COMMERCIAL.
We were unable to give tno report or iwr it. Arthur's weekly sale of poultry, produce, etc., in our last issue, owing to the crowded state of his mart. We append the quotations to-day: Flour, £12 to £13, in sacks, and £13 to £14, in 1001b bags. Canterbury bacon, in cloth, 7_d; bacon and hams, SJd; sundry bacon, at 5d to 7Jd; cheese, 4d to 6Jd"; potatoes sold at 2s 6d to 3s 6d per cwt.; onions, fd to Id; picklers, lfd; pumpkins, at Is 6d to 3s 6d per cwt; pie melons, 3s 6d per cwt.; Fruits: Quinces, 2d to 2Jd per lb.; apples, 3d to 3Jd per lb.; pears. Ifd to 3Jd per lb.; peanut?, 2Jd to 2£d per lb.; raisin 3, 3_r_L per lb. Poultry: Fowls, inferior, 6d to lOd each; fowls, ls to 23; ducks, ls to 2s Id each; geese, 33 3d each; turkey 3. 2s 9d to 3s 8d; pigs, 7s 6d to 9s 9d each. Groceries .-Biscuits. 6d to 6Jd per lb.; candles, 10Jd per lb.; rice, 3£d per lb.; jam, 63 3d to 7s; tea, box, 21s to 265; half-chests, 2s per lb. The furniture realised fair prices.
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Auckland Star, Volume IX, Issue 2507, 6 April 1878, Page 2
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