RETAIL PRICES.

Otago Witness, Issue 787, 28 December 1866, Page 10

RETAIL PRICES.

Dec. 27, 1866. Meat. — Beef, roasting and steaks, lOd to Is per lb ; boiling, 7d ; mutton, 6d to lOd ; pork and veal, lOd to 13. To hotels, Sd all round, Dairy Produce,— Bacon, Is 6d to Is lOd; butter, fresh, Is 6d ; do, salt, Is 6d ; cheese, Colonial, Is 6d ; ditto, English, 2s ; eggs, fresh, 2slto 2s 6d ; ditto, imported, Is 6d; ham, Is 6d to 2s ; milk, 6>i per quart. Poultry. — Fowls, 8s to 9s per couple ; ducks, 12s to 14s per pair ; gpese, 15s to 17s 6d each ; turkeys, 15s to 255 ; rabbits, 4s to 10s per pair ; pigeons, 4s to 6s per pair. Fruit.— Apples, 6d to Is per lb ; bananas 6d each ; oranges, 4d to 6d each ; pears, none; pine apples, none ; lemons, 6d to Is each; cocoa nuts, Is to Is 6d each; grapes, none; peaches, none ; gooseberries, 6d per quart ; cherries, none ; strawberries, Is 6d per lb. ; loquats, Is 6d per lb. Vegetables. — Cabbages, 3d to 6d each ; carrots, 3d to 6d per bunch ; cauliflowers, 6d Is each; celery, 6d to Is per head; leeks, 3d per bunch ; lettuces, 2dto 4deach ; onions, dried. Is per lb ; ditto, green, 3d per bunch ; parsley, 3d per bunch ; peas, 5d to 6d per quart; pumpkins, Is to Is 6d each ; radishes, 2d per bunch ; turnips, 3d per bunch ; potatoes, new, 4lbß Is ; old, 14lbs Is ; cucumbers, 2s to 3s each

Fish. — Baracouta, 6d to Is each; groper, 4d per lb ; flounders, 2s to 6s per dozen ; rock cod, 4s to 6s per dozen; trevallas, 2s 6d per dozen ; soles, 12s per dozen ; eels, 9d to Is per lb ; crayfish, 4s to 12s per dozen.

A storekeeper named Mr Willfams at Stafford Town, nnrrowly escaped death at the hands of Mr T. B. Smith, well known ai the former proprietor of the Shakespeare Hotels Tunedin and Hokitika. It appears, says the " West Coast Times," that Mr Smith was displaying a revolver of peculiar construction, and to show the rapidity with which it could be fired, he discharged it several times into the ground. One of the bullets must have come in contact with a hard body, for it glanced off the ground diagonally and struck Mr Williams — who was standing about thirteen yards distant— over the right eye, slightly depressing the bone, and then taking an upward direction, passed through the ritn of biß hat — a rather narrow escape.

The fifth Intercolonial Rifle Match says) -the Melbourne "Argus") has ended with a thorough victory for New South Wales, who won by ninety points. There was not much difference between the scores this year and last, save in respect to the falling off of Victoria ia the linger ranges. The de'eat is universally attributed to the inferior weapons of the Victorians, the New South Wales Government having presented their men with the best match Whitworths that could soegot.