Wellington Markets.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 273, 28 March 1894, Page 2

Wellington Markets.

♦ • ... Roller flour, £7 15s and £8 ss; stone process, £7 to £7 10s; good whole fowJs' wheat, 2s 6d to 2s 7d ; second samples, from 2s 2d to 2s 4d ; bran, £3; pollard, £3 ss ; prime short oats, 2s to 2s 2d ; long feed, Is lOd to 2s; oatmeal, £10 to £10 ss; oaten sheaf chaff, £3 10s to J64 j feed barley, 2s sd; pearl barley, 17s; ; blDe peas, 3s 6d; partridge do, 3s 6d ; split pgas, 15s ; horse beans, 3s 4d to 3s ad ; maize, 3s 6d ; cocksfoot grasss seed, 3|d to 4£d per lb; rye grass, 3s to 4s per bushel; Derwent potatoes, £2 10s to £3; kidneys are now unsaleable; onions, 4s; fresh butter is dull at 7d to lOd for separator, and 7d to 8d for dairy descriptions; factory cheese, 5d per lb; eggs have jumped to Is 9d per doz., but this value can only be of a temporary nature ; hams and bacon of the new cure are to hand, and prices' are firm at B|d to 9d per lb all round. Poultry is dull at following rates :— Fowls, 2s 6d to 2s 9d ; ducks, 3s; geese, ss; and turkeys, 7s per pair. Fungus is briskly enquired for at 3£d per lb, The fruit market is | fairly supplied, large shipments of ', bananas meeting ready sale at modeate prices.