COMMERCIAL.
liAxnT & Campbell report that their market sale was well attended, and good spirit prevailed throughout. There was not an over abundance of fruit, but the market was well supplied, and the demand was sufficiently good to clear all that was offering. Peaches brought 7s to 7£(*6d per case; eating apples, 7s to 0s; cooking do|6s per pears, 8s 6d do; water melons, 3s Cd per fresh butter, 7d per lb ; eggs are fluctuating tauction they only brought Is 9d, and the dend was soon supplied ; ducks and fowls sold at Cd per pair; potatoes are worth £3 5s to £3 ;onions remain a drag ; oats are scarce, and rising fast, supplies being difficult to obtain, as Farmers are asking such extreme rates, and seem reluctant to sell even when their demands are complied with.
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Evening Post, Volume XXIII, Issue 61, 15 March 1882, Page 2
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135COMMERCIAL. Evening Post, Volume XXIII, Issue 61, 15 March 1882, Page 2
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