MARKETS.

Patea Mail, 22 January 1881, Page 4

MARKETS.

ENGLISH CROPS. The latest issue of the Mark Lane Expires to hand by the Suez mail contains the following reference to the English crops : —Our reports this week speak of considerable progress having been made with autumn work of all kinds; and at the same time a good deal of threshing has been done. Good seed wheat has been very scarce this season, and samples of wheat in thoroughly good condition are few and far between at the present time. Complaints continue as to the deficiency in the yield of the harvest of 1880, and before the cereal year is ended, the lowest estimates yet given will probably be found to have been made considerably a too high. Root crops are turning out well, and mangels have been about cleared up during past week. Swede crops are heavy, and there is an abundance of common turnips which arc in excellent condition. Keep, therefore, is very plentiful. In more prosperous times the price of stores would have been very high under present conditions, but the scarcity of money amongst farmers keeps the trade in a dull state at low rates. NEW PLYMOUTH RETAIL PRICES. (Corrected by latest report), Buying. Sellng s. d. s. d. Butter (per lb.) 0 6 0 8 Cheese (Colonial) ... 0 7 010 Eggs (per doz.) ... ... 1 0 12 Butchers’ Meat. — Beef, 3d to 5d ; mutton, to 5d ; pork, 5d to 7d. Mill Prices.—Taranaki flour, 14s 6d per lOOibs ; silk-dressed (Star brand), 15s 6d ; wheat meal, 13s 6s; chick’s wheat, 4s 6d per bushel ; sharps, 8s per lOOibs, or sack 10s ; bran, 4s per sack ; oats, 3s per bushel ; oatmeal, 4s 6d per bag (251bs); maize (best screened), 5s 0d per bushel. AUCKLAND RETAIL PRICES (Corrected by latest report.) Roasting Beef 5d to 7d Boilii.g Beef ... ... ••• Id to 5d Mutton, hind-quarter ... 4d to 5d „ fore-quarter 3d to Lamb, hind-quarter ... ... 3s6d to 5s „ fore-quarter 3s 6d to 5s Pork and Veal 6d to Od Steaks... 6d to 8d Chops and Sausages 5d to Gd Tallow wholesale, mutton 275, mixed, 20s to 255. WELLINGTON PRICES. (Corrected by latest report,)

CHRISTCHURCH RETAIL PRICES. (Corrected by Latest Report.) Fresh butter ... ... 8d to lOd per lb Eggs Is 3d per doz Cheese 6d to lOd per lb Milk ... 4d per quart Lamb ... ... ... 2s 6d and 3s Beef 2d to 6d per lb Mutton 2d to 4d per lb Pork 7d per lb Ham Is per lb Bacon 10d and Is per lb DUNEDIN PRICES. Prime beef, 1 22s 6d per lOOlbs ; 'mutton, 1-Jd to IJd per lb.

Farm and Dairy Produce — ■Wholesale. s. d. s. d. Milk, quart ... 0 3 to 0 0 Butter, salt, lb ... 0 li to 0 2\ Butter, fresh ... 0 2* to 0 H Cheese, Colonial ... 0 4’ to 0 5 Eggs, dozen ... 0 9 to 1 0

s d. s. d. Lard, lb 0 3 to 0 4 Ham, lb ... 0 0 to 0 10 Bacon, lb ... 0 8 to 0 9 Fowls, pair 4 6 to 0 0 Ducks, pair 5 0 to 5 G Geese, pair 5 0 to 0 0 Turkeys, pair G 0 to 0 0 Flour Market— -Wholesale. £ s. d. £ s. d. Sharps, per ton 4 0 0 to 4 10 0 Adelaide, per ton ... 13 10 0 to 14 0 0 Bran, per ton' 3 0 0 to .0 0 0 Colonial Flour 11 0 0 to 11 10 0 Oatmeal 10 10 0 to 11 0 0 Hail and Corn Market. £ s. d. £ s. d. Maize, Sydney 0 3 0 to 0 0 0 Maize, Poverty Bay 0 3 0 to 0 0 0 Oats 0 2 2 to 0 2 3 Oats, feed 0 1 9 to 0 1 10 Wheat 0 3 0 to 0 3 3 Wheat, chick 0 2 9 to 0 0 0 Potatoes 1 5 0 to 1 10 0 Carrots 1 10 0 to 0 0 0 Hay, ton 4 10 0 to 0 0 0 Oaten, ton 4 15 0 to 0 0 0 Straw, ton 3 0 0 to 0 0 0 Chaff, ton 4 0 0 to o o o Onions 0 0 3 to 0 o o Seeds. s. d. s. d. Ryegrass, bushel ... 3 6 to 4 0 Cocksfoot, per lb ... 0 to 0 4 White clover, per lb ,, 1 3 to 0 0 Red clover, per lb 0 8 to 0 9 Turnips, dozen 1 6 to 0 0 Alsykc, per lb 1 6 to 0 0 Cow grass, per lb 0 10 to 0 l0-i