SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7, 15 February 1900, Page 15

SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

There has been very little change in the values of oats during the past week. A steamer hus arrived at the Bluff for the purpose of taking 20,000 sacks to Capetown and other South African ports. The quantity ottering in vie 1. o.u uuukii, la .-iiiall, but suiHc; :.t to regulate prices elsewhere in the Colony.

Invercargill prices ourieiit, .—. — Wh'»ltj.>alc . Bultei fresh, Cd , i££ a lOd per doz , cheese, farm, 3»d ; bacon, farm, 7d ; do (rolled), farm. 6d ; nams, 8d ; potatoes, LI 10s per ton ; barley, 2s to 2s Gd ; fowl wheat, 2s ; chaff, L 2 lus per ton ; flour, L 7 10s : oatmeal, L 9 to LlO ; pollard, L 3 ; bran, L 2 10s, including bags. Retail — Fresh butter, 8d ; egg*, Is per doz ; cheese. Gd ; bacon, rolled, Bd, sliced, 9d ; hams. lOd ; potatoes, 2s per cwt ; flour, 200lb, His ; 501 b, 4s 3d ; oatmeal, 501 b, 5s ; 251 b, 2s 9d ; pollard, 5s !)d per bag ; bran, 3s 6d per bag ; chaff, L 3 per ton ; fowls' feed. 2s 3d per bushel.

Mr. F. Meenan, King street, reports : — Wholesale price only — Oats: Quiet demand. Feeding, Is lid to 2s; milling, 2s Id to 2s 2d. Wheat : milling, 2s 6i to 2s 9d ; fowls' wheat, Is 9d to 2s Id. Hay : ryegrass and clover, best, L 3. Straw . pressed, 27s ; loose, 28s. Bran :L2 15s. Pollard : L 3. Flour : LG 10s to L 7. Butter : best brands factory, lOd to lid; dairy, (>d to Bd. Oatmeal: Lll. Chaff : fair demand ; L 2 15s to L 3. New potatoes : Local, L 2 10s best. Market glutted.