COMMERCIAL

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 276, 22 November 1890, Page 4

COMMERCIAL

Messrs Arthur and Buddle's Weekly Kepobt.—B\isiness generally has been brisk. We have held eight auction sales since last report, and satisfactory prices have ruled at. all. On Saturday we Bold a largo consignment of bananas and pines, ex Taupo from Ifiji. Uuyers attended in full numbers, and. considering the recent heavy arrivals of these fruits, fair prices ! •wererealised. On Monday, MrS. A. Aalier'e Bale of. unredeemed pledges took place in the Agricultural Hall. The attendance was very large throughout the day, and a large number of lines were quitted at satisfactory prices. Tuesday: Our usual produce sale was held, and a fair quantity of stuff was put through. On Wednesday, at ten o'clock, we sold a consignment of bananas and pines, ex Wainui from ■ Tonga, and at noon, household furniture and effects; at both the attendance was numerous. The Arch Hill brickyard plant was sold onr Thursday on the premises, and resulted satisfactorily. Friday's market sale was a very full one. Entries in all departments continue to increase weekly, as the splendid facilities of our new promises for handling and oxhibiting consignments become better known. In the poultry department ttie pens were well filled, and fine prices ruled. Produce of all kinds wne entered in very large quantities, and was well competed for. During the week new potatoes Save come forward freely, and have met with a brisk demand, A few tons of old from Nupicr have realised £5 per ton. Cheese has teen in good supply, tho demand being equal. There is an improving demand for prime dairy - fed bacon and bams. Fresh butter was in full supply, and realised about last week's values. The following are prices at which we have sold during the week, viz.:—Fowls, la Sd to 2s Id; roosters, 2e 6(3; cockerels, Is id to is 7a: ducks. Is 7d to 2s 6d; geeee. 4s 6d to ss; goslings, 33 to 3s 3d; turkey benß. 3s ffl : gobblers, 58 6a to 6a 6d • Mnscovy ducks, young, 3s 9d to 4s 3d; chicks 6fl to 9d: whiteLegnorns. 2s 9d; Wyandottes 2s 8d; golden Harobums, 2s 6d; hens and broods 3s 3d to 5s 5d ; pigeons. 9d to 3?; pigs 6s to 13s • poor condition, 2s to 4s; carrots, 2s ter cwt; turnips. l}d to 8d per dozen; cauliflowers, lid to Bs per dozen: cabbages. 6d tols2d per dozened to Iβ 9d per sack; broad beans. Sd to 6Jd • teas, la to Is lid: rhubarb. Id to6d: old potatoes.ss j new kidneys, 8d to Id; and small is 4d to 25 3d par cwt.: round. Jd to 3d; and small Is 3d to 3s 9d per cwt.; bacon, 5d to 7Jd; rolled 6d; hams, 6jd to B}d; poor, 2d to 3d ; eggs. 6d to Bid: fresh butter, IJd to 6Jα; comb honey. 2dcheese. 3d to Id : inferior and old. ljd to 2j'd • Oriental sauce, 3s 6d : quick lime cordial, 3e 9d; lemon cordial, ss; pines, 2s 6d to 2a 3d per dozen, and inferior 2s per case: bananas. 5d to 2s 9d per bunch, according to quality: green gooseberries, lid to 3d: ioquats, 21d to 3Jd ; hothouse Srapes, 2a Old to 2s 3d; lemons, Iβ to Is 8d ■ small, 3d to lid. Messrs Esam and Arthur's Weekly lleport.—ln produce tho volume of business has been considerable. The demand for potatoes has been active, particularly for Shepherd's required for export. Early in tho week, prices leached as high as £7 10s, but to-day prices are easier by at least 10s. In kidneys, the supply iasbeen large, but not with a corresponding demand. We quote Id per )b as average value. Bacon and hams have come forward in fair quantity, for which we have obtained 6d to ejd and 7d to Bd, quality was good; tbe demand for Canterbury, in cloth, by tbo case, is increasing at. 6}d to 7d, equal numbers. Cheese meets with ready sale at 4d to 4sd for first-class, all hnes cleared, inferior difficult to sell. Eggs in good supply, and demand at 7Jd to Bd. Fresh butter, as usual, a, perfect glut, 3d to 6Jd. Vegetables plentiful at fair rates. Gooseberries are coming in more plentifully, to-day's sale consisted of about 80 cases. averaging2Jd to 3}d per Id ; lemons. Is to Is 4d. Wβ obtained the f ollowprloes at auction ;-Kldneys, jd. to IJd; Sbep.

