Wellington Markets.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 256, 6 March 1894, Page 3

Wellington Markets.

Roller flour (200's), £7 15s to £8 03 ; stone process, £7 10s to £7 15s per ton ; fowls' wheat, 2s Gel to 2s 9d according to quality ; bran, £3 ; pollard, £3 os per ton ; wheatir.eal, £9 per ton for 25's ; baled straw, 50s per ton ; prime short oats, 2s 2d to 2s 3d ; good long feed, 2s to 2s 3d : dun aud black seed do., 2s 4d to 2s 5d ; oatmeal, £11 to £11 10s per ton; oaten sheaf chaff, £3 los to £ 4 per ton ; beans, 3s 4d to 3s 6d ; blue and partridge peas, 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; split peas, 15s ; pearl barley, 17s 6d ; maize, 3s 6d to 3s 7d ; cocksfoot grass seed scarce at 4d to 4^(l per lb ; rye grass, on the other hand, is plentiful at 2s 6d to 3s 6d per bushel : feed barley, 2s 6d ; potatoes, £2 10s to £2 15s per ton ; onions, very much overstocked, £4 10s to £5 per ton ; prime factory cheese, 5d to s]d per lb; * bacon, very scarce, a few cases offering at B^d ; hams, 10 1 per lb ; fresh batter, separator, 9d to I Id ; dairy, 7d to 8d per lb ; honey, 3£d to lid per lb ; lard, 4d to 5d ; eggs are plentiful at Is per doz. ; there is no demand of any description for salt butter ; fungus is easily disposed of at 3j;d to 3 Ad per lb. Poultry is exceedingly dull at following prices : Fowls, 2s 6d ; fat ducks, 3s to 3s 6d j turkeys, 7s 6d : and geese, 5s per pair. Large supplies of fruit have quite overstocked the trade, and prices show an all round reduction, especially as regards pears, lemons, tomatoes, and apples, all of which are now ruling at low rates. Small shipments next week will probably have the effect of reviving the present drooping tone of our most erratic market.