Wellington Markets.
George Thomas and Co. report Roller flour, £7 10s to £7 12s 6d ; stone do, £7. Whole fowl wheat, 2s 7fd to 2s 9d ; broken samples, 2s 3d. Bran, 52s 6d to 558 ; pollard, 755; baled straw, 555. Prime short oats, ls lOd to ls lid ; black and dun Tartars, ls lOd to 2s ; long feed, ls 8d to Is 9d. Oaten sheaf chaff (best), 755; good, 70s; inferior, 150 ato 655, Maize, 2s 9d ; beans, 3s; Blue pens, 38 8d ; Partridge, do ,3s 4d : split do, 14a 9d. Feed barley, 2s ; pearl do, 17a Derwent table potatoes, 35s to 87s 6d for prime and 82s 6d for fair samples. The demand for seed descriptions is about over. The market is supplied with American onions at 2d per lb Cheese, factory, 43d; hams and bacon 7d ; bacon, 6 J ; hams. 7£d. Fresh butter is overstocked, and sales are difficult to effect. Cream separator bas been sold at 7d to 9d ; dmry 6d to 7d ; pastry descriptions, 8d to 4d Ib. Eggs are overeupplied and have touched fijd per doz. Poultry is still in good demand fowls, 8s to 8s 6d ; ducks, 4s 6d ; geese, 5a 6d ; and tur J keys 8» per pair. Fungus is now briskly enquired for and worth 3d per lb.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 102, 24 October 1894, Page 3
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216Wellington Markets. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 102, 24 October 1894, Page 3
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