Wellington Markets

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 75, 26 September 1893, Page 3

Wellington Markets

— ♦ Best brands roller flour, £8 to £8 10s ; fltone process, £7 15s ; bran 65s ; pollard 70s ; /?ood whole fowls wheat, 2s 9d to 2s lOd; broken do, 2s 3d to 2s 4d ; prime short oats, 2s 7d to 2s 7Ad ; long feed, 2s 6d ; seed Tartars (black, dun and •white), 2s 8d to 2s 6d ; oatmeal, £11 to £11 10s; oaten sheaf chaff . 85a to 955; according to quality; maize, Ss 6d to !)s 9d ; beans, 3s 6d ; blue peas, 3s 7d ; split peas, 15s ; pearl barley, 19s ; feed barley 2s 7d ; prime Derwent potatoes, X'o to £5 os ; the enquiry for seed samples is now becoming trifling; the supply of local onions is now exhausted, and the market is now dependant upon American and Melbourne for supplies; the former is quoted at 2M, and the latter at l*d per lb ; prime cheese, oAd ; hams and bacon, 8d; fresh butter, lfd for separator, and 7d, 8d and 9d for best dairy ; eggs are in demand at 8d per dozen ; honey, 4d per lb ; fungua, 2Jd to 3d, Poultry is saleable at following prices : — Fowls, 3a 6d ; ducka, 4s 6d ; turkeys, 8s ; geese, 6s per pair. The fruit market is fairly active ; further supplies of Hobart apples are to hand, and prices are depressed. Largo consignments of bananas, and other Island fruits, will land on Monday, together with Sydney oranges &c. First arrival of rhubarb, new potatoes, and asparages are to hand.