MARKETS.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1129, 24 December 1883, Page 4

MARKETS.

(Corrected by Latest Reports.)

PATE A RETAIL PRICES. Buying Selling. Butter (perlb) 1 Ocl laOd Cheese (colonial) 541 lOd Eggs per doz. 'lod IsOil Potatoes (cwt) new XOs If-J lb Butchers Meat—Beef, 3d to 5d ; steak, 4d to 5d ; mutton, 3d to 4d ; pork, 6J and 6d ; veal, 4d to 6d. Flour, local, 14s per IOOIbs ; Oamaru, 14s per IOOIbs ; chick wheat, 3s per bushel ; oatmeal, 3s 6d per 25 lbs ; bread, 4d 21b loaf.

NEW PLYMOUTH RETAIL PIHCES. Butchers’ Meat—Beef, 2d to 5d per lb ; steaks, 6d ; mutton, 2d to 5d ; pork, Gd. Farm and Dairy Produce —Milk, 4d per quart ; butler, 8 1 per lb ; cheese (colonial) 9 1 per lb ; eggs, Is per dozen ; fowls, 3s 6d to 4s per pair ; ducks, 5s per pair; lard, 8 1 per lb ; bacon, lOd ; hams, Is. Breads!uffs —Best silk dressed flour, 13s .per lOOlbs ; household, 12s per 100 bs , wheat meal, 12s; sharps, per sack, 9< ; bran, per sack, 4s ; oatmeal, 25!b bags, 4s 6d ; wheat (fowls’), per bushel, 4s ; oats, 3s 4d ; crushed oats, 3s 6d ; maize, 4e per bushel. AUCKLAND. Produce.—Butter (fresh), 8d per lb; salt, 51 to 7d ; eggs, 101 per dozen ; bacon and hams, provincial, 61 to 8d ; hams, 8 J to 9 1; Canterbury hams and bacon, 91; in cloths, hams only, lid; oafs, 2s sd. Hides, Skins, &c —Hides, 2| I and 3-| 1 per lb ; sheepskins, 101 to 3s 41 ; tallow, 20s to 29s per cwt-; small lols of wool, 4d to 6d per lb. ytock.—Mr Backhand reports sale of : 3 steers, £ls 8s ; 8 steers, £lO ; 40 steers, £8; 7 steers, £7 ; 22 steers, £6 100 ; 8

iteers, £6 2s Gd ; 200 wetbe-s, 17s ; 250 veilifers, 15s 6d ; 36 lambs, 11s 6d ; 30 amlm, 8s 6d ; 50 lambs, 10s 6d ; 60 lambs, )s; 33 lambs, 10s 61 ; 37 lambs, lls 61 ; 50 lambs, 12s 3d ; 47 lambs, 9s ; 50 lambs, 2s each. WELLINGTON. Produce, &c.—Flour, £ll to £ll 15s ; 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) B£d to 101 ; country-cured, 6d ; fresh butter (quite a drug), 7d to 7£d per lb ; salt butter (unsaleable), 6£d ; eggs, Is per doz; onions, £l3 per ion; new potatoes, Id 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 to 4s 3d per bushel ; cheese, 4|d to 5d per lb ; butter (fresh), G|d to 7d ; hams and bacon (cloth), 7£d to 8 i ; potatoes, 27s 6d to 30 s per ton at country stations ; onions, Id to Iper lb. Live Stock—B- of, prime, 24s per lOOIbs; seconds, 21s to 23s per lUOlbs ; mutton, per lb in wool, and 2jd shorn per lb. Demand light and prices dull. Pig s , about 4£d to 6d per lb. Horse Markets —Useful diaught, £l6 to £24 ; ordi tary draught, £l4 to £lB ; 3-year-oid unbroken cart colts, £l2 to £2O ; ■2-year-old.*-', £5 to £8 ; hacks, from £5 to £lO ; well-bred do, £l2. DUNEDIN. Live Stock.—B.-ef, prime, 22s 6>l to 25s per lOOibs ; medium, 20s ; mutton, shorn, 3d to per lb. Prndm e. —Wheat, 4s to 4s 2d ; ordinary samples, 3s to 3s 9 1 ; Hour, £lO to £lO 10s per (on ; oatmeal, £lO 10s to £lO 15s ; potatoes, £2 to £2 5s per ton ; oats, milling, Is 10 I to Is lid ; feed oats, Is 9d to Is 101 p< r bushel ; cheese, s£d ; bacon, rolled, 7d ; bams, 10(1 ; sides of bacon, B£d (grain fed) ; fresh butter, best quality, 8d to 9 I ; good ordinary butter, 61 to 7d per lb ; eggs, Is p t doz ; good salt butter in keg, Gd per lbSYDNEY (NSW.) BrcadstufEs —New Z •aland oats, 2s Gd per bushel ; New Zealand wheat, 3s Gd per bushel ; maize has risen to 3s 3 1 per bushel. Sugar—Sugar Co’s No 1 pieces, £3l per ton. ADELAIDE. Breadstuffs—Wheat, 4s Gd 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 ; millng do, 3s 2d to 3s 3d, and slow of sale.

HAWERA RETAIL PRICES. Buying Selling ad s d s d s d Butter, f., lb 0 6 to 0 8 0 8 to 010 Cheese (Can) 07 „ 0 8 - „ 0 10 Eggs, dozen _ „ 1 0 - „ 1 3 Potatoes, new - „ 0 1* — 0 2 Flour, Can. - „ 13 0 — „ 14 0 Oatmeal „ 44 - „ 4 6