WELLINGTON MARKETS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 71, 16 February 1883, Page 2

WELLINGTON MARKETS.

Hassell and Co. report :— Flour, £10 to £11 ; oatmeal, £14 ; bran, £4 ; pollard, jjg 10s ; potatoes, £5 to £6 j onions, £6 to £7 per ton> Oats, 2s to 2s 4d ; wheat, 3s Od to 4s 3d j maize, 4s 9d per bushel. Butter, 9d to lOd, bacon and hams, 9d perlb ; eggs, Is 2d to Is 3d. Fowls, 3s 6d to 4s j ducks, 4s to 5s per pair. George Thomas reports as follows : Wheat (fowls'), heavily, stocked, ruling from 3s 9d to 4s 6d; barley, 3s 7d to 3s 9d ; maize, very little sale, aud none offering, 4s 6d to 4s 94 is considered a fair market ; report ; flour, £10 15s"to £11 ; oatmeal, £15 ; bran, £4 10s ; pollard, £5 Is ; hams and bacon, B|d to 9d ; cheese, 7£d ; butter, B£d to 9d. A good iuquiry exists for grass seed. For firstnclass perennial rye-grass Seed 4s 6d to 4s 9d is quoted ; there have been some transactions at the former figure ; cocksfoot is worth 4d to 4|d. Butter is quoted at 7^d to 8d per lb for prime potted. Cheese, Bd. Larey & Campbell report fowls are worth 3a 9d to 4s j ducks, 4s to 43 3d ; turkeys—there have' not been any for some time past; eggs are rising slowly,. Is 6d being realised at auction to-day for the'nT;* butter, scarce and much enquired for; potatoes jt are scarce and price unsettled ; onions, L 8 to L 9.