Wellington Markets

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 58, 6 September 1893, Page 2

Wellington Markets

Business in the leading descriptions of grain and seed products ia fairly active, and extensive sales are being made for spring sowing, which is now general. For roller flour of favorite brands, L 8 to L 8 10s is obtainable. The demand is slackening very considerably for bran and pollard, and the market for thtse lines is somewhat lifeless at 60s to 70s per ton, respectively; good whole fowls' wheat is in strong request at 2s 8d to 2s 9d ; baled straw, 55s to 60s ; prime short seed oats, 2s 7d to 2s 8d ; Tartarian do., 2s l)d ; good short and lone feed, 2s Gd to 2s 7d ; oaten sheaf chuff. 85s to 90s ; oatmeal, Lll to Lll 10s ; feed barley, 2s Gd ; beans, 3s Gd to 3s 7d ; blue peas, 3s 9d : split pens, 15s; pearl barley, LI B ]0s ; rye grass seed, 3s Gd to 4s ; cocksfoot, 3d to 3jd ; maize, 3s 8d to 3s lid for new and old, respectively ; eggs have come to hand in large quantities, and command Sd per doz ; prime separator butter, Is to Is UM per 1b ; dairy descriptions, 7d, Bd, and Dd ; the market is glutted with slocks of salt butter, which is impossible to quit at Gd per lb ; honey, 4d ; hams and bacon, 7 id to 8d per lb for Wellington and Canterbury ; cheese, best factory, 5. 1 d ; Akaroa, 4jd.