Wellington Markets.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1689, 20 April 1886, Page 2

Wellington Markets.

MESSRS GEORGE THOMAS & COS BEPORT. The market continues steady at last quotations. Flour — Colonial, £8 ,15s to £10 ; Adelaide, £12. Fowl wheat, scarce 3s 5d to 3s 6d ; bran and pollard; — a strong demand for both lines exists at £G aU round; wheatmeal, £9 10s; good feed oats, 2s 4d ; milling do, 2s 6d ; oatmeal, £12 10s; feed barley, 2s 6d to 2s 9d. Potatoes are being pushed into the market with great rapidity, and prices for prime parcels are from £3 10s to £3 15s. Onions are somewhat over stocked at £6 to £6 10s per ton. Dairy and Farm Produce— Cheese has only moderate inquiry at 5d to s^l; hams and bacon rule from 5d to B£<l, according to quality and cure ; eggs are scare at Is lOd per doz ; fresh butter, lOd to Is ; salt butter, neglected, and nominally worth B£d ; unadulterated honey is steady at 5M to 6d per ft. Poultry is inclined to improve sliehtly m price, although at present quotations are — Fowl, 3s ; ducks, 3s 6d : geese, 6s ; and tarkeys, 10s per pair. The fruit market is fully supplied, and prices are exceedingly low; m fact, it is quite impossible to sell the common classes, unless at a ruinous sacrifice.