MARKETS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 5, Issue 270, 28 November 1861, Page 4

MARKETS.

Wanganui.—Wheat 7s 6d, oats 5s 6d to 5s 9d‘ p. hush., flour £2op. ton, potatoes £4 10s to£s* fat cattle 20s p. 1&0 lbs. In retail—bread Is p. 4 lbs., cheese Is 3d to Is Gd,, butter Is , bacon-, and ham Is per lb., eggs Is per dozen. Adelaide, Oct. 17.—Flour, 9HOs per ton wheat 33 lid per bushel. Melbourne, Oct 18—AJc-and Beer—Bass’s, Si 10s, Allsopp’s Si'ss to 81 10 s per hhd, 9s 6d to 10s per doz; Porter, London and Dublin stout, 7/ to 7i 5s per hbd, 9s Gd to 10s Gd perdoz. Candles—-Belmont sperm, 1 Ifd to Is 2d ;'• composites, lOd, to Is ; stearine, Nevas, Is 3d per lb. Cheese Wilts (prime) Is; double Gloster, Cheshire, and Dunlop, 11A to Is; Dutch,. 9d to 10d' per lb. Coffee—Ceylon IOJd to lO.jd ; native, 8d; Java, 7Ad per lb.. Flour, 1$ per ton. Hams—Yorkshire, Cum-, or Wiltshire, lOd toTld ; 'lrish', ' to Is. Bacon, new cure, 10A to lid per lb. ltice, Isi to 16/ per ton. Spirits—brandy, Mar-.. tell’s, dark 10s, pale 12s per gal, 33s per doz ; Vinegrowers’, dark, 9s 6d to 9s 9fl per gal, 27sper doz, pale lls per gal; United Vineyards’,. pale, 30s per doz - nun, 3s Gd per gal - old torn* 12s Gd per doz ; whiskey, Scotch, 4s per gal. Sugar Melbourne loaves, 60i; Mauritius,, middling to good yellow, 31 i 10s to 34i; do, fine crystallised,; 40/ to. 441 ; Cbssipore, No. 1,. 47i to 49/; molasses,. Melbourne, 18i per ton. Tea—fine ecaigou, 84 lb net per chest, 9/ to 10/ half do, 4i 15s to 51; ordinary to good, perchest, 6/ to 81 ; half do, 3i to 4/-; scented orange pekoe, 2s 4d to 2s 8d per lb ; young hyson, 2s gunpowder, 3s ; scented caper, 2s 4d to 2s Sd. Tobacco, in bond —Negrohead, Barrett’s, per lb (Anchor), 3s ; Cavendish, A-lb, 18 to 22d ; twist, 2s to 2s Gd ; 10 ! S,. in f-boxes, 16d to 20d sheepwash, 5d to 7d. Cigars—Havannah. re> galias, per 1000, 81 to 12 1 ; Havannah Loudres;. per 1000, 91 to 10/; Manilla, No. 2, per 1000, 21 2s •

Sydney, Oct, 21—Flour Adelaide £l2 10s to £l3 10s, Californian £ll to £ll 10s, wheat. 4s to 5s per bushel, Sugar and flour kftveconsiderably declined in value the month.. The following paragraph is. from the Sydney Empire , October 5„. 1861 : —“ Messrs. , Morfc and Co. offered 115-bales wool, consisting chiefly of Sydney fellmongered parcels. New Zealand skin wools, and the usual assortment of odd bales of locks and mixed wools. The fell-, mongered wools were all bought in, the prices being, no doubt, nnder the cost of making, at the recent high prices of skins. The New Zealand wools were chiefly in very heavy and realised only from lljd. to 13d. per lb, A. parcel of 8 bales N. S. W. fleece, in average condition, sold for 17Ad., anclone bale scoured: for 23Aji. per lb. Altogether only 52 bales the hammer. Sheepskins.—A large-

quantity, amounting to upwards of 10,000, was disposad of at prices varying from 5.)i1. to Sd. per lb., the latter price being- for full woolled skins in better than average, condition. These: pi’ices slmw a-considerable-decline on the fates lately ruling; • Auckland, Nov. 4—Ale and beer, Bass’s, 91 per hhd., 12s per doz, Burton’s 81 15s per hhd., ordinary brands 6 1 to 81, AJlsops 12s Gib to 13s per doz, porter, Whitbread’s candles, Nevas, Is 4d per lb, coffee, Java, Is Id, currants Gd to 6Ad per lb, flour 14/ per ton, grain—Wheat 7s to 7s Gd, maize 6s 6d, oats 5s Gd per bushel, rice 3,)d per lb, soap,. Liverpool, 30s to 345, Sydney 38s to 40s, sugar;, loaf 63/ to 75/, Co.s’ No. 1 pieces 54/ to 56 1 perton, tea, fine congou 8/ 10s to 9/ per chest, tobacco, negrohead 3s lid per lb, cigars, Havannah S3s per 1000, spirits, &c, (m bond) brandy, Martell’s 13s to 13s Gd per gal, rum 3s lOd to 4s Gd, whiskey 4s 6d to 6s, old tom 4s 3d to ss, port and sherry wine 8s Gd to 15&: per gal, geneva 163 to 16s 6d per case ; horses,, heavy draught 60/ to 70/, light harness or saddle 51 10s to 16/, cattle, fat 81 10s to 14/ 15s, store cows 7/ 5s to 9/, dairy 12/ 15s, bullocks 10/ 17s 6d. Canterbury, Nov. 9, —Wheat ss, oats 7s to Bs, beans and peas 7s, p. bushel, flour £l3 to £l6 p. ton, potatoes: £2 10s to £3 10s._ Horses £23 to £36, cows' £9 to £lO IDs, working bullocks £4O to £SO, per. pair.