Wellington Markets

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 110, 17 April 1888, Page 3

Wellington Markets

WxuxvoTOir, April 16. George Thomas and Co. report produce prices as follows :— The near approach of winter is causing greater inquiries for all descriptions of feeding grain, and from South we hear of ad* vances in the. prices for pollard and bran; a strong local demand exists for the former, which is now firm at £3 Ids per ton, bran, £3 As. Oats are available from all growing districts, and it would seem as if present rates are to be looked upon as standard values, there being large quantities drafted on to the Australian markets which has the effect of keeping prices firm ; for long Tartarian and Danish we quote Is IQd to Is lid, and short feed to prime milting, 2b to 2s 3d per per bushel. There is no competitive market locally for milling wheat, and consequently the business done is not worth reporting; nominal values are from 3s to 3s 2d; fowls' grain is plentiful at 2s 9d to 2s lid per bushel; wheatmeal, £9; flour, old, £9 10s; new ditto, £8 10s to £9; oatmeal, £9 ss; sheaf chaff, £4; straw ditto, £8; maize, old season's 4s; new ditto, 3s lOd ; feed barley 2s 10d; beanß2s 74; peas, 3s 7d; rye grass seed (Poverty Bay, machine cleaned}, 3s lOd to 4s ; farmers parcels, 2b 6d to Ss per bushel ; cocksfoot 3id to 4d per lb ; Italian rye, 3s 6d per bushel; potatoes from £2 lOfc to £2 15b : onions, £5 ; cheese, 4Jd to 4id« loaf ditto, 4fd to sd; fresh ■butter, 7d; salt ditto, 6d to 6*d ; effgs. ls 9d » hamß * nd bacon, 7fd ; honey, sd; lard, 4d. The fruit market is eomewhat scantily supplied, only plums, apples, pears, quinces reaching in any quantity, and are realising prices satisfactory to shippers ; tomatoes and cucumbers ate over-supplied. Poultry has usual business, with perhaps increased inquiry tor fowls, at 2a "9dto3BP« P«r- 2>uck«, at 3a 6d, •eesefis, and turkeys 7s 6d per pair are without alteration.