n ?Vn i<.rh 2d , : P lnk °yes, £d to Jd; cabbages, ? ia M?« 4- ls lcl t0 Is 7d sack; poaa i m -V B . d pe ? k; cauliflowers, Zs 3d; parsnips 1 , nmv£ ""F 8, ,? 1 10 W: rubarb, 4s 6d to 6s 6d cucumbers, is id ; oats, ls lljd to 2s 2d! barley «? }■ fin d : h J? n ' 3s 6d : sharps. 3s 9d; oatmeal, ?tr,'.erfcf ]Os tc \ filo: chaff - ls 9d t0 2s Canterbury bacon and hams ia cloth, bid to 7d; to 63d; hams. 6.}dtoßd: eggs. 7id ;o W; freeli butter, 3d to bid; goo*enw^«,? id l ° , 3 *4: lemons, is *to Iβ 4d : «d; inferior. 2d to 2}d: tinned cuits W ; tCa, 153 6d; coflee ' ls ; bis " ♦i, MI ™MP !X i- AITKBN ' s Market Report for v „«£ c ndini? November 22.-Business in all im, Sf- 1 V_ erjr active, and more than the vs ii hi UHntl t le 9 have been put through. Four sales by auction of produce and fruit, and one o£ ?™t t-" 58, 'Ml io-rsely attondod, with brislc competition, rtie supply of poultry has been very mrge, being considerably over 2 000 I, ° a S,'P nceß . woro slightly easier than those ? f ir-t P_? vl0 «s week, although very satisfactory. Best tablD fowls realised from ls 9d to 2| O' l • niednim. Is bd to ls 8d; poor and old, la 4d to is oil; roosters in condition. Is 9d to2s7d; young, ls 3d to ls 6d; ducks, ls lid to 2s 7d; ducklings, is 6d to ls 8d: chicks, 6d to ls; broods, 2s 6d to 5s : geeae, 5s to 53 3d; turkeys, hens, fromi 3s <!d to 4s 3d ; gobblers, 4s 5d to 8s; pigeons, lOd to Is; canaries, 2a to ss. Pigs: Choice oreeds were entered in Rood numbers, and u ]. e ];'e wns a good demand. Yorkshires realised from 15s to 20s; Berkshiros. 10s to 255; medium kinds. 7s 6d 1o 10a each. Potatoes, old : A few tons ox s.s. Australia realised £5. New potatoes hare been quitted in large quantities, upwards of 30 tons placed privately. On ~, °" cla y ">o demand was in excess of supply at £1 103 to £8, kidneys, Id, but by Tuesday values were £7, and Id for kidneys. No private sales were affected under these prices. All samples of doubtful-keeping qualities were disposed of at auction at |d to 3d for. Shepherds, and Jd to Id for kidneys. Onions: A parcel to hand from South sold at 3d : .wheat (fowls'), 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; milling-, 3s 9d to 4s: maize, 3s 3d to 33 6d: bran, 4s; eharps, 4s; carrots, unsaleable ; garlic, 2Jd. Bacon: Medium and second-class lota plentiful at 3d to 5 d i p J!T e well ? ot -«P "hort of demand at 6d to bid ; rolls 4d to 4Jd. Hams: Prime, 7d to 8d; poor, 5d to 6d; inferior, 2d to 3d. Cheese in «?ood supply; satisfactory demand exists at 4d to 44a; loaves, 4\d to sd. Krimi: The supply has been short of demand atßd to 9Jdforhen eee3. and BJd to 10id for duck eggs. I,ard, bladders 33d to 4Jd, keg, 3d. Honey is in demand. Butter : Fresh in full supply at 4d to s?d for best lots, and 2Jd to 3d for inferior; for keg butter there is no demand at present. In fruit the turnover has been large. On Monday 1,350 bunches bananas ex s.s. Taupo realised from ls 4d to 3s Id per bunch ; on Wednesday 650 bunches bananas ox s.s. Wainui realised from ls 9d to 2s 3d the bunch; pines, 10s 6d per case; oranses, 10s 6d to 12a 3d por caso; some very choice hothouse grapes from Whangarei realised from ls lOd to 2s Id per lb; loquats, lid to 34(1: gooseberries. 2<l to3}d, in good demand ; lemons, scarce at Is 5d to ls 8d per dozen; Capo gooseberries, Bd.