HOBART TOWN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 149, 8 May 1862, Page 4

HOBART TOWN.

(From the Mercury, April 26.)

The wheat market remains without any alteration, and quiet. Taut few transactions taking place. We quote Rood -wheat from 4s. 9d. to ss. ; oats, 45.; barley for malting, Ga. ; Cape, 3s. lOd. to 45.: bran. Is. 3d. to Is. sd. Flour is good local demand at £13 wholesale, and £14 retail. Potatoes well supplied, at prices varying from £4 to £4 103. per ton. Hay, dull of sale at £3 455. to £5 for pressed, and £4 to £4 10s. for loose. ■ Onions firm at £13 to £15 per ton. • Telegrams bearing date April 23, which appear in ihe.Arguj of April 24, state:—Sydney.—Business dull, owing to the holidays. Adelaide.—No alteration in price of flour or wheat. Arsenic lit Wreaths akd Dresses.—ln a letter to the Morning Post, Dr. Letheby, the medical officer to the City Commissioner of Sowera, says, — The process you recommend of seitting fire to the tissue, and, whilst smouldering, after the flame is snddenly blown, out, observing whether it has an odour of garlic or not, is very conclusive; but it requires practice to do it well, and the process is not always easily applied. If every lady would carry with her, when she is shopping, ti small pliial of liquid ammonia, instead of the usual scent-bottle, the. 1 mere touch of the wet stopper on the suspicious green [by turning it to blue] would betray the arsenical I poison.— Builder,