Wellington Markets.
MESSRS GEORGE THOMAS & CO'S BEPORT. With the exception of a slight, decline : in potatoes and salt butter there are no changes of any moment to note, there fore a resutn6 of current rates, without remark, will be deemed sufficient information. Flour, £8 15s tb £9 ss ; fowls' , wheat, 3s 3d to 3s 6d; bran, £5 15s; pollard j £6 ; bate (short milling), 2s 7d ; feed 2s 5d to 2s 6d ; oatmeal, £13; maize, 43 ; barley tailings, 2s 9d ; bearl barley, £18 ; potatoes, for kiduey samples, the demand is slackening off, and are not worth more than £4 10s ; ; Derwents, which are not sufficiently] ripe, are not yet sufficiently ripe, are also ruling at this figure ; onions, £9 ; hams and bacon, 8d to B£d; eggs, in '-demand at Is 3d:; cheese, :s|d to 6d; fresh butter, in plentiful supply, at lid; salt dpris -<[uite-negleoted,_and_w©_do ; not oSre A<>_ quote higher than B^d per Ib in the face of Sydney advices, which state that lOd is the highest price, obtainable -there for prime parcels. Poultry shows no improvement, and we quotes-Fowls, 3s 3d; ducks, 3s 6d; geese, 6s per pair.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1642, 23 February 1886, Page 2
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189Wellington Markets. Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1642, 23 February 1886, Page 2
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