COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 173, 25 July 1887, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

Evening Star Office, this day.

Messrs Arthur and Buddies weekly report: —The weather has been very unfavourable for business the greater portion of the week ; therefore the supply of produce, etc., has been below the average ; still a good business has been done. A large number of auctions have been held, and all have been well attended, with satisfactory results. Potatoes ; Not a large supply ; all to hand sold. Other root crops have been in tair demand, and prcttly well cleared out. Butter :. No good quality to hand ; the greater portion of the large stock of second-class has been sold at low prices. Bacon has come to hand freely ; all of good quality has brought fair prices - still a large quantity of inferior, which is difficult to sell at any price. The same may be said in reference to cheese. The supply of poultry has nob been large ; an improvement in price has taken place. No live pigs. Fruit: The supply has been small. A slight improvement iv prices. Thursday : (Sale of 100 kega of second-class and inferior butter, bananas, etc., ab Mart. The butter brought Id to 3d per lb ; bananas, £to Id per lb. The sale of drapery, etc., at Mart, was largely attended : fair competition, and a good business was done. Friday : Market day was well attended ; good competition for many lines. Poultry was in good demand, j and realised better prices. _ No geese entered, and no live pigs in. Fowls, Is Id to 2s sd; ducks, 2s to 2s lOd turkeys, 3s 9d ; geese, 3c 7d ; pigs (dressed) 3|d. Produce : potatoes, 2s to 3s Gd ; pumpkins, Is lid to 3s 6d ; carrots, 2s to 2s 4d ; mangolds, Is Id to Is 4d ; onions, Jdto l£d ; maize, 3s 2d; wheat, 3s lOd to 4s; oats, 2a 3d ; bran, 4s 6d per sack ; chaff, 2s 3d to 4s Gd per sack ; cheese, Id to 4d ; bacon, Id to (iAd ; hams, 3d to 7d ; fresh butter, 9d per'lb; apples (local), 2Ad to 'S^d,— apples (Hobart), 2s 6d to 9s 3d per case ; lemons, 4d to 5d per dozen ; orancres, 4sd to 5Ad per dozen ; honey, tin, 3d,—do, keg, l;,'d ; tea, half-chest, Is 2£d, —do, box, 22s ; Hour, £9 to £12 ; biscuits, 3d to 4£d ; coffee, Is 2d ; Scotch mixtures, 6Jd ; candles, 4d to 4£d; butter, 2d to 4|d ; fencing .wire, 10s Gd per coil; oatmeal, £10.

Messrs Paget and Ralston report; the following prices as obtained by them on Friday last at their market sale :—Poultry : Fowls, Is 3d to Is Sd each; ducks, Is 7d to Is lid j turkeys, 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; geese, 3.s 9d ; small pigs, 3a (3d to os 3d ; pigeons, lid; game fowls, 2s 9d. Produce: Potatoes, Oamaru, L 3 10s per ton ; pumpkins, L 2 10s to L 2 15s ; parsnips, L3; carrots, L 2 10s to L3 j onions, £d and Id per Ib ;

salt butter, 2d to 5d ; bacon, 2d to 4d ; hams ; 3kl to 6d ; cheese, ljd to 4|d ; maize, 3s per bushel; oats, 2s 3d; bran, L 4 15s per ton; sharps,^La 10s; corned beef, Id per lb ; tea, 14s* per box ; sugar, 28s per cwt; flour, Lll 15s per ton ; oatmeal, Lll 10s; candles, 4d to 6£d per lb ; soap, 10s to 21s per cwt; honey, 2£d per lb; chaff, L4 to L 5 per ton ; biscuits, lfd to 3d per lb ; kerosene, 13s 6d per case.

Mr Edward Leydox reports business for the week satisfactory. The furniture market is somewhat dull. Drapery was in good demand. There was also a large demand for good bacon, cheese, butter, onions, and potatoes. Second class stuff was hard to quit, and realised small prices. At Friday's sale of produce, furniture, etc., potatoes fetched L3 5s to L 3 10s per ton ; onions, L 8 per ton ; bacon, 4d to Gd per lb; hams, 6d to 74d; Taranaki butter, sd; local, 3£d to 4d ; cheese 2£d to 4d ; tea, 18s per box. There was also a large quantity of furniture sold at very fair prices.

Mr D. F. Evans reports no change in business of any note. A consignment of Taranaki butter, though of good quality, only realised 4kl per lb., the market being apparently overstocked. A consignment of tinware was offered, but only a few lines were quitted at low prices. Several lines of local manufactured furniture were put through at fair prices, such as kauri chests of drawers, from L2 5s to L 4 10s ; spring mattress, LI ss; patent wire-work mattress, LI Is; suites of rive pieces, L 3; whereas, Austrian bentwood chairs, cane backs, went at 8s (id each. Half-tester double iron bedstead, L3 5s and a Bord's piano in good order for Lls. The land sales were well attended. Tuesday's sale: The Mount Albert property comprising house of 8 rooms stables, etc., and 54 acros land, started at LSOO, speedily rose to L 670 at which price it fell to the bid of Mr Wasteneys. The Albert-street property was bought in at LI, 100. The 75 acres at Papakura creek, subject to a mortgage of L2OO, was reserved for private sale. Wednesday's sale : The leasehold property comprising house of four rooms, etc., on allotment leased for CO years at a rental of 15 per annum, was sold for Lssto Mr Lawrence. At Friday's sale, the small farm of 10 acres and house, etc.,situated at Otau,\Vairoa South, started at LIOO. and aftersomekeencompetition was knocked down to Mr McPherson for Ll7l Is. Trees, shrubs and plants are now coming in in large quantities, and those desirous of forming plantations, shrubberies etc., should take advantage of present low prices. Friday's sale realised as follows :—

Quinces,"2d each ; apples, 2d; native shrubs (assorted), Id each : roses 2s 6d per doz. ; vSuding orange 3d ; guavas 4d ; silver tree 6d ; clyanthus 4d ; camellias from Is 3d to 2s 9d ; daphnes Is Id to Is 9d ; lemons Is 3d; sweet lemons (large trees), 4s each ; pinus inmgnus 16s per hundred; hedge privit, 4s per hundred.