NELSON MARKETS.
Gold, £3 12s. to £3 14s. per ounce. Wheat, 7s. 6d. to 9s. per bushel. Oats, 6s. 6d. per bushel. Barley, 7s. per bushel. Potatoes, £5 to £8 per ton. Flour, first, £23 per ton. Bran, 9d. to Is. 3d. per bushel. Sawii Timber, 16s. to 18s. per 100 feet. Shingles, 15s. per 1,000. Laths, 3s. per bundle. Bricks, £4 10s. per £1,000 (delivered). Coals, Massacre Bay, in harbour, 425. per ton. Uutter, Is. 2A. to Is. 6d. per lb., casks included. Cheese, Nelson, Sd. to 9d. per lb. Gold is being brought to market in large quantities, and the William Alfred and the Louis and Miriam together took to Sydney on the par.t of the Union Bank of Australia, amongst others, more than 2,400 ounces, and every vessel from the neighbouring settlements brings a number of men bent on and fully determined to search for and gain all that ihis Eldorado of the New Zealand Isles will yield them. This, however, is no guide to the amount of gold gained, as much passes amongst the small craft trading between the various ports, and some is kept back by others waiting for direct opportunities of shipment. We shall not be wrong in stating the yield of the • Aorere Gold-fields, not--withstanding the wet and inclement weather, up to the present date, at much less than 9,000 ounces.— Examiner, September 2.
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Otago Witness, Issue 304, 26 September 1857, Page 7
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231NELSON MARKETS. Otago Witness, Issue 304, 26 September 1857, Page 7
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