PRODUCE MARKET—FEB. 10, 1882.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume IX, Issue 461, 10 February 1882, Page 17

PRODUCE MARKET— FEB. 10, 1882.

Mb. F. Meenan, Great King street, reports : — Wholesale prices : Oats, Is lid to 28 Id per bushel ; milling wheat, 4s 3d to 4s 6d per bushel ; fowls' feed, 2s to 3s ; barley, malting, 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; feed, Is 6d to 2s 6d per bushel; hay, £4 per ton ; chaff, £3 15s per ton ; straw, £2 per ton ; bran, £3 15s per ton ; pollard, £4 10s per ton; flour, £10 to £10 10s per ton ; oatmeal, £10 to £10 10s per ton ; butter, fresh, 6d to Bd, salt, 6d to 7d ; eggs, Is Id ; bacon, in rolls, 7d to 7£d ; side, 7£d ; hams, lOd ; fresh pork, 4d per lb. ; potatoes, old, £2 to £2 10s per ton ; new, 4s to 5s per cwt. Messrs. Mercer and McDonald, Rattray street, report : — Fresh butter, best and favourite brands (in lib. and £lb. prints), 9d ; good ordinary butter, 6d ; eggs, Is Id per dozen ; roll bacon, 7d per lb. Good salt butter, in kegs, no demand; cheese 4d per lb, new cheese 4£d per lb.

Messrs. Stuart & Co., Zealandia Chambers, Dowling street, Dunedin, are prepared to fulfil with the utmost satisfaction to their patrons all commissions entrusted to them in connection with the business of auctioneers, stock, station, and land agents, and sharebrokers.

The invention of matches was a happy thought, and is thus told by the inventor : " I used to get up at 4 o'clock in the morning to pursue my studies, and I used at that time the flint and steel, in the use of which I found great inconvenience. I gave lectures in chemistry at the time at a large academy. Of course I knew, as other chemists did, the explosive material that was necessary to product instantaneous light, but it was difficult to obtain a light on wood by that mixture, and the idea occurred to me to put sulphurin the mixture. I did so, and told ab nit it, and showed it in my next lecture. There was a young man in the room whose father was a chemist in London, and he at once wrote to him about it, and soon afterwards lucifer matches were issued to the world. I was urged to go and take out a patent immediately, but I thought it so small a matter, and it coat me so little labor that I did not think proper to get a patent, although I have'no doubt it would have been very profitable." The name this inventor of matches is Mr. Holden, and he is an Englishman,