Commercial News
Wellington, August 16. Leary and Co. report prices for the past week: — Potatoes, 50s to 55a; oats, Is 6d to la 9d ; pollard, 80s; bran, 70s ; oaten sheaf chaff, 68s to 70s; oatmeal, £9 10s; maize, 3s; wheat, 3s 4d ; fowls' 2s 6d to 2s 9d ; malting barley, 3s (nominal}; beans, 3s ; peas, 3s ; pearl barley, £17; flour, £9 10s; wheatmeal, £10; bacon (Dimock's cure), 6£d ; hams, 8d; cheese, 3±d to 4^d ; eggs, Is; turkeys, 7s ; geese, 5s ; ducks, 3s 6d ; fowls' 2s 9d per pair; figs, 7s and 225 ; new date?, s£d ; old do, 4£d ; apples, 5s 6d to 8d ; Barcelona nu^s, 6£d ; almoud nuts, 9£d ; peanuts, 2d to 2£d ; oranges, 4s to 7s 6d ; lemons, 6s 6d to 9s ; cocksfoot grass seed, 3 Jd to 4d ; salt butter, 6d to 7d ; fresh do (in pats, farmers' make), 9d ; factorymade. ll£d; honey, 4d to 4.} d ; rape seed, 10s; onions, £10; seed potatoes, 55s to 60s; hops, 8d (nominal).
have received the following cable message from their London office, dated 15th August :— Tallow is in good demand. Mutton tallow has »ilvanced 6d and beef tallow 3d per cwt. since last report. Frozen and preserved meats — Market quiet. Canrt-rKury inuttou is worth 4^l and Wellington mutton «3|-d per lb. Prime New Zealand lambs are worth per caicase od per lb. New Zealand heel' prime fore^uarters worth 2id and hindquuiters 3fd per lb. New Zealand hemp — There is a fair iride de maud. Quotations unchanged.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 27, 19 August 1890, Page 3
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246Commercial News Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 27, 19 August 1890, Page 3
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