SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 52, 28 December 1899, Page 13

SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Invercargill prices current: — Wholesale : Butter, fresh. 6d ; eggs, lOd perdoz ; cheese, farm, 3Jd ; bacon, farm, 7d ; do (rolled), farm, 6d ; hams, 8d ; potatoes, LI 10a per ton ; barley, 2a to 2s 6d ; fowl wheat, 2s ; chaff, L 2 10s per ton ; flour, L 8 ; oatmeal, L 9 to LlO ; pollard, L 3 ; bran, L 2 10s, including bags. Retail — Fresh butter, 7d; eggs, Is per doz ; cheese, 6d ; bacon, rolled, Bd, slioed, 9d; hams, lOd ; potatoes, 2s per owt ; flour, 2001 b, 15s ; 501 b, 4s 3d ; oatmeal, 501 b, ss ; 251 b, 2s 9d ; pollard, 5s 9d per bag ; bran, 3s 6d per bag ; chaff, L 3 per ton ; fowls' feed, 2s 3d per bußhel.

Mb. F. Meenan, King street, reports : — Wholesale price onlyOats : Good demand. Feeding, Is 8d to la 9d ; milling, Is lOd to la lid. Wheat : milling, 2s 6d to 2s 9d ; fowls' wheat, 2s 2d to 2s sd. Hay : ryegrasa and clover, best, L 3. Straw : pressed, 225 ; loose,' 28s. Bran : L 3. Pollard : LS ss. Flour : L 6 10s to L 7. Batter : best brands factory, lOd to lid; dairy, 6d to Bd. Oatmeal: LlO. Potatoes : well picked, good sample, 20a ; old stock from Is per bag. Chaff : much firmer demand ; L2ssto L 2 15s. New potatoes, L 5 10s, Auckland ; local, Bs.

London, December 19.— Wheat : 15,000 quarters of the Australian new orop, for January shipment, sold at 28s 3d. Napier, December 21. — Messrs Nelson Bros, have received the following cablegram from the C.C. and D. Company, London : 'Best Canterbury 3£d ; Dunedin and Southland, 3d ; Napier and North Island, 2Jd. Lamb, first quality, 4£d ; second do, 4d.' Melbourne, December 21. — There have been large sales of New Zealand oats during the last few days, covering over 30,000 bags.

London, December 24. — Twelve thousand quarters of South Australian wheat, January shipment, were sold at 28a 3d. Frozen meat quotations are unchanged.