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WHOLESALE PRODUCE REPORTS. Mr J. Fleming, Princes street south, reports under date the 30th inst. :— Wheat per bushel. per to Best milling ... 2/8 Barley dust ... 70/0 Medium do 2/3 to 2/4 Oaten hay 60/0 Fowl* ...1/10—2/1 Oatmeal, in 25's 190/0 Milliugoats ... 1/3 Oaten chaff 40/o—so/0 Feed oats 1/4—l/6 Ryegrass hay ... 60/0 Malt barley 3/0-3/3 Straw ' 25/0 Feed bailey 1/9-2/0 Pearl barley ...220/0 Cape barley ... 2/6 Onions 18/- per owt Maize ... ... 3/0 per lb. per ton. Rolled bacon ... 61 Hour, in 200's ...330/0 Side bacon ... 7d Flour, in 50's ...140/0 Smoked hams ... 7£d Pollard 70/0 Cheese 5d -Bran ... 60/0 Good salt gutter, 7d to Bd, according to quality Potatoes': Oatnaru Derwents, £3 10s per ton. Seed kidney potatoes (best), £1 10s to £2 per ton. Derwent potatoes more plentiful this week. New potatoes are coming in slowly, selling .at 2d per lb. I'AB.M AND DAIRY PRODUCE. Messrs Irvine and Stevenson, George street, report paying for produce during the weekending the 30th inst. as follows :—: — Bacon (roll), 6£d p. lb Fresh butter, Sd, 9d, Ham, 74d p. lb and 10c! p. lb Fresh eggs, 7d doz Salt Butter, not buying Fresh butter, good ordinary (in lib and +lb prints), 7d to 8d per lb. Pigs, 1201b to 1601b, 2Jd ler lb. Fowls, 2s to 2s 9J pair. Ducks, 3s to 5a pair Gee, 4.s to 6s. Turkeys, 4J<l per lb. THE MEAT MARKET. NAPIER, October 25. Nelson Bros, have received the following cable from the Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company, London: — "Frozen mutton market: To-day's quotations — Canterbury, 4^d; Dunedin and Southland, 4d; Napier and North Island, 3gd. Lamb — First quality, 4|d ; second, 41d." CLEARING SALE AT MERRIVALE. U?rom Our Own Correspondent.) INVERCARGILL, October 25. Messrs Tothill, Watson, and Co. and the National Mortgage and Agency Company conjointly held yesterday, at the Merrivale station, near Otautau, one of the largest clearing sales of sheep and cattle that has taken place in the district for a long time. The well-known quality of the stock and big locs attracted buyers from distant places, including several from Canterbury and North Otago. Breeding ewes and breeding cows were not auctioned, but are for sale privately. Crossbred hoggets brought in large lines from 15s 5d down to 11s "Bd. In cattle, 14 three and four-year-old steers sold at £7 5s 6d; diddo at £6 11s; spayed cows and heifers, £5; 93 two-year-old steers, £i 17*t 53 three-year-old heifers £4 2b 6d ; 82 two-year-old heifers, £3 17s ; yearlings (steers and heifers), £3 7s; 70 weaners, £2 12s.
DUNEDIN MARKETS.
Otago Witness, Issue 2433, 31 October 1900, Page 17
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