MARKETS

Patea Mail, 27 September 1882, Page 4

MARKETS

CANTERBURY GRAIN AND PRODUCE. (From the Canterbury Times.) The week ending 23rd September has been an extremely quiet one. There is very little that calls for notice, prices in nearly all lines being much on the same basis. WHEAT.—The market is very flat, with a limited enquiry. Best milling is not worth over 4s 5d to 4s 6d. Oats are unchanged. A few sales have transpired at quotations—milling, 3s 2d to 3s 3d ; and feed at 2s lid to 3s Id. Barley. —The market is without appreciable change. Best malting 4s 6d to 4s 9d. The demand for second samples is not brisk. Flour. — Millers still quote £ll to £ll 10s, according to brand. Potatoes do not claim much attention. Prices stand at 35s to 40s. Grass Seed.— Beyond a few odd sales there is nothing doing. Prices are much easier, but buyers will not operate except for actual orders. Dairy Produce. —Hams and bacon 7|d to Bd, cheese Bd, butter Is to Is Id, but little is offering as yet. Market Quotations. NEW PLYMOUTH RETAIL PRICES. (Corrected by latest report), Buying. Sellng. s. d. s. d, Butter (per lb.) 10 1 2 Cheese (Colonial) ... 0 6 010 Eggs (per doz.) 8 10 Butchers’ Meat.— Beef, 2d to 5d ; steak, 6d ; mutton, 2d to 5d ; pork, 6d. Mill Prices. —Household flour, 14s per lOOlbs ; best silk-dressed flour, 15« do. ; wheat meal, 13s Od; chick’s wheat, 4s 6d per bushel ; sharps, 10s per lOOlbs, or sack lls ; bran, 4s per sack; oats,3s6d per bushel ; oatmeal, 6s 6d per bag (251bs); maize (best screened), 0s Od per bushel. 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 5d to 6d Tallow wholesale, £1 ss.

WELLINGTON PRICES. (Corrected by latest report,) T arm 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 7 to 0 9 Eggs, dozen 0 0 to 1 0 Lard, lb 0 11 to 1 0 Ham, lb (in cloth) ... 0 8 to 0 9 Bacon, lb 0 1\ to 0 8 Fowls, pair 3 0 to 3 6 Ducks, pair 4 6 to 5 0 Geese, each 3 0 to 3 6 Turkeys, each 4 9 to 6 0 New Potatoes 3 5 to 3 10 Hay and Corn Market. £ s. d, . d. Maize, Sydney ... 0 0 0 to 0 0 0 Maize Poverty Bay 0 5 9 to 0 6 0 Oats 0 2 6 to. 0 2 8 Oats, feed ... ... 030 to 3 6 Wheat ... ... 0 4 0 to 0 4 6 Wheat, chick ,<•. 0 0 0 to 0 0 0 Carrots ... ... 2 10 0 to 0 0 0 Hay, ton 4 10 0 to 5 0 0 Oaten, ton ... ... 415 0 to 6 0 0 Straw, ton 300 to 000 Chaff, ton 4 0 0 to 0 0 0 Onions ... ... 0 0 5 to o o 6 Flour Market — Wholesale. £ s, d. £ s. d. Sharps, per ton ... 7 0 oto 710 0 Adelaide, per ton... 13 10 0 to 14 0 0 Bran, per ton ... 6 0 0 to 7 0 0 Colonial Flour ... 12, 0 0 to 12 10 0 Oatmeal 17 10 0 to 18 0 0 Seeds. s. d. s. d. Ryegrass, bushel... ... 6 0 to 7 0 Cocksfoot, per lb ... 0 5 to 0 0 White clover, per lb .. 1 2 to 0 0 Red clover, per lb ... 0 8 to 0 9 Turnip dozen 1 6 to 0 0 Alsykeper lb 1 6 to 0 0 Cow grass per lb ... 0 10 to 0 10i CHRISTCHURCH RETAIL PRICES (Corrected by Latest Report.) Fresh batter Issdperlb Eggs Is Odper doz Cheese 9d to lOd per lb Milk 4d per quart Beef 2d to 6d per lb Mutton 2d to 4d per lb Lamb 2s6d to 3s Od per q Pork 6d per lb Ham lOd per lb Bacon 9d DUNEDIN PRICES. 22nd. Prime beef 25s to 27s 6d per lOOlbs; mutton, 2|d per lb.