COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 4292, 23 February 1884, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Evening Star Office, this day. M». It. Arthur's Weekly Kkpobt.-A /airly busy wonk In ill departments. Fruit has not coma li md quite so frnoly. price: have been about the tame as laf.t wuok. If good round peaches weie snt In small ones, they would now bring a fair price. • Potatoes have not Improved in price Stock light, not a Urgi quantity to hand this week ( hoeso aro to hand is oKisi of demand, prices do not improve. Good bacon Is wucted, bnt little to hand. Afar d'inland for good seed onions. Onions difficult to get buyers at any prfc. Tho ilimsai for furnltuie not so good as usual. Friday: Salo of poultry.produco, fruit, eta, at mart '1 he supply of poultry was small, and of inferior quality, prices lower than last week. All potatoes and onions cleared out; no Improvement in price. Cheese sold more readily tlan lut weok; only ft few lots passed. Fruit was entered In large quantity. Apples dedinod In price. Pen were very plentiful, but most of them sold at 2}d to 2Jil. J'eachos and plums bat few enterod; an advance In tho prlca was the consequence. Fowls, Is 44 to 2s 6d; Brahuuis, Si 10J ; guinea fowl?, 4s 3d; tnrkera (small), it fld; duck*. Is Mto 3.101; pig ioi.s, Is 5d to Is 8d; elgs, 12s to Us 6.1; cart harness, £ 3 15s ; Liijgy harness, £4 15s; potatoes, Is 6.1 to 3s Od; carrots, 2s 91; onions, Id to ljd ; oats, 2i 5(1; maize, 4s 2d; sharps, Di C-i; bni\ 6s; wheat, 3a Td; chooso, 2d to Od; bacon, 3d to Old; haras, 3.1 to lid ; apples, ljd to 3id; paars, IJd t > 2J<l; plums, fid to 6Jd; peaches, 2Jd to 4Jil per Hi.. 4<l to 4Jii per dozen ; lemons, BJd to lid; damsons, 3}d to 4jd; oranges, 113 6d; sugar, 4ld; tit, 24s ; butter,. 6d to 7d ; biscuits, fid to <Sd; honey, 6d. Mcs'-rs Oariiisbh and Taylor held their usual Friday's salo of ponltry, produce, itc, and report a v»ry largo attendance, and bidding spirited. Fair prices wero obtained in all departments. Young fowls. Is to Is Cd; full-grown do ,1»Wto 2s 7d: langahiins, 8i; Polish fowls, 4s Od eoob ; duels, Is 6d to Is lid; ) oung pigs, 8s 9d to 10s Produce: Potatoes come freoly to market, and s^H at from 2i Od to 43, according to quality; cauliflowers, Is to Is 9d per cask: cabbie", Is to 2n; onions are voty plentiful, nnl tell at from Jd to ljd; green pou, Is4«lpor peek. Jrult market: But little to hnnd : apples »n<l to rs aru very i-mull; apples, Id to 2Jd per lb.; psarn, ljd porlb.;- pushes are vo-y scares, «d per doz. Prime Canterbury bacon, 0d to o\i ; hams, 9.1 to lid ; Inforlor bacon, 2d to Sjd; hams, 4d; medium bacon, 4d to 6(1; hams, 6d to 8d v Walroa cheeses, 3d to 4d ; keg boef. Id to 2d ; keg butler, Sd toOd ; fre.h butter, '/id nor lb.; oatmeal, S> 9J pec 2.*)lbs. bags; plg-mcal, si^ shirps, 6j ; hran, 5s 61 and Oi; ch»(f, 2i 01 to 3s; oats, 'is Gd to 3i; wheat, Is lid to 3i 61; m .ize, 2a 6d to 4a.