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(Press Association.) , ■ Wellington, Eridav. The cricket match, Nelson lington, resulted in favor of Nelson. Dunedin, Friday. The Star states that fifteen officers in the Public Works Department of the Middle Island are now being dispensed with. This makes between 70 and 80 who will have left since the end of the financial year. The reductions in The North Island are on the same scale.
Mafket Jieporfc.-r-Prime be?f, fid per lOOlbs; mutton, H to Ifd; good sample’milling wheat, 4s 7dto 4s 9d per bushel; fowls wheat, 2s 6d to 3s per bushel (according to quality) ; feed oats, Is fid to Is 6d ; milling Is 74 to Is 8d; barley, 3s to 3s 3d per bushel; feed, Is 6d to Is 9d per bushel; potatoes, 15s to 20s per ton; new potatoes, 6s to 7s perewt; grass hay, £2.lo*(iper ton.;, oaten bay, £3 per ton ; medium wheat, 4s to 4s 3d per bushel;straw.£2 per ton ; bran, £3 per ton ; pollard, £4 per ton; flour, £lO 10s to £ll per ton; oatmeal, £9 10s per ton; pearl ‘barley, £18; onions, (scarce) 14s per cwt.; cheese, 44 to fid per lb.; bacon (rolled) Sd per lb ; bams, 10|4 per lb ; sides bacon, 8d per lb (grain fed) ; ebaff, £2 15s per ton ; new onions, 12s prize cheese, s£d old cheese, 4£d.
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Western Star, Issue 406, 1 January 1881, Page 2
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219Latest Telegrams. Western Star, Issue 406, 1 January 1881, Page 2
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