PRODUCE MARKET.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 118, 19 May 1892, Page 2

PRODUCE MARKET.

fiR. R. Arthur, auctioneer, reports fair business during the week. Quotations are aa follows :—Potatoes, £2 5s to £2 15s per toil ; onions were in better demand, realising id to gd per lb ; carrots sold for 2s 3d toj 2s 6d per cwb ; pumpkins, 2s to -3l 6d ; table carroty, Sd to lOd par dozen bunches ; parsnips, ditto ; cabbages, la) 3d to 2s per dozen ; celery, 4d to ocfi per bunch ; kumeras, 5s to 6s per cwt. Gijain : Dun oats, la lOd to 2s ; Tartarian oais, 2 3 ; heavy feed, 2s 2d to 2s 3d ; bran, 4s, to 4s 6d ; sharps 4s 6d; fowl wheat, <ls 6d to 3s ; chaff, £3 5a to £3 108 per ton. Bntter: Good keg, 8d to 9d; fresh, llfd to la Id ; cheese, best factory, 4Jd to 4£d ; dairy, 4d to 4Jd; medium, 2d to 3d; honey, 2id to 3|d per lb. Bacon : Canterbut T. 6id; hams, 8d to B^d ; 2nd class, 4Jd to 5d ; local, 6d to 6id ; hams, 6gd to 7^d ; eggs, Is 9d per doz." Fruit: Apples, Winter Majetin, Id to ljd ; stone pippin and French crab, l^d to lgd ; Rymer, 2^d ; Devonshire russets, 2£d ; Red Colville, 2Jd ; Blenheim orange, l^d ; tomatoes, id to £d ; guavae, 2£d. Poultry : Geese, 2s 3d to 2s 6d; turkey gobblers, 4s 6d to os ; lens, 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; tablo fowls, Is 3d to 2s ; game, 2s to 2s 6d ; cockerels, Is 3d co 23 3d ; ducks, Is 9d to 6s 2d. '

iMr Alex. Aitken reports that business wa.3 good ab the sale 3 during bho week. Potatoes were quitted ab from £2 5s to £2 10s per ton for Waikatos; onions, per Ib; kumeras, 6s per cwb: oats, Is lOd to 2s 4d per bushel; maize, 2s to 2s 2d; fowl wheat, 2s 6d to 2s 9d. Butter: Fresh, lid to Is ; keg ditto, Sd to BJd. Cheese, 3£d to 4d : bacon, 6d ; hams, 7^d to Sd ; eggs, Is 8d ; pickled ditto, lOd. Fruib : Apples sold freely, averaging from ifd to 2d ; peanuts, l^d to 2d ; guavas, 2d to 2-Ad ; lemons, 3d to lOd per doz. Poultry sold at slightly higher rates. Messrs Esam and Arthuk report good business at sales held this week. Potatoes broughb from £2 to £2 15s per ton ; onions, £3 10s to £4 5s ; fowl wheab, 3s to 3s 3d ; oats (local), Is 6d to Is lOd ; maize, Is lid to 2s. Freeh butter, No. 1, from lOd to Is $d ; No. 2, from 7d to B^d ; good keg butter, 7fd to Ski; bacon (new cure), 5d to 6^d ; hamfe, 6~d to 7^d ; cheese, 3^d to 4d ; honey in sections, 3s 6d to 4s 3d per dozen ; in bins, 3d to 3|d per Ib. Fruit : Apples averaged from Id to IJd ; pears, l^d bo 2gd; guavaß, 2£d to 3d ; Cape gooseberries, 4|d to 6d ; and lomons, 7d to lOd per dozen.