Wellington Markets.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1636, 16 February 1886, Page 2

Wellington Markets.

Messrs geqrge thoma^.& co'S I REPORT. .

I The harvesting and threshing ofoati Has pot yet sufficiently advance d for us to give an idea as to the prospect of present prices being affected.; it is, however, a pretty general opinion that values will' ; sule.frqm 3d to 4d psr bushel higher 1 than the rate's and quotations ot last season: At present vre report light supply rind demand at 2s 5d to 2s 6d perbushel. Flour still remains firm at £9 to £9 ss"; fowls' wheat, 8s 4d to 3s 6d; potatoes are easier, and as Southern centres are i now operating, we look for a decrease m the present quotations, £4 15s to £5; onions sell slowly at £9 per ton ; hams and bacon, 8d to 9d; farmers cure, 6d ; cheese, s£d to 6d per ft; eargs, of guaranteed quality, Is 3d per dozen ; fresh butter, Is per Ib, without , much enquiry; salt butter, 10£ d, limited demand. The fruit market is m an exceedingly unsettled condition, and/ we see nothing, during the greater portion .of .the season, but a scarcity of supplies. The Codlin Moth Act, now rigidly m force, virtually precludes all shipments of ajSples and ! pears from the extensive growing districts of the other colonies, irom which .we draw supplies during the winter., mpnfchs. We hope shortly tp see a relaxation of the law relative tb this hiatter. Nelson. f ruits kave meet with 'ready demand during this Week, pears ruling from Sstb 9s ; peaches, 7s to 11s; apples, 3s to 6s per case ; plums) 4s 6d to ss ; gages, ss ; nectarines, ,6s per half-case. .Poultry, still hither dull— Greeae, 6a ,\ fowls, 3s 6d; ducks, 3s 6d to 3s 9d per pair.

• The Post has the following: — Siiitors havine: cases m the various law courtg pntertain either extremely haay notions of the duties and powers of reporters for the public press, or else they imagine that the ."recording angels'! are,, indeed, neither more nor less than fallen agels. At the Magistrate's Court this morning the representative of this journal received no less than three separate applications to suppress the names of defendants m civ 1 cases. In one instance the applicant— a lady — put it fairly and 'squjireiy $> the reporter as a pure matter of business what his oharge would be to suppress her name m the paper. Common politeness dtte to the sex alone ipre vented the scribe from expressing " & bit of his mind." .:=;.. From a report m our contemporary, the Bruce Herald, we learn that the Milton Borough Council stands m the happy pesition of being without debt* From the same source we also gather that the Milton Borough has an endowment of 2000 acres of land. Milton .is a borough m Otago. ' Twas a good record, that which was tabled at the Wesleyan Conference last week. •' All. the ministers of the denomination wera total abstainers, and nine tenths of the members of congregations." A glorious statement, indeed, and m the highest degree creditable to , the Weslcyan body. If the churches won't lead m the matter of temperance, m what branch of ethics do. they take particular pride, I shoul.i like to bo informed. — "Asmodeus" m New Zealand 3fail.