COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 149, 23 June 1894, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Mr Alex. Aitkrn reports quotations an follows ;—^Potatoes, prime Southern, £3 ; Waikato, £2 10s to £3; onions, prime samples, l£d ; other lots, to ljd Ib; carrots, 25s to 32s 6d ; mangolds, 153 to 20a; pumpkins, £1 10s to £.3; kumeras, 4s 6d to 6s; cow potatoes, 3s; Swede turnips, 255; cabbage, 6d to 2a per sack ; oats, feed, 2s; seed, 2s 3d to 2s 6d; bran, £3; sharps, £4 10s. Vegetables in heavy supply ab fair prices. Butter: All kinds scarce ; fresh local dairy, 9d to 10£ d ; prime keg, 8d ; poor keg, 6d. Eggs, lOd to Ib. Bacon : Prime local, 6d to 7d ■; other lots, 3d tosd. Hams : Prime, 7d to 8d ; poor, 3d to 6d ; shoulders, 3£d to 4sd. Fruit in good supply; local apples, 6s to Bs.6d ; Hobart, 7s to 8s 6d ; lemonß, local, 4s to 5s 6d; oranges, 2s 6d to 5s 3d ; Sydney oranges, 4a to 4s 6d; Mandarins, 5s to 5s 9d; tomatoes, 2s to 2s 6<i ; Cape gooseberries, 4|d to sd; walnuts, 7d. Poultry: Beßt table roosters, Is lOd to 2s 4d ; others, Is 3d to Is 9d ; table fowls, Is 6d to 2s 2d ; others, Is to Is sd; ducks, Is 4d to 2s 3d; geese, 2s ' 'Ad ; turkeys, gobblers, 3s 6d to 5s yd , 28 to 4s 3d ; pigeons, 4d to Is; can. Is 6d to 2s 6d; -light Brahma fowls, ~ > bo 3a 9d ; pigs, best lots, 12s to 14s; others, including suckers, 2s 6d to Us 6d. Mb. R. Arthur reports sales at the following rates :—Poultry: Fowls sold at Is 2d to 2s each ; chickens, 8d to Is 2d ; turkeys (gobblers), 3s to 5s Id; hens, 2s Id to 3a 7d ; ducks, Ib 6d to Is lOd; geese, 3a 2d to 3s 4d; pigeons, 6d each. Fresh butter, 8d to IOJd-^ corned batter, 4d to 6Jd; bacon, best lota, 5d to 7d; bams, 5d to 7d ; other lobs, 2£d to 4d ; cheese, 3d to 5d ; onions, Id to ljd Ib; potatoes, 2a to 2s 9d cwt; early seed kinds, 3s to 5s 6d ; carrots, red. 2s ; white, U 6d; cabbages, Is 2d to Is 6d dozen ; turnips, 9d ; oats, 2s ; wheat, 2s 7d ; bran, 3s ; •sharps, 3a 6d ; apples, local, 2£d to 2^d ; Hobart, 7s 3d caee ; lemons, 3d to 5d j local orangos, 3s case. Messrs Esam ano Arthur report that the following prioes were realised during the week : —Local potatoes, £2 5s ro £2 10s; Southern, £2 10s to £3; pumpkins, £1 15s to £2 5s ; kumeras, £4 10s to £5 10s ; onions, l£d ; wheat, 2s 6d to 2s 8d ; oats, Is 9d to 2s ; shurpH, £5; mangolds, 153 ; carrots, £115s to £2 ; bacon, 5d to 6d ; hafns, sid to 7id ; fresh butter, B£d to IOJd ; kegs, pat butter, 8d to B£d ; Taranaki, pats, 9|d ; salt butter s£d to 7£d ; cheese* 3d to 4d; eggs, Is Hd, Fruit: Cape gooseberries, 4d to 4|d; guavas, l£d to 2£d ; lemons, 4d to 6d ; local oranges, 3b to 4s: apples, 6s 6d to 7s 6d. Fowls, lOd to Is 9d ; ducks, Is 4d to Is Bd. Mr J. Jonks' reports prices as follows :— Potatoes : Local, £2 2s to £2 10s ; Cantorbury and Oamaru, £2 12s 6d to £3 ; cow potatoes very scarce. Butter, 9.} dto IOJd ; socond clasß, 6d to 7Jd ; pastry, 3d to 5d Ib ; eggs, 10£ d to" Ib Id dozen; cheese, old Canterbury, 2&d to s£d ; Canterbury lard, 3Jd to 4Jd ; other classes, 3d to 3|d. Bacon, first-class dairy sides, bid to 7d ; ham, 6|d to Qd : other classes, 5d to 6Jd ; carrots, Is 4d to Is 9d cwt; white carrots, Is 4d cwt; pumpkins, Is 6d to 2s 3d cwb; cauliflowers, Is 4d to 2s 6d dozen; cabbages, 4d to Is dozen, 6d to Is 3d Back; swede turnips, Is 3d to 2s eack ; mangolds, Is to Is 6d sack ; celery, Is to 2s dozen ; new potatoes, to Id Ib ; onions, Id to Ijd Ib, sacks, 9s to 10s cwt; fowls, young. Is 3d to Is 6d ; other classes. Is 8d to 2s 3d each:; ducks, younar, Is 3d to Is $d ; young lurkoys72<} 9d bo 3s 2d each ; pigeons, 4d to lid each; kidney potutoes, 5s to 5s 6d cwb; Magnum Bonutn, 3s 6d to 4a 6d ; Early Rose, 5s 6d bo 5s 9d ; Whibe Rock, 4s 6d to 5s 3d ; Shepherds, 6s to 7b cwt; oats, 2s to 2s Id ; tartar, 2s 4d to 2a od ; dun, 2s to 2s Id; maize, 2s 4d to 2a s>l ; bran,,3s; sharps, 5s ; wheat, 2s 4d to 2e 8d bushel. ______________