DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKET, NOVEMBER 4, 1885.
JIK, J. H. Kilgour, giain and produce broker, reports under above date as follows : — Wheat : The market remains about the same as reported labt week, and prices show no alteration. I quote prime milling at 3s 4d to 3s od : medium quality, 3s to 3s 2d ; inferior and fowls' feed, 2s 8d to 2s lOd. — Oats : The demand is weaker, and although quotations are nominally about the same as last week ; 6ales are not so readily effected. Best milling samples, 2s; bright short feed, Is lOd to Is lid ; ordinary feed, Is 8d to Is 9d.— Barley : There is little doing, and prices about level of last week's quotations.—Chaff : Supplus have been rather more plentiful, bui have not affected prices, which remain at £3 5s for beat, and £3 for second quality. — Potatoes : Stocks on hand are still large, and demand limited, £3 may be quoted as the top price for Derwents. — Butter • Fresh, slow of sale, at 6d ; salt, 8d to 9d, and demand not active. — Cheese : 5d to s^d, witli au active demand for good quality. — Eggs : 8d per dozen, up to B^d, as supplies happen to come in. — Grass Seed . The demand is nearly over. Pi ices nomiually the same as last week. Mr. F. Meenan, King street, reports : — Wholesale prices including bags : Oats, Is 9d to 2s ; wheat, milling 3s to 3s 4d, fowls' feed 2s Od to 2s 9d ; barley, malting 2s 9d to 3s (dull sale), milling 2s Od to 2s 6d, feeding 2s; oaten hay, £3; Tye-grass, £3 ; chaff, £2 10s to £3 ; straw, £1 15s to £2 ; bran, £4 10s ; pollard, £5; flour, £7 10s to £8 ; oatmeal, £10 5s to £10 10s; fresh butter, medium to prime, (id to 8d; eggs, 8d ; salt butter, plentiful, 8d ; chuese, £d to 6d ; bacon, 7^d in roll?, hams lOd ; potatoes^ Vt rWdtats £2 10b, kidney's £1 sb,
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 28, 6 November 1885, Page 17
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319DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKET, NOVEMBER 4, 1885. New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 28, 6 November 1885, Page 17
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