MARKETS.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1174, 9 April 1884, Page 4

MARKETS.

(Corrected by Lntest Reports.) PATE A RETAIL PRICES. Baying Selling. Butter (per lb) lOd IsOd Cheese (colonial) 7d 10<i Eggs per doz. Is 3d Is fid Potatoes (per bag) new 7s 8s Butciiers Meat—Beef, 31 to 5d ; steak, 4d to 5d ; mutton, 3d to 4d ; pork, 5d and fid ; veal, 4d to fid. Flour, local, 13s per IOOIhs ; Oamarn, 14s fid per 100!bs ; chick wheat, 4s per bushel ; oatmeal, 4s fid per 25 lbs ; bread, 4d 21b loaf. lIA WE R A RETAIL PRICER.

NEW PLYMOUTH RETAIL PRICES. Butchers’ Meat—Beef, 2d to 5d per lb ; steaks, fid ; mutton, 2d to 5d ; pork, fid. Farm and Dairy Produce—Milk, 4d pt r quart; butter, lid per lb ; cheese (colonial) 8d per lb ; eggs, 1s 2d per dozen ; fowls, 3s fid to 4s per pair ; ducks, 6s per pair; lard, 8d per lb ; bacon, lOd ; bams, Is. Breads!nil's —Best silk dressed Hour, 13s to 14s per 1001b?; household, 12s per lOOibs, wheat meal, 12s ; sharps, per sack, 10s ; bran, per sack, 4a ; oatmeal, 251b bags, 4s fid ; wheat (fowls’), per bushel, 4s ; oats, 3s fid ; crushed oats, 3s 9d ; maize, 5s per bushel. AUCKLAND. Produce. —Butter (fresh), Is per lb ; salt, 8d to lOd ; eggs, Is 6d per dozen ; bacon and hams, provincial, fid to 8d ; hams, 8d to 9d ; Canterbury hams and hacon, 9d ; in cloths, hams only, lid. Hides, Skins, &c.—Hides, to 4£d per lb ; sheepskins, 7d to 2s Id ; tallow, 25s fid to 29s fid per cwt. Rtoek. —Mr Buckhmd reports sale of : 8 cattle, L 8 10s ; 7 steers, L 8 4s; 1G steers, L 8 Is ; 24 steers. L 7 10s ; 16 steers, X-iG los ; —-A steers, L 6 S-s ; wolliovs 17h fid. WELLINGTON. Produce, &e. Fiour, £ll ; oatmeal, £l2 10s per ton ; wheat, 3s fid to 4s ; potatoes, £2 15s per ton ; oils, 2s Bil ; maize, 3& 9d ; cheese, 6£d ; hams and bacon (Canterbury) Bi-d to 10* I ; country-cured, fid ; fresh butter, 8d ; eggs, Is 9d per doz ; onions, £8 per ion. CHRISTCHURCH. Produce—Wheat, 3s 4d to 3s fid. Flout, £9 10s ; oatmeal, £l2. Oats : Prices, 2s 2d for milling, and Is 8d to Is lOd for feed samples. Barley, 3s fid to 3s 9d per bushel ; cheese, 3£d to 5d per lb ; butter (fresh), fid to 7d ; hams and bacon (cloth), 7d to 8d ; potatoes, 27s fid to 30s per ton at conn try stations ; onions, Id to l£rl per lb. Livestock—Beef, prime, 18s to 21s per IOOIbs ; mutton, 2fd to 2fd per lb; Pigs, about 4d to fid per In. Horse Market—Medium draught, £l7 to £2G ; good draught, £2O to £32; 3-year-old unbroken cart colts, £l3 to £lB ; 2-ycar-olds, £5 to £8 ; hacks, from £5 to £io ; well-bred ditto, £ls to £2O. DUNEDIN. Live Slock.—Beef, prime, 20s to 22s fid per 1001 bs ; medium, 17s fid ; mutton, 24d per lb. Produce. —Wheat, 3s fid to 3s 10d ; flour, £lO to £lO Jss per ton ; oatmeal, £ll to £ll 10s ; potatoes, £4 per ton ; oats, milling, 2s 3d to 2s 4d ; feed oats, Is lid to 2s per bushel ; cheese, 5d ; bacon, rolled, 7d ; hams, 9d ; sides of bacon, B£d (grain fed) ; fresh butter, best quality, 8d to 9d ; good ordinary butter, fid per lb ; eggs, Is fid per doz ; good salt butter in keg, fid per lb. SYDNEY (N S W.)

Breudstuffs—New Zealand oats, 2s Bcl per bushel ; New Zealand wheat, 3s 3d per bushel ; maize, 4s fid per bushel. Sugar—Sugar Go’s No 1 pieces, £34 per ton. ADELAIDE. Breadstufls—Wheat, 3s lid to 4s per bushel ; town flour, £9 per ton ; country brands, £8 10s per ton.

Buying Selling s d ad a d s d Butter, f., lb Cheese (Can) 0 7 to 0 9 0 8 to 0 11 07 „ 0 8 - 0 10 Bggs, dozen — ,,13 — .,14 Potatoes, new Flour, Can. -.Ji - 0 } - „ 13 0 - „ 14 0 Oatmeal — „ 44 — „ 4 G