MARKETS.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1135, 7 January 1884, Page 4

MARKETS.

(Corrected by Latest Reports.) PATE A RETAIL PRICES. Buying Selling. Blitter (per lb) 101 IsOd Cheese (colonial) 7d lOd Eggs per doz. 1 Oil IsOd Potatoes (cwt) new 9->4 l Hd lb Butchers Meat— Beef, 3d to 5d ; steak, 4d to 5d ; mutton, 3d to 4 1 ; pork, od and 6d ; veal, 4d to 6d. Flour, local, 14s per IOOIbs ; Oamaru, 14s per 1001 bs ; chick wheat, 3s 6d per bushel ; oatmeal, 4s 6d per 25 lbs ; bread, 4d 21b loaf. II AWE R A RETAIL PRICES. Buying Selling sdsd s d s d Butter, f., lb 06 to 0 8 08 to 010 Cheese (Can) 0 7,, 0 8 —,, 010 Eggs, dozen Potatoes, new Flour, Can. Oatmeal NEW PLYMOUTH RETAIL PRICES. ' Butchers’ Meat—Beef, 2d to -5 J per lb ; steaks, 6d ; mutton, 2d to 5d ; pork, Gd. Farm and Dairy Produce—Milk, 4d per quart ; butler, 8d per lb ; cheese (colonial) 9d per lb ; eggs, lOd per dozen ; fowls, 3 s Gd to 4s per pair ; ducks, 6s per pair; lard, 8d per lb ; bacon, 10d ; bams, Is, Breadstuffs—Best silk dressed Hour, 13s per 100!bs ; household, 12s per 100 bs , wheat meal, 12s ; sharps, per sack, 9s ; bran, per sack, 4s ; oatmeal, 251b bags, 4s 6d ; wheat (fowls’), per bushel, 4s ; oats, 3s 4d ; ciushed oats, 3s 6d ; maize, 4s per bushel. / : AUCKLAND. ' Produce.—t-Butter (fresh), 8d per lb ; salt, 5,1 t0..7d ; eggs, Is 3d per dozen ; bacon,; and.,hams; provincial, 6d to ; 8d ; hams,. ,8d to 9J { ; Canterbury hams and bacon, 9d ; in cloths, hams only, lid, - Hides, Skins, &c.—Hides, 3d per lb ; best skins, 3sdd to 3s Gd ; tallovy, 23s to i 25s per cwt.: ’ jStqeL—Mr Buckland. reports sale.of ; ' 11 steers, ii 9 16s ; 7 steers, £9 ; 7 steers, £8,153;; 9 steers, £8 93,;, 8 steers, £8 8s; I lO.sleers, £B,Bs ;.8 steeis, £7 ;42 sheep, il8d; 3.0 lambs, £l3 2s; 32 sheep; 13s ; 240 wethers, 13s. WELLINGTON. Produce, &c.—Flour, £ll to £ll 15s oatmeal, £l3 per ton ; wheat, 3s to 3s 6d ; potatoes are dull, at £3 15s per ton ; ioiits, 2s 2d to 2s 4d ; maize, 3s 6d to 3s 91 ; ’cheese, s£d to I ; hams and bacon (Canterbury) B£d' to" lOd { country-cured, Gd ; fresh butter (quite a drug), 7d to 7£d per lb ; salt buttfer (unsaleable), 6)d ; eggs. Is 4d to Is 6.1 per doz ; onions, £7 per ton ; new potatoes are hard to quote. v CHRISTCHURCH. Produce —Wheat, 3s 8 i to 4s, and for choice lots 4s 2d is asked. Flour, £lO to £lO 10 s ; oatmeal, £l2. Oats: Prices, 2a to 2s Id for milling, and Is Gd to Is lld for feed samples. Baric}', 4s to 4s 3d"per bushel ; cheese, 44d to 5d per lb ; butter (fresh), Gd to 7d ; hams and bacon (cloth), 74d to 8d ; potatoes, 27s 6d to 30s per ton at" country stations ; onions, Id to IJd per Ib. Live Stock—Beef, prime, 22s per lOOIbs; seconds, 17s 6J to 20s per IOOIbs ; mutton, 3)d per lb in wool, and 2)1 shorn per lb. Demand Tight and prices dull. Pigs, about 4£d to 6d per lt>. ■ Horse Markets—Good sales at prices ranging from £2 10s, £6.105, £8 10s to £l6. DUNEDIN. Live Stock.—Beef, prime,22s Gd to 25sper ICOIbs ; medium, 22s 6d ; mutton, shorn, 3d per lb,