WELLINGTON MARKETS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 74, 20 December 1888, Page 2

WELLINGTON MARKETS.

Wellington, Dec. 17. George Thomas and Co. report as a quiet week in produce lines, the extreme prices now asked for leading lines greatly restricting business, and confining sales entirely to retail limits. Flour shows no further disposition to advance, and oats are stationary at last quoted rates. Large quantities of all descriptions of feeding grain and dairy produce are heing forwarded to Australia, and each steamer leaving is a full vessel ; in fact, the passenger accommodation is encroached upon for space. There is a danger of present stock heing utilised for shipment, and an eventual scarcity in this Colony until harvest but it must necessarily be of only short duration. We quote : — Oats, 4s; oatmeal, L2O ; sheaf chaff, L 4 10/-; straw do, L 3; roller flour, Ll2 10/- to Ll3 ; stone do, Lll 10/- ; bran, Lo 10/-; pollard, L 5 10/-; feed barley, 8/9 ; beans, 4/- ; maize 4/6 ; peas, 3/9 ; new potatoes, L 6 10/- to L 7 for round, and L Bto L 8 10/- for kidney samples ; onions, Ll6 per ton for best sorts ; cheese, s^d to 6d ; hams and bacon, B£d ; eggs, 1/- to 1/- Id per doz ; lard, 3d to sd ; honey, 4d ; green peas, 3/- per sack ; rhubarb, 4/6 per doz ; Nelson cherries, 8/- to 10/- ; red currant.", 7/- ; gooseberries, 3/6 per half case ; Sydney oranges, 12/- to 16/- per case; lemons, 8/- to 10/- ; apricots, 7/- to 10/- ; pears, 15/-; peaches, 10/- ; apples, 8/- ; Melbourne cheeries, 11/- to 14/* ; plums, 7/-. The poultry market is dull and prices very low. We quote — Fowls, 2/6 ; geese, 5/- ; ducks, 3/6 ; turkeys, 7/- per pair. A shipment of American apples to arrive ou Monday should find ready bale. Fruit is very scarce, and a strong demand exists for Christmas supplies.