AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 56, 7 March 1896, Page 2

AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Mb Alex. Aitken reports business briak for tha paßt wook. The following prices were obtained during the week :—Potatoes, best samples, £3 10a to £4 ; cow potatoes, £1 15s to £2 ton ; onions, good sample?, £5 to £7 ton ; pumpkins,' 63 6d to 7s I<l cwfc ; marrows, 4a 6d to 5s ; French beans, Is 6d to 2s peck ; mangolds, £1 to £1 5s tou ; oats, 2s to 29 3d bushel; wheat, 3s 9d to 4a; maize, 3s to 3a 3d; bran, 4*> 9d to 5s ■' sharps, 48 9d to ss; chaff, £2 15s to £3 5a ton ; dressed pork, 2£d to 3£d lb ; rabbits, Is 6d pair; hares, 2a 6d. Dairy produce: Freah butter, prime, 9|d to Is; medium, Sd ; prime keg. 6Jd to 7d; medium and pastry, 4d to sid ; Taranaki rolls, lid to 1b; balk, 9£d to lOd; eggs, 9M to lOJd; cheese, factory, large size, 3id to 3gd ; loaf, 4d to 5d ; farmers' make, 2d to 3£d, according to quality ; honey section, 3s 6d to 4a ; bulk, 2^d to 3d; bacon, prime Southern, 6Jd to 6£d • hams, 7Jd ; baro aides, 6d ; hams, 7d ; local sides, 5d to s£d ; hams, 6(1 to 6Jd ; inferior, 3gd,to 4£d. Fruit -. Applos, dessert, 2a 6d to 4s ; cooking, Is 6d to 2s ; . pears, Boa Chretien, 2£d to 4d ; others, Id to l|d ; plums, 2d to 3d ; extra fine and large, 4d ; grape*, best quality, 5d to 8d ; medium, lftl to 41d ; tomatoes, l|d to l£d; peaches, best deaaert, 9d to 1b 2d ; others, s|d to 7£d ; co6king, 2d to 2sd dozen ; passion fruit, 1 £d to 2£d dozen ; lemons, lOd to. Is dozen ; quinces, fd to ljd lb ; Cape gooseberries, 4d to 4fcd ; watermelon, 2s 6d to 109 dozen, according to Rize ; rockmelons, 2s 6d to 7s ; poultry, roosters, large. Is 9d to 2s 9d ; Bmall and cockerels, 9d to la 6d ; hena, lOd to la lOd ; pullete, la Id to 1b 6d ; ducks, 1b 3d to 2s Id ; ducklings, 9d; turkeys, gobblers, 9s to 9a 9d ; hena, small, 2» to 2s fid;'large, 2s 9d to 3a 6d; geese, Is lid to 3s; hens and broods, Is 6d to 2s 6d; pigeons, 6d to 9d; canaries, 3a to 4s 6d; pigs, beat sorts, 5s to 8s 6d; others, 2a 6d to 4s 9d.

Messrs Bsaji and Arthurs Report.— We quote prices as follow : Potatoes, £3 to £4 5s ; Magnums and kidneys, £2 10s to £3 10a ; pie melons, £2 10s ; oaions, £5 10s to £6; pumpkins, fd to Id lb; oate, 2s Id to 23 3d ; maize, 3s 3d to 3a 4d ; bacon, 4d to 5Jd; bams, 5d to 6Jd; cheeso, 3Jd to 4d'; fresh butter, 8d to 9d : salt butter, 4jd to 6d ; eggs, llsd. Fowls, 1« to Is 6d; young, lOd to Is 4d; table roosters, Is 6d to 2a Id ; ducks, la 4d to la Ed; turkeys, yobblera, 5s 6d to 6s 3d; hens, 3sr Id to 3* 9d ; pigs, 4s to 6?. Fruit: Plums, golden drop. 2£d to 3d ; Takapuna drop, 2d bo 2|d ; Coe'a late, l£d to 2^d; Pond's seedlings, 2£d to 3d ; other large sorts, 2d to 2|d ; small, l£d to l|d ; grapas, iM to 7d; outdoor, 2*d to 3£d; lemons, 8d to lid; Cape gooseberries, 3£d to 4^d; paeaion fruity 2d to 2£d; water melons, 4s to 9s; very largo up to 18s dozen ; damsons, Id to ljd ; tomatoes, l£d to 2d ; peaches, large choice, 9d to Is 3d ; medium, 5d to 8d ; others, 4d to 4fd, and 2d to 4d lb; apples, largo cooking, free from moth, 3s to 4s 3d ; do., dessert, 33 to 5a ; half-cases, Is 4d to 2a 3d; others, Is 3d to 28 6d cases j quinces, IJd j Bon Chretien, 2Jd to 3d ; Louie Bon Jersey, 2d to 2Jd ; other sorts, l|d to 2£d; cooking and small dessert, l|d to lfd.

