PRODUCE MARKET.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 242, 12 October 1893, Page 3

PRODUCE MARKET.

Mr Alex. Aitken reports business steady. Potatoes: Markeb, although lightly stocked, is easier, values having fallen in the South, I quoto prime samples, £5 to £5 10s ; damaged, £2 Is to £2 16s. Onions are dull of Balo. Prime local, ljd to lfd ; Victorian, lfd ; Calitornian, 2£d. Maize, more plentiful ; samples poor; best lots, 2s Gd to 2s 8d ex store, and 2s 4d to 2s 6d ox wharf. Fowl wheat, 2s lOd to 3s : bran, £3 10s; sharps, £3 15s ; pumpkins, 4s 6d to 6s ; green peas, 2s 4d per peck ; new kidney potatoes, ljd to 2d; Shepherd's, l|d; cucumbers, 4s 6d to 6s por doz. Butter, fresh moro plentiful; prime, 8d to lid; other lots, 5d to 7d. Keg buttor : Prime samples scarce at 6d ; poor quality plentiful ab 4d ; eggs, hen, 6d to 6|d ; duck, 6^d to 7d. Cheoso plentiful and dull of Bale: Prime factory, 4d to 5d ; loaf size, 6d. Bacon : Prime Canterbury, 7_d ; local, 7d ; poor, 5d to 6d. Hams : Local 6d lo Sd ; Canterbury, lOd to lid. Apples': Hobart, 10s to 12s 6d. Oranges: local, 5s 3d to 7s ; Sydney, 6s ; Island, 9s. Lemons, good, 5s to 6s ; Loquats, 4i'd to 5d ; passion fruib, 12?. Bananas, cased, ljd ; buncheß, good, 2s Gd to 3s ; poor, down to Is lOd ; pines, 5s to 8s per case ; cocoonuta, 7s to 7s 6d ; wr.llnufca 7Jd. Poultry in good supply, pricos unchanged. Young pigs continue to sell well.

Mr R. Arthur reports fair business during the week. Potatoos sold at from £5 to £6 per ton ; red carrots, 2a 6d per cwt; white, Is 9d ; kidney potatoes, lj'd per lb; artichokes, id to per lb; onions, lfd per lb; other lots, Is por bag, to j_d per lb ; pumpkins, 6s to 6s 6dper cwb. Grain : Wheat, 3s por bushel; maize, 2s lOd to 2s lid ; oats, 2s 8d for heavy feed, lighb, 2a 6d Co 2s 7d ; barley, 2s 6d ; bran and sharps, £3 to £3 5s por ton. Butter : A big line cleared at from 3Ad to 4d por lb ; other lots from 4d to 6d per lb ; freßh, Sd to 10|d ; eggs, 6d to 6_d doz. ; bacon, boßt sides," 6Jd to 7d per lb ; hams, 6d to 8d : shoulders, 4id to 5d ; medium lots of bacon, 3J:dtosd; best cheeso, sd; other lots, 3d to 4£d per lb. Fruib: Lomona, 5d to 7d per dozen ; poor main's oranges, 5d to 6d. Poultry: Turkey gobblers, 4a to 6s; turkey hens, 2s 6d to 3s 3d ; tablo fowls, la 6d to 2s 3d ; cockerels, 2s 6d to 2a 9d ; ducks, la 9d to 2s 6d.