WELLINGTON MARKETS.
Wellington, November 17. George Thomas and Co. report as follows : — The demand for oats continues firm, and, as predicted last week, prices have advanced 2d per bushel, standing now at 2s Bd, and we look for still higher tates. Fowls' wheat is very scarce, and worth from 3s 6d to 3s 9d, according to sample ; milling wheat may be quoted at 3s to 4s sd. Old potatoes are scarce at £7 per ton. Flour has adraaced in value i by £ 1 per ton, and now stands as follows : — Holler process £11 10s, stone do £10 10s. Oatmeal is firm at £12 10s to £13 10s; bran, 43 15s; pollard, £4 ; maize, 3s 6d ; feed barley, 2s 9d ; Cape do, Ss 6d ; pearl barley, 20s ; beans, 8s 3d ; peas 3s 6d ; split peas, £15 ; onions, 18s to 20s per cwt. Egpfß, 8d to 9d ; factory cheese, s£d ; bacon and bams 7£d, in cloth 7}d ; fresh butter 8d ; salt do. 8d ; huuey, 4d to sd, Green peas, lOd to Is per peck ; new potatoes, 8s to 9s ; rhubarb, 2s 6d to 4s. Island oranges. 10s to 11s 8d; American apples, 20s; Sydney orauges, 7s to 13s; lemons, 10s to lie. Fowls, 3s 6d; ducks, 4s geese, 6s ; and turkeys, 7s per pair.
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 61, 20 November 1888, Page 2
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