NEW PLYMOUTH MARKETS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume X, Issue 1846, 4 February 1888, Page 2

NEW PLYMOUTH MARKETS.

News very good from London re butter, but the present prices in London cannot affect the market here just now because the next steamer will not leave New Zealand till the 12th March, and this would arrive in bad time ; over 2000 goes from here per Arawa. Present prices— fresh butter, 4d to sd ; cheese, 4d ; eggs, 8d ; bacon, 6d j hams, 6d ; Fowls, 3s per pair ; potatoes, 4s; flour, JB9 10s; oatmeal, 3s; fungus, 3d j oats, 3s. Everything is very dull.

SYDNEY STOCK MARKETS.

Reports dated January 14th, show that stock market was dull; best bullocks »versged £8 2s 3d per head; best crossbred sheep up to 11s 3d.

WELLINGTON PBODUOE MARKET.

A general dulnesa prevails in all descriptions of grain, as the impending prices for the new crops are rumoured as opening at lower values than those now quoted ; short milling oats, 2s to 2s 2d; common to fair feed ditto, Is lOd to 2s per bushel ; feed barley, 2a 9d; maize, 4a ; beans, 3s 9d; peas, 3s 9d ; onions, £7 per ton ; potatoes, £3 10s to £4 10s ; cheese, of good factory make, none other being saleable, 4ld per lb; hams and bacon, ?idperlb; farmers' cure, from 3d per lb; eggs are a trifle firmer, although still commanding lOd per doz. i fresh butter, 6d ; salt do, 5d per lb. Enquiries for poultry are few, fowl's ruling at 2s 6d) ducks, 3s 6d ; geese, 6s 6d, and turkeys 7s per pair.