MARKETS.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1128, 21 December 1883, Page 4

MARKETS.

(Corrected by Latest Reports.)

PATE A RETAIL PRICES. : Buying Selling

Butter (perlb) 8 1 Iso.l Cheese (colonial) Eggs per doz. Is Is 3d Potatoes (cwt) new 10s 2d lb Butchers Meat—Beef, 3d to 5d ; steak, 4d to 6d ; mutton, 3d to 4d ; pork, 5d and 6d'; veal, 4d to fid. Flour, local, 14s per IOOIbs ; Oamaru, 14s per IOOIbs ; chick wheat, 3s per bushel ; oatmeal, 3s fid per 25 lbs ; bread, 4d 21b 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) 9.1 per lb ; eggs, Is per dozen ; fowls, 3s fid to 4s per pair ; ducks, os per pair; lard, 8.1 per lb ; bacon, lOd ; hams, Is, Breadstuffs—Best silk dressed flour, 13s per IOOIbs ; household, 12s per IOOIbs , wheat meal, 12s; sharps, per sack, 9.s ; bran, per sack, 4s ; oatmeal, 251h bags, 4s fid ; wheat (fowls’), per bushel, 4 s'; oats, 3s 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 9d ; Canterbury hams and bacon, 9d ; 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, 24s 6d to 25s per, cwt ; small lots of wool, 4Jd to 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. —Plour, £ll to £ll 10s ; oatmeal, £.13 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, to terbury) B£d to lOd ; country-cured, 6d ; fresh butter (quite a drug), 7d to 7£d per lb ; salt butter (unsaleable), ,6£d ; oggs, Is 2d per doz | onions, £l3 per ton ; new potatoes, I|d per lb. CHRISTCHURCH, produce—Wheat, 3s lOd to 4s 2d; second samples, 3s 3d to 3s 6d. Flour, £lO to £lO 10s ; oatmeal, £l2. Oats : Prices, 2s Id to 2s 2d for milling, and Is lid to 2s for feed samples. Barley, 4s 3d per,bushel ; cheese, 4£d to 5d per lb ; butter (fresh), to 7d ; bams and bacon (cloth), 7£d to 8d ; potatoes, 27s 6d to 30s per ton at country statipns ; onions, Id to 14d per lb. Live Stock—Beef, prime, 23s per lOOlbs; seconds, 20s to 21s per 1001 bs ; mutton, 3-fd per lb in wool, and 2*d shorn per lb. Demand light and prices dull. Pigs? about 4id to 6d per lo.: Horse Markets—Useful draught, £lB to £24 ; ordinary draught, £l4 to £l6 | 3-year-old unbroken cart colts, £l2 to £lB ; 2-ycar-olds, £5 to £8 ; hacks, from £5 to £lO ; well-bred do, £l2.

DUNEDIN. Live Stock.—Beef, prime, 22s 6d tQ 24s per IOOIbs ; medium, 20s ; mutton, in wool, 3£ per lb ; shorn, 2fd per lb. Produce'.—Wheat, 4s to 4s 2d ; ordinary; samples, 2s to 3s 9d ; flour, £lO to £lO 10s per ton'; oatmeal, £lO 10s to £lO 15s ;■ potatoes, £2 to £2 ss' 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 hacon, B£d: (grain fed) ; fresh butter, best quality, 8d; to 9d ; good ordinary butter, 6d to 7d per lb ; eggs, 9d to Is per dtoz ; 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 ton. t ; ■ 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 31 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—Prices are on the rise ; for new clip wool there is strong competition at prices a halfpenny to a penny higher,

RAWER A RETAIL PRICER. Buying Selling d0 s d s d s d s Butter, f., lb Cheese (Can) . 0 6 to 0 8 0 8 to 01 ft 0 7 „ 0 8 — 01 3 Eggs, dozen Potatoes, new - „ io - » 0 1* “ „ 1 - „ o 2 0 Flour, Can, - ,,13 0 - „ 14 Oatmeal' - ,,44 — „ 4 .6