Commercial News
WELLINGTON MARKETS. .. . W Ellington, October 19. George Thomas and Co. report produce "prices as follows : — Trade generally is 'exceeding quiet there being quite a; lull in the produce market. Oats remain as last quoted, with no tendency to chauge. The demand for flour is slack, consumers anticipating a further slight decline. All feeding grain is neglected. A movement is still noticeable m old potatoes, but the inquiry is not of 5 " a local nature, spriiigingfrom the Australian markets; it is however, a risky experiment dabbling too largely in this line for shipment at such : a late part of the season. We quote — Oats, 2/d to 2/6 ; oatmeal, £13 10/ ; oaten sheaf chaff, £5; straw do, £3; flour, £8 10/- to £9 15/; fowls' wheat, 3/- to 3/6; bran, £3 10/- ; pollard,' £3 15/- ; maize, 3/- to 3/6 ; feed barley, 3/- ; pearl do, £-19 f.lO/- ; blue peas, 4/-; split, peas, £15; old potatoes, £3 15/---to £5, according to quality ; hams and bacon, 7£d ; cheese, 4£d to s £d ; honey, 4d ; salt butter, 6d ; fresh do, sdto6d; eggs, 8d; new potatoes, Id per lb; rhubarb, 4/- per dozen; asparagus, 12/- per dozen; island oranges, in bad order, 5/- to 9/- ; lemons, ,12/6 ; epepanuts, 7/6 ; onions, 3Jd to 4d for primest quality—shipments from fiydney, to arrive on Mohday, should reach a fair market. Poultry is fairly active — Fowls, 3/- - ducks, 4/- ; turkeys, 7/- ; geese, 6/; per pair,
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 53, 22 October 1889, Page 3
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236Commercial News Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 53, 22 October 1889, Page 3
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