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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 51, 7 February 1902, Page 3

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DUNEDIN FRUIT REPORT

Messrs Moritzson and Co., of Dunedin, report for the past week : Tomatoes, short supply 6s 6d ; plums, market glutted 3s ; apples, fair supplies, dessert 4s ; cooking" 3s ; apricots and peaches, 3s 6d ; -raspberries in tins 4d - r cucumbers 3s 6d.

George Thomas and Co report the following wholesale selling prices on the Wellington produce market:—Wheat, 3s 7d to 3s 8d per bushel; oats, 2s ] Otto 3s per bushel ; barley. 2s 6d per bushel ; maize, 3s per bushel ; flour, £8 10s per ton ; pollard, 105 s per ton ; bran, 95s per ton ; oatmeal, £l4 10s per ton ;- chaff', 70s to 75s per ton ; hay, 70s per ton ; field beans 3s 6d pei bushel ; field peas, 4s 3d per bushel potatoes, 50s to 60s; ryegrass seed, 4s per bushel : cocksfoot seed, to 3|d per lb; onions, £7 10s per~ ton ; butter,- prime 8d per lb. dairy 7d to 7|d ; cheese, 5d to 54d ; bacon, 6fd, best factory; hams, 8d ; rolls, 7|d ; fowls, 2s 6d to 3s per pair ; roosters,' 3s 6a per pair ; ducks, 4s per pair; turkeys, hens 8s per pair, gobblers 9s to 13s per pair; geese, 5s per pair ; fresh eggs, Is 4d ; cabbages, Is to 3s per sack ; green peas, 3d to 4d per peck; beans. Id per lb.

The following is the last weekly auction report of Mr Newton King, of New Plymouth : At the Haymar'ket on Saturday very few pigs came forward. Good stores made 26s 6d to 28s, small porkers 10s to 10s 6d. •Several horses sold at from .£3 2s 6d to .£lO ss.

At the Mart fowls made lOd to Is 7d, ducks Is Id to Is 9d. Drapery and sundries made low prices. Fruit.—The following prices were realised at sales during the past week : Apples Is to 2s per "box, 3s to 4s 6d per case • peaches 3s to 7s 6d, apricots 5s to Bs, plums 2s 6d to 3s 6d, greengages 7s, tomatoes 3s to 4s, cucumbers 4s to ss, raspberries 4d.

A football match was played a 1 Philadelphia on November 30 between the U.S. Naval Academy and the Military Academy, the latter winning by 11 points to 5 There were 30,000 spectators, including President Roosevelt and Cabinet, Mr Roosevelt, as au old player, is very keen on football, and he got so excited that he left his private box, leaped over the low fence, and ran across the field to the players' bench. The crowd applauded enthusiastically when it saw the President of the United States leaping the fence with his silk hat in his hand. A great deal of comment has been excited at Washington by President Roosevelt's attendance and enthusiastic behavior at the football match. Many people piofess to be scandalised at such a breach of Presidental dignity; there is a popular impression that the President should always appear in a frock coat and a top hat in public, and comport himself with a grave and dignified demeanor. The late Mr McKinley owed a great deal of his popularity to his careful observance of the Presidential dignity. Congressman Wachter, is among those who condemnor Roosevelt for his prtronage of'" football. Mr Wachter, who is of German descent, denounces the game as brutal and barbarous. He intends to introduce a Bill m the House of Representatives prohibiting all future matches between the United States Naval and Militaty Academies.

Mr Bell, of Sunday Island, one of the Kermadecs, has recently been to Rotoruo. The object of his visit was to dispose of his last year's haivest of mutton birds. He took with him 13 casks of salted birds, each cask contam-