Markets.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2056, 18 April 1887, Page 2

Markets.

George Thomas and Co. report produce prices : —“ The Easter holidays have somewhat interfered with business, and a consequent dullness e\ s s in all de scriptions of produce, •■•■ re i"o no changes to note during pad fortnight, and wo simply o. ,o Smner quotations. Feed oats ino l orn Is lid to 2s Id, milling ami

;i lit potato samples still command -■< 2 ho l’s 3d, oatmeal £lO IDs, oaten 1 chaff straw £3 10s, sheaves £4 10s, ; ihui £lO (sacks), fowl wheat 3s Gd | to 3s !M, bran £l, pollard £4 10s, wheatmeal £lO, maize (scarce) 4s 9d, teed hurley 2s i)d to 2s lOd, potatoes •j.js, beans 3s t)d, peas 3s 9d, rye grass seed prune samples 3s 9d per bushel, fanners’ parcels 3s Gd, cocksfoot 3Jd per lb, carrots 4us, mangolds los per ton, onions £G per ton,cheese (market overstocked) 4d to sd. bacon Gd to 7d, hams 7d to 8 jd, eggs (scarce) from 2s upwards j»er doz. Butter—there are no enquiries for salt samples and stocks are daily accumulating ; we quote from 5d to 7d ; these prices are, however, only nominal; fresh descriptions arc more plentiful, aud quotations have reduced to 7d and 8d per lb. Poultry remains very low in prices, and demand is unequal to supply ; we quote fowls Bs, ducks 3s Gd, geese ss, turkeys ns. Arrivals of i’uit lure been cm duel almost cxclu- j i.-oly to Hobart shipments of apples ii i pears, which are in demand at j .miucwhat reduced rates. Wanganui ; quinces are dull at 7a per cwt.” '