Wellington Markets

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 105, 31 October 1893, Page 2

Wellington Markets

The value of potatoes is stiJl well maintained, ami the Hauroto, on Thursday, taking over 3000 sacks fpr Sydney, still further denudes the market- Good whole fowls' wheat is becoming scarce. Qtber than the above there are no changes to note. Oats rule from 2s 5,d to 2s 7d for feed to prime short milling ; best oaten sheaf chaff, Hf>s to 00s ; oatmeal, £11 10s; roller tlonr (200's), £8 to £8 10s ; utone process, £7 15s to £8 ; bran £3 5s ; pollard, itt 10s ; whole fowls' wheat, 2s lOd to 2s 10. Ul ; broken samples, 2s 4d to 2s 6d ; baled straw, 55s to 60s ; maize, 8s Gd ; blue peas, Us '3d ; split peas, 15s ; pearl barley, 18s ; feed barler, 2s 7d ; beans (wholo), 3s (>d ; good Melbourne onions, 12s 6d ; Derwent table potatoes, £6 to £6 ;'>a ; seed do, £5 10a to i'6 ; prime factory cheese, 5Ad ; fresh butter is overstocked, dairy ruling from 5d to 7d ; and separator from 9d to lOd ; hams and bacon, Bd all round ; eggs in good demand at 8d per dozen ; honey, 4d ; farmers' cure hams and bacon, 6d ; fowls, 8s 6d ; ducks, 4s 6d ; turkeys, 7s to 8s per pair. The arrivals of spring products include rhubarb at 4s to 5s per dozen ; asparagus, os to 5s 6d per dozen ; green peas, Bd to Is per peck, according to quality ; cauliflowers, 7s 6d sack ; cabbages,' Is (id to 2s (id per sack ; large arrivals of Sv«lnej and Fiji fruit excited keen competition ; oranges, good quality, 7s b'd to Hs Oil ; mandarins, 10s to 12s ; passions, l.'fs ; pines, 7s to 10s ; bananas, 2s to Us per bunch, according to size ; Tahiti oranges, 10s to 11s per case ; lemons, Us to 12s ; walnuts, Gd to bid per Ib ; foi^'Uß is iu request at M per Ib.