DUNEDIN MARKETS. WHOLESALE PRODUCE REPORTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2325, 22 September 1898, Page 15

DUNEDIN MARKETS. WHOLESALE PRODUCE REPORTS.

Swede turnips, 20.3 per ton. : FARM AND DAIRY PRODUCE. ! Messrs Irvine and Stevenson, George street, I report paying for produce during the weekending ] the 20th mat. as follows :— ' Bacon (roll), 6Jd p. lb Fresh butter, 1A an* Ham, 7id p. lb 3/2 p. lb Fresh eggs, 8d doz Salt butter, 7Jd to 8d Fresh butter, good ordinary (in lib and *lb prints), 8d to 9d per lb. Bacon pigs, 4£rt, 1301b to 1601b weifiht. Fowls, 2s to 2s Cd pair. Ducks, 3s to 3s 6d pair. Gtese,3sGd. Turktys, 4Jdper lb. THE DAIRY PRODUCE MARKET. WELLINGTON, September 19. Mir Cameron, the Government pioduce inspector, in his last report from London writes : ' At present the market for both butter and cheese is extremely dull. Butter is in large supply, and prices have seldom baen so low. Choicest Danish butter is only averaging about 86s. Cheese, although slightly better in price than it was a few weeks ago, is yet being offerred at very low prices. Canadians have been offering freely at about 38s on an average, and unless the low prices ruling causes the Canadian producers to curtail their output by making butter instead of cheese stocks are expected* to be again this season large. Greatly increased supplies of butter are expected from the Argentine, and Australia, which during the last three years has been suffering from drought, is expected to Send forward much heavier supplies. The season in this country has been an unusually favourable one for all branches of agriculture, and the Home make of both butter and cheese wilL be large. Heavy supplies of butter and cheese may therefore be anticipated, with correspondingly low prices. Low prices, of course, stimulate demand. The prospects, therefore, for New Zealand produce during the coming season, as far as can bo gauged, are that the demand will be good only for choicest quality, but that the prices will be low."

Mr J. Fleming, Pnn< under date the 20th ins t. Wheat per bu&hel. Best milling ... 4/0 Medium do ... 3/9 Fowls' ... 3/0-3/3 Milling oats ... 2/2 Feed oats 2/0 Malt barley 4/o—4/6 Feed barley 2/9-3/0 Cape barley ... 4/0 Maize ... ... 3/6 per ton. Elour, in 20Q'a ... 220/0 Flour, in 50's ... 230/0 Pollard 70/0 Bran 60/0 Barley duet ... 80/0 Potatoes plentiful. rWwronf nnfntnon -P.fi tn ;es street soutu, reports per ton Oaten hay 65/0-70/0 Oatmeal, in 25's 240/0 Oaten chaff 60/o—7o/0 Ryegrass hay ... 80/0 Straw 30/0 Pearl barley ... 360/0 per ton Onions 320/0 per Ib. Rolled bacon ... 0/C3 Side bacon ... 0/7 Smoked hams ... 0/8 Cheese ... 0/4—o/4* Good salt butter. 8d to 9 J according to quality. Kidney potatoes, £7.