NELSON RETAIL MARKET.—MaY 30.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 126, 30 May 1871, Page 2

NELSON RETAIL MARKET.—MaY 30.

Beef, Sfrto 6d per lb Bread, 21b loaf, 4d Mutton, 3d* to 4d Butter,fresh, 8d per lb Pork, 5d to 6d Cheesefobl., 8d to lOd Bacon, Is Ducks, 7s..per pair Ham, Is 2d Fowls, 4s to 5s Lard, lOd ■ Turkeys, 6s to 7s each Eggs, 2s 6d per do,zi Onions, 2d per lb Geese, ss. each. Flour.-—Rod and Hounsell quote fine silk dressed flour at £15 per ton. Redwood's, £16. Rutherford's, £15. Wheat, 4s to 4s 6d per bushel; barley, 4s to 4s 6d; oats, 3s 3d to 3s 6d. Cocoa nuts, 6s. per coz. Oranges, 3s per doz. Pear 3, 6d per lb. Hay, 4/. 10s. per ton. \ .„ Beer, 6/ per hhd; 8s per dozen. V Bricks, per lobo 47; Lime, per bushel, 3s Od. Boards and 'Scantling —White Pine, per 100 feet, 9s to 10s; Red Pine, 15s; Totara, 18s to 20s; Rimu, 12s 6d. Palings—V.D.L., 6ft., 225.; sft., 18s. Shingles—V.D.L., 21s. 6d.

.Fob ingenuity in adagf^ag^hJmsfeVf to circumstances and overcoming in a^practical way the peculiar cnfiiculties of his position, commend us to the Yankee. There is a savour of downright comn)«n sense and practical straightforwardness in the following, that is abowp all praise. It is of such stuff that colon «U^r<e macje :■ — " In a thinly populatedJwK^hin\fo <f^?a, a citizen, remote fro^K^^hoolh^us^ having children to educate, contrived to get a certain territory, of which %& was the only inhabitant, set off as a 'iieV district. He then elected himself Sub-Di,rector, and secured an appropriation to build a schoolhouse. He built a dwelling-house for himself with the money, and then used the contingent fund to buy himself a cookingstove, placing' it in the lower room/ and , warming the' 'Schoolroom by taktrfgf die pipe through it to the chimneyi^ Ha th\n installed his wife as tejucher xjf^hertown children (and^nor others), fixing>the sj^afy. to please himself. This man woun^roake an iovalußble member o\ the " Tamtoany , K ° 8 -":>* ,- . ■ ■■ ty" J