WELLINGTON MARKETS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 135, 21 May 1889, Page 2

WELLINGTON MARKETS.

Wellington,. May 18V

George Thomas and Co. report * quiet week in all descriptions of produce. In wheat and flour there i* certainly a dropping tendency, although prices are still unaltered. Oat* maintain old rates, and holders are> firm in their demands- Pollard; and bran are scarce, and likely to remain so until the end of the winter. Potatoes are being, sent into market considerable quantities, many holder^ preferring to accept present rates than going to the expense and trouble of pitting their stocks. Salt butter hasno local demand. Onions are becoming very short, every ttvail^felp^toa being forwarded to- Sydney," wherS quotations rule from £ 14. Until t_u« day the arrivals of fruit were nil- j usual consguments of Fiji fruit,>"however have now stocked the markeV„ the demand not being satisfactory. We quote flour, £10 ;tO/- to ;£lft bran, £5; pollard, £o' : l5/r ; ; fowls* wheat, 3/6 to 3/9 ; oats, 2/10 to 8^ oatmeal, £14 10/- to £l ft jr-niaa^e^/--beans, 4/- ; peas, 3/9; potatoes, :£$ 15/^ to £4; onions, £12 10/- ? barleyV 3/3 to 3/6; pearl barley, 19/ ; split peas, 15/-; cheese, 5d to &Jd ; buttery 8d j fresh do, 10d; eggs, S/-'; v tyl* nuts, 6d to 7d; chestnuts, 9dttfTod; fowls, 2/6 ; ducks, 8/- j geesey, 5/6 ; turkeys, 6/.