Christchurch Marketts

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 89, 28 February 1888, Page 3

Christchurch Marketts

... — ••■— Kaye and Carter's weekly report of the Christchurch grain and produce markets is as follows : — Wheat : velvet and pearl, 3s 3d ; tuscan, 3s 2d ; hunters, 3s Id. Chick wheat : whole, 2s 8d ; broken, 2s 6d, Oats : milling, Is 9d ; bright short feed, Is 8d ; duns, Is lid; discolored, Is 7d; Danish, Is 6£d ; Tartars, Is 9d; black, 2s. Barley : prime macting, 4s 3d ; medium, 3s 9d to 48 ; cape, 3s 2d ; feed, 2s 9d ; pearl, £18. Peas : Prussian blues, 38 Id; feed, 2s 8d; split, £16. Beans, 3s to 3s Id. Flour : roller, £9 ; stone, £8 10s. Bran, 455. Sharps, 52s 6d. Pollard, 50s. Oatmeal, in 255, £9. Rye corn, 3s 6d. Rye grass : machine dressed, 2s 9d and 3s ; undressed, 2s 6d. Cocksfoot: machine dressed, 4d; undressed, 3£ and 3fd. Hay : baled, £3 7s 6d. Chaff: oatsheaf, £3 10s; straw, £2 10s. Hops : prime new Nelsons, not in ; old, 9d and 9£d. Malt : finest pale dried, 6s. Potatoes : Derwents, not in ; kidneys, 60s, sacks in. Onions : on strings, £6 ; loose, £,5 10s. Carrots, 355, sacks in. Butter: prime, s£d and 6d ; kegs, extra. Cheese: loaf, 4d and 4£d; medium, 3£d and 3|d. Hams and bacon : hams, 9d ; bacon, 7£d, cloth. Lard : in bladders, 4£d, cases in. Honey : in kegs, 4d to 4£d. All the above quotations are f.o.b. Lyttelton ; sacks and packages extra, except where otherwise mentioned or understood. Christchurch, February 21, 1888.