AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 87, 12 April 1894, Page 2

AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Mb Alex. Aitkin reports a brisk business doing. Potatoes, prime samples freo from rust, are a shade higher in value and somewhat scarce at £3 to £3 53: other lots in full supply at £2 to £2 15s. Onions are very scarce, primo local, £9 to £10,; Southern, £8 to £9 ; sharps, £4 ; bran, £3 ; wheat, 2s 7d to 2s 9d ; maize, 2s 9d to 2. lOd ; oats, best short feed, 2s to 2s to 2s 2d; local oats, ls 8d to ls lld; chaff, prime oaten, £3; pumpkins, best quality, £2 10s to £2 153; coarse lots, 30a to 408; pie and citron melons, £1 to 35s per ton ; white carrots, 30s ; red, 30s to 40s; kumeras, £4 to £4 15s; medium quality, 2s to 2s 6d per cwt; pickling onions, l^d per lb. Butter: Supply and demand about equal. First-class dairy in pats, 9d per lb ; medium quality in rolls, 7- to 8d per lb; pastry butter, 4d to 5d per lb ; Taranaki roll, 7d; bulk, 7d to 8d ; separator, 8d to 9d; lactory, lOd ; keg buoter, 3d to 4d for ordinary ; 6d to 7d for first-Class spring mado. Eggs remarkably scarce, androaisedls b.dto laßd atauction. Cheese : Market bare of prime dairy, which fetches 4d per lb, medium quality, 3d to 3jd; factory, 4_jd ; loaves, s_d per lb. Bacdh : Farmers' new, local, 8d to B^d for prime lots unsmolced ; 7d to 8d for smoked; hams, 8d to 9d. Honey : Tinned is rather scarce and in demand at 3£d per lb ; section, 3Jd to 4£d. Fruit whs in moderate supply. First-class local cooking apples, 53 to 6s 3d per case ; other lots, 3s to 3s 6d ; superior dessert, 6s to 8s 3d ; other lobs, 3s to 4s 6d per case ; passion fruit, /is 9d to 8s per case ; Hobarb apples, 5s 3d to 8s ; Hobart poars, 12s to* 15s; local Napoleons, 2d to 4^d per lb; Winter Nelis, 5d to 5Jd; cooking varieties, 2d to 2£d ; Cape gooseberries, 4^d to 5d per lb ; greenhouse grapesj ls to Is 3d por lb ; poor, 7ri to 9d ; lemons, 5s to 7a 6d por case ; tomatoes, 2s 6d to 3s 9d per case ; quinces, 4s to 4s 6d ; figs, ls 6d to 2s 6d per small box. Poultry and pigs withoub change.

Mr R. Arthur reports business at tbe following prices during the week. Potatoes fetched £2 5s to £3 per ton ; cow potatoes, 30sV onions, Id to l£d per lb ; carrots, 2s cwb; kumeras, 4s 6d ; pumpkins, 2_; wheat, 2s 9d ; oats, 2s Id to 2s 2d ; barley, 2s 6d ; maize, 2a 9d ; bran, 3s ; sharps, 3s 6d per bushel, £3 to £3 10s per ton. Freah butter, 6d to 9d per lb; keg, 4d to 6£d; eggs, ls to Is 2d per dozen; Cheese, 4d to 4£d per lb for besb; other lots, 2d to i_d per lb ; bacon, 6d to l_d for local: hams, 6d to B^d ; shoulders, 4d to s_d. Fruit : Apples, l^d to lj?d ; pears, 2£d to Z.d ; tomatoes, ls 9d to 2s 6d per case ; lemons, 8d to lOd per dozon ; Cape gooseberries, k_d to 5d per Ib. Poultry : Hen turkeys, 2s 3d to 2s 9d each ; gobblers, 3s 9d to 5s 6d ; cockerels, ls 6d to ls lOd ; ordinary table fowls, ls to Is 9d ; ducks, ls Id to ls 6d ; geese, 2s Id to 2s 6d ; pigeons, ordinary, (id ; well bred, ss.