Wellington Markets.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1576, 8 December 1885, Page 4

Wellington Markets.

George Thomas & Co. report produce prices as follows :— Flour (colonial) from £S 5s to .£8 15s ; Adelaide, £11 15s to good fowl wheat still commands extreme prices, ruling from 3s to 38 3d ; wheatraeal, £8 10s ; good bright "feed oats have now , but little enquiryf green feed being m such abundant supply, values are unaltered, and aver age" 2s 2d per bushel ; oatmeal ig somewhati weaker at £11 ; pollard and bran have a slight demand at last week's rates,:, £5 .5s to , £&, 15s respectively ; fowls' barley and maize are almost neglected, and quotations 2s- 6d and 4s are merely nominal ;' old potatoes drag •qnside'rablyr m consequence of the low rate rulingf.ir the new. crop, and a few occasional sales are reported at £3 to* £3 10s; oaten chaff, M- The following spring products are now being offered :-^New onions at 3d per ft ; potatoes, which 'are croming to hand m largaquaniit'6B,''£sAo £o 10a ; green 1 peas; market overdone, and quotations reduced to 4tl per peck ; cherries, sdpor ft ; gooseberries, 3d. per quart ;• red currants, 12s 61 per half-case ; eggs, demand not so brisk, and value reduced to Is and Is Id ; firesb butter, 8d ; salt do, very little offering, farn&rs T>r«ferrioer' to hold'' 'for higher rates, BJd to 9d ; fowls at 4s, ducks 4s 6d, sand geese 6s 6d per pair, maintain a fair demand. '