Wellington Markets

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 93, 17 October 1893, Page 2

Wellington Markets

♦ . There are no changes of note to report in the leading description* of grain. | Potatoes haTe again tlightly recorered their ralne, but the season is now almost over. Plentiful supplies of fairly good Victorian onions keep the market well stooked. Whole fowl wheat has adnaaced 2d per bushel, We quote:— Holler flour. L 8 to L 8 iOs ; bran, 3i sd; pollard, L 3 10s ; whole fowl wheat. 2s 9d to Us lOd ; prime oats, 2s 6d to 2s 7d ; inferior sorts, 2s 4d to 2s sd ; oatmeal, Lll to Lll 10s ; oaten sheaf chnff, 85s to 90s; maize, 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; beans, 3s 6d ; peas, 3s 6d ; feed barley, 2s 6d ; pearl barley, 19s ; split peas, 15s; good table potatoes, L 5 ss ; prime onions, Ll2; factory cheese, 5Jd; hams and bacon, 7£d to 8d ; honey, 4d ; butter— separator, 8d to lOd ; dairy, 6d to 7d ; salt do, no enquiry ; eggs, saleable at 8d per dos ; fowls, 3s 6J; ducks, 4s 6d; geese, 6s ; and turkeys 7s to 8s per pair. Moderate shipments of Sydney fruits landed ex Hauroto (a large quantity being in bad order), ralues ruled from 3s 9d to 8s for oranges ; 6s to 13s for mandar* ines ; and 6s lemons. The Manapoun, from Hobart, landed 500 cases Tester-* day, which were, we regret to mote, in bad order. We look for an average of 8s per case all round. Rhubarb i» now > in general request at 5s to 5s 6d per doz; asparagus, 4s to 5s per doz • new potatoes, l±d per ft ; and cucum<. bers, 6s to 8s per dozen.