PRODUCE MARKETS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 92, 20 April 1893, Page 2

PRODUCE MARKETS.

MrR. Arthur reports fair business during tlio past week. Potatoes have gone off freely, all good samples fetching £3 15s to £4 per ton ; cow potatoes,'3os ; carrots, 2s to 2s 3d per cwt; kumaras, 5s to6s; pumpkins, 2s 9d to 3s. Vegetable-of ail kinds realised satisfactory .prices: Peas sold at Is 3d to 13 4d por peck ; artichokes, ls Id per 40ib biig. "First-class onions, £4 to £4 133 per ton ; other.lots, £3 to £ 7. 10s. Butter : Fresh' fetched, Bd to Sd : kog, 5d to 6_d per 16'; eggs,' ls 6d to Is 8d per dozen ; first-class dairy c!iee=o, 3iJd to 4_d per lb : medium, 3d to 3_d ; other lots, Hd to 2d. Prime local bacon, 8d to' 81d ; barns 9d to lOd ; Canterbury shoulders, 6(1 ; hams, Q_d to B_d. Grain :. Wheat,-2s fid to 23 7d ; barley, 2s bd ;'. cats, 2s 5d to 2s 6d ; bran and sharps, 3s-9d. Fruit: First-class dessert apples

salt! at 2d to '2}4 per lb ; other lots, l_d to l|d ; mixed dessert. 2s 9d lo 3s 6d per ease ; good cooking apple 3, l_d to 2d per lb; other lots, 4s 6d to 7s per case ; lemons, skl to Is per dozen ; quinces, lid to 2d per lb ; tomatoes, l_d ; figs, 2d to 3d por dozen ; passion fruit, 2d' to 3d per dozen ; pears, 2id to 3_d per lb ; walnuts, 6d to Sd per lb. Poultry: Hen turkeys, 2s 9d to 3s 6d ; gobblers, 4s 6d to 6s 6d ; ducks, Is 6d to 2s ; cockerels, ls 8d to 2* ; ordinary fowls, ls 3d to Is 9d. Mk Alex. Aitken, auctioneer, reports brisk businc.-s during tho past week. Potatoes realised £3 10s to £4 per ton ; onions, £2 10s to £4 ; kumara-s, 5s to Bs per cwt ; pumpkins, 2d 6d to 3s ,6d. Grain : Oats, 2s 3d to '2a 5d por bushel ; fowl wheat, 2s 7d ; bran and sharps, 3s 9d. Putter : Fresh, 5d to 7_d ; keg, 6il to 8d ; Taranaki,- 7d to 9d ;' separator, Od. Eggs, Is 3d to ls Sd per dozen. Fruit: Choice dessert apples,' ba to 8s 3d por case; other lots, '.is to Is Od ; , primo cookin.^ apples, 4s to 6s per caso; medium, A (id to 3s 9d j pears realised very high prices, fetching from lis 6d to 15a'per 401b case. Ildf house grapes sold at from is 3d to Is 5d per lb; outdoor ditto, 4d to'?_d ; passion fruit, 6s to 7s per case ; Cape gooseberries, (id to 7_d per lb ; tomatoes, 2s 6d to 5s 6d per caso ; walnuts, 6d to Sd por lb. Poultry: Values unchanged.