AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 214, 10 September 1896, Page 2

AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Messrs A. Toomak and Co. reporb the produce market) rather quieb this week. Southern potatoes sold at £3 15s to £4 per ton ; kumeras, 6s to 7s cwb ; carrotu, 20a to 25b ton ; onions, Id to l£d lb ; pumpkins, 4s> to 5? cwb ; swedes, la tola 6d sack ; new potatoes, l|sd to 2d lb; maize, 2e 9d bushel; oats, 2b 6d : Boed oats, 2a lOd ; wheat, 3s 6d to 3» 8d ; brao, £4 per ton ; sharps, £4 10a. Butter, dull of sale; dairy, 6d to 7d : prime keg. 6d to 6id; poor, 3d to 4d ; cheese, 4d to 5d per lb ; eggs, 6d to 6£d per dozen 1 Southern bacon, 4$ to 5Jd per Jb; hatnii, 5d to 6d; honey in tin, 2d to 2£d ; in section, 2a to 3a 6d. Fruib : Hobarb apples, 7a to 9a per case ; mandarins, 8s to 8a 6d; passion ftutfc, 9a case ; pines, 8s 6d ; local lemons, 6s to 8a 6d ; loquats, 33 to 4a box; local oranges, 3s to 3b 6dj Sydney oranges, 3a case; Island do., 59. Dressed, pork, 3d to 3sd ; hares, 2s ; rabbits, Is 6d per pair. Poultry to unlimited demand. Mb R. Arthur quotes .-—Potatoes, £3 15s to £4 ; onions, l|d to ljd; kuroeras, 8a 6d to 9s 6d owb; pumpkins, 6s 6d to 6s ; mangolds, 15s bo 20a ton; new potatoes, 13d to 2d lb; fowl wheat), ,3s 6d to 3s 8d buehel; oats, 2o 3d fco 2a 4d ; maize, 2a lOd to 3s; bran, 3s 3d to 3s 6d; sharps, 4a 6d; chaff, £3 16s per ton. Fresh butter, 7sd to 84d lb ; medium, 6Jd to 6d; eggs, 6d to 6jd dozen ; factory loaf cheese, 4$ to 4Jd; large size, 4d; dairy, 3£d fco id : local bacon, s&d to 6d ; hams, 6d to 6£d ; Canterbury bacon, *6d to 6Jd ; hama, 7d to 7Jd. Fruit; Loquafee, 4d to 4£rf lb ; lemons, 5d to 6d dozen. Poultry ; Turkey gobblers, 5s to 6a 6d ; do. hens, 3b toßs6d; ducks, 2s 3d to 2s 6d j geoae, 2s 3d to 3s; cockerels, 2s 3d to 2s 6d ; ordinary fowls, le 6d to Is 9d, Mr Alexander Aitken reports fair buainesa at the following prices ;—Southern potutoea, £315a to £4 { wed varieties. £3 15s to £4 si; carrots 25a ; mangolds, 15a to 20s; onions, l£d to Igd'lb; swedes, 30s ton; baled hay, £3 10s to £4 10a ; chuff, £310a to £3 15s { Southern, do., £4 IDs ; maiza, 23 8d to 3a bushel; oats, 2a 4d to 2a 6d ; seed do., 2s 8d to 2a lOd ; ; wheat, 3a 6d to 3s 9d ; bran, £3 10a ton ; sharps, £4 to £4 ss; Taranaki roll butter, lOd to lid; bulk, 9id to lOd ; prime keg, 6d to 7d ; local, fresh, 7£d to lOd; pastry butter, 54d to 6Jd ; eggs, 6£d to 7d doz; loaf cheese, 5d ; large size, 4Jd to 5d ; farmers' make, 3d to 3i|d ; honey in bulk, 2|d to 3d • in section, 4a dozen; Hobart apples, 8a 6d to 9a 6d ; lemons, 5d to ssd dozen ; orangea, 6s to 9a case. Durham Yards Hobsb Hale.—Messrs Hunter and Nolan held their usual weekly sale of horseß at Durham Yards yesterday, when there was about an average market. Horses of a good stamp were in demand, and readily found purchasers ab satisfactory prices.' Heavy draughts brought from £12 10s to £19 15s ; medium draught, £9 15s to £16*10sV lights harnass, £4 10b to £12 15s; hacks, £3 10s to £9 12a 6d ; unbroken colts, suitable for light and medium draught, £7 17s 6d to £16. Junction Yabps Stock Sale,—There was hardly as large an entry of beef cattle at the Junction Yards, Epsom, yesterday as the average, but no improvement) in prices was noticeable, a very weak demand existing. Ox beef mostly sold from ISs to 19«j and cow beef from 16b to 17s per 1001b. Dairy cows wero sold in fair numbers at late values. The sheep pens were well filled, and if anything there was an advance on the firm prices of the previous week. Wethers brought) 12s to 19s 3d ; ewes, 13a 9d to 16a 3d ; mixed sexes, lls 6d to 16a 3d; spring lambs, 8s 6d to 10b 9d, Small pigs were disposed of from 16s 6d to £1 3a 6d- ' ' ""