Wellington Markets.
October 15.
George Thomas and Co. roport as follows : —Tho market for flour continues firm at old mtes, and we noto that tho tone of prices for shipping wheat is of an upward tendency ; tho great difficulty now experienced is tho scarcity of freights. Oats maintain last week's vahios ; holders are inclined to advance prices for guaranteed parcels of good shorl grain. Stocks of onion 3 aro almost exhausted, and very few lines of really prime cheese aro now available. We do not anticipate tho arrival of tho now make for somo six weeks. New potatoes are freely offering at t'ls per ton. Wo quote prime short oats, 2s 6d to 2a 7d ; long do, 2s 4d to 2s( Gd; oatmeal, £11 103 to £12; sheaf chaff, i'-t; straw do, £3 ; flour, £10 10s for roller, and £9 10s for stone process, in sacks; wheatmenl, £10 ; fowls' wheat, 2s 9d to 3s 5d for broken and whole grain respectively; bran, 13 15s ; pollard, £4; feed barley, 2s lOd; pearl barley, £19; grey peas, 3s 3d; split peas, £15 j beans, 8s 4d; onions, nominally worth, £7; Dorwent potatoes, £3 15s to £4 10s; kidney seed do., £t 10s ; chceso, 4dto sd; hams and bacon, factory, 7d ; farinors',sd ; frosh butter overstocked, 7d ; salt ditto, vory littlo salo at 8d; ' eggs, 8d pen itlozon ; lard, od per 1b ; honey, 441 to Dd. Tho arrivals of fruit have been confined to Sydnoy and Fiji descriptions (with- the exception of rhubarb, which is ruling at 4s per doz) ; Sydney oranges ruled from 5s to 9s ; mandarins, 7s Cd to 10s (3d ; lemons, 8s to 10s ; bananas, from 8s to Os Gd i#r bunch ; cocoanuts, 7s per sack ; peanuts, 2kl per lbj limes, 7s por caso; dates, 4\d : prosorvod pines, 21s por case. Poultiy is in active onquiry ; fowls, 3s 3d to 3s 6d ; tnrko) s, 7s Gd to 8s ; and ducks, 4s per pair.
"Bough on Corns." Ask for Welli "Eough on Corns." Quick ielief,complote, permanent euro. Corns, warts, bunions. At chemists and druggists.
"Eough ou Eats." — Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies, ants, bod-bitgs^cetlcs^nseots, skunks, jaok rabbits, sparrows, grpphers. At chemists and. druggists,
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 6643, 19 October 1888, Page 2
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362Wellington Markets. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 6643, 19 October 1888, Page 2
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