WELLINGTON MARKETS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 85, 24 January 1889, Page 3

WELLINGTON MARKETS.

Wellington,' January 19. George Thoni as and Co. report : ~ The stagnation in trade ib very mnrkeH consequent upon the change of seasons now immiiient, buyers preferring to make purchases for immediate requirements only. Prices generally show a further decline, but the recent advices of the renewal of the drought in Australia will very probably arrest the downward movement in oats, bran, pollard, chaff, butter and cheese. Potatoes are now operating from other markets, and prices rule from £6 10/- to £7 ; flour, £10 to £12; fowls wheat, 4/- to 4/3; bran, £4 10/- ; pollard, £5 ; short oats, 3/5 to 3/6; long Danish and Tartarian, 3/3 to 8/4 ; oatmeal, £17 10/- ; oaten, straw chaff, £3; barley, 8/3; maize, 4/6 to 4/8 ; beans, 3/9 ; peas, 3/6 to 3/9 ; onions, £8 to £9 ; ryegrass, 3/to 3/6 per bushel* ; cocksfoot, 3d to B£d per lb; pearl Parley, £18; split peas, £15 ; factory hams and bacon, 8d ; hams, 9£d ; cheese* s^d to 63 ; eggs, very dull, 7d to 8d ; fresh butter, 7d ; salt butter, 7d to 7£d ; honey, 3d to 4d. Sydney fruits, ex Tekapo, realised good prices, excepting plums, which are now selling at a lower figure. Melbourne consignments consisted wholly jf plums, which ruled at 4/« per half-case. Poultry is still exceedingly dull, and inquiries are not numerous ; quotations are nominally as follow :— Fowls, 2/6 ; ducks, 3/- ; geese, 5/- ; turkeys, 7/- per pair.