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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 247, 17 October 1891, Page 4

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t . Evening Star Office. v _ Auckland, Saturday. gESSIts Esam and Artuuh report current fo Va * ™ W8 yesterday : -Okl potatoes, „ to '-. 5s > ne w kidneys, Id to Ijjd ; one lino, l_d ; shepherds, M to gd, and £5 to f o per ton ; carroes, 25s ; onions, medium, lad ; maizo, 2s 3d ; oats, 2s Id to 2s 3d ; .un oats, la 6d to Is _d ; bran, 4s 3d ; sharps, 4s 3d; chaff, Is 9d per sack; Barley,- 2s 8d ; green peas, Is Sd ; rhubarb, o,i to 4s; cauliflowers, 6s 9d to 7s 3d per dozen; cabbages, Is Id to Is Gd; fresh butter, No. 1, 5d to 7d ; No. 2, 3d to Ha; salt butter, sold by auction, 5d to o_d ; eggs, bid to 7Jd ; bacon .d to Gd ; hams, 4-_d to 7d ; cheese, old, 2kl to 3d ; box tea, 15s 6d ; coli'ec, Is to Is" 2d ; biscuits, 4d ; London mixtures, Ud ; jubes, o_d; dates, 5,kl ; lemons, 7Ad to 11 Ad ; gooseberries, si/d ; oranges, ex Wainui" 3s to 4s 4d ; cocoanuts, 6s to 6s Gd ; fowls, Is 4d to 2s lOd ; ducks, 2s Id to 2s 2d ; chicks, |d ; turkeys, os to 43 6d ; pigs, 9s. | Mr Ali;x. Am_EN reports" the following prices yesterday-.— Wheat, 3s 9d to 4s; maize, 2s 3d to _3 4d ; oats, Is 6d to Is 9d ; Short, 2s 3d to 2s 4d. In local fruit there was a fair supply of seasonable kinds on I'riday. Apples realised 4i'd per lb ; lemons, 6_d to Is per dozen ; green gooseberries, 4.U1 to 5d per lb ; hothouse cucumbers, 93 to 10s per dozen. Poultry : All kinda excepting turkeys were penned. Large firsfc-class table fowls realised from Is Sd to 2s 4d ; bedium lots, Is 5d to Is 7d ; poor and old lots, Is to Is 3:1 ; roosters, young and wollpouclitioned. Is lOd to 2s 6d ; poor and old, Is to Is 6'd ; chicks, 5d to Is; broods of chicks, 3s 6d to 5s ; ducks, fat, 2s to 2s 6d ; young and poor, Is 2d to Is 8d; ducklings, Sd to 10s ; broods, 5s to 8s; geese, 2s to 3s 9d ; turkeyhena, 3stosa; gobblers, „s 6dto7s 3d ; pigeons, 6d to Is ; canaries, 2s to ua od. Pif-is : Best breeds realised from 10s to 14s od ; medium lots, 7s to 9s-, rough and small, 4s to 5s ; largo well-gro\vn pigs, 14s to 19-. Green peas, 2s*sd per peck ; broad beans, Is 3d; butter, 5d to 7d ; corned Lutier, 7d, nominal ; eggs, 7;|d to Sd. Mi; I\. Ai ituuu, auctioneer, quotes some of the lowest and highest prices at which sales, wero effected yesterday :— Fowl?, Is 6d to 2s 3d; turkeys (gobblers), ss; hens, os 4d ; bantams, Is Id to Is 3d; ducks?, Is 9d to 23; old potatoes, Is 9d to 2s; new round, Ad ; carrots, 2s ; pumpkins, 2s 4d to 2s 7d ; carrots, 4d to 8d per dozen : parsnips, lOd ; celery, 3d to 4d; leeks, 6d to Sd ; cabbages, 3d to Is 2d ; rhubarb, 2s to 5s ; radish. Is ; oats, Is 7d to 2s scl : maize, 2s 3d ; wheat, 3s 9d ; bran, 4s 3d ; sharps, 4s 3d ; chaff, £2 15s to £3 10s ; barley, 2s 9d ; new cheese, 4Ad ; old, 2d to _d ; fresh butter, 5d to 60.1 ; eggs, 7d ; salt butter, 7d ; bacon, 4W to 6d ; hams, yd to 7d ; biscuits, 3_d to 4d ; lemons, lOd.