AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 75, 1 April 1897, Page 3

AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Messrs Toomak and Co. reporb a business generally has been brisk during the week Potatoes: Local samples are almost unsaleable, and in bhe majority of cases unfit for table purposes. Values ruled from 20s to 30s per ton, and where quality wa« fair up to £3. Southern Taranaki potatoes fetched £5 per ton and were in good demand. Onions sold up to £5 10s for prime samples and £4 to il ius for medium. Kumeras fetched 5s to 7s cwt; pumpkins, 2s 6d to 4s ; carrots, 30s Jo 40a to" ; fowl wheab, 3a to 3s 6d bui-h; oata, 2s 6d ; maize, 2s 9d to 3s; bran, £3 15s per ton; sharps, £4. Tho butter market is still very lull. Prime dairy fetched 4d to 6d per lb ; poor and salt 2d to 4d ; Taranaki fresh potted, 7-J-d : TJ'a lo B*d to Is lOd -, honey, slow of aale Rb lid to 2d per lb, and 2s to 3s per dozen for section ; prime dairy cheese, 3d to 3id lb, factory, 4d to, 4Jd Prime Southern baco»,7-}d; hams, BJd: shoulders, 4d to 5d per lb. Fruit markeb farmer. Prime cooking apples sold from 3s to 4s 6d per case ; dessert, 3b to 9s 9d, the latter price being realised for Cox oranee pippen ; poor lines. 2a to 2s 6d. Pears were very plentiful thie week. Beurre Piel sold at Id to id ocr lb ; Napoleon, lid to M; Beaurre Clairgeau, 4d to 4£d ; other cookIne kinds, Id to ljd; peaches, lfl 3d to 2« 3d dozen. Superior grapes, lOd to Is 2d per lb ; common, 4d to 6d; outdoor grown, 2d to 5d ; Italian lemons, 12s 6d to 14 case ; local, 4s 6d to 6s ; P™*\° n fruit, 5s to 7scase; Cape gooseberries, 5d lb; tomatoes, ljd to 2d ; quinces, in flacks, £6 per ton, in cases, 2a 9d to 5* •„ water melons, 2s to 8s doz; rock ditto, 3s fco 7a; bananas, 2s 6d to 3s; peanuts, lid to lfd lb j cocoanuts, Ss to 8s eack; Italian oranges, 10s 6d to 15« per

case; Island oranges, 7s; local marmalade oranges, 4a to 6s ; walnuts, 6£d lb. Mr R. Arth.tr reports good business ab me following rates during the week-— l otatoes * Good samples of locally grown, jtd-.0_._4 per ton 5 Southern do., £4 10ainferior do., 20.i to 30* bon ; onions. Jd to gd ; kumeras, 5s to 6s cwb; pumpkins, 2a Jd to 3 8 ; carrots, 2s ; wheat, 4s bushel; oats, 2a 6d; maize, 3s; bran and sharps, £3 15a doi* ton. Frash butter, first quality, 5d to 6hd lb • seconds, 3d to 4d; prime, keg, sd"to 6d • inferior, 3d to 4d ; cheese, 3d to 4d ; eggs, Is 4d to la 6d dozen ; Canterbury bacon! 6£d to 7d ; hams, Bgd to 9d ; honor, 2d to 3d lb. Fruit*. Deeserb apples, 3~s to 5s case; cooking ditto, 2s 6d to 4*>; medium quality, la to 2s ; choice poars, 2d to 3£d; medium, Id to l^d; plums, 2d to 3d ; choice peaches, Is doz; medium, 8d to lOd ; indoor grapes, 7d to lOd ; outdoor, l£d to 2d ; tomatoes, l^dto2d ; Cape goo .eberrie?, 4d to srl ; pass-ion fruit. Id to lsd ; lemons, 8d to lOd dozen j fipe, Id to 2d ; quinces, id to Id lb. Poultry : Turkey hens, 2s 6d to 2s 9d ; ducks, Is 6d to 2s ; table cockerels, Is 4d to la lOd ; ordinary fowls, Is 3d to Is Bd.