Wellington Markets

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 117, 3 May 1888, Page 3

Wellington Markets

Wellington, April 28.

George Thomas and Co. report produce prices as follows : — In oats there is an increased tendency to firmness, owing to the active operations of the Australian markets, and it is now almost impossible to obtain a quota* tion under Is 6d for good feed at Southern ports, and Is 8d to Is 9d for prime short Canadians : local values rule from Is 10d£d to 2b Id per bushel. The Sydney demand has also agitated the ruling rates for potatoes, pollard and bran, all of which show an upward change of 5s per ton all round. There have. been a; few inquiries for salt butter at 6d to 6&d for local consumption. A fair volume of business is being transacted in Italian and perennial rye and cocksfoot grass seeds. Supplies of . onions '" greatly exceed demands, and inferior samples are almost valueless ; good dry keeping descriptions command £4 per ton. Stocks of. last season's hams and bacon are almost exhausted, and we look during the next fortnight for first parcels of the new cure. We quote—Flour, L 8 10s to L 9; fowls' wheat, 2s 9d to 2s lOd j bran, 70s ;: pollard, 80s; oatmeal, L9 1 ss; chaffjT £3 and L 4; maize 3s lOd ; feed barley 2s lOd ; beans, 3s 6d;peas, 3s 6d to 3s 9d; rye grass seed 3s 9d to 4s; Italian ditto, 3s 6d ; cocksfoot, 3£d to 4d per lb; potatoes 55s onions, prime, I L4 ; pearl barley, 21s ; split peas 19s; wheatmeal, L 9; cheese, 4d to 4 |d ; fresh butter, 7d ; salt ditto, 6d to 6 jd; hams and bacon 7fd; honey, 5d to (in tins) ; lard, 4d ; eggs Is 8d per. dozen. Poultry is as follows: — Fowls, 2s 6d to 2s 9d ; ducks, 3s 6d ; geese, Us 6d ; and turkeys, 8s per pair.