The Prices of Provisions.
Householders are threatened: with'S; »ut increaso in the price of beof, and'/iv;? possibly of mutton, by. the My own glib meat purveyor^whichj ; we all know, is the modern eupliemisni'S for the vulgar word me there is a great scarcity of prii£ss cattle and sheep, ■ Now, the millions that have: been ] railways, I am greatly the continual incroaso in:the-price : %['M meat here. Almost ;tlieV#6leVp[pli settled Australia is now cattle can be trucked &om the iut«norfe at a quarter tho expensed drbvingill and still" up goes the price'of .&&<!ss A modern conundrum this; ; an ffidipus to solve 1 it.; It in with breacl.■•';Nobody cou• do«bli'.;h^||l
that a gioater area is uiulor cultivation inYiUoiia now than formerly, ami yet tho bakers do not como down in prico, but, on the contrary, ask more for their bread, I consider myself that nothing is cheap in Molbounio, neither the luxuries, nor tho necessik ties of life—the only thing wonder- ' fully cheap at the prico being tho lucubrations of talented and discursivo correspondents who write Melbourne lutein, uitdkel, eyo, Melbourne conespondent of Lyttelton Times.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2954, 19 July 1888, Page 2
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182The Prices of Provisions. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2954, 19 July 1888, Page 2
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