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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 206, 31 August 1871, Page 2

NELSON RETAIL MARKET.— August 31. Beef, 2d to 6d per lb Bread, 21b loaf, 4fcd Mutton, 2£d to 4d Butter,fresh, Is 2d per lb Pork, 5d to 6d Cheese, col., 5d to 8d Bacon, 8d Ducks, 5s to 6s per pair Ham, Is Fowls, 3s to 4s Lard, 9d Turkeys, 4s to 6s each Eggs, Is Id perdoz. Onions, 3d per lb Geese, ss. each. Flour.— Rod and Hounsell quote fine silk dressed flour at £18 per ton. Redwood's, £18. Rutherford's, £18. Wheat, 6s per bushel; barley, 4s to 4s 6d; oats, 3s 3d to 3s 6d. Apples, 6d per lb. Oranges, 3s per doz. Fears, 6d per lb. Hay, 4/. 10s. per ton. Beer, 6l per hhd; 8s per dozen. Bricks, per 1000 4/; Lime, per bushel, 3s Od. Boards and Scantling— White Pine, per 100 feet, 9s to 10s; Red Pine, 15s; Totara, 18s to 20s; Rimu, 12s Od. Palings— V.D.L., 6ft., 225.; sft., 18s. ' Shinnies— V.D.L., 21s. 6d.

Hue tells a stor7 of his having been kept awake one uight in an inn in China by a donkey which was braying in the courtyard. He sent for his host and complained. In a few minutes the donkey was no more heard. Surprised at the sudden silence; he asked what had been done to the beast. "Theasa," said the philosophical Celestial, "is by nature a conceited and vain-glorious animal, and in order to assert his dignity and chair lenge admiration, 1 whenever he brays he hoW hi« tail out horizontally. By tying ,»i atone ito^hia. t tail|hiß,pride is humbled,, and fioirnoibngerinoHned^obray.' 1