WELLINGTON PRODUCE MARKETS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 51, 29 January 1884, Page 2

WELLINGTON PRODUCE MARKETS.

Hase.il and Co. repoit prices' as | und^r :— Oat3, really good feod prm at 2s 3d to 2s 6;1 ; milling do, 2s 6d to maize, 4s to 4s 6d per bushel ; pollai-tl, hi 10s to L 5; .bran, L 4-; potatoes, L 4 10s to L 5 10s; onions, L 6 to Ji9'per ton ; cheese, 4d to 6d ; bui,ter, G4 to 7d ; hams and" bacon, (prime), B|d to 9d ; inferior, 5 d to 7d per lb. Pruit is very scarce, and cotuui<vnds very liig'h rates. Fowls, 3s 6d; ducks, 4a to 4s 6d per pair. 1 George Thomas reports :~The firmness m oats lias m no way depreoiated ; m iUcti prices are itill inclined to 1 advance, and until the new gr..in is fairly placed upou the market, tho present rates will be maintained. For short milling, 2s 7d, aud for common feed, 2s 4d to 2s 5d are fair quotations to buyer and seller. Stocks of flour sire light, but apart irom a hardening ten dency existing, no change m prices has taken place. Wheat, pollard, bran, and oatmeal are unchanged. ..Onions are ngain inquired for at L 8 per ton; potatoes (Hutt production), L 5; bacoii ! atixj-hams are dull at 9il to 9£d ; maize, 3s 9<l ; bark>y, 2« 9d ; salt butter can be placed at 7d, but at this price there are tew sellers, (^uite an activity is taking- place m all lines of fruit, owing to the shipments being very light tiom all poi'is — the effect of an indifferent season clearly showing itself. Plum's; apricots, pears, and black currants sell readily at high rates. Apples remain steady at^s to 6s 6d7 Eggs liave jumped, to Is 3d. Fowls, 3s 9d to 4s; aubkf, 4s 3° 4s 6d. i -