COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 30, 6 February 1899, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

Hall and Perkins", auctioneers, report, February ~ 1899: Large consignments of fruit from all quarters. We respectfully ask consignors to mark on the outside of cases contents, of each, which will save us a great amount of time and labour in classifying and sorting. We quote: Apples Arming; prime quality jmeet with ready sale;.well-coloured degseßt Id to lid per ft>: ordinary apples 1/ to 2/q per case; 1 cases 9d to 1/9; butter, best dairy, 6d to 7d; keg butter 4Jd to 6d; eggs 10id to lid (good demand). Notice, our prices realised" to-day were ljd and 2d over market price. Fruit cases of all kinds at mill prices; chaff £2 10/. ex store; cheese, farmer's, 3Jd to 4d; lemons 5/ to 1/ per case; onions Jd to Id per lb; plums (bulk) Id, lot as high as 2d, some Jd and 2d; the market is showing signs of improvement; potatoes £2 to £3 Per ton; peaches 5d to 8d per doaen; Boyal George cooking lia to 21d per Ib; pears, Bon Chretiens, 2d to 2|d per lb; other sorts Id to 2d; grapes (good enquiry for outdoor); hot house 7Jd to 9£d. "We can do with 100 cases weekly. Poultry: Prime roosters 1/9 to 2/3; hens 9d to 1/10; ducks 1/5 to 1/11; geese 2/6 to 3/4; turkeys 3/6 to 6/9. Pigs: Weaners 6/ to 9/6; other sorts up to 35/. Tomatoes _d to Ud per Ib. Fruit sales held daily, City Market. >.■ ■

LQNDQN, February 3. Bank England reserve, £22,969,000; gold, coin, and bullion, £30,836,000; percentage of reserve to liabilities, 4.40; in clrculaton, £26,806,000; public daposita, £9,700,000; other deposits, £40,713,000; Government securities, £13,387,900; other securities, £32,208,000. Thr^e months bills, two per cent. Consols, HI. N.S. Wales four per cents., 1191; three halfs, 105$; threes, 99; Victorian fours, 112J; three-halfs,' 105 J. South Australian three-halfs, 107; threes, 95. Queensland fours, 112: three-halfs, 106}. New Zealand fours, 1161; three-halfs 1071; thre«s, 98$. Tasmanian three-halfs, 106. Westralian three-halfs, 105. LONDON, January 3. Wheat is dull. Victoria FehruaryMarch shipment by sailer, 28/3; parcels 27/3.Sugar, firm. Java 11/7J, German 9/9. Iron 45/4 J. Tin, spot 11/4, thre* months 113 J. * Copper, spot, Tli, three months 711. Lead, soft foreign 1$; Skelter 2<&. Silver 2/31 per oz." Bradford wool market is gui§t. Common sixths, 20J; super, 21}, Butter has a steady, quiet trade. Colonial, 100/ to 102; a few choice lots, 104/; Danish, 109/. Cheese, New Zealand, firm, sd. Rabbits are hardening. Victorian, ?|d to 93d; New Zealand, a fafthing less.