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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 184, 3 August 1872, Page 2

NELSON RETAIL MARKET.— August 3. Beet, 3d to 6d per lb Bread, 21b loaf, 4§d Mutton, 3d to 4d Butter, ls. per lb Pork, 5d to 6d Ducks, 4s to 5s per pair Bacon, 9d Fowls, 4s Ham, ls Turkeys, 4s to 5s each -Lard, 9d Geese, ss. each. Eggs, 2s 3d per doz Onions, 2d per lb ; Flour. — Messrs. N. Edwards & Co. quote Brightwater Mill fine silk-iressed flour at £16 { perton; Adelaide, £18. Redwood's, £16. Rutherford's, £16. Wheat, 5s 6d per bushel; barley, 5* to 5s 6d oats, 3s 3d to 38 6d; bran, 5s 6d; sharps, 7s 6d. Boards and Scantling— White Pine, per 100 feet, 9s to 10s; Red Pine, 15s; Totara, 18s to 20s; Rimu, 12s 6d. Palings— V.D.L., 6ft., 215.; sft., 18s. Shingles— V.DL., 21s. OL „ Cheese : Knight's 6Jd, Canterbury 6d, per lb. 'a Carrots, 3d per bunch. 1 Potatoes, 7s. per cwt. t Hay, £4 per ton. Beer, 6/ per hhd; 8s per dozen. . f Bricks, per 1000 4/; Lime, per bushel, 3s Od.

India-Rubber. — The. supply of indiarubber to the world is considered inexhaustible. Trees endure tapping for 20 years, and grow in dense groves which .show no signs whatever of being thinned out by what has been done to them hitherto. It may. also interest somebody io . know that there are in America and *Europe more than 200 manufactories of indiarubber articles, employing some 500 operatives eacb, and consuming more than 2Q,Q00,000 pounds of gum per year. „ ..,.; A >• Novel Cat. — A member of the editorial staff of tbe Cleveland Leader, it is said has invented a Bb.ee t iron cat, with cylindrical attachment and steel claws and teeth. * It. is worked by clock-work. A bellows inside swells up the tail at will to a bellfgerent; size, and, by a tremulo attachment causes at the -same time the patent cat to emit all noises of which the Jiving cat is capable. When you want fun you .wind up your cat and' glace: him upon the, roof. . Every cat within half a mile hears him, girds on his armour and sallies forthir -Frequently fifty or a hundred cats aiSJack-hini^aii-oiice.v' ; ''No sooner does the * patent cat, feel the. weight of: an assailant than :his teeth, and claws work^witir lightniugirapjidity. .Adversaries within "six; battaUonsicbtbe ;bni;iPimeel;;a, simil§r vfajte ana^anlfibur^eTOrai bubheisipf (hair, 'toe; _i