Wellington Markets.
Messrs Lacry and Campbettreport that business m produce is sound and good, hut owing to the anticipated large harvest, and there being* pa immediate outlet, transactions ate but small. Flour, £8 15sto £9 j filling wheat, 3s 6d ; chick wheat, 2s 6d to 2s 9d. Oats are coining forward abundantly, and may be quoted. at 2s 2d for new and 2s 5d for last .season's. Jams produced: by the New Zealand factories can be bought at 5s 6d per dozen, lib tins ; honeys 5d /per 1b ; beeswax^.lOd per lb,": totatoea^re m a transition state from the white to the keeping sorts, and are consequently unquotable; li fihe silverskinned onions are worth 12s, Iv butter there is very little doing 1 , and we should say ;7d pei* lb:,-^a.s a fair market quotation ; eggs have heea selling at auction, when guaranteed, at Is ~^d to Is 4d- fieri dozen j cheese, according to sample, is worth s£d ; Itucort and hams; m clbthy>lodso Is ; fowls and ducks; 3s 9d to 4s per pair; turke.s, 4s each. u»;i 1.-.'.f
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 61, 13 February 1885, Page 2
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177Wellington Markets. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 61, 13 February 1885, Page 2
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