Messes A. Tooman and Co. roporb -.—We quote prices realised:—Potatoes, £3 to £4 7s 6d ; cow, £2 ss; onions, small lots, 6a to 7scwt; picklers,ld; pumpkins, 4s 6d to 8s ; marrows, 5a sack ; maize, c.i.f., 23 lOd ; ex Btore, 3s 2d to 3a 3d ; wheat 3s 6d to 3a 9<i ; chaff, £2 15s to £3; bran and sharps, scarce, £5. Butter : Local dairy, BJjd to 9d : keg bufcter, ipring made, 7d ; pastry, 5d ; Taranaki factory, prime bulk, lOd ; rolls, lid;,poor, 7d to 7hl; localfaotory, 8d to 9d > sggs, lljd to* Is Id-dozen; cheese, dairy," 3d to 3£d; factory, 4d to 4|d for ton parcels ; bacon, Canterbury, 6cl ; local Dew, 1& ; hama, 8d toß^d ; fowls, fair and old, Is 2d to Is 7d ; fab, la Sd to Is lOd; fab young roostars, Is 9d to 2s 8d ; poor and email, Is 2d to Issd ; ducke, Is 4d to Is 9d ; turkeyß, heaTy hens, 4s to 4s 3d ; gobblers, to 6a 9i ; young lots, Is 6d to 2b 3d ; geese, 2s to 3s 3d ; pigs a drug ab 2e fid to Sa each ; pork, good. 3d. Fruib : Choico Gravon9tein apples, 53 to 6s 3d ; other clean, 3s to 4a 9d ; clean cooking, 2s 6d to 3s 8d ; others, 9d bo Is 10J : poam, Bon Chretien, superior, 2£d to 3;? d ; poor, 2|>d; other dessert, 2d to 3£d : cooking kind 3, l^d to 2d ; inferior, Id to Hd ; quinoep, 3s to 4s 3d case ; peaches, 6upenor, la 4d to 2a 3d dozen; fair, G£d to la Id and 2d to 3|d Ib ; poor, Id to l^d ; passion fruit, Ss to 8s case and 2» 6d to 4s box ; tomatoo*, at per box, average l£d Ib ; grapes, indooi, superior, 8d to lid ; others, fid to 7Jd ; outdoor, 2d *o 4Jd ; .plums, good, 2d to 2£d ; poor, Id to lid ; damsona, l£d to l£d ; Cape gooaeberrlos, 3£d to 4^d ; lemons, 9s to 163 3d ; walnub?, 6d to 6Jd ; watermelons, 5b to 13a 3d dozen; rockmelons, 5a to 12s 6d; litre, 3d.

MkJ. Jones quotes: Potftboea.fJrsfcclaßS, £3 10s to £4 5« ton. Poultry : Roosters, la 5d to Is lid ; hene, Is to Is 3d ; ducks, Is 3d to Is 5d ;; chicks, 6d bo 8d ; duckiingrsj 8d each. Young pigs, 3s 3d to 6s. Fruife: Apples, lirefc, 2a to 3a 6d ; inferior, la" to Is 6d; plums, Pond's Seedling. 2d feo 2£d ; Satsntna, 3d to 3£d lb; late River*, l^d to 2sd ; greengage, 2d to 2^d ; black plum?, lid ; 13ameons, Id to lsd ; peache*, 4d-to 8-Jd ; firatclass, lOcl to Is 3£d dozen; grapes, outdoor, ]£d to4|d ; passion fruit, 2& to 2£d dozen ;" fcomatoes, Id to 2|d lb ; lemoni-, 8d to la dozen ; citron lemons, 5d to 8d dozen ; watermelons, 7a to 10s 9d dozen ; citron melon?, 3a 3d cwt; pumpkin*, 6a to 7s 6d cwis; rockmelons, 3s 6d to ?s 9d dozen; cucumbers, 8d to lid dozen ; carrots, 2s 9d cwt ; cabbage, Is 6d to 2s 8d ; bn'bter, tirab, B£d iolOgrf lb; second, 5d to 7d ; pastry, 4d to 6d lb : koer butter, 6d to Id lb ; onion?, 55.6d.t06d (Jd cwb, |d lb for small bag ; eeg*, lOd to 11 Jd dozen; bacon, h"rsb-ela«9 sides, 6d to 6^d ; seconds, 4id.to 5Jd ; hams, from 7d to 7^d ; inferior, 4cj to 6d lb ; cheese, 3Jd to 4d; honey in bulk. 2£d to 2^d ; section, 4s dozen ; maize, 3^ Id to 3a 3d ; oatf. 2a 3d ;. bran, £4 10s to £4: 15s ; sharps, £4 10s to £5; chaft, £3 10s.