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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XL, Issue 9200, 10 January 1920, Page 5

Tho London costermongers have boon doing well by taking their wares fco tho " fashionable" neighbourhoods .row in revolt against the high prices of tho shopkeepers. 'Till now they have been doing a roaring trade, while tho shop.- were but half filled with their old customers of the " local families." But, laments a Mampstead correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian," they arc going the way of all flesh by becoming profiteers" on their own account. Liko scullers or pedestrians in a race „.„ they try to keep but a. short length behind their competitors, instead of sticking to the cheapness that would still yield a. decent profit. In consequence tho hopes of the " ratepayer" dealers are beginning to revive. There is nothing to bo said about it, but that it is si syjnptom of the universal craze of the time. ; Tv is said thjit among the.Ainus the price of a wife isa bear ham. The Kaffir figure varies from four to eightoxen, according to the competition for :^e particular bride. A sr'ore of cartridges buys a wile-in Uganda, while the Tartars in Turkestan gc£ as many wives as they want at the rate of a box of matches each.