Wellington Markets.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 6653, 31 October 1888, Page 3

Wellington Markets.

George Thomas and Co. report as follows : The market for ordinary lines of grain is quiet; the winter demand being over, business is confined to strictly retail limits. Stocks of local onions aro exhausted, and consumers are now dependent upon supplies from Australia and America, prices ruling at 15s and 20s per cwt respectively. Arrivals of new potatoes being light, quotations rose from 7s to 9s per cwt, a brisk demand being experienced. Old potatoes aro now eomewhat slow in moving off; only bost descriptions find sale ; prices rule from 55s to 85s per ton. The first consignment of this season's Wairarapa cheese, just to hand, was cleared readily at 5Jd per lb. We quote, at unaltered rate, roller flour, £10 10s, stone do £9 10s for sacks 1 bran, £3 15s ; pollard, £4; short oats, 2s 6d to 2s 7d, long do, 2s 5d to 2s 6d; oatmeal, £11 10s to £12 ; feed barley, 2s lOd ; Cape barley, 3s 6d; pearl barley, £19, maize, 3s Gd; fowls' wheat, 3s to 3s 4d; beans, 8s 3d; field peas, 3s 3d; split peas, £14. Hams and bacon, 7d; farmers' cure. sd; honey, 4d to sd ; fresh butter, 7d ; salt ditto, 7d j eggs, 7jd to 8d ; lard, in bladders, sd ; fowls, 3s Gd; ducks, 4a to 4s Gd; turkeys, 7s per pair. Island oranges, 10s to lls ; American apples 20s per case ; rhubarb, 4s 6d per doz ; green peas, li 3d to Is 4d per peck. The usual shipment of Sydney fruits, to arrive noxb Saturday, should come to a bare market, and, for the better descriptions, satisfactory prices should be realised.

The monthly returns at the port of Wanganui for September /same to £1399 8s lOd, as compared with £714 15s lOd for the same month last year. The items this year were —Spirits, £434 Is ; cigars, 14s ; tobacco, £386 18s 6d ; wine, £30 13s 2d ; ale, £3 155; sugar, £9 6s 8d ; goods by weiijht, £155 14s 8d; goods ad valorem, £855 5s 4d; beer duty, £182 6s; primage, £44 6s, and pilotage, £29 19s 2d. The increase is mainly attributed to the fact thatThain and Co., and Sclanders and Co. have heen added to the list of those who pass entries locally.

At the Charitable Aid Board meeting to-day Mr Sanson drew attention to tho manner in which the Patea borough and county received the benefit of boing attached to the Wanganui Charitable Aid District. The two local bodies— County and Borough Council) paid £85 a year and expended £ 113. In addition to this, as their share of maintaining destitute childrcn,the total cost of which was £539, Fate&'s contributi tt camo to £50. Their share of the working expenses would bring the expenditure up to about £80 above what they paid the Board. Mr Adams adopting a defiant and cheery attitude, said he vra» glad to see that Wanganui had not beneflttcd. They had wanted to deal with their own Charitable Aid in their own way but Parliament had never allowed them to. He had been connected •with the administration of Charitable Aid in Patea long before tho Board came into existence and knew it was economically administered then. The Chairman reported that the Board had nothing to do with the division of the district. They had to administer the district as they found it, and it was not right that the chairman of the Patea Board should admit that they spent more money than they should have done because thoy wanted separation. Mr Adams said ho did not admit this, but he admitted that they might have been more economical if they had ing it provided for them. He wanted to know how Palmerston stood in this respect. Mr Sanson said Palmorston had spent more than it paid, but it had not spent double the levy. He moved that the Patea Borough and County Councils be requested to administer rations instead of contributions of money for charitable aid relief, but ultimately decided to give notice of motion for next meeting.