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Mr R. Arthur's Weekly Report.—Fowl sold at Is 7d to 2a 7d each ; turkeys, Gobblers, 4s 9d to 5a 2d; hens, 2s to 3s 4d ; ducks, 2s 6d to 3s; capons, halfbreed Dorking and bramah, 3s to 3a lOd; pulleba, 3s to 3s 8d; brood ducklings, 4s 6d; email pigs, 10s. Fresh-laid eggs, 6d ; fresh butter, &{d to lid; corned butter, 4d to 6d; bacon, fid to 7d; hams, 6d to 7Jd; cheese' 3Jd to 6d; inferior, 2d to 2Jd; tablo potafcoos, 6s ; Hobart seed, 5s ; other lots, 4s 6d to 7r 6d; onions, Jd to ljd per lb, and 10s par cwb; carrots, red, 2s to 2s 3d, white, Is 6d; cabbages, small, 8d to lOd per dozen; lettuces, 6d; onions, Is sd; leeks, 2s 6d to 3s ; parsley, 2a 6d ; celery, 3s ; pumpkins, 2a lid to 4s 6d ; wheat, 3s ; oats, 2a 5d to 2s 8d; bran, 3s 6d to 4s; sharps, 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; flour, damaged, £8 ; lemons, 2d to 7d per dozen ; Hobart apples, 12s per caee. Messrs Esam and Arthur's Weekly Report.—For prime Canterbury potatoes wo quote £5 15s per ton, 5s more in small lota ; Waikatoa, £5 to £5 5s ; Hobart seed, £4 to £4 10s; other lines of seed all cleared. Maize: 2s 3d to 2s 4d in parcels, 2s 6d to 2s 9d small lines. Oats: Good feed, 2s 6d to 2s 9d; white Tartarian, 2s lOd to 2s lid ; blaak, 2s 9d to 2s lid. Fowl wheat, 2a 6d to 2s 9d. Bran and sharps, £3 5a to £3 10s and £3 15e to £4 respectively. Prime sound onions are value at £12 to £14 per ton, and ljd to 2d per ib. Prime fresh buttor was a little lower; No. 1, lOd to llsd ; No. 2, 7d to 9d. Salt and keg butter : Difficult to quib any considerable quantity. Eggs, 6d to 6£d. Cheese : Best; factory, 6d to 7d ; dairy, scl to Gd; Southern bacon, prime, 7d ; medium, 5d to 6d ; local, sJjd to 7d ; hams, 7d to 9d. Fruit : Lemons, 2s 6d to 5s per case ; oranges, 5s lid to Sa 3d ; peanuts, ljd to lfd. Poultry: Heavy table fowls, Is 9d to 2s 6d ; roosters, 2s 2d to 2s 5d ; turkeys, hens, 2a 2d to 3a Id : gobblers, 4s 6d to 6s 3d ; ducks, Is lid to 2s 2d. Pigs, 3}d to 4Jd por lb. Mr Alex. Aitkijn's Market Report. —Potatoes : Prime Southern, £6; Waikato table, £5 10s; ditto small eeed, £4 10a to £5; ditto Magnum Bonum, £6 10s to £7; Southern kidney seed, £8 19s; East Coast, £4 to £6. Onions, prime, IJd; poor, $d to Id. Fowl wheat: Prime, 3s ; poor, 2s 5d to 2s 7d ; Maize: Wholesale parcels, 2s 8d to 2s 9d ; small lots, 2a lOd to 33. Bran, £3 to £3 5s ; sharps, £3 10s ; carrots, white, 30s red, 40s to 50s ; mangolds, 18s to 20s; pumpkins,. £3 to £5. Kumoras: Good, 3a to 4s. Butter: Prime freßh, lOd to lid ; poor, Sd to 9|d ; inferior and made up, 3d to 4Jd ; factory, lid to Is ; keg buttor, limited demand, ab 3d to 6d. Cheese : Quiot, prime, 5d to 5Jd ; medium, 4d to 4sd ; Southern factory loat, 6d. Eggs plentiful, with good demand : Hen, u'Jd to 6|d ; duck, 7d to 7£d. Bacon, good supply, prime local, 7d ; fair, Cd to 6Jd; hams, good, 6d to 7d ; honey, very scarce ; apples, ox s.s. Manapouri, crabs, 10s 3d to 12s 3d per case; stone pippin, lls to 11s Gd; stunners, 12s to 12s 6d ; lemons very plentiful, good, 3s 3d to 5s ; poor, and small boxas, 2a to 2a 9d ; local oranges, 5s bo 6s ; poor man, 5s 3d to 6a 6d; bananas, 2,500 bunches, ex s.B. Taviuni, sold at 2b 6d to 3a for large bunches, and Is 6d to 2s 3d for small, and 7a Id por case; pines, 8a to 10a per case; cocoanuts, 8s; peanuts, good, 2d ; mangoes, 4s 6d ; desiccated cocoanut, dull of sale. Poultry: Fair supply, table roosters, 2a to 3b Id; others." Is 5d to Is lid; table fowls, Is 8d to 2s 4d ; others, Is 4d to la 7d ; ducks, Is 9d to 2s 5d ; geose, 3s to 33 9d ; turkeys: gobblers, 3s 6d to 9s 9d ; hena, 2s 3d to 4s 9d ; ducklings, 8d to Is; broods, 2a 6d to 4a 9d ; pigeons, 6d to 8d ; canaries, 2s to 7s 3d ; pigs : boat breeds, 11a to 14s 6d ; others, 8s to 10s 9d. ■.