NELSON.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 690, 13 March 1852, Page 3

NELSON.

Markets.— It is impossible at present to quote any price for wheat, as but lew sales of the new crop have yet been effected. Perhaps 4s. 4d. to ss. may be considered to represent the value of good samples, until mote is Known of the crops in the neighbouring colonies, and how’ far the Sydney market is likely to be affected by importations from South America. There will certainly be an increased demand in Australia this year for flour, and we are at present wholly ignorant of the proba'de supply. Barley is expected to range high with us this year ; the high price of wheat last winter induced a more general cultivation of that crop than of barley, the quantity sown of which was very limited. We have heard of ss. per bushel being offered, but growers do not seem disposed to covet sales. New oa's are selling for 3s. 6d., old oats for training, ss. Gd. to 6s. per bushel. Flour may be quoted at from £l4 to £l6 per ton, but this, like the price of wheat, may undergo a change on the first intelligence from Sydney. Other prices have been pretty stationary ; butter lOd. per lb., retail, cheese Is. per lb. Sawn timber, according to quality, Bs. to 12s. per 100 feet. Beef is from sd. to 7<L per lb., mutton 5d., pork 4d. to 6d. Fruit is now very plentiful ; peaches Is. per dozen, apples 6d. per lb. retail. Shocking Accident,—We stated in our last, that a little boy named Batchelor had met with his death very suddenly, supposed from a sunstroke, and on Sunday, only two days afterwards, a sister of the deceased, six years of age, poisoned herself by drinking flywater, made from arsenic, out of a ginger-beer bottle, which she took from off a shelf. Although at the time of the death of the first child there was no reason to suppose that poison had been the cause of its decease, it has since been thought more than probable that the little boy, like his sister, bad taken some of the fly-water, and- that poison and not a sun-stroke was the cause of his death.