WELLINGTON MARKETS

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 108, 19 March 1889, Page 3

WELLINGTON MARKETS

Wellington, Marcb 16

George Thomas and Co. report produce prices as follows : — The constant fluctuation in quotations of late have a serious effect upon the volume of business transacted. Buyers are placed in such a position as to be quite unaware as to a purchase made turning out a profitable venture ; consequently trade is restricted to entirely retail limits. With the majority of Southern millers, flour has advanced £\ per ton, in eousequeuce of the latest Australian news showing a considerable shortage in the yield of wheat. An impression prevails that there is nothing to warr. nt au immediate advance, consequently it is more than probable that prices will shortly rule at old figures again, viz., .£lO 15/- for roller and £9 10/- to £10 for stone process. A slight stiffness is noticeable in the oat market, while potatoes show a downward tendency. Oats, 2/7 to 2/9 ; oatmeal, £13 to £14 ; flour, £10 to £11 10/-; fowls' wheat, 3/8 to 3/11 ; bran, 4/10 ; pollard, £ » to £5 5/- ; feed barley, 2/9 to 3/- ; pearl, barley, £19; maize, 3/10 to 4/ ; }>eas, 3/6 to 3/8 ; beaus, 3/7 ; split peas, £15 ; rye grass, 3/6 to 4/- per bushel ; cocksfoot, 3d p» r lb ; Italian rye grass, 2/6 per bushel ; potatoes, £4 10/- to £4 15/- ; onions, £6 to £7 10/- ; eggs, 1/6 per dozen (scarce) ; honey, 4d to od ; hams and bacon, B£d ; cheese, 5d to s£d ; fresh butter, 9d ; salt do, 7d to Bd. The fruit market is almost bare of supplies, the only lines arriving being apples and pears (New Zealand), which are commanding fair prices. Fowls still rule .at 2/6 ; ducks, 3/6 ; turkeys, 6/» ; geese, 5/- per pair.