COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Colonist, Volume XXII, Issue 2514, 22 February 1879, Page 3

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Geain, &c (wholesale)— Wheat, 4s 6d to 5s per bushel; oats, 3s per bushel; barley, 5s to 5s 6d per bushel; pollard, £6 10s per ton ; bran, £5 to £5 10i per ton ; flour, £12 per ton ; oatmeal, £22 ; potatoes, £4 to £4 10s per ton j peas, 3s 9d to 4s per bushel; beans, 4s per bushel. PROVISION PRICES—RETAIL. b. d. b. a. Flour, per lb ... 0 3 Potatoes, per cwt. 6 0 Oatmeal, do ... 0 4 „ new, lb.. 0 2 Rice, do 3d to 0 4 Wheat, per bushel 5 0 Pearl Barley ... 0 4 Maize ... „ 6 0 Butter—fresh Is to" 1 1 Pollard ... „ 9 0 „ —salt, ... 010 Oats 5 0 Eggs, per dozen... I 4 Peao >t> ••• 5 0 Pucks, pair ... 5s to 6 o Barley 5 6 Geese, each... 4sto 5 0 Carrots, per cwt 4 6 Fowls, pair 3s Od to 3 6 Turkeys, each, 3s to 4 0 Ham, per lb, lOd to I 2 Hay, grass, £6 to £6 10s Bacon, do,, ...0 9 Oaten hay £5 10 to £6 Os Bread, 41b loaf 6d to 7d Ashbubton.—February 17—Wheat per bushel, prime milling, 3s to 3s 4d; inferior, for feeding purposes, 2s 8d to 3s; oats, feed, per bushel, 2s 9d to 3s, milling, ditto, 3s ?o 3s 2d—brisk demand ; barley, feed, per bushel, 33 6d to 4j, owing to low price of wheat demand limited ; ditto, malting, ditto, for well thrashed, bold, mellow, extreme prices—ss 9d to 6s freely given ; flour, per ton, known brands range from £B.los to £9, potatoes per ton, for local consumption, £4 5s to £4 10s, rye grass, 4s 6d, to 5s cocksfoot, s£d to 6£d, large quantities in the market from the North.