Wellington Markets

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 37, 13 September 1892, Page 2

Wellington Markets

George Thomas & Co. report wholesale produce prices as follows :— There are no changes to note in either grain or brcadstuffs, and we can onlj repeat last week's values. Boiler Hour is nominally quoted by Millers' Association agents at £10 12s 6d, but these prices are undercut by other holders of the same brands by quite 10s per ton—* nice state of affairs truly ; stone brands command £9 10s ; fowls' wheat rules from 2s 9d to 3s ; bran, £4 ; pollard, £4i 5s ; prime short oats, 2s 4d ; fair to good feed. 2s 2M to 2s 3\d; oatmeal, £10 10s to £11 10s ; sheaf chaff, from 75s to 90s ; maize, firm at 3s ; feed bar* ley, 2s Sd to 2s 9d ; beans, 3s 9d ; blue peas, 3s lOd ; pearl barley, 16s ; split peas, 15s 6d ; rye grass seed, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; cocksfoot, 3d to 3sd ; prime Der« went potatoes, 30s to 40s for Blenheim and Oamaru respectively ; prime onions are not to be had ; a quantity inferior offering at 3s per sack ; factory cheese, 6d ; hams nnd bacon, 6|d ; eggs, plentiful. 7d to 7U ; fresh butter, 10d to Is ; salt do., 9d to lid ; fowl?, 3s to 3s 6d ; ducks, 4s ; geese, 6s ; turkeys, 6s 6d per pair. The fruit market is replete with supplies from Fiji, Sydney and Hobart; apples show a marked downward tend* ency, supplies being too heavy. The same remarks apply to Sydriey descriptions, which, arriving in very bad, order have been sold at prices to simply corer

cunrges.