PRODUCE MARKET.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 33, 9 February 1893, Page 2

PRODUCE MARKET.

Mr Riciiard Arthur, auctioneer, reports that business has been very good during the week. Produce generally sold well and nil first class potatoes were cleared at from £3 10s to £4 per ton. Medium sorts realised from £2 to £3 per ton. Onions aro a drug and sold at \A to fd per lb ; carrots in sacks realised 2a Id to 2s 3d per cwt; garlic, id to |d per lb; cabbages, 6d to 2a per dozen ; carrots, parsnips and turnips, 4d to 7d per dozen bunches; rhubarb, lid to 3d per bundle. Grain: Wheat, 2s 6d to 2s 7d; maize, 3s 5d to 3s 6d ; oats, 2a 2d to 2s 5d ; barloy, 2s 8d ; bran and sharps, 3s 9d ; chaff, £3 5a per ton. Butter, fresh, 6£d to BJd ; keg, 6£d to 7d ; bacon, 6d to 7d ; hams, 7^d to B£d ; cheeße, 4d for best samples, and 3d to 3£d for other lots. Fruit: Desert apples, 3s 6d to 5s per case, and Id to 2d per lb; other lots from 2s to 2s 6d per case. Plums : Orleans, 2{A to 3^d per lb ; green gage, 3d to 4d ; Pond's seedling, Z\<\ to 4d ; Victoria, 2|d to 3}d ; mixed varieties, 2|d to 3d. Pears, l\A to 2^d ; tomatoes, £d to l& ; lemons, Is to 1b lsd ; peaches, 2£d to Bd per lb, and from 4d to 6d per dozen. Poultry : Ducks, Is 9d to '2s 3d ; turkeys (poor), 2g 6d bo 3s ; geaso, 2s 6d ; cockeroh, 2s to 2s 6d ; table fowls, Is 6d to 2s.

Mr Alex. Aitken, auctioneer, reports that business was satisfactory in most lines during the week. Potatoes: Supply and demand are now about equalised, and good samples found ready sale at from £3 10s to £4 per ton,'and indifferent ones 30s to 40a per ton. Onions -. Stocks are heavy and the demand is limited. Sales took place at from £3 10s per to ton |d per lb. Grain: Fowl wheat sells readily at 2s 9d per bushel; maize ia rather dull of sale for local requirements, the price asked being 3s 6d; oats, 2s 6d; bran and sharps, £3 15s. Butter, prime fresh continues scarce at 9d to IOJd per lb ; poor lots, 5d to 6d ; keg butter of prime quality sells well at from 7d to 8d ; poor quality is plentiful at 4d and 6d, with few buyers; cheese, prime dairy, realised 3Jd to 4d ; poor lots, 2Jd to 3d ; eggs are scarce and sold at Is to Is ljd per dozen ; hams and bacon, none offering ; honey in sections was in demand at from 3s to 3s 6d, very little bulk sold. Fruib: Heavy supplies, With satisfactory prices. Choice peaches sold at Is 3d and Is 8d per dozen ; ordinary, 5d to 9d, and 3s 3d to 5s per case (20); Williams' Bon Chrieten, 9s to 11s 3d per case (40); other sores, 4a Gd to 03. Choice desert apples, 5s to 6s 3d per case ; ordinary, 3s to 4a 6d ; mothed lots, le 6d to 2s per caße: large cooking apples, 3s to 4s per casa ; medium quality, 2s to 2s Gd ; mothed, Is 3d to la 9d. Plums : Pond's seedlings, 5s lOd to 8s 6d per case (25); other varieties, 3s 3d to 4s 6d ; damsons, 3s 3d to 4s 6d ; quinces, 3s to 48 6d per case (40); lemons, 8s to 10a per case or Is per dozen ;:passion fruit, 5s to 6s por case (20). Grapes : hot house, SU to 9Jd ; poor, 5d to 6d ; rock melon, 5s to 6s por dozen. There is a brisk demand for uige at-high prices.