DUNBDIN MARKETS. WHOLSALE PRODUCE REPORTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1901, 17 July 1890, Page 21

DUNBDIN MARKETS. WHOLSALE PRODUCE REPORTS.

Mr J. Fleming. Princes street south, reports under date the 16th met. :— Wheat: Best milling, 3a Oaten Hay £3 per ton 3d to 3s 5d per bushel Chaff (oaten), £2 5s to Medium milling, 2s 9d £2 10s per ton. to 3s per bushel Bran, £3 per ton Fowls' wheat 2$ 2d to 2s Pollard, £4 per ton Od per bushel ' Flour, £8 6s to £8 15s per Oata milling, Is 4d per ton bushel Barley duat,£3 loa per ton Feed oats, li Id to li 3d Bacon (rolled), 6Jdperlb per bushel Side bacon, 7d per lb Malt barley, 2s lOd to (grain fed) 3s per bushel Oatmeal, £8 10b per ton New Onions 6s 6d per owt Cheese 3d to 4d per lb Feed Barley, la 9d to 2s 3d Smoked Hams, B£d per lb per bushel Straw, £1 15s per ton Pearl barley, £lis los per Cape Barley, 3a 6d per ton. bushel. Good salt butter 6d to 7<i per lb. Rye grass hay, £2 10 to £3 per ton. Potatoes : Derwents, £3 10s to £3 per ton; seed kidney potatoea £2 lOg. FAtt'l AND DAEBT PBODVCB. Meisr* Mercer Uros. report paying for produoe during the wee i ending 16th inst.s— Bacon (roll), 6d per lb I Salt butter, new season Hams, 7d ptr | 7Jd per lb j Eggs, Is 2d doz. Fresh butter 1b Id per lb. Freeh butter, good ordinary (in lib and Jib prints), lid perlb.

Messrs Louie and Roy, auctioneers and produce agents, High street, Dunedln, report for week ending July 16 as follows: — Our weekly Bale on Friday last was as usual well attended, but prices showed no improvement on previous week. All lines in poultry were sold— cooks bringing 2b 6d to 3* 2d, bens 2s 3d to 3s 24 for Boroe very fine birds ; turkeys (no demand), 7s 6d to 10s; geese, 6s all at p r pair. Seconds oats, Is Id ; heavy feed, Is 3d ; fowl wheat, 2a 3d to 2s 6d. Dmventi, prime Northern, 70s ; Southern, 60s to 655 ; inferior, 50a to 555 ; kidney seed, 60s— we have a few truckn left. Onions, £6 10s. Salt butter : Really prime, 3d ; ordinary, 6d to 7d ; inferior, no demand. Fresh bu'ter, 8d to lOd. Eggs firmer, 14d. Cheese, 3d to 4d. Bacon and hams ; No demand, market .glutted. Fruit i Oranges scarce; v,e have both Tahiti and Sydney to arrive to-day, with regular shipment* to follow. We can supply oranges, lemons, pines, dates, also apples (both Hobart and local), at lowest quotations.

BABBIT AND SHEEPSKINS.

We held our first auction sale of rabbit and sheepskint to-day. Suckers brought 2jd, mixed 5Jd to 6d, blaoka B±d to 12jd, autumns lljd to 13d, winters 16id to 17Jd; sheepskins, la 9d to 3a 2d for Inferior sklnß. Every line waa sold. Our friends can rely that any sent to us will be thoroughly classed before being offered, and that every effort will be made, to eeoure top prices,