NELSON RETAIL MARKET.— May 30.
Beef, 5d to Sd per Ib Bread, 21b loaf, 4d to 4£d Mutton, 3d to 5d Butter, fresh, ls ld per lb Pork, 6 d Cheese, col., lOd Bacon, ls 2d Ducks, 6s per pair Ham, Is 6d Fowls, 5s Lard, Is Od Turkeys, 6s to 7s each Eggs, 2s 6d per dozen Onions, 2_|d per lb Flour.— Rod and Hounsell quote fine silk dressed flour at £12 10s. per ton. Redwood's, current rates. Wheat, 4s 3d to 4s 6d per bushel; barley, 4s 6d to ss ; oats, 3s to 3s 6d. Potatoes, 3/ 10s to 4/ 10s per ton. Hay, 51. Beer, 6/ per hhd; 8s per dozen. Bricks, per 1000 4/; Lime, per bushel, 3s Od. Boards and Scantling — White Pine, per 100 feet, 10s to lis; Red Pine, 12s 6d; Totara, 18s to 205.; Rimu, 10s. to lis. Palings— V.D.L., 6ft., 245.; sft., 20s. Kauri— 9 by f, 15s. 9 by I, 15s ; P. T. and G., 15s ; wide timber, 17s 6d to 255. Shingles— V.D.L., 225. 6d.
Singular AFFAiR.-The German papers report the following singular occurrence :- Some time ago a middle-aged man entered a gambling saloon at Koethen, in the principality of Anhalt. At length he won 11,000 ducats, but on his attention being called to the money he made no response, and one of the attendants going to him found him dead in his chair. — European Mail.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 125, 30 May 1870, Page 2
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237NELSON RETAIL MARKET.—May 30. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 125, 30 May 1870, Page 2
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