COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 50, 29 February 1896, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

AUCTIONEERS1 REPORTS.

Mr Richard Akthur reports a very busy week in all departments. Potatoes sold ab £3- pumpkins. £3 to £3 10s; onions, £5 to £G 10a ton ; chaff, £3 to £3 15a. Poultry : Fowls sold la 2d to Is lOd each ; roosters, Is 4d to 23 b'd each ; ducks, lOd to Is 8:1 each ; turkoy hens, 3s to 3s 2d each ; s mail pigs, 6s 6d each ; pigeons, Sd to Is I') each ; eggs, frosh lOd to UM dozen, pickled or] dozen ; fresh butter, 6Jd to 7-j;d !b : corned, 4d to 7d, according to quality ; cheese, 2^d to4d lb ; cabbages, 2s Id dozen and 23 per Back. Fruit:. Apples, 2s to 3a 6d case, small caso Sd to 2s ; plums, l|d to to 2d lb ; poaches, 5d to lOd dozen, and Id to lid lb; lemons, 3a to 8a case, according to size. Grain: Wheat, 4a to 4a 3d ; roaizo, 3a 5d to 3s 6d ; oats, 2s 6d to 2s 8d ; barley, 2s 9d ; sharps, 4a 9d ; bran, 4a 9d.

Messrs Esam and Arthur's Weekly Report. — Supplies generally, although fairly good, have nob been in some instances equal to demand. Potatoes : Hobarte, £3, £3 lQ.i ; Magnums, £2 5s to £3 ; pumpkins, £6 to £9 ; onions, £5 $o£G ; oats, 2a 6d ; maize, 3a 3d ; hams, 5d to 7d ; bacon, 4d to sid ; cheese, 24d to 3£d ; smull loaf, 4d to 4£d ; salt butter, 4d to 6Jjd ; fresh, 7d to 9£d ; eggs, lOd ; poultry, table fowls, Is 6d to 2s Id ; bons, Is 3d to Is 5d ; young fowls, 6d to lOd ; ducks, la Id to la 4d ; turkoye, hens, os to 3s 3d; gobbbrs, 5s to 6a 4d ; geese, 2s 3d to 2s sd. Fruib: Apploe, cooking, largo, free from moth, 3s 2d to 4s ; ordinary, 2s to 2s 8d ; others, Is to Is (id ; dessert, freo from moth, 3fl to 43 6d ; half-ease, 2s to ?>s ; others, Is 3d bo 2a 6d and Is to Is 6a ; peaches, large, 9d to Is 3d dozon ; medium, 5d to 6d ; Email, l^d to 3d, and IJd to SJd lb : Capa gooseberries, 3M to 4d ; tomatoes, Id to Ijd lb, and Is Gd to 2s case ; hothouse grapes, 4d to 7d ; outdoor, 3.td ; Bon Chretien poars, good, lid to 3d • others, lid to l£d ; cocking, l|d ta 1-id ; lemons, G^d to 13 Id, according to the size and colour ; water melons, 5s 6d to 13a 6d ; rock, 2a 6d to S3 ; plums, Pond's Seedling, l-jtd bo 2d ; Golden Drop, l£d to l|d : green Rage, l}d to lp ; others, l^d to l^d ; damsonc, gd to gd ; passion fruit, 2ci to 2;,;ri ; quinces, to Id. Mv A lux. Aitken reports bueinosa brick for the paao week ab tho following quotations :—Potatoes. £2 15s to £3 15s ; mangolds, £1 to £1 5a ; onions (bout), Sd to Is, medium, to gd ; peas, Is 3d to la.6d; French beans, Is to Is Gd ; pumpkin?, 4a 6d to 5i 3d ; butter, best local, 7d to 9d ; medium, 6Jd to 7d ; prime keg, 6.jjd to 7d ; pastry, 4d to s|.d ; eggs, 9d to lOd dozen ; Southern bacon", cloth, 6.^d : hams, 7£d to 8d; bare sides, 6d; hama, 7d ; loc&l side.*, 5d to 6d ; hama, s|d to G£d ; cheoso, factory, loaf, sd, largo size, 4Ad ; farmers, 2£ci to 3fd ; honey, bulk, 2Jd to 3d ; section, 3s 6d dozon; rabbits, ls^ 6d pair ; dressed pork, 2^d to ?4d. Fruifc : Dessert apple?, 2a to 4a 6i ; poary, doaerb, 2d to 2£; d ; cookers and othere, id to Igd ; plums, best lots, Hd to 2 ; } d ; email and damsons, $d to l£d ; poncho:;, desert, 7d to lid dozon ; culinary, bestojd to sid ; medium lots, ljd to 2gd lb ; patron ftuib, 2.V1 to 3d dozon ; grape?, 3-Jd to 7^d ; outdoor, Ijd to 3d ; tomatoes, Id tn 2d lb ; Island orangoa, '2s to 4s 3d caso : lemons, 9d to Is dozen ; nectarino?, 2ld to 3d ; rock melons, 2s Id to 7?, according to size; water melons, 2a 3d to 4« Gd for email, 5s to 10d dozen for large ; Cups gooseberries, 2sd to 3JtJ. Sharp?, £4 10s to £5 ; brao, £4 10* to £4 loi ; oats, 2a 2d to 2a 4d ; wheat, 4a 3d to4a7d: maize, 3s Id to 3s 3d; chad', £2 153 to £3. Poultry, large supply: liooster*, Jur-jo, 2s to 2s 8d ; cockerels, la 3d to la lOd; hen=>, Is 2d to la 8d : special breed, '2s to 3s; ducks, Is 2d to Is i)cl; (-ocro, Is 6d to os ; turkey hens, 2s 9J to :5s 9d : gobblers, 7s to 10a 2d; chickens, 3d to Is Id ; pullots, Is 6d to 2a; hens and broods, Is 6d to 2^ 6d ; duckling*, 8d to Is ; pigeons, 4d to 7d ; canaries, 3b Cd co 6a Gd. Pig?, hard to quit, owing to scarcity of feed; largo, Sa to 10s 6d ; medium, 5a 9d to 6s Cd ; small, 2s 9d to ua 6(3.

