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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume III, Issue 249, 24 June 1881, Page 2

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Wellington, June 23. Messrs Croskery, Hasell and Co. report sales in their rooms this week : —Flour, LlO 10s to Lll ; oatmeal, Lll ; pollard, L 5 10s ; bran, L 3 10s ; potatoes, L2 10s to L2 las ; chaff, L 4 10s per ton ; hams and bacon, guaranteed, 9d ; cheese, 4d to 44d ; butter, salt, 7d to 9d ; fresh, Is 2d to Is 3d per lb ; oats, 2s Gd ; barley, 2s 6d ; wheat, 3s 3d per bushel ; apples, 8s Gd to 10s ; pears, 12s to 13s ; oranges, Is to 9s; lemons 19s per case ; fowls, 3s Gd to 4s ; turkeys, 10s ; geese, Ss 6d per pair. Messrs Laery and Campbell report There was literally nothing doing at the market sale to-day. There was a very large attendance but no spirit to buy. One small lot of fresh butter was sold as low as Is per lb ; the remainder was withdrawn. Eggs were entirely without demand. Fruit is°plentifnl, and’ although there was no demand for it at auction a good steady business is doing privately at 9s to 10s per case, according to sample. Potatoes are still in a very unsettled state, and it would be difficult to give quotations. Business generally through the week has been brisk.

Messrs John Shaw and Sons, of 37, Mark Lane, London, E.C., report through their Agent, Mr Leonard W. Blake, of Christchurch, that in the Seed trade for the fortnight ending May Gth there was a good demand for all sorts of agricultural seeds, by which date, though the season was virtually over, stocks as predicted in previous reports, were left unprecedentedly low, more particularly of English red, cow grass, alsyke, and white clover. Fine qualities of alsyke and white clover were almost exhausted, in consequence of which a rise of fully 10s and 5s per cwt. respectively had taken place. Perennial ryegrass had been still in good demand at enhanced prices. Lucerne was very scarce and fully Ss per cwt. dearer. The sale for bird aecus continued extremely meagre.