COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 31, 6 February 1892, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

Mr Alex. Aitken reports : Fruit since my last has been steadily improving in price; the supply of infer mr apples has been smaller, consequently good brands have sold ab a betber average ; choice cookers, fd to 1 Jd; average, |d ; inferior, 6d to 2s per case, and id per lb ; extra choice dessert apples, including Scarlet Pearmains, and second crop Irish Peach, ljd to 2d ; ordinary, |d to |d. Plums: There is a difference of fully Id per lb between Tuesday and Friday's sales : Tuesday's average was about ljd, while fully 2d was averaged on Friday ; the quotations will include the highest and lowesb prices for _ bhe three sales, including* all kinds in good order, viz., lid to 4Jd, the varieties being too numerous to particularise; damaged and soft, 3d to lid; damsons, id to l|d, average l|d, poor samples fd . nectarines, 2d to 4d per lb, and 3d to 7d per and Id to per lb; Cape gooseberries, 4d

to 6Jd; lemons, Is 5d to Is 9d p er doz ; tomatoes, Id to ljd per lb ; pears common kinds, gel to ; William's Bon Chretien, choice clean, l|d to ; small dark and marked by beetle, l£d to ; passion fruit, local 2Jd to 3d per doz, Sydney 3a per case ; oranges, 3s per case ; pines, 4s 9d. Poultry was penned in unusual large quantity, and values a shade lower all round, excepting heavy table fowls, which sold at previous quotations, viz., Is Sd to 2a 5d each • ordinary lots, Is 4d to Is 6d ; poor conditioned, small and old, Is to Is 4d ; table roosters, in condition, la 8d to 2s 6d each ; others. Is 2d to Is 6d; ducka 10d' to-Is 6d ; geese, Is lOd to 3s j turkeys, heavy gobblers, 5s to 6s 3d, poor, 3s to 43 3d, hens 2s 3d. to 4s 6d, according to condition ; pigeons, 8d to Is 3d; canaries, Is 9d to 4s 3d. Pi ga were penned in good numbers on Friday, and an unexpected demand caused good prices to rule throughout the sale, first class lots, 9a to 16s 6d ; the higher figures being for extra good lots ; ordinary, 7s to 83 ; poor lota down to 3s each.

Messrs Esam and Arthur report the following prices realised ab yesterday's sale : —Bacon, local, first quality, q*,d to SM; hams, local good, 5d to ; butter, fresh, first quality, 8d to lOd; second, 6d» to 7d; salt butter, No. 1 7Jd to S^d; No. 2, 6d to 6*d; cheese, 3d to 4d; eggs, lid to Is "id; honey, section, 3s to 3s 6d; bins, 101b, 3d ; apple, good eatinar. Id to Ig ; cooking! Jd to Id ; inferior lots, Jd to Jd ; pears, eating, lgd to ; cooking, ljd to lid ; plums, greengage, to ; bluegage, lid to lgd; Pond's Seedling, 2d "to ; golden drop, l£d to lgd ; damsons, Id to ljd; peaches, 5d to 7d per dozen, good ; second quality, 3d to 4d, and ljd to 3d • grapes, s£d to 7gd ; lemons, 9d to Is 4d; Cape gooseberries, to 4jJ.d ; tomatoes, Id to lfd, good; second quality, id to |d ; blackberries, 2£d to 3d ; Sydney pines, 2s 6d to 3s per dozen; passion fruit, 3s Scl per case ; mandarins, 7s per case ; oranges, 5s 7d to 6s 3d per case ; fowls, Is Id to Is 8d; small, 8d to Is; ducks, Is Id to Is 6d.

Mr R. Arthur, auctioneer, reports sales afc following rates yestorday. Price.s for fruit dropped considerably, plums and damsons down to Id per lb :—Poaches, Hd to 7M per dozen and l£d per lb; plume, diamond, Id to 2d ; Pond's Seedling, Hd to : Orleans, Id to lfd ; Golden Drop, lid to 2d; purple gages, Id to 2d ; greengages, ljd to 2d ; damsons Jd to ljd ; pears, Id to 2hd ; apples, Jd to lsd and Is to Is 3d per caso ; water and rock melons, 2s 3d to 4s 3d ; lemons, Is 6Jd to la 8d per dozen ; peanuts, 24d per lb; onions, to 2d per lb ; rhubarb, Is per dozen; cabbages, 8d to 2s 6s ; beetroot, 10d ; turnips, 6d ; cucumbers, 4d ; marrows, 2s 10d • kumaras, 5s 6d ; fresh butter, 4Jd to ; cornod butter, Shd to GJd ; cheese, 3d to4d ; fresh eggs, Is per dozon ; honey, small tins, 3W per lb ; maize, 2s 2d ; oats, 2s 2d ; wheat, 4s ; chaff, 3a lOd ; fowls, Is Id to 2s 2d ; chicks. 6d to Is ; turkey gobblers, 33 5d to 5s 3d ; hens, 2s 8d to 4s ; ducks, Is 3d to Is 7d. Napier, this day. The ram fair concluded yesterday. On Thursday, whenstud sheeponly wereoiFered, though the attendance was large, thebidding was slow, even for first-class animals, and commoner sheep wore entirely neglected. The highest prices were forty-three and forty-one guineas for two rams from the studs of Mr Matthew Holmes, Canterbury, and Mr Fred Sutton, Southland. Mr Reicf's averaged £14 3s 9d, Mr Fred Sutton's £14 3s lid, Mr J. E, Sutton's £9 9s 9d, and Mr Matthew Holmes's £18 ISs. Down and Marsh sheep brought low prices. At tho sale of flock rams yestorday there wasmuch more animation, and fair averages were made by all leading breeders, everything being quitted.