. (PROM OTJfI. OWN CORRESPOKDKNTr.) Were it not that those miners who intend wintering it out iv the ranges are laying in their supplies, trade in general would be at a'perfecf stand-still here. As it is, a great many parties are busily engaged iv procuring four or five mouths' supplies, and of conveying same to a secure place in the neighborhood pf their claims, near the Shotover River in particular.

Good roads and low cartage, in addition to a nominal freight across the Laka, had the natural effect of reducing: prices of every arliele on the field to a very low point. Competition is very keeu here. Prices of the most current articles even are varying considerably, and it is no easy matter to give anything like correct quotations The. following1, however, are wholesale quotations of goods mo3t in demand, carriage and freight included :— Flour, about LSO to L 55 per ton, or LG per bag of 200 lhs ; bacon and hams, from 2s Id to 2s 3d per lb, according to the brand; tea, Lli per lwlf chest, or LI 2 per chest; coffee, 2s Id per )b ; butter, 'is 9d per lb for prime Wellington ; cheese. is 6d par lb ; soap, Is ; salt, 6d; spiced beef, Is 3d peril). Tobacco is a great drug in the marker, and prices for tids article arc nominal, ranging from 6) to 7s per lb. Slops are abunlaut, and prices have Mien enormously. The same observation applies to hoots and walertig-hts.

Beer.-1, Wines, and Spirits.—Beer is rather scarce just now, but wines and spirits are as abundant as breadstuff?, and wholesale prices can hardly be arrived at.

Bulk ale jis worth L2O for go.id brands, and porter in bottles is saleable at 25s to 10s per dozen, but considerable orders for this artijle having gone down to town prices will give way must likely soon. Brandies 30s to 35s per gallon and L 4 to 1.4 10s per cisc ; via, L 4 per four gallon case, brand JDKZ ; whisky, 25x per gallon, and 70s per case j wines, 25s per gallon. Ironmongery is very plentiful, with the exception of Ames' shovels, which, though enquired for, are not to be had at all. Cordage is quite neglected, and even culioo has caused to be in demand, though it is selling as low as 2s 91 per yard.

WAKATirU GOLD IIEPORT,

Queensto.vn, 9th March, 1863,

Mr G-. A. Welsh, gold broker, reports that Void has not been offered very freely during the past fortnight. On Friday last a pany of two men sod -.me 01 ozs of gold, the result of their work on the preceding clay from a claim that they have just opened in a small cieek running into the Sliutorer. I was shown a splendid sample of quartz specimens which had b'en obtained from a reef in this neighbourhood ; they gave me one of the smallest, which I have sent down for your inspection. Bank price of gold, L 3 12s 91.