NELSON.
Jane 4. No material change has taken place in prices, (though flour is less firm, and, following in the wake bf the Australian markets, has receded £1 a ton. 'The extreme limit in the price of breadstuff*! has evidently been reached in Australia, flour froin South 'America having been introduced to compete with 'Auttralian-grown. While there is no chance of seeing any, considerable fall in Ihe price of flour this [year, importations from America will keep in check 'any further advance. , , Meurs.' Rod and Hounsell quote (Jne flour at £23 (per ton ;, Mr. T). liloore quotes Redwood's best' Wairau at current rates. Wheat, per bushel, from '8a to 9a ; barley, 6s 6d to 6a ; oats, 3s 6d to 3s 9d. Potatoes, £4 10s to £5 10a per ton; hay, per ton, £5. Beer, per hnd., £6 ; per dozen, Bs. Bricks, per 1,000, £4 ; lime, per bushel, 3s 6U' Boards and scantling— white pine, per 100 feat, 111 ; red pine, . 18s. , Shingle's— Totara^ per 1,000, 17a. , Totara, 18s per 100 feet — 'Examiner.
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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3404, 13 June 1868, Page 3
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172NELSON. Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3404, 13 June 1868, Page 3
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