Wellington

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 8, 5 July 1887, Page 3

Wellington

, v Wellington, July 2. Messrs George Thomas and. Co. report' produce prir.es: — "The latest .. advices (undor date 22ud June) from Sydney xc salt buttur, show prices .. without any change; prime -New .Zealand was experiencing' fair ;de- ; mand at B^d to 9d per lb,< while pastry ;■ samples coinuianded: values from 4d to 5d.. The Melbourne: maricet •is in . much ,th§ : same; condition^ with the :. difference,, however^ of an; import duty of id per .lb,: against Id at Syjd.'.''.n^r< o Th^ifact of oa^S; becoming. overr. stocked in Australian ; centfest has ? : caused; prices here, to rwaver j jtjiereiis : at present no, decline,:, but ;ceutainly j. the, inerease. in values ranticipated as ! ' not _an ( accomplished fact.,; Flour has. a hardening. .I*>ndency} and; m& hear. . oi certain Reading u mUlerß; having -ail- ; vanbed their to 10s f^o.b..^ the majority, hqweyerv still i ', L £i^; v .qu9tationß iex jat " "WeUington rule from £10 15s talfljUv Fowl .^he.at in . again \ rather scarce, and fully 'worth 3s per _bush6l.. " .Considerable businessi^has been-trans-v act^d m*polatpeß, and for Oamaru or? ]£aiaßpi-grown J4-- IQs: tq -£2^28 6d. is readily giyen, .- while. Blenheim and . Kaikpiiura may l>e. obtained frpa. £.2" , per tori^/the quality^ being Inferioi:. / .The fellcnfifing lines are unchanged in : pncSs r^and d|emand:— 'Oatmeal; LlO " ss; Tartarian se^d oate, 28;64j Panish do, 2s 6d; fluke seed potatoes, £4 15s; Percent and Brown JRiyer do, £2 15js; >' poUard, £4 iss • braii, l^ ss ; beanp, 3s 9d^ J peaaj ; 8s 9d; onions, £7 |o £7 10s; rye gtassyseed r 3s 9d; cheese 4d to Sd'^fiams and iv bacon, factory cure, 7d ; freeh butter, 9d to lOd; eggs, Is •6a'; o 'n6n«y, : 3d to sd; feed barley, 2s 9d; — Fruit has .arrived in iargeparcels from Hobaft %nd Sydney ; the former maintained last realisations, but Sydney oranges receded by quite' Is r 6d per case and are ruling 5 ;from^sd6d'to 68:;' Ieinbn8i;8stb "■"•llsi; -• mandarins, |8s r to; 12s : 6drpihles, 18s per case. 1 DDiickst are-iiaaq[uired for at at 2s 6d, geese, 5s 6d,- --_ an4;turkojjLls_jwpe..all. .unaltered, anji /.business , in , these j lines exceedingly alack." . ; r