NELSON MARKETS.—May 27.

Colonist, Issue 63, 28 May 1858, Page 2

NELSON MARKETS.—May 27.

The Mills.—Mr. Saunders reports: Flour—best, £20,; seconds, £17.; wheat, 75.; bran Is., pollard 6s. per 100lbs., sharps Bs. per ditto.—Mr. White reports: Flour, best, £20; seconds, £17; wheat, 75.; bran, Is.; pollard, 6s. per 100 lbs.; sharps, Bs. per ditto. Bread.—4lb. loaf, 9d. to lOd. First flour, 215.; seconds, 18s., per 100 lbs. Btitchers' Meat. 8e0f,.4d. toßd.perlb. Pork, Bd. Mutton 4d. toTd. _ Lamb, Bd. Veal, Bd. Farm and Dairy Produce. Butter, fresh, Is 3d Fowls, 4s. per pair Ditto, salt, lod to Is. Turkeys, 7s. to Bs. • Cheese, Is. 3d. to Is. 6d. Geese, 6s. Lard, Is. . Ducks, ss. per couple Hams, Is. 6d. . Eggs Is. lOd. per doz. Bacon, Is; 4d. ditto Candles (home made) 9d. Garden Produce. Turnips per bunch, 2d. Apples, 3d. to 4d. per lb. Potatoes (new), wholesale, Carrots,3d.to6d. per bunch £7 os. per ton; retail, Cabbages, each, I^. to2d. 2d. per lb. t Onions, 4d. per lb. Sundries* Bricks, £5 pcl1 1000, at Lime, ~£3 10s. per ton at the kiln. . . .the kiln. Ditto, £6, delivered; Ditto, £4, delivered. Boards, per 100 ft; 18s; Scantling 16s.

A short time since the play of Jesse Vere was being performed at Woolwich Theatre, and when a scene in the third act had been reached, in which a " terrific struggle" for the possession of a child takes place .bebetween the fond mother and two " hired ruffians," a large Newfoundland dog which had by some means gained admittance with its owner into the pit, leaped over the heads of the musicians, in the orchestra, and flew to the rescue, seizing one of the assassins, and almost dragging him to the ground. Ho was with difficulty removed and dragged off the stage. • The dog,-, which is the property of the chief engineer of her Majesty's ship Buffalo, lias been habitua'ly accustomed to the .society of children, for whom hehas on many ocr casions evinced strong proofs of affection.

A pilgrimage to Jerusalem is at present being organised at Marseilles, the intention being to start on March 7,and to pass Easter week at the Holy City, and afterwards visit Bethlehem, the Dead Sea, the River Jordan,. &c. The route home is to be by Nazareth, the Lake of Tiberias, St. Jean d'Acre," Tyr Saida (Sydpn), Beyrout, back to Marseilles. The whole journey will occupy about two months. During the present year the' silver absorbed by the East exceeds £20,000,000 sterling. Daring the last seven years the amount taken from various parts of Europe by Asia is, exclusive of gold, £55,677,333. "How dot look, Pompey?" said a young dandy to his servant, as he finished dressing. " Elegant, massa', you look bold as a lion."—•" Bold as a lion, Pompey! How do you know? You never saw a lion."—" Oh, yes, massa, I seed one down to Massa Jenks, in his stable."—"Down to Jenlcs, JPompey? Why, you gveat fool, Jenks hasn't got a lion, that's a jackass."—" Can't help it, massa, you look just like him."

"Doctor, kin you tell what's the matter with my child's nose ? She keeps a pickin' of«tit." —" Yes, mann ; it's probably an irritation of the gastric mucus membrane communicating a sympathetic titillation to the opth'alium of the echsorian."—•' There, now, that's just what I told Becky; but she wouldn't believe me." . .

"Mary, where's the fryingpan?"—"Jemmy's got it, carting- mud and oyster-shells up the alley, with the cat for a hor3e."—•' The dear little fellow, what a a- genius he will make! But go and get it, we're going to have company, and must fry some fish for dinner."

Hojxoway'sOintmettandPills.—Those who have been taught to believe that there is no remedy for cancer but the knife, are invited to read the following statement. Reubin Withers, late of Brooklyn and now residingatMarysville, California, was fori-Jeveralmonths treated secundum arlem, by. two physicians, for what they pronounced to be a cancerous tumor on the left breast. Finally they recommended excision, but the patient having heard muchoftheeflicacyofHolloway's Ointment in ' such cases, resolved to try its effects before submittinghisfleshtothasteel. Heuseditinconformity with the direcfions,.for two months, at the end of which time the lump had entirely disappeared, and up to the date of his leaving for San Francisco, in August last, an interval of fourteen weeks, no symptoms of its re-appearance could be discovered.' The Pills are equally efficacious in all internal diseases.—Advt.