WELLINGTON MARKETS

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 49, 5 October 1886, Page 2

WELLINGTON MARKETS

George Thomas and Co. report produce prices this week as follows : — "Valuation for leading lines of feeding grains remain unchanged, and business, ©wing to the close of winter season's demand, is of a retail character. Wo note a further decline in the price of potatoes, which are n»w ruling at 50s to 555 , the market is perfectly choked with consignments, and it is almost a certainty that quotations must still further reduce. Flour has steady business at £11 for stone, and £12 5 s for roller process ; bran and pollard has fallen off in salo to a great extent and prices are easier, £5 5s for the former and £5 lOs for the latter beinjr now asked ; fowl wheat, 4s 3d to 4s 6d ; oats (feed) 2s 6d to 2s 8d ; seed do, 2s Bti to 2s 9d ; feed barley, 2s 9d to 2s lid ; maize, 3s lOd to 4s ; beans, scarce, 4s ; peas, 4s 6d to 5s ; kidney potatoes, £5 ; onions, Lli to Ll2 ; oaten chaff, L 4 to L 4 10; pearl barley, Ll6; oatmeal Ll3. Hams and bacon 7d ; cheese, 6jd ; honey 3£ to 5d ; eggs, 9d to 9| ; fresh butter, overstocked, 8d ; salt do,3d to 7d per lb. Moderate supplies of Sydney fruit to hand realised satisfactory price ; oranges, 8s 6d to 12s ; mandarins, 12s ; lemons, 8s to 10s ; loquat? 9s to 10s. Poultry still remain firm at last qnoted rates, which were as follows : — Turkeys, 9s ; ducks, 4s ; geese. 7s ; fowls 3s 6d per pair."