Messrs A. Too.man and Co. report a largo business done. We quote:—Potatoes: £3 10* ; onions. £5 to £6 and gd to Jil for Email lots ; picklers, $d to Id ; wheat, 3d 9d ; maize, 'is, 3d; bran, £5 ; sharps, £4 15s; hay, £3 10s; ehatt, £2 Jua to £3; pumpkins, 6a ; peas, Is 4d to Is 6d ; beane, lid to Is 6d; butter, freeh, Bkd to 9d ; kegs, Cd to7d; eggs, fresh, ll^d to Is; bacon, 6(1; him, 7tl; honey, bard to sell; cheese, quiet, 5d to 3£d for dairy, and 4d to 4^d for factory ; fowls, old, Is 2d to Is 5d ; chicks, 3d to lOd ; email cockerel;', lOd to Is 3d ; fab roosters. Is 7d to 2e 3d ; ducks, Is 3d to Is 9d ; goose, Is 9i bo 2s 6d ; turkey, hens, 3a to 4s 3d ; gobblers, 4? to 6« 9d ; pigeons, 4<l; canaries, 4a to 6a 3d; pigs 4s to 83 9d; fruib, superior dessert apples, 43 Gd to 5s 3d : fair, 23 to 3s 3d; x'hoico clean cooking, 2s 3d to 2s lOd ; others, any price ; plum?, good sound, l^d to 2d ; extra, 2^d to 2|d ; medium and poor, Id to lid ; damsons, gd to Id ; pears, l|d to 3^l ; grapes, good, 7d to 9cl; (superior, ll;fd ; others 5d to 6d ; peaches, Id to 3d lb, and 2d to Is 3d dozen, according to quality and eize ; tomatoes, l^d )b ; Cape gooseberries, 3£d to 5d ; passion fruit, 5s to Ss and 3s to 4s box; cucumbers, 2s to 3h 6d dozen ; melons, 4s 6d to 11s dozen ; walnutß, Nelson, 5d to 6d ; nectarines, 2d to 3d lb ; figs, 3d; blackberries, 2id. Mil J. Jonks' Weekly Kkport.— Business brisk in every department. Potatoes, tirraer, £3 5a to £3 12s 6d tou. Plume, Id to 2£d; pears. Id to 3d lb ; tomatoes, 3d to Id lb ; Cape gooseberries, 3£d to 5d lb ; walnuts, 7d bo 7^d ; passion fruit, 2£d to 3d dozen; watermelons, 2i to 9s dozen; rock melons, 3s to 7a 9d dozen ; peaches, 6d to Is doz ; others, 3d to 4 : ]; d ; grapes, 4d to 8d lb; butter and eggs firmer and in fair demand, flrsfc, 8d to IOJd lb; eocond and inferior, s|d to 7d Ibfeggs, JOd to la doz ; keg butter, 6d to 7d lb ; cheese, 3d to 4d lb ; bacon, firnt, si'd to G^ci ; second and inferior, 4d to 4|d ; hams, tirsb, 6d to 7^d ; eecond and interior, 4£d to s£d lb. Poultry : Roosters, Is 3d to Is Od ; hens, lOd to Is 7d ; ducks, Is to In 5d ; geese, 2a 3d to 23 9d ; gobblers, 5a Cd to 7a ; hen turkeys, Ss to 3s Bd. Piga : Suckera and weanors, 4a to 5s 6d each. Oat?, 2s 3d to 2s 4ii ; bran, 5s to 5s 3d ; eharp3, £5: maize. 3s 2d to 3a 4d bushel ? wheat, 3s 6d to 4s 3d bushel; onions, 5a to 69 ewfc in sack, ijib in bags ; Hobart potatoes, £3 5s to £3 12s 6d ; kidney, 3s to 3s sd,