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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 143, 26 May 1891, Page 2

WELfciNGTON, May 23. George Thomas & Co. report wholesale produce prices as follows ; —Business, owing to the inclement" weather is restricted and dull. In oats and wheat there is a tendency toward speculation, owing to the Government statistics just -published showing a deficiency in the New' Zealand wheat crop of over 3 million bushels, and a shortage on the oat yield of 2 million bushels, as compared with last year's returns* Potatoes are still very plentiful, and values are low. Salt butter has slight enquiry from Australia for prime sepa-ator. We quote milling oats, 28; fair and good feed ls,9d to Is lOd; common Is Bd?' oatmeal has advanced 10s, and how- rules from £9 10a to £9 15s; sh af chaff, £3 to ;£3 10s J straw do, £2 15s; roller flour, £12 to £12 15s; stone do> £10 10s. to £11; pollard, £4 10s; bran, £3 10s; whole fowlßj wheat, 3a lOd to 3s lid ; maize, 3s 6d I feed barley, 2a 6d; pearl barleyj i!ls 10a; split peas, .£l4 10s; Prussian blue peasj 3s 6d; beans, 3s 4d; Derwent potatoes, 40s to 45s ; onions (prime dry)) £4:10s to £5; cocksfoot grass seed, 4d to 4Jd; rye grass, 4s 9d to ss; carrots, 35s to 40s; cheese, 4£d ; bacon and hams, 6d; honey, 4d to 4^d; fresh butfcer 8d ; cream separator, 10d; salt butter, 6d; fresh eggs, Id 9d; do limed, Is 6d; fowls, 2s 3d to 2s 6d; ducks. 3s 6d; turkeys, 6s; geese, 6s per pair. Shipments of fruit have been dealt with from all parts. Baianas, arriving in bad order, sold from 6d per bunch to 4s; peanuts, 2£d ; cocoanuts, 8s j oranges, 7s 6d to 9s; lemons, 7s to 9s; prime dessert pears, lls to 14s; cooking do, 10s. Apples from Auckland disU-icts'how fairly supply domands, and prices are from 5s to 7s per bushel case ; walnuts, 6d; grapes, Is;. pie melons, 4s per cwt*