AUCTIONEERS REPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 154, 2 July 1896, Page 2

AUCTIONEERS REPORTS.

Mb R. Arthur reports fair business ab the fallowing rate*:—Southern potatoes, £3 to £3 10d per ton: cow, ditto, 30s to 40s ; white carcass, Is 6d cwt; red, do., Is 9d to 2s 3d; mangolds, la to la 3d ewe; kumerat, 6s 6d to 8a ; pompkinv, £3 to £3 10s; best onioas, 6a 6d to 7a cwfe; medium, 4a to s*; fowl wheafc, 33 6d bush ; oata, 2s 4d to 2a 6d • old maize, 3a 6d ; new, 3s 3d ; bran, £4 10s ; sharps, £5 5s to £5 10a per ton. Fresh butter, 8d to lOfd par lb^ keg, ditto, fid to 7d ; pastry butter, 3Jd ts sd; egga, laid to Is 3d per dozen; factory cheese, 34d to 4d ; dairy, dirto, 3d to 4d; H&uthern bacon, 6dto6^d-; hams, 7d to 7iri ; local aides, 4d to si*d ; bams, s^d to 7ci. Fruit: Best apples, 8a to 10s per case; medium, 3s 6d to 5s §d ; lemon?, 7s to 10s. Poultry : Turkey gobblers, 4s 9d to 8a ; hea ditto, 2a to 3a ; geese, 3s 3d to 4a ; ducks, Is lOd to 2a 8d; cockerels, la 9d to 2s lid; ordinary fowls, Is to Is 6d.

Messbs A. Tooman and Co. report steady business this week at the following prices : Southern potatoes, £3 5s to £3 10a : kidney coed, £1 to £4 10s ; prime onions, £<i to Id lb; medium ditto, Jd ; white carrots, 25s to 30^ ton ; red ditto, 30a to 35s ; kumoras, 7s cwt; best pumpkins, £4 ton; coarse, £2 10s to £3; new maize, 3e bushel; old 3a 3d ; oata, 2s 3d ; wheat, 3s 6d ; bran, 4s 9d ; sharps, 5s 6d ; chaff, £3 Hit kon ; baled hay, £4 10s ; mangolds, 12a to 15* per to» ; Taranaki dairy butter, 9d to 10d .lb; medium, 7d ; prime keg, 7d ; freeh factory rolls, lid to Hid; bulk, lid; frozen, 10|d; dairy ch«ese, 3d to 4d; factory, 4|d to 4|d : eggs, la Id »o la 2d ; bacan, 3d to 6d lb, according to quality ; bams 4d to 7d ; section haney, 3s to 4n per dozen ; in bulk, 2Jd lb. Froib : Local apples, 7s to 9s 6d per case ; Hobortdo., 7* to 8s 6d; lemons, It to 9s 6d ; ITobart pears, 7s to 8*; guavas, lid to 2d lb ; banen&a. Is 6d to 2a per bancb ; Sydney oranges, 2» 3d to 2s 6d ; mandarine, 8s to B*6d.

Mb Alex. Aitkem reports fair business at the followins rates —Southern potatoes, £3 5s to £3 10s per ton ; onions, |d per lb ; kumeras, 5a 6d to 6s per cwt; pumpkins, 2s 3d to 3a 6d ; carrots, Is 6d ; mangolds, 9d to la per cwt; wheat, 3a 5d to 3a 7d bushel; oats, 2a 3d to 2a *d j maize, 3a 2d; bran, £4 per ton; sharps, £5 5a to £5 10a ; chaff, £3 15e. Fresh butter, 9d to lOd lb; medium, 6d to 7d ; prime keg, do., 7d to 8d ; medium, 5d to 6-id ; Taranaki squares, lid ; do., bulk, lOJri; eggs, Is 3J to la 5d ; factory loaf chee»e, 6d; large size, 4fd ; farmsre', 2Jd to 3^d ; Southern bacon, 6d ; hfttns, 7d ; local bacon, 5d to 6d ; do., hams, 6d to 6Jjd ; medium bacon, 4d to 5d ; hanoa, 3d to oid. Fruit: Apples, 7s lOd to 10a; lemons, 4d to 6d ; bancmas, la 6d to 2s 6d per bunch.