MARKETS.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1131, 28 December 1883, Page 4

MARKETS.

(Corrected by Latest Reports )

PATE A RETAIL PRICES. . ; . Buying Selling. Butter (perlb) lOd IsOd Cheese (colonial) s|-d 10d Eggs per doz. lOd IsOd Potatoes (cwl) new 10s l£d lb Butchers Meat—Beef, 3d to 5d ; steak, 4J to 5d ; mutton, 3d to 4d ; pork, 5d and 6d ; veal, 4d to 6d. Flour, local, 14s per IOOIbs ; Oamaru, 14s per IOOIbs ; -chick wheat, 3s per bushel oatmeal, 3a fid per 25 lbs ; bread, 4d 2ib loaf. '

NEW PLYMOUTH RETAIL PRICES

Butchers’ Meat —Beef; 2d to 6d per lb ; steaks, 6d ; mutton, 2d to 5d ; pork, 6d. Farm and Dairy Produce—Milk, 4d per quart ; butter, 8d per lb ; cheese (colonial) 9d per lb.; eggs, Is per dozen ; fowls, 3s 6d to 4s per pair ; ducks, 5s per pair; lard, 81 per lb ; bacon, 10d ; hams, Is. Breadstuifs— Best tdlk dressed flour, 13s per IOOIbs ; household, 12s per 100 bs , wheat meal, 12s ; sharps, per sack, 9s; bran, per sack, 4s ; oatmeal, 251 b bags, 4s 6d ; wheats (fowls’), per bushel, 4s; oats, 3s 4d ; crushed oats, 3s 6d ; maize, 4s per bushel.

AUCKLAND. Produce.—Butter (fresh), 8d per lb; salt, 5d to 7d ; eggs, 10d per dozen ; bacon and hams, provincial, fid to Bci ; hams, 8d to 9 i ; Canterbury hams and bacon, 91 ; in cloths, hams only, lid ; oats, 2s sd.

Hides, Skins, &c.—Hides, 2fd and 3fd per lb ; sheepskins, IQJ to 3s 4d ; tallow, 20s to 29s per cwt; small lots of wool, 4d to fid per lb. Stock.—Mr Buckland reports sale of ; 3 steers, £ls 8s ; 8 steers, £lO ; 40 steers, £8; 7 steers, £7 ; 22 steers, £6 10s ; 8 steers, £6 2s fid ; 200 wethers, 17s; 250 wethers, 15s fid ; 36 lambs, lls fid ; 30 lambs, 8s fid ; 60 lambs, 10s fid ; 6Q lambs, 9s ; 33 lambs, 10s fid ; 37 lambs, lls fid ; 30 lambs, 12s 3d ; 47 lambs, 9s ; 50 lambs, 2s each.

WELLINGTON. Produce, &c. —Fiour, £ ll to £ll Ids ; 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 3s 9d ; cheese, s£d to ti£d ; hams and bacon (Canterbury) B£d to lOd ; 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 ton ; 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), 6£d to 7d ; hams and bacon (cloth), 7£d to 8d ; potatoes, 27s 6d to 30s per ton at country stations ; onions, Id to l£d per lb. Live Stock—Beef, prime, 24s per lOOlbs; seconds, 21s Co 23s per lOOlbs ; mutton, 3£d per lb in wool, and 2£d shorn per lb. Demand light and prices dull. Pigs, about 4£d to 6d per lb. Horse Markets—Useful draught, £l6 to £24 ; ordinary draught, £l4 to £lB ; 3-year-old unbroken cart; colts, £l2 to £2O ; 2-year-olds, £6 to £8 ; backs, from £5 to £lO ; well-bred do, £l2.

DUNEDIN. Live Stock.—Beef, prime, 22s 6d to 25s per lOOlbs ; medium, 20s ; mutton, shorn, 3d to 3£d per lb. Produce.—Wheat, 4s to 4s 2d ; ordinary samples, 3s to 3s 9d ; flour, £lO to £lO 10s 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 lOd per bushel ; cheese, s£d ; bacon, rolled, 7d ; hams, 10d ; sides of.bacon, B£d (grain fed) ; fresh butter, best quality, 8d to 9 J ; good ordinary butter, 6d to 7d per lb ; eggs, Is per doz ; good salt butter in keg, 6d per lb. r

SYDNEY (N S W.) Breadstuffs—New Zealand oats, 2s 6d per bushel ; New Zealand wheat, 3s 6d per bushel ; maize has risen to 3s 3d 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.

HAWERA RETAIL PRICES. Buying Selling s d s d s d sd Butter, f., Ib 0 6 to OS 0 8 to 010 Cheese (Can) 07 „ 0 8 - „ 0 10 Eggs, dozen —t i> 10 - „ 1 3 Potatoes, new Flour, Can. — 0 1* — „ 0 2 - „ 13 0 ; - „ U 0 Oatmeal — „ A 4 — „ .4 6