Wellington Markets.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1740, 22 June 1886, Page 2

Wellington Markets.

MESSRS GEORGE THOMAS * COS REPORT.

There is a general rise m all leading lines of grain and breadstuffs. The market during the week, has become: quite excited through the constant changes m quotation^ all being of an upward tendency. Flour has advancecl to£ll to £12. It has been found that the wheat crop I (New Zealand) m comparison with last year's" yield is deficient by quite onehalf, although the acreage ..has slightly increased/ this being due to the late extreuiely dry season, which. has greatly affected the results for both oats and wheat. Fowls' wheat is exceedingly scarce, and fully worth 3i 9d to 3s lOd for good samples. Pollard and bran are almost unobtainable at £7 and M 10s respectively. Oats have advanced to 2s 6d per bushel for feed, and 2s 7d for seed samples. Oatmeal is firmly held at £13. Oaten chaff briskly enquired; for at £4. , A slightly better demand has sprung up for fowls' barley at 2s 7d to 23 8d for retail parcels; maize steady at 4s ; beans, 8s 9d to 3a 8d ; peas, 4s 6d ; potatoes have a slight upward tendency, good samples being valued at 70s ; carrots, 455; good onions are scare, £9; other qualities from £6 ; hams and bacon (new cure) meet with good demand at usual prices ; cheese is scare at 6Jd ; salt butter without much demand at B^d to lOd ; fresh do, Is ; eggs rapidly dereasing m value, present price, is 6d ; honey from 3d to 6d per Ib. The market is quite glutted with fowls, and sales are now beine effected at 2s 6d per pair,* duoks are more saleable at 3s 6d ; geese, 6s ; turkeys, 10s per pair. .