MARKETS.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1127, 19 December 1883, Page 4

MARKETS.

(Corrected by Latest Reports.)

PATE A RETAIL PRICES. Buying Soiling

Batter (perlb) 8d IsOd Cheese (colonial) 4£d 91 Eggs per doz; ; Is Is 3d Potatoes (cwt) new TOs 2d lb Butchers Meat—Beef, 3d to 5d ; steak, 4d to 6d ; mutton,‘3d to 41 ; pork, 5d and 6d ; veal, 4d to fid. Flour; local, 1 14s per lOOlbs ; Oamaru, 14s per lOOlbs ; chick wheat, 8s per bushel ; oatmeal, 3s’fid per 25 lbs ; bread, 4d 2ib loaf.

NEW PLYMOUTH RETAIL PRICES

Butchers’ Meat—Beef, 2d to 5d per lb ; steaks, fid ; mutton, 2d to 5d ; pork, fid. Farm and Dairy Produce—Milk, 4d per quart; butter, 8d per lb ; cheese (colonial) 9d per lb ; eggs, Is per dozen ; fowls, 3a fid to 4s per pair ; ducks, 5s per pair; lard, 8d per lb ; bacon, lOd ; bams, Is. Breadstuffis —Best silk dressed flour, 13s per lOOlbs ; household, 12s per lOOlbs , wheat meal, 12s ;-sharps, per sack, 9s ; bran, per sack,; 4s; oatmeal, 251b bags, 4s fid ; wheat (fowls’), per bushel, 4s; oats, 3a 4d ; crushed oats, 3s fid ; maize, 4s per bushel.

AUCKLAND. Produce.—Butter (fresh), 8d per lb ; salt, 5d to 7d ; eggs, lOd per dozen ; bacon and hams, provincial, 6d to 8d ; hams, 8d to 9J ; Canterbury hams and bacon, 9J ; in cloths, hams only, lid; oats, 2s sd. Hides, Skins, &c. —Hides, 3£d and 3£d per lb ; sheepskins, Is 2d to 3s 5d ; lambskins, Is 5d ; tallow, 21s 6d to 25s per cwt; small lots of wool, 4£d to 6£d per lb. Stock. —Mr Buckland reports sale of : 30 steers, £9 ; 21 heifers and steers, £8 15s ; 10 steers, £8 lls; 8 steers, £8 ; 8 steers, £7 ss. Sheep in full supply and at lower price than last week by Is to 2s per head, and barely realised 2£d per lb. Lambs in short supply, also lower in value. Well bred store pigs at full values.,

WELLINGTON. Produce, &c.—Flour, £ll to £ll 10s ; oatmeal, £l3 per ton ; wheat, 3s to 3s 6d ; potatoes (enquired for) at £3 10s per ton ; oats, 2s 2d to 2s 4d ; maize, 3s 6d to 3& 9d ; cheese, s£d to 6£d ; hams and bacon (Canterbury) BJd to lOd ; country-cured, 6d ; fresh butter (quite a drug), 7d to 7£d per lb ; salt butter (unsaleable), 6£d ; eggs, la 2d per doz ; onions, £l3 per ton ; new potatoes, l£d per lb.

CHRISTCHURCH. Produce—Wheat, 3s lOd to 4s 2d; second samples, 8s 3d to 3s 6d. Flour, £lO to £lO 10s; oatmeal, £l2. Oats : Prices, 2s Id to 2s 2d for milling, and Is Ud to 2s for feed samples. Barley, 4s 3d per bushel; cheese, 4£d to 5d per lb ; butter (fresh), 6£d to 7d ; hams and bacon (cloth), 7£d toßd ; potatoes, 27s 6d to 30s per ton at country stations ; onions, Id to l£d per lb. Live Stock—Beef, prime, 23s per lOOlbs; seconds, 20s to 21s per lOOlbs ; mutton, 3£d per lb in wool, and 2id shorn per lb. Demand light and prices dull. Pigs, about 4£d to 6d per lb. Horse Markets—Useful draught, £lB to £24 ; ordinary draught, £l4 to £ls ; 3-year-old unbroken cart colts, £l2 to £lB ; 2-year-olds, £5 to £8 ; hacks, from £5 to £10; well-bred do; £l2.

■ . ; [DUNEDIN. Live Stock.—-Beef, prime, 22s 6d to 24s per lOOlbs ; medium, 20s ; mutton, in wool, 3£ per lb ; shorn, 2|d per lb. Produce.—Wheat, 4s to 4a 2d ; ordinary samples, 2a to 3s 9d ; flour, £lO to £lolos per ton ; oatmeal, £lO 10s to £lO 15s ; potatoes, £2 to £2 5s per ton ; oats, milling, Is 10d to Is lid ; feed oats, Is 9d to Is 10d per bushel ; cheese, s£d ; bacon, rolled, 7d ; hams, lOd ; sides of bacon, (grain fed) ; fresh butter, best quality, 8d to 9d ; good ordinary butter, 6d to 7d per lb ; eggs, 9J to Is per doz ( good salt butter in keg, 6d per lb. SYDNEY (N S W.) Breadstuffs—New Zealand oats, 2s 3d | per bushel ; • New Zealand wheat, 3s 9d per bushel; maize has risen to 3s 2d per bushel. :,; Sugar—Sugar Go’s No 1 pieces, £34 per too. ADELAIDE. Breadstuffs —Wheat, 4s 6d per bushel ; town flour, £lO to £lO 5s per ton; country brands, £9 10s to £9 15s per ton. MELBOURNE.; Breadstuffs—Wheat, 4s 3d to 4s 5d malting barley, 3s 6d to 4s ; New Zealand oats : feeding qualities, 2s lid to 3s Id ; milling do, 3s 2d to 3s 3d, and slow of sale. Wool Sale-r-Piices are on the rise ; for new clip wool there is strong competition at prices a halfpenny to a penny higher.

IIAWERA RETAIL PRICES. ; Buying s d s d Selling s d s d Butter, f., lb Cheese (Can) 0 6 to 0 8 0 8 to 010 07 „ 0 8 — ,, 0 10 Eggs, dozen - ,, io — „ 1 3 Potatoes, new - ,,.01* — ,, 0 2 Flour, Can. - ,,130 — „ 14 0 Oatmeal - ,, 4 4 — „ 4 6