Commercial News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 24, 7 August 1888, Page 3

Commercial News

WELLINGTON MAKKETS.

Wellington, August 4. George Thomas and Co. report produce prices a& follows:— The advances in values of oats, oatmeal, and potatoes, noted in our last, are more than fully maintained, and considerable increases are the outcome of the week's business. The Sydney de- 1 mand is now absorbing the great bulk of supplies, and freightage is now | secured well in advance of vessel's departure. We quote prime milling oats, 2s 2d to 2s 4d; average feed ditto, 2s Is 2s 3d ; Tartarian and short seed, 2s 5d to 2s 6d ; black and dun samples, 2s 4d to 2s 5d ; oatmeal rules from L 9 15s to LlO per ton; potatoes are now difficult to obtain, and prices range, from £3 10s to L 3 15s per ton; Southern advices predict a further advance of 10s to 15s per ton, but this we are inclined to doubt, and are under the impression that the local market will not see them quoted over L 4; a brisk enquiry exists for seed. descriptions at L 4 10s to L 5 1 0s per ton. The following lines remain as last quoted :— Flour (sacks), L 8 to L 9; bran, L 3 10s ; pollard, L 4: fowls' wheat, 2s 6d to 2s 9d ; sheaf chaff, L 3 15s ; straw ditto, L 2 15s ; maize, 3s 8d to 3s 9d ; feed barley, 2s 9d; pearl barley, 21s; split peas, Ll6 lOsi; field peas, 3s 3d; beans, 3s 2d ; onions, best, L 5; common do, L 4. Kye grass seed, 3s 6d Italian Bye, 3s 3d per bushel ; cocksfoot, 3£d per lb ; bacon and hams, 7£d ; cheese, 4d to 4£d ; fresh butter Is 2d; eggs, lOd to Is; pastry samples, 3d to 4d. Oranges (Sydney) are widely different in quality, and rule from 4s to 7s ; lemons, 8s ; mandarins, 10s to 12s; apples, Hobart, best samples, 10s ; common do, 6s 6d to 8s 6d. There is somewhat better demand for poultry, and fowl; rule at 2s 9d and 3s ; ducks, 4s 6d s geese, 5s 6d ; and turkeys 7s 6d per pair. '