HAND T. COOK have received by the • late arrivals additional goods, and are enabled to offer to the Port Nicholson public the undermentioned articles, being all of the best quality and lowest possible prices:-— Butter, cheese, flour, rice (real Patna,) teas, chocolate, cocoa, coffee, always fresh ground. in any quantity ; sugars, moist and loaf; tobaccos, Cavendish, negrohead, & shag ; pickles, sauces; preserved fruits, soups, and meats, in excellent condition ; prime bottled mustard and curry powder, almonds and raisins, currants.spices, starch, blue, paints, linseed oil, turpentine, and every description of groceries ; boots and shoes, men, women, and childrens' ; duck and fancy trowsers; regatta, red, and blue shirts ; lamb's wool ditto >^loth caps and jackets, straw hats, prints, checked cottons, Madras neckerchiefs, welch flannel, canvass, dungaree, muskets, guns, powder and shot, and ' many other things too numerous to specify. H. and T. C. have also on hand an extensive assortment of ironmongery, crockery ware, glass ware, and window glass, always ready for inspection. ; .mmmmJtm WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT. CORRECTED UP TO FRIDAY EVENING. _ , , , £ s. d. £ ». a. Ale: In bottle, perdoz.. 0 16 0 .. 0 0 0 Hewitt and Field's .7 0 0 . . 7 10 0 Arrack : Per gallon ....0 3 6..0 0 0 Bread : Per 21b. loaf 0 0 10..0 0 0 Beef: Fresh, carcase per lb 0 1 0 .. 0 0 0 Butter : Irish, per lb. . . 0 1 4 . . 0 1 10 Fresh 0 3 6.. 0 0-0 Brandy: First quality, per gallon 0 11 0 .. 014 0 Brown Stout: Trueman and Co. 7 0 0 .. 7 10 0 Cigars: Manilla, per 1000, 3100.. 40 to Inferior 2 0 0..0 0 0; Havannah.perlb. 0 14 0 .. 0 0 0 Chinsurah 2 10 0..0 0 to Alexandrian .... 1 10 0..0 0 0 Coffee : Java, ncr lb 0 1 3 . . 0 1 6 Cheese : Cheshire 0 1 3..0 110 Pine Apple ....0 1 4 . . 0 2 0 Candles : English wax, per lb 0 2 10 .-. 0 3 0 Mould 0 1 0 . . 0 1 4 Flour: lstquality, per t0n.35 0 0 .. 0 0 0 2nd ditto 30 0 0 . . 0 0 0 Gin : Pale o 5 6..0 9 0 Case, 3 gallons 4-5. 1 0 0 .. 0 0 0 Hams: Yorkshire, perlb. 0 1 1 .. 0 1 6 Mustard: Per dozen ....1 8 0..0 0 0 Mutton : Carcase per lb . 0 0 9 . . 0 1 0 Muskets: Walnut stocked 1 0 0 .. 1 8 0 Milk: Per pint 0 0 3 .. 0 0 0 Oil : Linseed, per gallon .0 6 0 . . 0 8 6 Black, in cask, per tonl6 0 0.. 0 0 0 Pork: Fresh, carcase per jb 0 0 6.J.. 0 0 8 Pork : Irish, per barrel . . 5 0 0 . . 0 0 0 Potatoes: New Zealand, per ton 10 0 0 ..15 0 0 Porter : Dunbar, in bot. perdoz 0 14 0 .. 0 16 0 Pickles : Assorted, per doz., quarts 1 8 0 .. 1 16 0 Pitch : Stockholm, per barrel 1 15 0 .. 1 18 0 Plank: Port Nicholson, per 100 feet .. 0 18 0 .. 1 10 0 Hokianga 2 5 0 .. 2 10 0 Rice: Common per cwt. .. 1 1 0 .. 1 10 0 Good 110 0..2 0 0 Run : P. B. P., duty free, per gallon 0 5 6..0 13 0 Sugar: Mauritius per cwt. 1 15 0 .. 2 5 0 Brown 0 0 0.. 1 8 0 Refined loaf, per » lb 0 0 8 .. 0 0 9 Salt : Liverpool, per ton .6 0 0 . . 10 0 0 Soap: Hawes's London, per ton 42 0 0 ..60 0 0 Starch: Perlb 0 1 9..0 2 0 Scantling: Per 100 feet.. 0 18 0 .. 1 5 0 Shingles: Per 1000 1 10 0 .. 2 5 0 Tar : Coal 1 15 0 .. 0 0 0 Stockholm 2 0 0 . . 2 5 0 Tea: Hyson, per chest ..10 0 0 ..11 11 0 Tobacco: Negrohead, per lb 0 1 4 .. 0 2 0 Turpentine: Per gallon.. 0 8 6 .. 0 0 0 Whalebone: Per t0n.... 80 0 0 .. 0 0 0 Wine: Sherry, per pipe ..28 0 0 ..40 0-0 Ditto, per dozen. 1 4 0 .. 2 0 0 Poultry: Fowls, per pair . 0 10 0 .. 0 0 0 Ducks, ditto . . 0 15 0 . . 0" 0 0 Geese, ditto . . 0 15 0 . . 0 0 0 Turkeys none in the market. Pigeons, (wild,) ' per pair ....0 3 0..0 0 0 Ducks, do. do.. 0 5 0 .. 0 0 0 Eggs : Per dozen 0 6 0.. 0 0 0 Cows: Milch 20 0 0 ..30 0 0 Mares: Brood 50 0 0 ..90 0 to Working Bullocks : Per pair 40 0 0 ..60 6 0 Hire of ditto : Per day, a team and driver 1 10 0 .. 2 0 0 Boat Hire: Per day, without hands . 010 0 . . 1 0 0 Wages: Mechanics, per week 2 14 0 .. 3 6 0 Labourers .... 1 10 0..22 0 The New Zealand Gazette will, for the present, bt published weekly, every Saturday morning. So soon as it it sufficiently supported, it will be issued semi-weekly. Sub* joined are the terms : — Price of the Paper.— Forty shillings per annum, pay* able in advance ; or one shilling for single numbers. Advertisements. — Six lines and under, 3s. 6d. for tht first insertion, and one shilling for each subsequent inter* tion ; from six to ten lines, five shillings for the first, and one shilling and sixpence for each subsequent insertion; above ten lines, five shillings for ths first ten line*, and fourpenre per line for the excess of that number; and two* pence per line for each subsequent insertion. Advertisements will not appear in the ensuing number, if received later than Friday, 10 o'clock, a.m. Advertisements will be continued and charged until counter-ordertd; •uch order must be sent to the Office three days before pub* lication, and must be in writing. All orders, advertisements, and communications to tht Editor, are requested to be addressed to this Office.
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New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Volume I, Issue 33, 28 November 1840, Page 4
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