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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2015, 20 November 1886, Page 2

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THE WELLINGTON MARKET. Wellington, Wednesday. Messrs Laery and Campbell report produce and fruit sales as follows Oats, steady at 2a 7d to 2a 9d ; wheat, scarce at 4$ 6d to 4s 9d for good samples, and for inferior 4s to 4s 3d ; barley, good demand 2a 9d to 3s ; maiae, plentiful at 3a 6d to 3a 9d; a parcel of pearl barley waa quitted at Ll 4 10s during the week ; oatmeal still fetches Ll2 10a to Ll 3 ; flour, unaltered at Lll to LIl 10s according to brand. New potatoes on Saturday last advanced to l|d to l£d, owing to limited supplies; old potatoes are realising from 35s to 40s per ton, bat are all picked over at that, and the supply, unfortunately for holders, is unlimited; pine applas are slow of sale at 39 to 5a 6d per doz ; bananas a* high at 7f 6d per bunch ; peanuts, 3d to 3|d per pound; cocoanuta, 9s per sack; preserved bananas at 8d per pound are finding favor in the market, so also are the Anglo-Scandinavian? milk sales beginning to increase. Apples are scarce and worth from 12a to 14s ; oranges, 8s to 10« ; lemons. 8s ; mandarins, 14s; green peai, gooseberries, and strawberries are coming in small quantities, bat prices at present unquotable, Melbourne onions, Lll per too, THE STOCK MARKET. Wellington, Wednesday, liriue Fseetuao E. Jackson and Co.)‘

■Tolinsonville, report for Wednesiay, 17th November : —There was a full market, prices of all descriptions of stock were lower than at our last Bales ; the cattle were not up in quality to those sold at | our last sales ; sheep were of good quality throughout, though chiefly ewes. Pigs were in over supply, about 300 being varded, and prices were at much lower valaps. Quotations are :—Ballocka, L 6 15s to L 7 17s 6d~; cows, L4ss to L 5 ; ewes and wethers mixed, 8s lOd to 10s ; fat lambs, 7s 6d; pigs, porkers, 25s to 31s 6 1 ; Btores,93 to 10a 6d. All the stock entered were cleared at the quotations. MELBOURNE WOOL SALES. (rbdter's teebgrams). Mblbodrsb, Nov. 17. Messrs R. Goldsbrough and Co. held the r usual Weekly sale this afternoon. The attendance of buyers and competition brisk, though prices were barely maintained, especially for medium clips. luferior to good, greasy, realised fr in 5Jd to lOd per lb; superior, greasy, la 61. The catalogue comprised 7500 bales, of which 5100 were sold. Messrs Goldsbrough report having sold G2OO duriog this week’s sales.