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Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 168, 16 July 1892, Page 4

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Mr Richard Arthur's Report.—Poultry : A fair supply of fowls, burkeys, and ducks ; geese scarce ; burkeys, gobblers, 4s to 5s 8d; hens, 2s 6d to 3s 6d; fowls, black Spanish, 2s Id to 3s; good table fowls. Is 4d fco 2a ; ducks, la *7d to 2s ; pigeons, 7d. Produce : Potatoes, 2s 3d to 3s per cwb; damaged, from ls 8d to 2s per sack; onions, $d to §d per lb; sprouting, from 6d to ls 6d per bag; pumpkins, 33 bo 3a 3d. per cwt; carrots, 2s to 2a ld per cwb. . Vegetables : Cabbages, 8d to lOd per dozen; cauliflowers, 6d to ls per dozen; turnips, 3d to 6d per dozen ; celery, 5s to 10a par dozen ; boeb, 9d per doz; parsnips, 6d per doz. Grain : Oats, 2s to 2s 2d per buebel; maize, 2s 2d ; fowl wheat, 2s 9d bo 2a 3d ; bran, 4s 6d; sharps, 4s 6d ; chaff, Is 9d per sack, £3 10s per ton. Biscuits and ginger nuts, 4d per lb ; Scotch mixtures, s_d : coffee, ls 3d.

Messrs Esam and Arthur's Ricport.— Waikato potatoes, £2to£2los; Southern, £2 10s te £2 15s; Southern kidneys^ 10fl to £3 10s ; Magnum Bonum, £3 10s ; Shepherds, £3 to £3 10s ; mangolds, 20s ; pumpkins, £2 bo £3; piemelons, £2 to £2 10s ; carrots, 25s to 30s ; wheab, 3s to 3s 3d ; sharps, 4s 6d ; oats, 2s 2d to 2s 3d; maize, 2s 2d ; onions, £2 10s to £4 ss, and ls to Is 6d per bag; bacon, 4Jd to 6"_d ; hams, 6d bo 7id ; cheese, sid to 6d ; butter, freßh, No. l", lid to ls 3|d ; No. 2, 9d to lOd ; salb, lOd to ls ld ; eggs, lid ; apples, l^d to 2d ; lemons, 7d to 9£d; local oranges, 3£d to 5d ; Seville oranges, &id bo 7d ; peanuts, l£d ;. dates, 4d ; fowls, Is 2d to ls 9d; turkeys, 38 to 4s 2d ; ; ducks, ls 7d to 2s.

Mr. Alexander Aitken's Market Retort.—Poultry has been penned in large quantity; values were unchanged; fab table fowls, ls 8d to 2s 3d; good ordinary, Is 4d to Is 6d ; poor, etc., 8d to Is 2d ; ducks, ls 3d to 2s 4d ; geese, 2s to 2s 6d ; turkeys, gobblers, 3s to 8e ; hens, 2s to 4s 6cl; pigeons, 6d to 9d ; caDarie9, 4s 6d to 158 each. Pigs penned in good numbers; best breeds, 10s 6d bo 15a ; others, 4s 6d to 9a. Dead rabbits, 2s per pair. Horse, carb, and harness, £15 10s ; covered spring cart, etc., £18. A small homestead on the East Coast was disposed of at £550 cash.

Mr Thornes, land agenb, 81, Queen-streeJ, reports tho sale of a property in Mae-kelvie-streot, Ponsonby, lot 7 of allotment 67, having 52 feet frontage to Mackolviestreet, with six-roomed house thereon to Mr W. M. Cooke, on behalf of Mr W. A. Smith, of Bothwell Park, for £475 cash.