Commercial News
Wellington, December 13. Oeorge Tboniasand Co. report produce prices as follows : — Advices from South show ; an amount of activity in the.; export demand for oats, and prices have improved Id per bushel, (food whole fowls' wheat is very scarce. The market is glutted with chafi of all descriptions. New aid old. potatoes are but lightly held, but the suiallness of stocks is only of a temporary character. We quote— Flour, roller. £10 10s to £10 15s; stone process, £9- 10s ; fowls wheat, 3s 7d to 3s 9d; btan, 60s; pollard, '70s ; bats, Is 8d to Is lOd ; oatmeal, £9 to £9 ss; sheaf chaff, 65a t<» 70s ; straw do, £2 15s r baled straw, 67s 6d ; baled hay, £5 ; maize, 3s 9d ; beans 3s: 8d ; peas, 3s 9d ; split peas, £14 108 j;feed barley^ 2s -tdj pearl barley, £15; rye grass seed, machine dressed,: 5s 3d; farmers, do, 4s 6d ; cocksfoot, 3£d to 4d per lb ; good .sound J>ld potatoes, £2 15s; new round samples, £5 ;•' hams and bacon, 6j'd to 7d; cheese, new, 4£d; old, 4d; fresh butter, 6d to 7d ; salt do, 6d to 7d; eggs, lOd to 10£ d; new onions are ruling from If d to 2d per 1b;..01d samples are not obtainable. The spring products arriving are, rhubarb,. 3s to 5s per doz; green peas, 3d per peck; cheeries, 16s to 20s ; red currants, 7s per £-case ; tomatoes, 8d to lOd, Arrivals from Sydney and Fiji include oranges, lemons, apricots,, peaches, pears, bananas, pines, and coooanuts, all of which are feeling the effect of the anticipated. Christmas demand, and prices o,n the whole are satisfactory A large quantity of " poultry hai reached this market, in view of the season's, requirement. Fowls ar< ruling 1 at 3s; ducks, 4s; geese, 5s 6d 7s 6a per pair. •■■' , . London, December 13. South Australian .wheat, 38s 9d, firm Victoriiin do., 38s, business restricted ilew Zealand long berried wheat, 37s 6^l . steadyWellington hemp, fair to medium, L 2: 178t0L24,. New. Zenlnndi butter, best qualitj ; . averages L 5 4s per cwt. The: w;ool sales have closed with price at thejhiglK 8t point as compare I with ih October se ie«. Inferior merinos are 7 »per ccent| t and best merinos am} all cross "bredsb per cen*. ... .;=
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 77, 16 December 1890, Page 3
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377Commercial News Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 77, 16 December 1890, Page 3
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