Commercial News
WELLINGTON MARKETS, - . WKtLlNsroy. Aojjust 31. George Thomas and Go. report pro* duce prices as follows: — The closing' of the winter season is hairing its customary effect upon the volume of business transacted in ordinary feeding; lines. Oats are dull of sale in small lots for retail demand at 3/- to 3/3 j seed do, 3/4 to 3/6 ; oatmeal, £14 10/-; oaten sheaf chaff, £4 10/. to £5; straw do, £-3 ; bran and pollard are both offering this week by millers at considerable, reductions on late rate* quotations- here are £4 5/- and. £4 15/- respectively ; wh )le fowls* wheat 3/4 to 3/5 ; broken,. 2/6 to 2/9 ; roller flour, £10 5/» to £10 10/- ; stone do, £9 5/- to £9 10/*; wheat meal, £10; maize, 3/3 to 3/6 ; feed barley, 3/- to 3/3; pearl barley, 3/- to 3/3; pearl harksyr £18 ; peas, 3/9 ; beans,. 3/9 ; potatoes, £4 10/- to £4 15/- ; onions, American, 3d to 3£d ; cheese, dull, 4d to 4£d ; fresh butter, 8d to 9d per lb ; salt do, a glut, 4d to 6d for good samples, 2d to 3d for off sorts ; eggs, - plentifully supplied, 7d to 8d per doz ; * fowls' 2/6; ducks, 3/6; geese, 6/-; turkeys, 6/6 per pair, Hobart applesand Sydney fruits are the only lines in this branch to note j the former command 8/- to 12/, Oranges 8/- to 10/ ; mandarins, 8/- to 14/-; lemons, 10/- to 12/- ; Passion fruit, 10/. Messrs Edwards and Mcßeath report on the labour market i — We have been exceedingly busy this week, especially with country orders, both for male and female.
By Electric Telegraph.*-—Copyright. (PER PKEBB ASSOCIATION.) London, September 1. .-<■ The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's shares are quoted at Tallow—Medium mutton, 265;- beef, 245. , ■ - The English wheat market has declined a little, Continental ig uncharged, and American steady.
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 34, 3 September 1889, Page 2
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304Commercial News Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 34, 3 September 1889, Page 2
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