PRODUCE MARKETS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 35, 11 February 1892, Page 4

PRODUCE MARKETS.

Me R. Arthur reports good business in all departments during the pa3t week, produce and fruit being disposed of in targe quantities- Potatoes : Magnum Bonum and kidneys, £3 to £3 10s per ton ; Hobarte", £3 5s to £4 ; Shepherds, Is 6d to 2a per bag ; onions, £d to Jdper lb ; garlic, Id to l£d ; potato onions, Id ; cheese, 3d to 4d ; butter, keg, 6£d to 7d ; fresh, 7£d to B|d ; bacon, 4d to 6Ad ; hams, 5d to 8d; shoulders, 2Jd to 3d"; second quality hams, 4d to sd; hSney, 3d to 3}d; wheat, 4a 3d ; maize, 2s ; bran, 4s ; sharps, 4s ; barley, 2s 6d and 2s 9d ; chaff, Iβ per bag ; firstclass, £3 10s per ton. Fruit: Apples, id to 2d per lb ; largo cooking, Id to l£d ; dessert, from l£d to 2d ; greengage plums, l£d to 2£d ; blue ditto, to ijjd ; purple ditto, l£d to 2d; Pond's seedling, 2d to 3d ; Orleans, l£d to ; damsons, Id to l£d; iemons. Is 4d to Is 8d per dozen ; nectarines, 2Jd to 4d per lb; peaches, to 3Jd per ib, 2d to 8d per dozen ; Gape gooseberries, 4d to 4Jd per lb. Poultry: Turkeys, 3s to ia 6d ; gobblers, 4s to 5s ; ducks, Is 3d to is 8d ; ordinary fowls, Is6d to 2s ; roosters, is 3d to Is 9d.

Mr Alex. Aitken, auctioneer, Agricultural Hall, reports a steady business doing it about late quotations. Potatoes show no ihango in value, bub stocks are lighter, few of the lota coining to hand can be jailed first-class samples ; £3 is the price obtained privately, while one line of good sample was quoted at £3 ss. Ordinary lots :old in good quantity by auction at from 30 to 50s per ton ; cow and Shepherds, 20s 40 30?. Onions have been in better demand. and will continue so for the next two weeks, Jd to :?! yore the auction rates, and down so hd lor poor lota. Market value might be juoted at £6, which is the figure asked

privately for wholesale lines. Maize and other grain are without change in values and stocks all round are light;, no neT wheat yefc to hand. Butter: The presenb rain, tend to weaken prices, but very little of the fresh coming to hand is first-class; prime has sold up to l(Md, and poor quality down to 6Ad. For corned butter there remains a good demand, and upwarde of 60 kegs to hand sold on arrival. Prime quality, spring made, 7d to 8d ; summer made lots and of medium quality, 6d to 6.Jd. Eggs : A good quantity to hand ; guaranteed lots realised 10kI to Is; others 8d to SJd. Cheese has been in good demand, and the supply has been about equal; firstclass whole cream, 3§d to 4d ; other lines, 3d; loaves, up to sd. Hams and bacon : Only Canterbury offering, at 6Ad to 7d for bacon, and for hams. Poultry continues in good supply, whithout change in value; ducks and geese rather low. Fruit has been steadily improving in value since my last report; the supply of stone fruits has been somewhat smaller and sold better. Plums, to 3d ; average, 2d ; dainaons, Id to l|d; peaches, 6d to Iβ lJd per dozen, and 2id to 4|d per lb ; tomatoes, lid to 2d ; pears, William Bon Chretien, lgd to 2£d ; ripe, 2hd to 2|d ; small green, l|d to ; cooking and other pears, fd to ; grapes, 4d to per lb ; Cape gooseberries, 4d to 6d. Lemons continue scarce and high in price ; all to hand realised from Is 6d to Is 9id. On Monday the 3.8. Wainui arrived with 3,500 bunches bananas, of which over 1,600 were consigned to me, about 1,000 were sold on the wharf at prices ranging from Is 6d to 3s per bunch, the balance stayed for auction on Wednesday, when they realised from Is 6d to '2s 9d per bunch ; limes, 5s to 6s 33 per case ; cocoanuts ; 5s to 6s 3d per sack.