Wellington Produce Markets.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 171, 17 June 1884, Page 2

Wellington Produce Markets.

„ ,7A ! 'I Or rTij ■. A \-.i'. : -'J ; vvellivgtost, Monday Morning. I Hasell and Qo^ report- price of produce without any material alteration since last quotations. Potatoes are coming freely from southern ports. Onions are still a drng-on the market. Salt butter is almost without- notice. Eggs are scarce. Fruit market woll supplied^ but prices ;ai;e ( too low to give satnafaction^td shippers. George Thomas reports produce prices as follows: — For all descriptions of.rgi-Rini .Business has been rather quiet, and various auctions advertised have ouly resulted m a few sules of small parcels, the larger lines having been withdrawn. Oats are ! unchanged, ruling from 2s 4d to 2s 7d ; maize is m light supply and demand at 4s 9df brail, inquired for and easily disposed^ £4 10s ; pollard, £5 to £5 10s ; chaff, £3 15a to £1 10s. Flour importations are heavy, and prefteut. prices show signs of a slight dejclinejvl quote for sacks, £10 to £I^los7 Adelaide, £14: Oatmeal, steadffat ss ; whole fowls' wheat Abundant, 8M ruling from 2* 6d to 3s 3d ; /barley/ 2s 6dr to 2s 9d; potatoesj 55s W 60s, aaeka ; onions^ from £5 to, L 6 10s; cheese is unaltered' at sa ; hams and bacon, 9d a-nd lOd respectively for Canterbury cure |; : : batter without iuquil# y;> good fresh do., 11J tp Is; eggs, more plentiful, Is 9d, with downward tendency; fowls very saleable, 3d ; to 8s 9d ; turkeys, 8s 6d ; ducks, '4s\j gee^e 6s per pair.