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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 26, 26 October 1883, Page 13

Mb. F. Meenan, Great King street, reports : — Wholesale pricesOats, Is 6d to Is lOd per bushel ; milling wheat, 3s 6d to 4s 3d per bushel ; fowls' wheat, 2s to 3a ; barley, malting, 4s to 5s ; milling, 3a to 3s 6d ; feeding, 2s to 3s ; hay, oat, £4 10s per ton ; rye-grass hay, £4 ; chaff, £3 10s to £4 ; straw, £2 5s to £2 10s ; bran, £4; pollard, £4 10s; potatoes, £2 to £2 ss; oatmeal, £10 10s ; flour, £10to £10 10s; fresh butter, medium to prime, 8d to lid per lb., salt, easier, 8d per lb. ; eggs, 9d per dozen; bacon, sides, B£d per lb. ; rolls, 8d ; hams, lOd ; pork, 4£d ; cheese, dull of sale, 4d to 6d.

As a result of Mr. Davitt's protest against the brutality and inhumanity of the workhouse authorities at Loughrea, the Government has ordered an investigation of the causes which brought about the death of the pauper Burke, whose body was discovered by Mr. Davitt on .the roadside. The inquiry is to be a searching one, and its scope is intended to cover all abuses that can be unearthed, with a view to speedily correcting them.