WELLINGTON PRODUCE MARKETS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 26, 29 December 1883, Page 2

WELLINGTON PRODUCE MARKETS.

iMv George Tlipffla^repcffta 'fruit and produce prices as follow* :— Good short oats are held rather lightly and prices 2s | to 2s 2d; Flour Lll to Lll 5s ;• bran, L 4; sharpy, L 4 10s to L 5; oatmeal, 1.12; maize,. 3a 6d. Foils' wheat rules' from 2s ~6d to 3a 2d m consequence of. the great, variety of samples' offei ing. Old potatoes are dull at L3 lss m. sacks. Cheese (new) 5s 2d|to6s. Bacon and hams- m active demand£aU9d and IQd repetitively for Canterbury euro m doi h. - New potatoes are quite overstocked from Sydney sand5 and New Zealand ports; at auction no higher bids than L 5 canbe obtained for" round and L 6 lOsfor kuiney samples. Onions are being poured m daily, and rates have reduced to L 6 and L 2 per i. ton ; green peas from 8d to,-9d per peck. Eggs have advanced tola 6d per dozen, liut it is unlikely that this extra price will be maintained after the holidays. Only small shipments, of fruit, such as cherries and gooseberries, halve been placed, at prices ruling from 4s 6d_tp 10s per.£alf~case.' The bidding at usual auction sate hVs been characterised by an extreme dulnesS of competition. Poultry market, quite glutted. -Fowls fr6m 3s 9d to 4*pep' paiuj-^gf ese^ ss to to' 6s 6d per, pair j and . ducks, 4, s , 34 t°jfl* : ' ■'':"... \, .m"., ' " S"j iHa&ell and Go: report prices as under ?\ — .Flour and grain Without any alteratibnVMncd last quotations. ' Bacon and ha,ms are .iv demand at slightly adr vsln'ced rates; eggii'ai'e' Scarce at Is ( 4aj to- Is 6d per dozen ; cheese, sd'i6'' 6d ';' I butter market w ; el I supplied, and prices very low j new potatoes arie. coming freeljr at 5s to 6s ppr 'ftwt [dlof Dopant, $efcdar.e inquired for, h,i|t very, few of gcjod quality can be had. iWi'ng" the" week A large' quantity of bnioii^have cojrae intb the markiit^ and they are. now unsaleable at? 'ss tp 6s/|)'pr pwt.' poultry |s\ery fepai-ge ii^d b^ngs higl(' rates, • ■ ' '■■■■■■ •■'