WELLINGTON MARKETS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 60, 3 February 1883, Page 2

WELLINGTON MARKETS.

BTassell and Co. .report. :•— Flour, £10 to : £ll ; batmeaV'£ls ; bran,'£ i ; pollard* i>s ; potatoes, £5 to £6 ; onions, £16 per ton. Oats, 2s. 9d,_to 35 .6 d ; wheat, ,3s 6d to 4s 6d ; maize, 4s 9d per.bulhel. Butter, 7d to Bd, bacon and hams, 9d per 1b ; eggs, Is to Is, id. Fowls, 3s 6d ;. ducks, 4s per pair. Business m grain particularly -slow, as buyers are holding off, waiting arrival ! of new crop. liaery and Campbell report : — Eggs are more scarce, and -worth la 2d per dozen. J The • market Ms .quite bare of butter, both fresh and plaited ; there have been inquiries for'salt'butterdurrag the week. 'Poultry has been m very small supply, but, even so, is hard to place. Potatoes may be quoted as m brisk demand at £6 per ton. Onions, slow of sale at ljd to 2dper lb. In other produce there is literally no busi*. ness doing except m. quit.c retail Iqts._, ;- George Thomas reports a plentiful supply of old oats to hand, and several cargoes on the water. Prices are quite nominal, ruling from 2s lid to 3s 3d, bni the samples are fur from first class, and this may probably account for a proportion; of the : jdeclinje, m prices. Wlieat (tow/s'), heavily" stocked, ruling from3rßdt'6 3slod; barTey, 3s Yd to 3s 9d ; maize, very -little- sale, aud none offering, 4s- 6d to 4a 9<l is considered a fair market report ; flour, £10 153 to £11; oatmeal, £15; brftßj £4 10s j pollard, £5 Is ; hams agd bacon, 8p to.9d; cheese, 7£d; butter, B|d to W. ■A^go^inquirj .exists for grass seed. For first«class ' perennial rye-grass seed 4s 6d to 4s 9d is quoted? j .there have been some transactions at* the former figure ; cocksfoot is worth 4d to 4£d. Butter is quoted at 7£d to. 8d per ;-lb for prime potted; Cheese, Bd. ;