AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS,

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 237, 4 October 1894, Page 2

AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS,

Mr R. Arthcr quotes prices as follows this weok :— Beat potatoes, £2 to £2 5s per ton; medium, 35s to 40a ; cow ditto, :Jss to 30s ; Hobart seed, £2 to £2 os; kidney ditto, £2 to £2 10a. Carrots, Is 9d to 2s por ewt; onions, Ifd to 2d per Ib ; fowl wheat, 3s ; maizo, 2s 3d ; oats, 2s ; barley, 2s 3d ; bran, 2s 9d to 3s; sharps, 4s 3d. Butter : Quitted 74 packages of pastry butter at from 6d to 6^d ; fresh butter, 9d to Is. Bacon, 6d to 7d per Ib ; hams, 6d to 8d ; shoulders, 3d to 4id ; egge, 4^d to 6d per dozen ; cheese, 4^d to 5d por Ib. Fruit: Lemons, 3d to 4d per doz. ; oranges, 33 to 3s 6d per case. Poultry : Turkey gobblers, 4s 6d to 5s 6d each ; hens, 2s 5d to 3s; ducks, Is Gd to la 4d ; cockerels, Is Od to 2s 3d ; ordinary fowl, Is 6d to 2s.

Mr Alex. Aitksn reports sales at the following prices this week : Good Southern potatoes, £'1, 5s to £2 10s per ton ; local £2 ss; seed do., £2 103 to £3, according to variety ; kumeras, 53 to. 63 per cwfc ; carrots, 303 to 35s per ton ; pumpkins, 3s to 3s 6d per cwb ; onious, lfd to 2d por lb : fowl wheat, 2s 9d to 3s per bushel ; maize, 2e 4d to 2s 6d ; heavy foed oate, Is lOd to 2a ; seed, do., iis to 2s 3d ; bran, 3s; sharps, 4s 6d ; hay, 4s 6d to 5s ; chaff, £3 10s to £3 15a per ton. Butter: Taranaki roll, lid to Is per lb ; bulk, lOd to lOhd ; keg:, 9d to 9Jd ; local dairy, 9d to le ; local, 8d to 9d ; cheese, 4^d to sid ; eggs, 6d to 7d per dozen ; Southern bacon, 7d to 7|d per lb ; bains, 9d to 10^-d ; local bacon, 6d to 7d ; hams, 7|d to SAd. Fruib : Sydney oranges, 28 6d to 38 6d per case ; local, 43 6d to 7si b'd; mandarin, 5s 6d to 6a 6d; Hobarb' apples, 7a 6d to 8a 6d ; Cape gooseberries, 4£d to sid; passion fruit, 9s por case : bananas, over 1,000 bunches sold at from Is '3d to 2a 6d per bunch : cocoanuts, Is to 7a per sack ; peanuts, 3d por lb. HIDES. New Zeai-and Loan and Mercantile AoENcr Co. Ltd., report: On Tuesday, the 2nd inst., we held our usual weekly auction sale and submitted a large catalogue of hides, skins, etc., which were cleared at pricea a shade firmer than last week's quotations. We quote : —Hides : Prime, stout ox, 5d to s£d per lb ; heavy, 4d to 4fd; light and medium, 2£d to 3|d ; cow, l£d to 2£d ; kip and calf, no change*. Sheepskins : Besb skins, 4s 6d to 53 2d each; small and medium, Is 6d to 4a; country dry, 4d to 5d per lb.