WELLINGTON MARKETS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 27, 14 August 1888, Page 3

WELLINGTON MARKETS.

Wellington, August 11. George Thomas and Co. report produce prices as follows : —The market has been generally active, and the leading descriptions of breadstuffs ,d.nd[grain all show actual and further anticipated upward changes; milling wheat is now quoted at from 2d to 3d per bushel above last rates, and this, although not at the moment having affected values for flour, must do so in due course; milling oats are firmly held, and scarce at 2s 4d to 2s sd, while any varity suitable for feed cannot now be quoted under 2s Id up to 28 4d; oatmeal, we note, has advanced another 10s in the southern markets, .and now stands here at LlO 10s per ton. Good samples of fowls' wheat have firmed, but our market does not as yet respond to advances in other parts, and we quote 2s 8d to 2s lOd per bushel. The jump which has taken place in potatoes is looked upon as a permanent rise, some southern centres now quoting up to L 4 f .0.b.; the fair market realising now Is 2d to Is 3d, according to quality. Other lines without alteration, are as follow: —Maize, 3s 7d; pearl barley, 2ls; feed barley, 2s 9d; beans, 3s 4d; peas, 3s 2d to 3s 6d'; pollard, L 4; bran, L 3 10s; split peas, 16s 9d; rye grass seed, 3s 6d; Italian rye do, 3s 3d per bushel; cocksfoot, 3£d; cheese 4d to 4£d; hams and bacon, 7d ; eggs, lOd per doz ; fowls 2s 9d ; ducks, 4a 6d; geese, 6s; turkeys. 7s 6d per pair The weather is somewhat unpropitious for the sale of fruit, bananas only realising about 3s per bunch; best apples, 10s; second sorts, 7s to 8s ; and oranges, 5s to 7s.