COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 184, 4 August 1900, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

AUCTIONEERS' REPORT. j Jones' Report.—Butter, Sd to 10d;;." 8d to lOd; cheese, 6d to 5Jd; honey, 3^d; lard, 4d to 4Jd; hams, 6d to fa;,' sides, 5d to 6d; potatoes, £3 to £3 E/;..'. onions, £4 to £5; carrots, £1 to £} f/; kumaras, lid; pumpkins, 4/ to 5/6. Poul-ij' try—Hens, 1/3 to 1/8; roosters, 1/6 to 2/3; ducks, 1/6 to 2/5; turkey hen.s, 2/(5 to 3/2; gobblers, 5/ to 6/. Pigs, 6/ to 13/7. Maj?e, : 2/5 to 2/7; wheat 2/6 to 2/7; bran, £4 10/; , sharps, £4 15/ to £5; chaff, £3 5/. Fruft-'-Apples, 6/6 to 9/3; lemons, 5/ to 8/3; Capes, ;. 3d to 3Jd; Kia Ora butter, lid to lljd. . Messrs Arthur and Gorrie's report;*-' Southern table potatoes, '£3, £3 5/ ; kid-" neys, £3, £3 10/; small seed, 80/, v5/['' caulflowers, 1/6, 0/; pumpkins, £5, £fl; onions, £7, £0; citron melons, 4/G, 6/ cwt;, Fresh butter, Bd, lOd ; bacon, 4%d, G&drhams, 5%d, 7%d ; eggs, 9d, !)y 2 d; choose,, 4y B d. Apples, 8/, 11/; lemons, 8/6, 0/6; mandarins, 1, j,' 6/0. Table fowls, 3/JO, ♦ 2/6; hens, 1/4, 1/0; ducks, 2/, 2/d • rab-, bits, 1/4, 1/10 per pair. Messrs. R. Arthur and Co. report goofl<* business this week at i~e following rates |*~ '. Potatoes, £2 15/ ton, ex wharf, £3 ex store;:1 new kidneys, prime samples, %d to Id lb;V seed varieties, £3 to £4 ; local onions, 5/ to \ 7/ cwt; maize, 2/4 to 2/0; oats, 2/5; lowlywheat, 2/0. Fresh dairy butter, 8d to 1/;,. keg do., 7d to OV.d; eggs, BVid to O'^d; factory cheese, 5d : bacon (factory), Cd to - 6V4d; hams, (H^d; local bacon, 4%d. tPv 5%d; lmms, 5d to (3d; iard, 4'/ a d, sd. Fri.lt,1' apples, 6/ to 10/6; lemons, 7/ to 8/6. Tool- : , try, ordinary fowl, 1/ to 3/0; prize strains, 8/ to 7/; dncta, 2/3 to 3/; table rooBt(>r«,: 1/6 to 2/3 ; turkey gobblers, 5/ to 6/?.; heu do., 2/6 to 3/8; young pigs, 4/ to 7/. ' Messrs A. Tooinan and Co. report 8 very. busy week. Fruit and produce of all kinds have been received in large quantt:i?s, jiH;" finding immediate sale. We quote :-*■ 3«st; Southern potatoes, £3 0/ to £3 10/; fj?ed varieties, £2 to £4 10/; onion;?, 5/ to 7/ cwt; pumpkins, £4 10/ to £5 10/; kumarflg, , 8/ to 10/; maize, 2/8 to 2/10 ; wheat, 2/0; carrots, 35/ to 40/; vegetables were in pjo«» derate supply at hign prices. Butter of all descriptions was in keen demand. Prim*.! dairies sold at 10% d; mediums, 9d to 7 10% d; keg, 6d to 8d; new do,, BW4 to ;: 9%d; eggs, B^.d to f)d; cheese, 4%d. ta^ 5%d; loaf, 6%d; bacon, 5d to 6d;,h».niß, 6d to 7d. Fruit, Tasmanias, 7/fl ■to U/3; local, do., 6/ to 8/0; Canterbury do., 6/ to: 7/; lemons, 6/ to 8/; passion fruit, 10/;; mandarins 3/6 to 5/; Island oranges, 7/tu 8/; local, 4/; poor mans' orange, U/ to 13/; v bananas. 1/6 .to. 2/3. .-■■■ Poultry, ordinary,, hens, 1/5 to 2/: roosters, 1/9 to 2/6 : ducke, •'■ 1/9 to 2/6; geese, 3/ to 4/6; turkeys, 4/| to 8/6; young pigs, 5/. to 7/3. ■ J Alex. Aitken. Limited. Report.—Southern table potatoes, £3 to £3 5/; Derwenti seed, £3 5/ to £3 10/; kidney seed, £2 15/?: to £3; Jtumaras, 7/ to 8/; horse carrots, ?5/., to 30/; pumpkins, 5/ to 6/; local onlorip, B/', to 6/; Southern, £4; maize, 2/6; oats.ZAr chaff, good, 65/ to 70/; fresh eggß;; 9d to*: %d; farmers' butter, prime, lOd to 1/; fac^i tory rolls. Hid; keg, CJd to 7d; pams, ■ Drake's, 7d; farmers', Bid; factory bacon, ■ 5Jd to fid; farmers', 4Jd to Bd; factpr/J cheese, s§d to 6Jd; farmers', 5Jd; hares, 2/-.'■;. each; rabbits, 1/6 per pair. Fruit—Dessert ; apples. 8/ to 10/; lemons, 6/ to 7/;' Poor; Man's oranges, 8/ to 10/; Island, ,5/, to 7/:,, i Cape gooseberries, 4jjd to sd; bananas, M per bunch; 13d 1b; walnuts. 6d/ Poultry-r-; Rood demand. Tablf> roosters, 1/6 to 2/2; fat hens, 1/4 tn 1/8: others, lid tpVl/1; ' ducks, 1/6 to 1/JH: turkey gobbJers, 4/B aS 8/6; hens, 2/6 to 3/6: geese, 3/ to 3/3. Pigs, good demand, small, 5/8 to 6/6: medium, well-bred, 8/ to 10/; dressed pork, Sid, ■■!;■ Messrs Donald and- Kdenhorough's rfl*S port.—Table potatoes. £3. £3 5/: kidney*,' i 63 10/, £4: new potatoes, ?d; onjons.'r Southern, 3/6, 4/9: local,'s/6. 6/; pumpkiriW 4/6, 6/; kumaras. 11. 8/:. bacon,. Bd, W; hams, 6|d. 7d; honey. 3Jd; cheese. $d; eggs, 9d, Old: butter. Taranakl rot's, Vj bijlk, 10d: kee-. Sd, 9d; pastry, 7d. Frull: Apples. 8/3. in/; mandarins, 3/1,0, p/9: Jsraf. ons, 7/6, 9/; Poorroan'p orangep, 8/9, 11/jl guayas. 2rl: Cape gooseberries, 41d:' pinn?. 5/ij. Ponltry: Table .roosters, J/S, ?/!p si-nall, j/3, J/fi:' hens) 1/2 v 1/fi: ducks. I', 2/3; turkey pobbVers. 3/, 6/; hens, 2/,iW hares, 2/; rabbits, Bd. . . '