DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKET, DECEMBER 16, 1885.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 34, 18 December 1885, Page 13

DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKET, DECEMBER 16, 1885.

J. H. KILGOUR. erain and produce broker, reports under abova date as follows : — Wheat : The market is quiet, but any good lots of milling are saleable at late quotations — viz., 3s 3d to 3s 4d for white velvet and Tuscan, and 3s lo 3s 2d for red straw. .Fowl feed and inferior milling are in active demand at 2s 8d to 2s lid. — Oats : Good shipping parcels ara in^demand at Is 9d to Is 9^-d for bright sh' rt feed, and Is lOd to Is 10W for milling. Ordinary teed for local requirements sells at Is Bd. tolsS^d. — Barley: Market inactive at 3s for mtUtinp;. and 2s to 2s 3d for feed and milling. — Chaff : The market 13 rather bare of really good quality, which would fetch £3 ss. Inferior to medium sells at £3 log to £3. — Potatoes : Derwentg are in viry limited demand at £2 for picked lots, and £1 for lots that have been stored. — Butter : Fresh, 7d to 7-V1 per lb., and 6d for medium ; salt, B^d to 9d for prime, kegs extra. — Cheese : s|d for bebt quality — Eggs : The price to-day is Is 2d per dozen, and supplies rather abort.

Mb. F. Meenax, King street, reports : — Wholesale prices including bajrs : Oats, la 6d to Is lOd ; wheat, milling 3s to 3s 4d, fowls' feed 2s to 3s; barley, malting 2s 9J to 3s (dull sale), milliner 2a Od to 2s, tki, feeding 2s; oaten hay, £3 ; rye-grass, £3 ; chaff, £2 15s to £3 ns ; straw. £1 los to £2 ; 'bran, £4 10d ; pollard, £5 ; flour, £7 10s to £8 ; oatmeal, £10 5s to £10 10s ; fresh butler, medium to prime, 6d to 9d ; baltbutter, in demand, B^d ; etcsjs Is 2J; cheese, 3 I to 6d ; bacon, 6£d in rolls, hams 9d ; potatoes, Derwents, old, £2, new £8 for local kidne\s.