PRODUCE MARKET.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 239, 8 October 1891, Page 4

PRODUCE MARKET.

Mr R. Arthur reports: Potatoes from £1 to £2 per ton ; onions, Jd to 1-Jd per lb ; carrots, 2s per cwt; pumpkins, 2s percwb ; chaff, £3 bo £3 10s per ton ; bran, 43 5d ; sharps, 4s lOd ; oat?, 2s 2d to 2s 5d ; maize, 2s 3d to 2s 4d ; barloy, 2s 7d to 2s 9d ; wheat, 3s 9d to 4s ; oatmeal, 9s to 10s per cwt; keg butter, 4d to 7d ; fresh butter, 4_d to B]d ; hams, 5d to bid ; bacon, 4ki to 6d ; cheese (old), 2d to 3d ; new, 4_d ; eggs, bid per doz ; rhubarb, 4d to Qhd per doz ; turnips, 8d ; cabbages, Is 2d ; carrots, Sd ; and parsnips, Bd.

Mr Alex. Aitkkn, auctioneer and produce salesman, Agricultural Hall, reports: —Business to date fairly active, and prices in several lines somewhat firmer. On Saturday I held a sale of consignments ex s.B. Ovalau from Fiji, consisting of 1,300 bunches bananas, for which competition was very keen. Prices ranged from 3s to 4s 9d per bunch. The average price obtained for the shipmont is 3s Id, which is a mo3t satisfactory price to the shippers. Peanuts : Very few camo to hand, for which 3d per lb was obtained. Pines realised 4s 6d por dozen. Cocoanuts came to hand in large quantity to an overstocked market; only stale lots wero Bold, at from 4s 5d to 6s 2d per sack ; fresh consignments were held over tor 6s 6d. In local fruit, but little of any sorb has been roceived. Lemons are in good demand ; bhose to hand realised from 9hd to Is per doz; apples, local, 3_d to 4|d ; Hobarb, to 2Jd; walnuts, 9d to ll_d ; Capo gooseberries, 9d. In the potato line thero has been an improvement. The previous low values have so incrcasod the demand thab stocks have suddenly become small, and consequenbly prices have advanced. Ab present it would bo a difficulb matter to obtain in the city 20 tons of first-class potatoes, fit for shipping, without being picked over. There are bub few coming forward, bub by Monday's steamer stocks will again bo replenished. Ab Tuesday's sale I quitted all on hand, at from 35s to 50s por ton. Onions ara in fair supply ; prime Southern, Id to l^d; Californian, 2_d ; carrots, Is 3d to 2s ; wheat, prime fowl feed, 3s 9d to 4s ; maizo, 2s 3d to 2s <W; oats, local, Is 6d to Is 9d ; short feed, 2s 3d to 2s 6d ; bran, 4e 6d to 5s ; sharps, 4s 6d to 5s ; collie' flour, £6 per ton; chaff, 3d to 2s per sack ; baled hay, £3. Vegetables staged in good quantity, for which high prices ruled. Butter : For this lino tho local demand is small except at poor prices, but orders for tho English market havo boon booked for forward dolivery. I quote prime new corned and guaranteed, 7d ; but small lots aro not worth this price, Crown brand in 501b tins, 8d; 101b tins, lCd ; lib tins (separator), 12s 6d por doz. Prime dairy pats, 5d to od ; poor lots, 4d to 4|d; old keg butter botally unsaleable. Eggs have an upward tendency, values obtained have been from bid to 74d ; cheese, the market is barer than for several seasons, although ib seams difficult bo obtain an extra price for a good line. I quobonew make, 4d to 5d ; old aud inferior,"ld to 4d; export loave3, 6d (of this linelamabpresonb the only holder, and have nob sufficient to supply requirements until the new make is lib to ship). Bacon and hams aro in full supply, but tho quality generally is only medium. Prime well-gob-up and medium weights move oil on arrival at od bo 6d for bacon, and 6M to 7d for hams ; other kinds are difficulb to move at 3d bo 4d ; Canberbury bacon in cloth, 7d ; hams, Shd for small lots. Honey : Section, 3_d "to 4d ; bulk, 2£d ; email tins, '6hd "to 4d, Lard in bladders, 4d ; keg, 3d ; biscuits, assorted, 3_d to 5d ; lollies, boiled, 4d ; other kinds, to 6d. Desiccated cocoaout: A quantity of this line offered ab auction on Tuesday realised si/l for 561b tins, and 5.p to 6d for 201b tins. Poultry continues in strong demand; tho weekly supplies are aboub 2,000 head, bub this i 3 nob suflicienb to satisfy requirements. Firsfc-oluss. tabls fowls in condition, Is 8d to 2s 3d each ; ordinary and poor, Is 4d to Is 6d ; inferior, Is to Is 3d ; ducks, unsatisfied demand at Is lOd bo 2s 6d each, according to quality ; turkeys, hens, 3a 3d to 4s Gd ; gobblers, 4s Gd to 5s ; gosse, 3s to 4s 3d ■ canaries, 2a 9d bo 7s each ; pigoons, Is 2d to Is 6d eaoh '; pig-", weekly supplies, aboub 200 choice breeds (young), from 9s to 13s each ; medium lots, (is to 8s; inferior, 3s 6d to sa.

Messes Esam and Arthur's Weekly Retort. —Prices of produoo generally are without niatcml change. There is a good demand to fill Island orders, bub the local requirements are more limited. Old potatoes are reduced to manageable proportions, whilst the new ciop is coming in more plentifully than is usual at this season of tho year. We quote : Old potatoes, £1 to £2 per ton ; new Shepherds, _d to gd; kidneys, Id to lgd. Maize "is depressed ; the Sydney market offering no inducement to export. Oats : Large shipments have arrived during the week ; values without alteration, Is JOd to 2a c.i.f. ; 2s Id to 2s id, ox store. Obher cereals slow of sale. Butter : The market last Friday was again easier; for prime fresh, rip to 6J,d was paid, bub second qualiby 'did nob realise mpro than 4d to s|d; we expect no alteration in value this week. Eggs are scarcer, whilst the demand continues good ab 6d to bhd. We think prices should firm a little. Cheese is in limited supply; all lines cleared ab Friday's auction; there is a good demand for prime per/ mild. Ham 3 and bacon, good indent orders have been received for Southern cure, both for local consumption and export. Local cure has also sold well, bhe demand being good ; for prime, fid to 7d and 5d to 6d, respectively; other grades according to condition. Fruit: A shipment, of Tasmanian apples, ex Wairarapa, realised lis to 14s per cftse ; peanuts. >'x Ovalau, 2Jd per lb { cocoanuts, 6s 6d t• 7s ; lemons, are better value, 8d to lOid, for large ; 4d to 6d, email. Poultry : The demand continues very good, somo lines were in short supply last week. Heavy table fowls, Is pd to 2s ; roosters, Is 7d to 2s 2d ; ducks, 2s to 2s 3d ; turkeys, 3s to 4s.