Wellington Markets

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 121, 12 May 1888, Page 3

Wellington Markets

Welun&ton, May 5. George Thomas and Co. report produce without any material alteration since last quotations:— We note that oats are somewhat weaker in the Australian market, and no doubt thin will have the effect of bringing qutations in New Zealand back to the old figures, we having given the opinion in our last that the increased values would not be long sustained. Pear] barley is somewhat scarce and firm at £20 per ton. Pollard and bran have advanced another 5s per ton all round. Other than the above there are no changes, and we quote stone flour, £8 10s; roller ditto, £8 5s to £9 10s (sacks); pollard, £S ; bran, £3 10s; wheatmeal, £8 15s ; fowls' wheat, 2s 9d to 2s 2d ; long and Danish, Is 10£ d to 2s per bushel ; oatmeal, £9 to £9 ss; straw chaff, £3; sheaf do, £4; feed barley 2s lOd; maize, 3s lOd to 3s lid; Derwent potatoes, Oamaru £2 15s, Blenheim £2 10s; onions, best £4 10s, second class £3; rye grass seed, 3s 6d to 4s ; Italian ditto, 3s 6d ; cocksfoot 3£d to 4d ; peas, 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; garden ditto, 7s ; split peas, 17s 6d per cwt ; cheese 4d to 4£d; hams and bacon best factory, 7£d; do, farmers' cure, 3d per lb ; honey, 4^d to sd; fresh butter 6d to 7d L 1 ; salt ditto, 6£d ; eggs, Is 8d per dozwa. The plentiful supply of game j&c, is interf erring with the sale of foultry, and al experience iffijuity in moving quickly; we .quote— fowls, 2s 6d, ducks 3s 6d, geese os 6d, and turkeys 7s per pair. Prices for the staple Hues of fruit Slow available, viz., apples and pears, - .are still on the lowest grades, apples from 3s, and pears 7s upward respectively ; walnuts are plentiful at 6d; quinces are now out of the market ; Island and .Sydney oranges, at 7s per .case, command but little attention; .we hope soon to see a revival in this branch of the produce business.