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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 32, 7 December 1883, Page 17

Mr. H. J. Kitt, George Street, Dunedin, offers for selection an unrivalled stock of trunks, portmanteaus, and travelling bags of all kinds. Repairs aTe also undertaken' by him. The dining room at the City Hotel, Dunedin, is now open for luncheon. We need not dwell on the advantage thus offered' to the - public, as the reputation of the establishment in question is a sufficient guarantee, ani more than anything we conld say. Messrs. Mercer Bros., Princes street, report :— Fresh butter (in ilb. and lib. prints), best quality, 8d per lb. ; ordinary butter, 6d per lb. ; eggs, 10d ; roll bacon, 7*d per ft ; good salt butter, in kegs. 6d per lb. ; cheese, s£d. per lb. AIH. F. Mkekan, Great King street, reports : —Wholesale prices, Oats, Is 6d to Is lOd per bushel ; milling wheat, 3s 6d to 4s 3d per bushel ; fowls' wheat, 2s to 3s ; bailey, malting, 4s to 5s j milling, 3s to 3s 6d ; feediDg, 2s to 3s ; hay, oat, £4 10a per ton ; rye-grass hay, £4 ; chaff, £3 JOs to £4 ; straw, £2 to £2 6s j bran, £4; pollard, £4 10s ; potatoes, £2 "to £2 ss; oatmeal, £10 10s ; flour, £10 to £10 10s; fresh butter, medium to prime, 7d to lOd per lb,, salt, easier, 8d per lb. ; eggs, 3a per dozen ; bacon, sides, B£d per lb. ; rolls, 8d ; hams, lOd ; pork, 4sd ; cheese, dull of sale, 4d to 6d.

j Here is a scrap for the superstitious. A farmer writes to a contemporary :— " As I was counting my sheep into the kraal, and just as I was counting the last, a flash of lightning struck 167 of them dead, and strange to say they were all struck on the left shoulder, and were lying in the shape of a cross in the kraal." The Wexford People of the 19th Sept. says :— The anbouncemeni 1 which our columns contain to-day of the death of Richard Joseph Devereux, Esq., Summer Hill, at the early age of 54 years, will be every-wbere received with regret. The' sad event took place at Rosslare on Sunday night, where Mr. Devereux had gone in the hope of recruiting bis failing health. Tbe deceased gentlemen represented the borough of Wexford in the Liberal interest under the i Gladstone administration from 1868 to 1874. In private life he was esteemed and respected by all who knew him.