PRODUCE MARKET.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 40, 15 February 1894, Page 2

PRODUCE MARKET.

Me Alkx. Aiken reports business very brisk in all lines. Fruit: All kinds of good quality has sold well, bub off kinds and cooking apples ruled' low. Prime showy selected dessert apples, 63 6d to 8s 6d per case; others, Is 6d to 4s 6d ; cooking, choice clean, 2s to 3s ; others, Is 6d to 2s ; pears. Rood Bon Chretien, 4d to 4£d ; other kinds, including cooking, l£d to 3d ; plums, all kinds, 3d to 4^d ; damsons, 2d to 3£d ; peaches, choice dessert, la to Is 10d per dozen ; small, 2d to Bd, and 2d to 3£d per lb; grapes, choice greenhouse, 9d to IOJd ; poor, 4^d to 7d ; outdoor, 2d to 3d. Lemons average 6a 6d to 7s per bushel case ; tomatoes, 9d to 3s 6d per case; paesion fruit, 4s to 6s 3d per ease ; and 1b to 3s fer small parcels; nectarines, 3d to 4d per lb. Potatoes: The market) is glutted with Magnum Bonums,jwhich are all more or less diseased. These lots sell at 20s to 30s per ton ; Kidneys, 25s to 40a; Hobarts, ripe sample, £2 10a to £3 ; others, including small, 20s to £'£ 2s 6d. Cheese, best lots, 3d to 4d; inferior, 2d to 2§ d. Butter, fresh in pats, 8d to lOd ; prime keg, 6£d to 7d ; pastry, 3d to 4d. Eggs* IOAd to Is dozen ; honey section, 4d ; bulk, 2d"to 2£d. Poultry unchanged. Pigs in better demand.

Mr R. Arthur, auctioneer, reports fair business during the week. Potatoes moved off at £3 to £3 10a p6r ton for best samples, obher lots Is 6d bo 2s 6d per cwb.; onions, Id per lb ; picklers, Id ; carrots, 2s 3d to 2s 6d per cwt; pumpkins, 2s 6d. Grain : Fowl wheat, 3a ; maizo, 2s lOd; oa'bs, 2s 5d ; barley, 2a 3d ; bran, 3s 3d : sharps, 33 6d per bushel. Butter : Eog, 5d to 6d per lb for prime samples, other lots 2d to 4Jd ; fresh butter, 9£d to lOd per lb. ' Eggs, 8d to Is per dozen; cheese, 4d to 4sd per lb for first-class, 2d to 4d for medium. Bacon, prime, 6d bo 7dperlb; medium^ 3d to 5d ; hams, s£d to 7d. ■ Fruit: Best cooking apples, f d to Id per lb ; dessert, l£d to ljd and up to 3s 6d per case ;hob house grapes, 8d ; out-door, 2d per lb. Pond's seedling plums, 4d to 44d per lb ; gages, 3£d to 4d ; damsons, 2£d to 3d per lb ; peaches, 4d to 8d per dcz; lemons, lOd per doz; nectarines, 3d to 4d per lb; passion fruit, 1 jd.': to 2d per doz; tomatoes, 2s per small case ; pears, 4d to 6d per lb for Bon Chretien or £1 per case: cooking paars, 2^d to 3d per lb ; assorted 3d to 4d ; blackberries, 2d per lb. Poultry : Ducks, Is Id to 2s ; ordinary fowls, Is 3d to 2s 6d ; cockerels, Is 3d to 2a 3d ; turkey gobblers, 4s 6d to 53 6d; hens, 2s 3d to 3s 3d; pigeons, 7d to 9d each.