Wellington Markets

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 84, 14 February 1888, Page 2

Wellington Markets

— _♦ George Thomas and Co. report pro-; duce prices as follows :— lu oats there is little to add to previous remarks ; a Bmall shipment of short Canadian oats, a good, clean, bright sample, has reached our market quoted at Is 7£d f.o.b. at Lyttelton, which would cost here say Is lOJd ; when the market is fairly open these values may rule £d to Id lower. We hear of sales of new Canterbury wheat at 3s at Timaru and 38 3d at Lyttelton, f.o.b. — 6d per bushel less than opening prices last year. No business doing in barley. There is a quantity of old rye and cocksfoot .grass 'seed offering, which will steady prices when the new crop comes in ; present values are 3s per bushel and 3d to 3£d per lb respectively; Flour, £ 9 5s to £9 15s; fowl wheat, 38 to 3s 3d; bran, £3; pollard, £3 58; maize, 4s; blue peas, 3s 6d; beans, 3s lOd; onions, £7 for New Zealand, and £6 for Australian ; potatoes, £3 10s to £4 j bacon and hams, 7^d for factory, and 2d to 4d for farmers' cure; cheeso, factory, 4Jd to 4£d ; famer3', 3d ; eggs, Is 2d ; honey, 3}d to 4d. The fruit market has been inactive, and, as the Sydney, Melbourne, and Hobart steamers arrived a^ together on F; jday, all requirements are filled, audit considerable quantity remains for disposal. Plums and pears had to be oleared at from 28 6d to 4s per case; oranges, lemons, apples, passion fruit, and pines realised low prices, while a strong demand existed for grapes and peaches. Fowls still rule at 2s 6d to ! 2s 9d ; ducks, 8s ; geese, 5s 6d ; and i turkeys, 7s per pair.