WELLINGTON MARKETS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 76, 17 December 1889, Page 3

WELLINGTON MARKETS.

Wellington. ,Dece.m ber 1 4. George Thomas v ~ana "Co/ report 1 tveak market for all descriptions o grain and produce.- Prices in th< Australian colonies are of such i nature r aa. tp entirely preclude ship jments.rin-facf values there-are, to tak< an average, a lower grade than at'th< New Zealand port of shipment Floui is quoted at £9 5/-- for roller, and £i 5/- to'-'£B' 1-5/- ,•• for stona process bran, £3 '5/- ; pollard, .£3 10/-; wheat meal, £8 15/« ; good- whole fowls -wheat, 3/2 ; broken do, 2/6 ; oats rule from 2/4 to 2/- 2|d';' oatmeal, ~£ 13 • oaten 'sheaf chaff,- £5 10/-,- straw do £2 15/- ,to^ £3 ; maize 3/6 ; feec barley, 3/- ; pearl do, £19 j blue peat 3/11 j- split peas, £15'; old potatoes any 1 price -up to £4 — the demand it limited and stocks- large 1 ; beans, 3/9 rye grass' and cocksfoot, no demand new" potatoes, round samples 3/6 U 4/- ; kidneys, 5/6 ; new onions, l£c per lb' -"fresh eggs, lid to 1/1, markei weaker,; hams and bacon," 7^d ; cheest " (Greytown), 5 Jd ; other' sorts, 4£d tt 5d ; farmers' do 3d 5 fresb butter, 6d ■salt butter,' 6d, nominal ? green peas 3d; 'rhubarb, 3/-" to 3/6 ;_ cherries 10/- to 11/*i;-red 'currants, 5/6 to 6/gooseberries, 2/6. ( Sydney ; fruits e\ Waihora,?npt being, in good condition, did .not" realise .satisfactory rates Poultry is inclined to be dull. Fowls. 2/6; geese, 5/-^ ducks, 3/6; turkeys, 7/- per pair. <.y - S ,