COMMERCIAL NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 105, 8 April 1885, Page 2

COMMERCIAL NEWS.

Wellington Markets,

George Thomas reports produce prices as fellows :— The month has opened somewhat briskly, and horse and cattle feed is now being generally enquired for m rather larger quantities that has been the ense during tho past few weeks. Oats are slightly ensier, and as tlm samples are widely different m quality, quotations range as follows — Short milling, 2s 4d to 2s 5d ; good short fcrd, 2s 3:1 ; and old oats, which are now rather interior Is lid to 2s per bushel. Flour (colonial), £8 10s to £9 ; Adelaide, £12 to £12 10s. Wheat, for feeding pnrposes, is likely to become exceedingly plentiful ; a large quantity of the Canterbury . crop while being harvested through the late heavy weather has become sprouted, and quite unfit for milling purposes ; the prices at present rule from 2a 9d per bushel. Potatoes are still m request at £3 per ton, the market being mainly supplied from Blenheim; onions show no chance of an upward tendency, stocks plentiful at £6 ; cheese, 5d ; salt butter nomiually 8d ; eggs are hard to obtain, and there is quite a bare market, 2s 3d is readily obtainable ; bacon and horns, 9£d ; farmers' cure 7d. Poultry steady at following ratesTurkeys, 10a ; geese, 6s ; ducks, 4s ; fowls, 3s 9d per pair.