Wellington Markets

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 45, 22 August 1893, Page 3

Wellington Markets

Considerable activity is noticeable in the potato market, and sales are made at tip lo i's per ton. Onions — Locally crown are becoming scarce, and prices rule from IS to i'O per ton. The demand for prime oats if active, and there is no foehng of weakness in present rate?. I'riine ch«M»se is held for higher prices. Kolter flour, £H par ton ; bran, 65s ; pollard, 70s ; fowls' wheat, 2s Od ; prune milling ualß, 2s 7d to 2s 7 J4 ; long feed, 2t fid; oatmeal, ill 10*; oaten sheaf chafl, i.4 10s lo 15 ; whole beans, 3s 7d to Us B<l ; feed barley, 2s Od ; maize, new 8» 9d, old 4s ; rye grass seed, 8s Od to 4( ; cocksfoot, 2}d to 8d per 1b ; prime Derwent potatoes, £5 15s to £0 ; seed descriptions, £0 10s to £7 10a ; blue pear, 8s 9J ; pearl barley, £18 10s ; split peas, 15s ; hams and bacon, 7|d to 7 jd ; factory cheese, 5Jd ; honey, 4d ; fresh eg(?6 have come to hand in larße qnantities, and prices have dropped to Bd per doz ; fresh butter is also very plentiful at from Is to Is Id per 1b for separator, and sd, Gd, 7d, M, 9d, and 10d, according to quality, for dairy ; thi« line is very sluggish, and for sailed namplcs there ts not the sliijhtrst deuiaod. 1 otillry is in fair demand nt <<s 6d for fowls, -Is 6d to 5s for ducks, 7« to Ht for turkeys ; there are no goose otteruij,'. Sydney oranges, ex Hauroto, suld at prices from 8s 6d to 5s ; lemons, 7s to y* ; pine*, 7s Od to 8s per case. Fungus is dull of sale at 2|d per Ib.