WELLINGTON MARKETS.
First flour, per ton, £15 ; bread, per 21b. loaf, 3| ; beef, 7d. to 9d. per lb. ; mutton, gd. to lOd. per lb. ; pork, 3d. to 4d. per lb. ; fowls, per pair, 45. ; ducks, per pair, 6s. ; geese, 10s. each; turkeys, 12s. 6d. each; fresh butter, Is. 6d. per lb. ; potatoes, £4 per ton; eggs, per dozen, Is. 3d.; cheese, N.Z., Is. 6d. per lb. ; hams, N.Z., 6d. per lb. ; maize, 2s. 6d. per bushel ; ale, Is. Bd. per gallon. October 25, 1844.
In the abstract of the whaling parties in our first No., the following was omitted :—: — Tomi — Porirua. — 24 tuns oil, 1$ tons bone.
Died. — At Wanganui, on the 14th Sept., aged 35, Te Kuru Kanga, son of Te Ranga Waka Rurua, chief of the Ngatitia Poto tribe. The deceased was a very intelligent man, and of great influence among the natives; his death is much regretted by the settlers, to whom he was always a firm and zealous friend.
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 3, 26 October 1844, Page 2
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163WELLINGTON MARKETS. New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 3, 26 October 1844, Page 2
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