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Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 256, 31 October 1887, Page 4

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Mr A. Aitken reports sales for the past week at tho City Market Auction Rooms and Agricultural Hall as follows:—Business for the past week good in all departments.especially for new pototoes, for which there is already a steady demand. Poultry: Fowls, ordinary sorts. Is 5d to Is 9d each : well-bred sorts, is 9d to 2s 6d each ; Cock-i-cls, la 6d to 2,3 4d each, according to quality; Brahmas, 3s each ; Spanish, 2s 6d;_ach ; Langshan chickens, Is 4d each ; and many other sorts, satisfactory prices ; ducks, Is lOd to 2s 2d each. Produce : potatoes, Southern, £2 to £2 2s 6d per ton; new potatoes, Shepherd?*, 5s 3d to Id per lb ; early rose, Id per lb ; kidneys, to l_d per lb ; bran, I' 4 per ton ; oats, 2s 4"id to 2s 6d per bushel; chaff, from Is 9d to 2s 6d per sack ; fowl wheat 3s lOd per bushel; maize, 3s 9cl per bushel; carrots, 2s 6d per cwt; turnips, Is 6d por sack ; cabbage, Is to 2s per sack ; onions, inferior, Id per lb. Fresh butter: Large quantities offering and selling freely at from 5d to 6d per lb ; medium quality, 4_d per lb; salt butter, none to hand. Bacon: Prime Canterbury, 7d and per lb ; second quality, 5d to 6d ; shoulders, 4d and 4Ad per lb. Hams: Prime, 8d to 9d per lb; second quality, Cd and 6sd per lb ; bacon, local, 6d to 7d per lb ; medium quality, 4cl to 5d por lb; hams, 5d to 7d per lb. Choese : large quantities sold during.week, various qualities, at from Id per lb to 3d per lb; feathers, 6d per lb, and large quantities sundry goods at fair values.

; Messrs Arthur and Buddlk's Weekly 5 Report.—A busy week in all departments. Produce of all kinds in good demand. 1 Fruit: Local apples have sold at high > prices, to per lb. Lemons have ' also brought good prices. The first I gooseberries of the season were offered, but ' the grower made the mistake so often made, ; plucked too soon ; they should have been * left on the bushes for a fortnight; of course ' the price realised was not half so much as ' it would have been had they been left to tho proper time. A large quantity of fresh [ pat butter entered, and sold at fair prices, i There lias been little demand for salt butter. , A small supply of local cured bacon and ; hams; there is a good demand for Al quality. • There was a good supply of pou J try. Fowls i brought a fair price ' Ducks a little lower. Turkeys sold well; bub few entered. Pigs : . A ercab drop in price : a number of rough bush ones entered—these were difficult to ; sell at any price. This affected tho price I . for the better bred. There have been several auctions held at private houses ; in i all cases the attendances have been pretty good, bub prices have ruled in favour of the buyer. Monday: Sale of unredeemed , pledges from Messrs Bloom and Kecsing's, pawnbrokers. There" was a large attendance, fair competition, and upon the whole prices were satisfactory. Sale of household furniture and effects at Mr Robert Carlile'a, View Avenue, Mount Roskill Road. A goodnumbevprcsent), biddiiigrather languid, but everything considered the result was satisfactory. Tuesday : Sale of house hold furniture and effects . at Mrs E. Hobbs' residence, Claremont-street, Kyber Pass : a fair number present, and prices ruled low. The sale of stock of groceries, etc., at Mr Thomas Worden's, Newton Road, was largely attended by the trade and others, and good prices wore obtained. Wednesday: Sale of household furniture and effects at the Mart: not a large number present, bidding dull and prices low. Thursday: Sale of drapery, fancy goods, etc., ab Mart; good atbendance, and a large quantity of stuff changed hands at satisfactory prices. The sale of household furniture and effects at a private house in Hepburn-street, the attendance was large, but few buyers, therefore prices ruled low. Friday, market day : Salo of poultry produce, fruit, groceries, etc. There was a large attendance and fair competition, and upon the whole good prices were obtained. But little left on hand. The following are some of tho prices obtained : —Fowls, Is 6d to 2s; Spanish, Plymouth Rocks, etc., 2s Id to 2s 6d; ducks, Is 8d to Is 9d : geese, 3s to 3s 9d; turkeys, 4s 6d to 5s 4d ; bush pigs, 2s to 3s ;pigs, 4s to 7s ; dressed porkers, 3d, Produce, etc.: Carrots, 2s; new potatoes, to gd ; kidneys, ljd ; old potatoes, Is 9d to'2s 6d ; to Id ; cabbage, 6(1 to 3b Id per sack j cauliflowers,

Is lOd per sack ; cheese, Id to 3d ; bacon, 4d to 7d ; hams, 2_d to 7gd ; fresh butter, 4d to 7d ; salt inferior butter, Id to 3d ; tea, half-chest, Is 4d : tea, box, 20s ; biscuits, 2kl to 4_d ; Scotch mixtures, 6_d : oats, 2s 3d; bailey, 3s 3d ; sharps, ss; oatmeal, £10; bran'4s 3d: apples, local, 4_d to >Ji ; loquats, 2.U1 to 3d ; lemons, lOd to Is s_d ; limes Id;" local oranges, 7s 6cl per case; Sydney oranges, 10s; honey, 3W ; coflee, Is 3>d; rice, 16s ; eggs, 7d ; ehail, 2s od to 2s 6d.

Mkssrs Paget and Ralston report their last Friday's sale as beinjr well attended, and quote the following prices for the various lines offered :—Poultry : Ordinary fowls, Is 3d to 2s each ; chicks, 8d ; ducks, Is lOd to 2s ; turkeys, 2s 6d to 4s 3d ; creese, 4s 4d to 4s lOd ; pigs of very inferior breed, 2s 6d to 6s 9d; pigeons, 9d; Brahma fowls, 3s 3d. Produce: New potatoes, £d per lb ; cabbage, Is per sack ; fresh butter, 6d per lb ; hams, 6d; Oamaru potatoes, £2 15s and £3 per ton; maize, 3s 7*d and 3s 8d per bushel; oats, 2s 3d ; wheat, 3s lOd ; barley, 3s 3d ; bran, £4 5s per ton ; sharps, £4 15s : chaff, £4, sacks extra ; onions, l.jd. to 2d per lb ; corned beef, lid per lb ; cheese, 2d to 3d ; peanuts, Id per lb; lard, 2d; honey, 2Jd and ; bacon, 4d per lb.

Mb Edward Lrvdon Reports :—Business for the week satisfactory. The sales have been well attended throughout. Furniture is rather hard to quit. Tho demand for good produce lias been very fair ; there was not a great deal entered, but there was plenty of inferior in the .market, which was hard to quit ab any price. At Monday's sale in Vincent-street, the attendance was very large, and most of the goods brought fair prices. At Tuesday's sale of furniture, in tho Mart, tho prices ruled in favour of buyers, except the small lines, which sold very well. At Thursday's sale of drapery, clothing, and fancy goods in tho lines offered were of first-class quality, and brought good prices. At Friday's sale of produce, furniture, etc., potatoes fetched 3s to 3s 6d per cwt; now potatoes, Id to l_d per lb ; onions 2d per lb ; cheese, lfo\ to 4d ; butter, salt, 3d to 4_d per lb ; fresh ditto, sid to7dper lb ;' tea, 16s por box : hams, 6d to 7d per lb ; baron, 3sd to 6_d per lb ; fowls, Is 6d to Is lid. There was a large quantity of furniture sold, at fair average prices.