COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 46, 23 February 1901, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

ALCTIONEKIiS' K-KPOKTS.

Messrs K. Arthur and Co. report a busy wee!* wita sales at tue following rates:— ruble potatoes, £J to £:i 10/; a few special lots, £3 10/; onions. 5/iS to fi/'J cwt; pieklers, Id lb; game, J Ail lo 2d lbj pumpKins, ;(/ to 4/ ewe; frc-sn ditii-y butter, wl lo Hd tb; keg do., till to 7u; egg», 10* dto 1/ doss; cheese, ajd to 4*d; bulk honey, 21d ib; .section do., a/0 do/; bacon, tJd to (>id; hams, 7id to Sd; lurtl, 4id to od. Fruit: IMsaurt apples, 2/U to 4/ case lor choice samples, 1/ to 1/6 others; cooking apples, 1/U to 2/0; 15on Chretien pears, 5/ to 8/; cookers, 3/0 to 0 ; plum*. 2. to 4/if; dessert poaches, 6/ to 7/; cooking do., 2/0 to 4/; damsons, 2/ to 2/C; tomatoes, 1/3 to 2/; Cape gooseberries, 4d lo Oil; lemons, 0/ to 7/0; passion fruit, 1/0 to 2/0; hothouse grapes, 04d to 7}d lb; outdoor, 3d to 3Jd. Poultry: Table roosters, 1/U to 2/0; ordinary fowls, 1/ to 1/0; ducks, 1/ to 1/8; geese, 2/ to 2/0.

Messrs Arthur and Oorrie's report:—Hobart potatoes, £3 10/, £4 o/; Magnums, £:i 5/, £4; onions. iCi, £7: pumpkins, £4, £4 10/; bacon, 4(1, Dti; hams, o)d, 7d; cheese 3d, 4il; old, U4d, ad; eggs, lOd, 1/; fresh butter, 7Jcl, B*d; dessert apples, 2/0, 4/; boxes, 1/3, 2/0; cooking apples, 2/, 3/6; boxes, 1/, 1/6; grapes, 7d, 9d; peaches, 4/, 0/6; plums, 3/6, 5/; B.C. pears, boxes 3/6, 4/0, others 1/0 to 3/; (juinees, 1/9, 2/6 box; tomatoes, Od, 1/6; damsons, 1/0, 1/9; table fowls, 1/C, 2/1; heiw, 1/2, 1/4; ducks, 1/7, 11/; rabbits, 1/8 pair.

Hall and Perkins report: Apples, 2/9 to C/ 4; others, 6d to 5/; cheese, dairy, 4d to •lid: chaff, £2 10/ to £3; eggsT 10d to 1/; honey, o/C to 4/, sections; kumaras, \A to Id lb; lemons, 4/ to 7/0 case; onions, prime. £6 to £6 5/; seconds, £4 10/ to £C; peas, 6a to 1/ peck; potatoes at £3 10/ to £4. Poultry: Roosters, 1/ to 2/8; ducks, 1/ to 2/; hens, 1/ to 1/9; bulk, 1/4; turkeys, 6/ to 11/; geese, 2/ to 2/6; canaries, 2/G to 8/. Pigs: Suckers, 6/9 to 10/; weaners, 10/, 15/, up 30/. Tomatoes, 1/9 to 3/.

Jas. Cahill and Co. report good sales Tuesday and Friday. All lines sold at satisfactory prices. Prime Derwents, £3 10'; medium sorts, £2 15/ to £3; Magnum Bonum, prime, £3 10/; onions, £5 15/ to £6; pieklers, II; green peas, Cd and V per peck; French beans, good, 5d to 7d per peck; old, 1/6 to 2/3 per bag; kumaras. 674 per cwt; eggs, 1/ to 1/1 per dozen; farmers' butter, 7£d to 9d; factory, lOJd: cheese, factory, large 4*d, loaf ad. farmers', 4d to 4Jd; bacon, prime, 'lid; hams. Sd; medium bacon. sd; hams, i 5; fruit: plums, 3/ to 4/; peaches, 2/11 to 5/6; pears. 2/ to 5/; tomatoes, 8d to 2/ per case; grapes, 4d to 9d, according to quality; blackberries, Id to 2d; damsons, 1/9 to 2/: apples, prime, large cases cooking 2/G. dessert 3/0, half cases 1/3 to 11, poor and mothed any price. Poultry: Good roosters, 1/9 to II; cockerels, 9d to 1/6; chicks. s<l to lOd; pullets, 1/3 to 1/0; ducks. 1/6: hens, 1/3 to 1/0. Pigs: Suckers, 3/0 to 4/6; weaners, 5/ to 9/6.

Mr J. Jones' Report.—Poultry—Roosters, 1/G to 2/3; hens, 1/3 to 1/8; ducks, 1/5 to 1/11; turkeys, 7/ to 11/4; hens. 3/ to 5/. Pigs, 5/8 to 16/3. Butter, Cd to 8d; kegs, 6Jd to 7d; egg.s. IO<J to 3/; bacon, 5d to (id; hams, 6d to 7d; cheese, 3Jd to 4}d; honey, 3d to 3Jd lb; potatoes, £3 10/ to £3 15/: onions, £6 to £6 10/; kumaras, lid to l?d lb; pumpkins, 5/ cwt; plums, 3/ to 4/6 case; pears, 3/ to 5/ case; poor or inferior, unsaleable; peaches. 3/6 to C/ 9 case, and -id to Sid doz.; tomatoes, 9d to 2/ case; grapes, fid to Sd lb; quinces, 2/ to 5/ case; Capes, 4d to s£d; Lemons, 5/9 to 7/6 case; oats, 2/3 to 2/4; maize. 2/7 to 2/9; wheat, 2/6 to 2/S: bran, £3 17/G to £4 10/; sharps,, £4 10/; chaff, £3 5/ to £3 10/.