WELLINGTON MARKETS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 52, 9 October 1888, Page 2

WELLINGTON MARKETS.

Wellington, October 6. George Thomas and Co. report produce prices as unaltered since last quoting. A fair demand exists for the leading lines of grain and breadstuffs, but sales generally are confined to retail parcels. Roller flour is ruling from £10 Ids to £11 ; stone process, £10 for sacks; bran, £3 15s; pollard, £4 ; whole fowls' wheat is scarce at 3s 6d, and broken samples 2s 9d per bushel ; good short oats are in request at 2s 6d to 2s 7d ; long feed ditto, 2s Sd to 2s 6d; oatmeal, £11 to £12, acoording to brand ; oaten sheaf chaff, £4 ; straw do, £3 ; maize, 3s 3d to 3s 6d per bushel; feed barley, 2s 9d; pearl barley, 18s; split peas, £16; field peas, 3s 3d to 3s 6d per bushel ; prime onions, £7 ; second quality £5 ; Oamaru potatoes, £4 10s ; second quality £3 Ids to £4; beans, 3s 6d; rye grass seed 3s ; Italian rye do, 2s 6d per bushel ; aromatic horse food, 5d per lb ; cheese, 4£d to 6d ; hams and bacon, 7d ; farmers' cure, 4d to 6d ; fresh butter, 8d ; eggs, 8d to B£d ; honey, 4d to sd ; lard 5d per lb. Very little fruit is now offering, supplies of apples being entirely exhausted. Sydney oranges are ex* pected on Tuesday; a few cases of Island ditto are now on the market at 12s 6d per case; rhubard is realising 4s to 4s 6d per doz; new potatoes, l£d per lb. Poultry remains scarce, and fowls command 3s 3d to 3s 6d ; geese, 7s; turkeys, 8s ; and ducks, 4s per pair.