DOMESTIC PRODUCE.

Otago Witness, Issue 1422, 22 February 1879, Page 12

DOMESTIC PRODUCE.

Witness Oitice, Wednesday, February 19. Babley.j— No new crop has come in as yet. Good malting is inquired for. Best samples are worth 7s in Melbourne. Dairy Produce.— Egga are up, and grocers are now paying la 8d to Is 9d per doz. Butter is firmer, and the price paid for fresh is lOd to Is. Cheese briuga 6£d to 7Jd. Feed.— Chaff, straw, and hay are in good supply. New feed oats bring 3a, and. old 3s 6d to 3s Sd. Fiujit. — All kinds are plentiful, but wholesale prices have undergone nc change. Provincial producers complain of the prices ruling for apples, but we are informed that they would sell better if more care were taken in packing. Various sorts, including windfalls, are mixed. Fish.— On Monday and yesterday the market was poorly supplied. # To-day there was a fair supply of small fish, including mullet and eels from Waihola. Baracouta appear to have left the coast Flour.— There is nothing new to report, Honey. — Grooera pay 4Jd to 6d per lb. Oats. — New are beginning to come in, but they have not affected the market to any extent as yet. A few small lots have been taken at 3a to 3s Id for good feed. Onions. — The market is weaker, and prices rather unsettled. We quote at 8s to 10s per ewt. Potatoes.— The market is a shade firmer, supplied noc coming forward so freely. Salei at from 5s 6d to 7s per cwt. Poultry. — Young fowls have been in better supply. Poulterers pay 4s to 4s 6d per couple. Provisions.— -Very little pork or baoon is coming in. Pigs are worth s£d to 6d per lb j rolled bacon, 9d ; sides, 7£d ; hams, lOd. Vegetables. — Green peas and cauliflowers are getting scarce, all other vegetables being in good supply. Wheat. — The situation is without change* At latest accounts from San Francisco the market was dull and unchanged. Shippers refuse to purchase largely at the prices ruling, and holders were waiting for assurances of a good crop this year before making concessions. Sales were reported of good milling at Idol 71£ c. Late advices from London report:— "American wheat shipments aiiU. continue, but on a smaller scale, and sellers in the United States are, as we write, firmer in their ideas and hold- winter wheat at a slight advance, but the visible "supply still remains at the high figure of about 2,000,000 qr., and so long as that continues no permanent rise in prices can be established. Adelaide wheat is in short sup* ply on this market, bat yet the demand is very limited and Bales progress but slowly at our former quotations of 50s to 51a per 4961b ex store. The grain arrivals from the Colonies have been but few ; the Clodian from Adelaide, and the Otago and Duke of Argyle from New Zealand. The Kingston, from Adelaide, has also arrived during the month at Falmouth for" orders, and been sold for Dublin at a price kept secret, but which doubtless was 49s per 4801b., cost, freight, and insurance. New Zealand wheat is in moderate supply, but remains inactive, at 42s to 44s for ordinary qualities, and 45s to 45s 6d for picked samples, all pec 4961b ex store."