AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 212, 5 September 1895, Page 2

AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Mr R. Arthur reports fair business at tho following rates :—Canterbury potatoes, £2 5s to £2 10s ; seed varieties, £2 to £2 10s; onions, |d to Id lb ; damaged lots, 6d to Is per bag ; kumeras, 6s to 7s c«vb; white canobs, Is 3d to Is 6d ; pumpkins, 3s 6d to 4a 6d ; cabbage, 8d to Is per doz ; carrots, 8d per dozen bunches ; turnips, 6d to 7d dozen bunches ; fowl wheat, 3s 9d ; oats, 2s to 2s 3d ; dun ditto, 2s 4d ; maize, 2s to 2s 4d ; bran, 4s 6d ; sharps, 4s 3d to 4g 6d ; butter, keg M to 7_d, fresh 6d to lOd ; eggs, 5d to 6d ; cheese, 4_d to 5d lb ? medium, 3d to 34d ; Canterbury bacon, 6Jd to 7d ; hams, 5d to 7d ; local sides, to ; shoulders, 4d to 4|d. Fruib : Apples, 6s 6d bo 8s 6d ; lemons, 4d to 6d per dozen. Poultry : Turkey gobblers, 4s to 5s 6d ; turkey hens, 2s 3d to 3s 3d ; ducks, Is 9d ; geese, 2s 6d ; roosterß, Is 6d to Is Sd ; ordinary fowls, Is to 2s.

Mr Alex. Aitken reporbs : Southern potatoes, £2 10s to £2 15s ; cow ditto., 308; seed varieties, £2 5s to £2 15s; onions, fd to Id per lb ; mangolds, 20s per ton ; kumeras, 7s 3d to 7s 6d ; pumpkin?, 4s 6d to 6a ; carrots, 253 to 30s ; baled hay, £5 ; chaff, £4 ; bran, £4 10s to £4 15s ; fowl wheat, 3s 9d ; oats, 2s 2d ; seed do., 2s 6d ; maize, 2s 3d ; fresh butter, best Taranaki rolls, 9d to lOd ; medium do., 7d to B_d ; local dairy, to 7£d; prime keg, 6d to 6_d ; pastry do., 4Jd to s£d; eggs, 5d to s|d doz.; best loaf cheese, 5Jd; large sir.es, 4d; medium, 3d to 3Jd. Bacon : Southern, 6d ; hams, 6_d to 7d ; local, sjd; hams, 6Jd ; sharps, £4 10s. Fruit: Sydney oranges, 2s 6d to 3a 6d ; mandarins, 5a 6d to 6s : local oranges, 5s 6d to 6a ; Ifobart apples, 6s 6d to 8s 6d. Lemons : Sydney, 2s to 3s case ; local do., 2s 6d to 5s case ; walnuts, s_d.