MARKETS.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1132, 31 December 1883, Page 4

MARKETS.

(Corrected by Latest Reports,)

PATE A RETAIL PRICES. Buying Selling. Butter (perlb) lOd IsOd Cheese (colonial) 7d 10d Eggs per doz. . lOd IsOd Potatoes (cwt) new 9s 4d l£d lb Butchers Meat—Beef, 3d to 5d ; steak, 4d to 5.1 ; mutton, 3d to 4*l ; pork, 5d and 6d ; veal, 4d to 6d.‘ Flour, local, 14s per IOOIbs ; Oamaru, 14s per IOOIbs ; chick wheat, 3s 6d per bushel ; oatmeal, 4s 6d per 25 lbs ; bread, 4d 21b loaf.

NEW PLYMOUTH RETAIL PRICES. Butchers’ Meat—Beef, 2d to 5d per lb ; steaks, 6d ; mutton, 2d to 5d ; pork, 6d. Farm and ( Dairy Produce—Milk, 4d per quart; butteV, 8d per lb ; cheese (colonial) 9d per lb ; eggs, lOd per dozen ; fowls, 3s 6d to 4s per pair; ducks, 5s per pair; lard, 81 per lb ; bacon, 10d ; hams, la. Brendsluffs —Best silk dressed flour, 13a per 1001 bi? ; household, 12s .per 100 ba , wheat iueal, 12s ; sharps, per sack, 9a ; bran, per sack, 4a; oatmeal, 25!b bags, 4s i; 6df wheat (fowls’), per bushel, 4s; oats, 3a 4d ; crushed- oats, 3s'6d; maize, 4s per bushel.

AUCKLAiND. hj Produce.—Butter (fresh), 8d per lb ; salt, 5d to; 7d ;-eggs, 10d per dozen ; bacon and hams, provincial, 6d ,to Bd.; hams, 8d ; to ,9d ; Canterbury, bains and bacon, 9d ; in clotlis, hams only, lid. Hides; Skins, &c.-—Hides, 2|d to 3d per lb ; sheepskins, Is Id to 3s 6u ; tallow, 25s per cwt ; bags and bundles of wool from 4d ! to 6|d per lb. , • ‘ Stock.—Mr Buckland reports sale pf : 24 steers, £9 10s ; 7 steers, £9 ; 9- steers, £8 17s ; 9 steers, £8 13s 9d ; 50 lambs, ,10s. f , : : ; > WELLINGTON. Produce, &c.—Flour, £ll to £ll 15s; oatmeal, £l3 per ton ; wheat, 8 3s to 3s 6d ; potatoes are dull, at £3 15s per ton ; oats, 2s 2d to 2s 4d ; maize, 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; cheese, s£d to 6£d ; hams and bacon (Canterbury) to 10d ; country-cured, 6d ; fresh butter (quite a drug), 7d to 7Ad per lb; salt butter (unsaleable), 6£d ; eggs, is 6d per doz ; onions, £7 per ton ; new potatoes, £5 per ton. . 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. Barlej', 4s to 4s 3d per bushel ; cheese, 4|-d to 5d per lb ; butter, (freph), 6|.d to 7d ; hams: and bacon (cloth),’ 7£d toßd ; potatoes, 27s 6d to 30s per ton at country stations ; onionsj Id to l£d per lb, ,■, j '• : t )' ' Live Slock—Beef, prime, 22s per lOOlbs; seconds, 17s 6d to 20s per lOOlbs ; mutton, 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—Medium draught, £l6 to £24; light plough, £l2 to £l6; 3-year-old unbroken cart Colts, £B' to £l4| £5 tq£8 e ; £o to £lo f well-bred do, £ls to £2O.

.DUNEDIN. ! Live Stock.—Beef, gpriine, 25s to 27s 6d per 1001 bs ; medium) 20s ; mutton, shorn, 3d to 3£d per lb. * Produce. —Wheat, 4s to 4s 2d ; ordinary samples^.3s to'j3s -9d'if flbujy £lO 10s per jto'n'7; patnleal, £lo| |os|t3 slpjl6s;.'; potaVdes, £2 to £2 5s per ton ; oats, milling, Is 10J to Is lid ; feed oats, Is 9d to Is lOd per bushel ; cheese, 5Jd ; bacon, rolled, 7d ; hams, lOd ; sides of bacon, B£d (grain fed) ; fresh .butter, best quality, 8d to 9d ; good ordinary butter, 6d to 7d per lb ; eggs, Is 6<i per doz good salt butter in keg, Od perdb. > ; ! 1 ! *

• : r SYDNEY: (N S W.) Z sal add oats, 2s '6d per bushel; New Zealand wheat, 3s 7d per bushel ; maize has risen to 3s 6d per bushel. Bugar-rrSugar Op’s-No 1 pieces,, £34 per ton.*' j ADELAIDE;? jßreadslufEs—Wheat, 4s 6d per bushel ; town floury £lO d(i £lO 40s per* ton ; country brands, £9 10s to £9 15s per ton. /i. c MeLboij bn it, • i - - preadstuifs—Wheat, 4s 3d to 4s 5d ; malting barley, 3s 6d to 4s ; New Zealand oafs : feeding qualities, 2s lid to 3s Id ; milling do, 3s 2d to Bs 3d, and slow of sale.

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