Wellington Markets.
MESSRS GjSORGE THOMAS & CO* REPORT.
Trade has been well sustained during the week, and the demand for Christmas requisites such as hams, bacon, poultry, and fruit, hag been very large. Flour and grain are quite unaltered, andwitljout any interesting features. A brisk inquiry exists for good fowls' wheat . at 8s 2dto 3a 3d ; cheese.Jsteady, 5d to 6dj; hams and bacon, B£d to lOd ; salt butter, 8d to Bid ; fresh do, 8d ; old potatoes, £2 10a ; kidneys,. £8 ; round samples, £5 ; onions from 2d per lb ; eggs, Is per doz ; peas, 5s per sack. Fruit — Cherries 7s 6d to 88 6d ; plums, 7s to 8s 6d ; red and black currants, 6d per H>; gooseberries, 4s per half-case.^ Poultry — Turkeys, 14s to 16s ; geese 6s 6d to 7s ; ducks, 4s 6d; and fowls,' 4s per pair, >
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1588, 22 December 1885, Page 2
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136Wellington Markets. Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1588, 22 December 1885, Page 2
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