RETAIL PRICES.
May 28,1864,
The supply of vegetables is better this week, but prices remain unaltered. Cabbages are still very scarce. Bread remains at Is 2d to Is 3d. the 4-lb. loaf—full-weight bakers for the most partchargingtheformerrate. Meat is now lower in price. Fish has advanced considerably in price, owing to the change in the weather. Bread and Flouk.—Bread, Is 2d to Is 3d 41b loaf. Biscuit (cabin), 6d per lb. Flour, 4d per Ib.
Butchers 1 Meat.—Beef, QdtolOd. perlb; mutton 9d. to lOd.; lamb, 7s to Bs. per quarter ; pork, Is. per lb; veal, Is. per lb. Daibt Produce.—Bacon, Is. to Is. 6d.; butter, fresh, 2s. 3d. to 2s. 6d; ditto, salt, Is. 4d. to lg. lOd.; cheese, Colonial, Is. 6d. j ditto, English,
U, Sd. to is, B4 j eggs, frortj, 4* to 4s, fid j ditto, imported, 3s Od to 3s 9dj bam, Is, 6d to 2a j milk, 8d per quart. Poultry.—Fowls, 10s. to 12s. per couple; ducks, 12s. per pair; geese, 15s. to 18s. each; turkeys, los to 30s; rabbits 4s. to 12s. per pair; pigeons, 6s. to Bs. per pair. Fish—Barracoutas, lOd to Is 6d each; flounders, 3s to I'2s per dozen; gropers, 6sto 10seach; ling. 2s 6d to 4s each; rock cod, Is to 2s each; garfish, 4s to 6s per dozen; herrings, 2s to 3s per dozen; silver fish, Is to 2s 6d per dozen; eels, Is. to 2s per lb; crayfish, 9d to 4s each;. oysters, Is 6d pet dozen.
Wild Fowl.—Ducks, 7s to 8s per brace; teal, 3s to 4s per brace; pigeons, 4s per brace. Fruit.—Apples, Gd. to Is. per lb : ditto, dried, 9d. ; bananas none ; oranges, none; pears, Is per Ib; pine apples, 2s Gd to 5s each ; lemons, none; cocoanuts, 6d each; grapes, Is 6d to 2s per lb; walnuts, Is 6d per lb.
Vegetables.—Artichokes, Is. each; asparagus, none; beans, broad, 2d per K>; do, French. 6d pertb; cabbages, 4d. to Is. each; carrots 3d. per bunch; cauliflowers, Is. each; celery, Gd to Is each; cucumbers, Gd to Is each; leeks, 2s per doz; lettuces, 2d. to 3d. each; onions, dried, 3d. to Gd. perlb; ditto, green, 4d per bunch; parsley,4d per bunch; pie melons, Is. to Is. 6d. each ; peas, Gd. per Ib ; potatoes, new, l^d. per tt>; pumpkins none; radishes, 2d. to 3d. per bunch ; rhubarb Is. per bunch; tomatoes, none; turnips, 3d.to 4d, per bunch; vegetable marrows, Is. to 2s. each , watercress, 2d. to 3d. per bunch.
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