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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9452, 24 August 1889, Page 4

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CHBISTCHURCH. August 23.— Retail prices ; Fresh butter, Is to Is 3d : eggs, lOd ; cheese, 5d to Sd ; milk, 3d ; beef, 3d to ; mutton, 2d to 4d ; pork, 5d to 6d ; bam, lOd to lid ; bacon, 3d to lOd. Wholesale : Wheat, prime milling, 3a 2d to 3s 7«i ; medium, 3* ; chicken, broken, 2s 6d to 2s 3d ; oats, milling, 2s 9d ; bright short feed, 2* 8d ; discoloured and inferior, 2s dd ; barley, prime malting, 3s 9d to 3s 10.1 ; medium, as to 3s 3d ; feed, 2s Gd to 2s 9d ; beans, 3s B<l to 3s id ; peas feed, 3s ; blue Prussian, 3s 9d to 3s 104 ; tares,, 6s to 7s ; potatoes, Dements, 70s, country stations; onions, £20; butter, prime, 7d; socond quality, Cd ; cheese, small loaves, 4d,—other sizes, 3jd; hams and bacon, in cloth, 7£d ; flour, roller, £9 10s ; do., stone, £8 10s ; bran, .«acks in, £3 ; sharps, £3 is; hay, £2 10s to £2 15s ; chaff oats, straw, 35s ; chatf, wheat, straw, 30s; straw, wheat, £1; straw, oat, £1 &s ; crate, sheaf chaff, £-3 5s ; oats, sheaves, £2 10s. Live stock market very well attended. Good beef plentiful; good quality realised l!is Cd to 19s 6d per 1001b ; inferior. 17s. There w«re over 7000 sheep ; majority fat. They met with rather an unwilling market owing to both factories being full, the drop equaling Is per head. Pigs very few; prices as before.

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STOCK AND Ai IKING ASSOCIATION. Auckland, August 43, 1SS9. Company. Business. Closing Prices. Buyers. 1 Sellors. Banks— & a d] £ s d New Zealand, old — 7 13 Oj 7 U 0 Colonial .. _ — 2 * c — Insurance : • New Zealand _ — 3 8 0 3 10 South British _ — — 1 IS 0 National .. ~ — 0 18 ff — Union _ — — 16 0 Aocidant ~ - — — 0 7 6 M1SCEL L AHKO US Thames Gas _ — 1 10 6 1 12' 6 Mining : Cambria „ — —026 .Saxon ' ... .. — — 0 8 0 New Albuniia — — 0 2 * — May Queen . . | — 0 1 8 0 1 1 C. Alexander, S. Vickcra, J. F. Clarke, R. Frater. J. M. I,onnox, I). B. McDonald, D. G. MacDonnbll, Aitkan Cwrick, R. Sprats, Francis Hall, James Moid, It. U, Macky, Samuel Turtle, T. /V. Menzies. JOSliPU Newman, Chairman.