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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 110, 15 March 1892, Page 3

George Thomas and Co. report wholesale produce prices as follows: — Since last quoting the market has remained in an unsettled state. Large quantities of grain are being offered at ruling values, butbuyers are exercising a degree of caution only warranted by the fact that at present it is difficult to arrive at a conclusion regarding permanent rates for the season. We quote roller flour, £12 10s ; stone do, £11 10s; whole fowls' wheat, 4s; baled wheaten straw, 655; prime shott oats, 2s ; fair to good feed do, Is lOjdto Is lid; sheaf chaff, 655; straw do, 52s 6d ; oatmeal, £9 10s to £10 ; feed barley, 2s 8d to 2s 9d ; Cape barley, 3s ; Derwent potatoes, £2 10s ; onions, from 3s 6d to 4s 6d (very plentiful) ; rye grass (Pacey'e English), 4s 6d ; N.Z. machine dressed, 4s to 4s 6d ; farmers 1 parcels, 3s 3d to 3s 6d ; cocksfoot, 3£d to 3fd per lb ; haras and bacon, 6£d ; cheese, 4£d to 4|d ; honey, 3£ to 4£d ; fresh butter, 8d to 9d ; salt do, B£d; eggs, Is per doz. The fruit market has been sparsely supplied from local quarters only, and prices are commencing to rise. The glut of summer fruits is now about over, and to a certain extent we must look outside N.Z. for assortments, other than apple. Poultry is dull. Fowls, 2s 9d; ducks, 3s ; geese, 4s 6d ; turkeys, 7s per pair.