MARKETS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 5, Issue 266, 31 October 1861, Page 4

MARKETS.

Wanganui.— Wheat 7s 6d, oats 5s 6d to 5s 9d; per bushel, flour £2O per ton, potatoes £5, fat cattle 20s per 100 lbs. In retail—bread Is per 4 lbs.,,cheese Is 3d to Is 6d, butter Is , bacon, and ham Is per lb., eggs Is per dozen. Canterbury, Oct. s.—Wheat 5», 5s 6d, oats. 4s 6d to 5s 6d, and barley 5s 6d to 6s, scarce. Flour £lB to £2O per ton; ewes 30s; mixed, cattle £5 per head ; colonial beer, £6 per hhd. In retail—bread. 1 lOd 4lb loaf, bacon Is 3u,. cheese Is,' ham Is 6d, butter Is 10d, beef 5d t<> 9d, pork 9d, mutton 6d to 8d per lb, eggs Is 3d per doz ; coals £4 to £4 10-per ton ; firewood £2 per cord. " Nelson, Oct. 10. —Wheat 7s to 8s per bushel. Flour £2O per ton. In retail—Bread Is per 4 lbs, butter Is 6d, cheese Is Sd, beef and mutton 6d to Bd, pork 8d per lb, potatoes 7s per cwt. . MELBOURNE Oct. 4. Wheat, 6s. to 6s. 6d.; Oats, 3s. to 3s. 6d. ; Barley, ss. tp;6s.6d. ; Maize--ss. to ss. 3d! per bushel; Flour, Adelaide, £l4 to £ls, per ton ; Ale,Base’s new, £8 to £8 10s. Porter, 6£ to 7 1* per hhd. 9s. to 10s. 3d. per doz. Bacon, to Cheese, lid. to 13d. per lb.; Rice, 16/. per ton ; Tea, Congou,' 9/AOs. per chest; 235. to 26s- per box Tobacco, Honeydew, Is- 6d- to 2s. p : lb. The New Zealand rush Up fothe present, time has not eased our market; of to any extent cleared out stock or elevated prices- Even such articles as butter, bams, bacon, timber, boots and shoes, canvas, tents , flour, oats, or liquids of any kind,- which might naturally have been : expected to have sprung elastically on such an event do not appear to have been influenced. No less than 67 of the emigrants to Otago-re-turned by the Aldinga. Most of them were experienced diggers, and their opinion is that the: New Zealand gold fields are not equal to the Victorian, while the expence and inconvenience at Otago are tenfold. The consequence is tliivt the demand; for passages has all but eeased.