NELSON RETAIL MARKET.—May 25.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 124, 25 May 1872, Page 2

NELSON RETAIL MARKET.— May 25.

Beet, 3d to 6d per lb Bread, 21b loaf, 4fl Mutton, 3d to 4d Butter, 9d. per lb Pork, 5d to 6d Ducks, 4s to 5s per pair Bacon, 9d Fowls, 4s Ham, Is Turkeys, 4s to 5s each Lard, 9d Geese, ss. each. Eggs, Is 6d per doz Onions, 3d per Ib Flour. — Messrs. N. Edwards Sc Co. quote Brightwater Mill fine silk- dressed Sour at £15 per ton; Adelaide, £16. Redwood's, £15. Rutherford's, £15. Wheat, 5s 6d per bushel; barley, 4s. to 55.; oats, 38 3d to 3s 6d. Cheese : Knight's 6_d, Canterbury s_d, per lb. My " gude mon's" a wise one, sober and true, Fine head has my John, if Saunders but knew, He'd make a good contrast withVogel's so small, Why John is the man that "owes" nothing at all. Says he I've a vote m the coming election, Come wife give the aid of your better reflection And say which you think of the candidates three Will prove the best man to represent me. Well Richmond is right enough in his right place, But that's not the Parliament House, to my taste ; """ As for Luckie an unlucky man will you be If you help him in there with his oratory : All points of the compass, all shifts of the wind, En route will he follow to gain his own end; The teeth and the claws so boasted of yore, Are Non sum qualis cram, and faint is the roar, He will borrow with Yogel, with Fox will he spend, <' "':'-■ There'll be railroads and telegraphs here without end, While lonely in glory all three can skedaddle, New Zealand lies ruined, there's no one to travel, Many years have we labored a homestead have got, • ; Our children are round us and pleasant our cot, Would yon like, John, instead of them having , their own, < To ieave them to pay off the New Zealand Loan. No, put the man in who such doings exposes By the bumps on their heads and the shape of their noses. Who'll give to these spendthrifts a strong opposition, Whose deeds match his words and defy competition, So now John as you have a bit of my mind, Wool on a pig'B back you never will find, But that is afreak quite as good in its way, " ; As running in debt when you've nothing to pay. ■'■' Dido D um.