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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 145, 20 June 1891, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Me Alexander Aitken reports sales yesterday at the following prices : — Prime bacon, 5d to 6d ; medium, 3Jd to 4d ; hams, 5d to ; Day's Tamahere cure, equal number in cloth, 7d ; hams, i>a. Butter fresh, prime Is Id to Is Uβ ; poor medium, Hd to Is ; inferior, 6Jd to Sd ; Lang's factory, Is ; future quotations, Is 2d ; tinned, Is 4d ; keg butter, an good supply and fair demand ; prime, 5a to 6Jd; extra, 7Ad ; poor, 4d to 4£a; inferior, 2d to 3A.d; eggs, Is to Is 3d. Poultry penned in large numbers, lnrstelasi table fowls, Is 6d to Is 10d ; medium, 3s 4d to Is 5d ; poor, Is to Is 3d ; roosters, tin condition, Is 8d to 2s 3d ; others, Is 3d fo Is 6d ; ducks, Is Bel to 2s 9d each ; eeese, 3s 7d to 3s 9d; turkeys, gobilers, 5s to 7s 3d; hens, 2s 6d to 5a 3d; canaries, 2s to 43 6d ; pigeons, Is to Is -id. Pigs penned in large nujabers; beet lots, 8s 6d to 12s 3d ; poor to ordinary, 5s to 63; inferior and small, Is to 2s 6d ; large rough, 103 to 12s 6d: dressed pork, 2£d to 3d; dead rabbits, Iβ Id to 13 6d per pair. Frmb : The supply of apples continue good. Stona pippins, l|d to2d ; Adams', 2d ; Simmons , 2d to 2Jd, one fine large red realised ; Ohinemuri,l2dto2d; othergoodlinos, ljclto 2d ; poor, ; inferior and damaged, Id ; Cape gooseberries, 3d to 5Jd ; lemons, 7d to 9d; large, Is to Is 3d ; guavas, 2d; Whangarei oranges, 7d to Bid ; mandarins, 9Jd to lid ; pears, cooking, poor quality, 2Jd ; persimmons, Is 8d; limes, 3s to 5s in case.

Mr Richard Arthur reports sales yesterday as follows : Fowls, ordinary, Is Id to Is 6d ; chicks, 4d to 9d ; old and poor, 6d to 10d ; ducks, Is to 2s Id ; Rouens, 2s 6d to 3s ; geese, 3a Id ; potatoes, 23 3d to 2s 6d ; red carrots, Is 6d ; white carrots, la 3d ; pumpkins, Is 10d to 2s; new kidney potatoes, fd per lb; onions, Jd to gd ; cabbages, Is to Is 5d per dozen, and Is 3d to Is 7d per sack ; cauliflowers, 2s 3d per dozen ; carrots, 8d to Is 2d ; parsnips, 7d to 9d ; turnips, lld ; celery, 4d to 9d; piemelons, Is; fresh butter, 10d to Is Id ; salt butter, 3d to 5d ; fresh eggs, Is 3d per dozen ; cheese, 2d to 4d ; local bacon (heavy sides), 4Ad to s|:d per lb ; shoulder, 3d 60 3|d ; hams, 4Jd to 5d ; lard, in tins, 2£d ; maize, 2s 10d to 3s ; apples of various kinds, Id to 2d ; lemons, 4d to 9d.

Messrs Esam and Arthur sold at the following rates .yesterday. Dairy produce : Bacon and hams—New cure Canterbury, in cloth for export, 6Jd to 6|d ; equal numbers by the case, 6d to 6|d (bare) ; local cure 5d to 6d, and hams, s?id to 7|d; cheese 3d to for lines, and |d to 3d more for spot samples. Butter: Fresh from Is to Is 14d, whilst fair to ordinary reached lid. Keg butter, 3d to 4Jd for pastry, and 4|d to s|d for first grade; lard realised 3Jd per lb. Eggs, Is to Is l£d. Poultry : Good bable fowls, Iβ 4d to Is 9d ; roosters, Is 3d to 2s ; poor and old, 9d to Is ; turkeys, hens, 2s lid to 3s 3d ; gobblers, 2s 9d to 4s ; geese, 2s to 2s 6d; pigs, 7s to 12s 6d. Apples, stone pippins, l|d to 2Jd ; Adams' pearmain, 2d; golden russet, lfd ; other varieties, lgd to l£d ; inferior kinds, Id ; oranges, ; pears, 5d to 5Jd ; lemons, 7d to 9d ; persimmons, Is 3d ; guavas, 3.} d ;