PRODUCE MARKET—MARCH 24, 1881.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VIII, Issue 415, 25 March 1881, Page 16

PRODUCE MARKET— MARCH 24, 1881.

Messrs. Mercteb and McDonald, Rattray street, report : — Fresh batter is still very plentiful, best and favourite brands (in lib. and £lb. prints), 8d & lOd per lb. ; Eggs, Is 6d per dozen. Roll bacon, 8d per lb. Good salt butter, in kegs, none selling. Me. F. Meenak, Great King street, reports : — Wholesale prices : Oats, Is 5d to Is 7d per bushel ; milling wheat, 3s 6d to 3s 9d per bushel ; fowls' feed, 2s to ds ; barley, malting, 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; feed, Is 9d to 2s 6d per bushel ; hay, £3 per ton ; chaff, £2 15s per ton ; straw, £2 per ton : bran, £3 per ton ; pollard, £4 per ton ; flour, £9 10s to £10 per ton ; oatmeal, £9 per ton ; butter, fresh, 6d to 8d ; salt, 6d to 8d ; egRS, Is 2d ; bacon in rolls, 8d ; side, Bid ; hams, lOAd ; fresh pork, 4Ad per lb. ; potatoes £2 15 to £3 per ton. Mk. Joseph B. Sheath, Tuana street, Christchurcb, reports on thft grain market for the week ending March 23rd, 1881. Wholesale prices : — Wheat, milling, 3s 3d to 3s 9d ; chick, Is 9d to 2s 6d. Oats, good nulling, Is 7d to Is i)d ; feed, Is Id to Is 6d. Barley, best samples, 3s to Us <>d ; other sorts, 2s to 2? 6d ; feed. Is 2d to Is I 9d. Grass seed — in good demand, at from 2s <>d to 3s 6d : cocks- ; foots, 21& to 2*d. Butter, 6dto7d. Cheese, 3d to 3}d. Hay, 40s j to 50s. " Oaten sheavos, 3os ; good, oat straw, 255.