RETAIL PRICES.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 60, 3 May 1873, Page 4

RETAIL PRICES.

Meat.— Beef, roasting, 5d to 7d per Ib ; steaks, 5a to 7d per lb ; boiling, 24d to 5d ; mutton, 2*d to 4£d 3 pork and veal, 4d to Id. To hotels, 4d to 5d all round. Daiey Pbodtjoe.— Bacon, lOd to Is Id per lb ; butter, fresh, Is to Is2d; salt, lOd to Is ; cheese, Colonial, 8d to lOd 5 do, English, unsaleable ; eggs, 2s to 2s 6d per dozen -, ham, Colonial, Is ; English, Is 4d per lb ; milk, 3d to 4d per quart. Pouxtby. — Fowls, 3s to 4s per couple ; duckß, 5s to 6b per pair ; geese, 8s to 10s do ; turkeys, 8d per lb $ pigeons, Is 6d to 2s per pair ; rabbits, 3s per pair. Vegetables.— Cabbages* Id to 2d each ; carrots, Zd per bunch ; celery, 3d to 6d per bunch; leeks, 3d per bunch; lettuce, Id to 2d each; onions, 61bs to 81bs, Jls; parsley, 3d per bunch; radishes, 2d per bunch ; turnips, 2d to 3d per bunch ; potatoes, 6s to 7a per cwt.

Cheistohtjboh, April 25th. Quotations are as follows :— Flour, per lOOlbs, 14s j do, sacks, £13 5s ; Oamaru flour, per lOOlbs, 15s ;do do, sacks, £14 ; Canterbury oats, 4s ; bran, Is 3d per bushel j sharps, per lOOlbs, 7s 6d ; pollard, 6a 6d ; milling wheat, 5s 4d, market very bare j barley, none in the market; cheese, 9d ; bacon, lid; hams, la Id; potatoes, 6s 6d per cwt. Messrs Royse, Stead, and Co. report that wheat continues in fair demand at 4s 4d to 4s sd. Flour is in steady enquiry at £11. Oats arc still advancing ; sales wore effected to-day at 3s 9d,f.0.b,, but none are coming forward. Barley is quieter ; the reported shipments from California render buyers less eager. The millers have advanced the price of bran to £4. Butter is at 9^d, and cheese at 7&d.

Auckland. Mr Alexander Saunders reports buyers of shares as follows :—: — Cure, 18s ; Red Queen, Is 9d ; Black Angel, £1 7s ; Caledonian, £16 10s ; Thames, £4 ; Bank of New Zealand, £16 ss, ex. dividend ; South British Insurance, £1 16s ;• Green Harp, Is.