Markets.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2024, 31 January 1887, Page 2

Markets.

George Thomas anti Co report pro* duce prices as follows :—Last week’s business has not produced any material alterations in either feeding grain or breadstuff's, and prices, although unsteady and liable to change at any moment, are at present remaining at same figures as when quoting last week. Flour, old grist, has quiet demand at £ll for stone and £ll 10s to £ll 15s for roller process; bran £4, pollard £4 10s to £6, fowls’ vheat, whole 4s 3d, broken 3s 9d to s, wheatmeal £ll, old oats 2s to 2s ;d, new do, prime samples, 2s 2d to 2s 3d, oatmeal £ll to £ll 10s, oaten chaff, sheaves £4 to £4 10s, straw do £3 to £3 10s, maize 3s Gd to 3s 9d, barley scarce 2s lid to 3s, peas 3s 6d, beaus 3s 9d to Is, prime potatoes, flukes £4, Derwents £3 10s to £4, onions £lO to £l2, anything but very prime samples being quite unsaleable, hams and bacon, second class lots from 2d per lb, factory cure Gd to 7d, prime cheese 5d to Gd, honey 4|d, lard 4d, Nelson hops 4*d, eggs are fairly enquired for at Is per doz, poultry is in somewhat better demand and for fowls 3s Gd per pair is readily obtainable, ducks 3s 9d, geese Gs, and turkeys 10s. We note as an interesting fact that up to the present, the only apples which have successfully passed the Customs officials, re codlin moth, are from Sydney. In all cases consignments from Melbourne have been condemned. Local fruits have been well supplied, and prices on the whole are satisfactory. London, Jan. 27.

The wool market continues firm, and at today’s sale coarse crossbreds ruled |d higher, and scoured wools Ijd higher than last sales’ closing rates. Today’s catalogue comprised 10,100 bales, making a total of 29,400 offered since the opening; of these 2000 have been withdrawn from sale. The frozen meat by the Orizaba, from Melbourne, is selling at 4|d, and that from Sydney at 4d. The cargo by the flrawa is realising 4fd. CnBisicHUHCH, Jan 27. The NZL and M Co held their fifth wool sale of this season today, when upward of 1500 bales were submitted, principally station clips of merino, and large lines of scoured wools. There was a good attendance of buyers, and 910 bales were sold, including several well known clips. Prices for good halfbred and merino were firmer, and inferior and scoured unchanged.