MARKETS.
Market Quotations. MR W. COWERN’S REPORT.
Mr W. Cowern reports that at the Lincoln-street Yards on Wednesday, Julj' sth, 184 head of cattle were yarded, the most of which were sold at or immediately after the auction. No appreciable alteration in values was perceptible. On the 6th I held a clearing sale of milking cows 34 sold under the hammer at an average, of about £5. During the week 1 sold Messrs Balmforth’s farm near Manutahi, of 369 acres, to Mr John Parsons, of Papakura, in the Napier district, at a fairly satisfactory figure. I also sold Mr Prouse’s land at Kakaramea on which the Boiling-down plant and building recently burnt down was erected, at £ll 10s per acre. Messrs Balraforth Bros, clearing sale will take place on the farm on Thursday, July 30th, at noon. WOOL REPORT. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited report having held their usual fortnightly produce sale in their warehouse, Wellington, on Wednesday sth inst. The following are sale quotations. TALLOW. Good mutton in shipping order, £34 per ton. Mixed, £3l to £32 5s per ton. Inferior, £25 to £27 per ton. HIDES. Salted medium weights, 3£d per lb. Bull hides, 24d per lb. SHEEP SKINS. Low quality crossbred, 3£d to 3£d per lb. Butchers, 3s each. NEW PLYMOUTH RETAIL PRICES. (Corrected by latest report),
steak, 6d ; mutton, 2d to 5d ; pork, 6d t - Mill Prices. —Household flour, 14s per 1003’os ; best silk-dressed flour, 15s do, ; wheat meal, 13s Od; chick’s wheat, 4s 6d per bushel ; sharps, 10s per 1001 bs, or sack lls ; bran, 4s per sack; oats,3s6d per bushel ; oatmeal, 5s 6d per bag (261bs); maize (best screened), 0s Od per bushel.
DUNEDIN PRICES. 7th. Prime beef 25a Od to 00s per lOOlbs; mutton, 2£d per lb.
Buying. Sellng. s. d. s. d. Butter (per lb.) ... ... 1 0 1 2 Cheese (Colonial) ... 0 6 0 10 Eggs (per doz.) ... ... 1 6 1 9 Butchers’ Meat. , —Beef, 2d • to 5d
AUCKLAND RETAIL PRICES (Corrected by latest report.) Roasting Beef ... 5d to 7d Boiling Beef ... 4d to 5d Mutton, hind-quarter ... 4d to 5d „ fore-quarter 3d to — Lamb, hind-quarter 3s 6d to 5s „ fore-quarter 3s 6d to 5s Pork and Veal Od to Od Steaks... 6d to 8d Chops and Sausages od to Cd Tallow wholesale, £1 5s. WELLINGTON PRICES. (Corrected by latest report,) Farm and Dairy Produce — Wholesale. s. d. s. d. Milk, quart ... 0 4 to 0 7 Butter, salt, lb ... 0 6 to 0 0 Butter, fresh ... 1 0 to 11 Cheese, Colonial .. ... 0 6 to 0 7 Eggs, dozen ... 1 0 to 1 1 Lard, lb ... 0 11 to 1 0 Ham. lb (in cloth) ... 0 8 to 0 9 Bacon, lb ... • .. ... 0 7% to 0 8 Fowls, pair ... 2 9 to 3 3 Flour Marlcet — Wholesale. £ s. d. £ s, d. Sharps, per ton 7 10 0 to 8 0 0 Adelaide, per ton .. 13 10 0 to 14 0 0 Bran, per ton 7 '0 0 to 7 10 0 Colonial Flour 12 0 0 to 12 10 0 Oatmeal 17 10 0 to 18 0 0 CHRISTCHURCH RETAIL PRICES (Corrected by Latest Report.) Fresh butter ls2dperlb Eggs ... 2s5d,erdoz Cheese ... 6d to lOd per lb Milk ... 4d per quart Beef ... 2d to 6d per lb Mutton ... 2d to 4d per lb Lamb ... 2s6d to3sOd per q Pork ... 6d per lb Ham ... Is per lb Bacon ... 9d
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Patea Mail, 10 July 1882, Page 4
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