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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 31, 5 February 1910, Page 2

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aiAEEET QUOTATIONS. The Trholesale quotations for tmttei and eggs for the week ending February 2-th are as follows:—Butter (factory), Jlid. per Ib.; eggs, l/l per dozen. .' FK.CIT AXD PRODUCE MABKETS. A large amount of business was jjone at the local fruit and produce markets during tie past week. Potatoes of good quality were scarce, while fair quantities Df good grade were to hand. Onions found better sale at lower prices. Vegetables fold well throughout, and there was no to report In. butter or eirKS, Poultry was in fair supply, to a good demand. The 4ruit market has almost been glutted, and arieea generally are disappointing. Operations on the paft of the factories have been en the light side. A heavy shipment of banajias from Fiji was far beyond the requirements of the market and was qulLted at a Deary loss to the shippers. Following were the ruling prices at the auction sales yestenlay:— Fruit.—Pears: Bon Chretien, C/ to 7/ per case; othtrs. dessert, 3/ to 5/; cooking, 3/ to 4.'. Plums: English, varieties, 2/ to 3/9; Burbank, S)d to 2/6; Ogon, 9d to 1/6. Peaches: Coloured, U/O to 5/8; others 2/ to 5,6. Grapes, hothouse. 4d to M per Ib. Tomatoes, outdoor, 9d to 2/ per box. Lemons: Local, prime, 5/ to 7/ per case; local, roueii and coarse, 3/; Sydney, 7/tt; 3less;na, 10/. Cape gooseberries, 4id per Ib; passion fruit, 2/<S to iS/ti per box." Melons: Watio-, 10/ to 2tV per dozen; rock, 4/ to S/. Pines. 6/ to 8/ per crate. Poultry.—Hens, 1/2 to 1/10 each; table roosters, heavy. 3ti to 4,6; ditto, light. 1/9 to 2/9; cockerels, 9d to 1/4; ducks, 1/6 to 2/6 each; geese, 3/ to 4/6: chicks Od to 1/. Produce.—Potatoes: Prime, £7 10/ to £8 ton; niedlani, 5.6 to 6/6 per cvrt: poor, 4/ to 46. Onions. £4 10/ to £5 10/ ton. PROPERTY SALE 3. Mr. Geo. Abbott held an auction sale of suburban houses and land at the Chamber of Commerce yesterday afternoon, whPn a number of desirable properties were offered. The bidding was not brisk, and on} v 'two lots were Eold* ;i touss of T rooms at Mt Eden realising £775. and a section at the corner of Edendale and Kingsland-roads fetching £3 12/6 per foot. An S-roomed house at Abbott's-road brought fclds up to £1675, at which price it was .irlttidrawn. LONDON JIAEKETS. fßj- Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, February 4. Bank of Ensland returns are as follows : •—Gold coin. £35,676,000 ; reserve. £26,956,----000 ; proportion of reserve to liabilities, r>o to 46: circulation, £25,154.000;.- public deposits. £10.211,000: other deposits, £43,104.000 ;• Government securities, £14,----011.000; otter securities, £30.459,000; three months' bills, 2 9-16 ; short loans, 2} ; bank rate. 35Consols are quoted at St 7-S ; New South Wales foilrs 107J, three and halls 9S, threes S!)i. The rest are unchanged. The wheat market is dull, with an easier tendency. Resellers of Australian cargoes are willing to accept a reduction, and there Is little inquiry. 40/8 i 3 asked for South Australian and Victorian, 40/3 for February flour, flat Australian patents nominally 31/ to 31/6. Oats are steady. La Plata January-February being quoted at 15/IJ. Is a irood demand for choicest Australian et lIS/ to 120/, and occasionally 124/; secondary Australian, 114/ to 116/; Danish, 125/ to 127/. Cheese is firm. New Zealand SS/ to 59/ ; Canadian. 60/ to 62/. A direct shipment of South Australian lambs to AvoTimouth found a good market Bt 3i to 3J. Copper on spot, £59 11/3 •at three months, £60 8/9; electrolytic, £62 5/. Tin. on spot. £147 2/6; at three months, £148 15. Lead. £13 7/5. Iron, 51/5. Sugar: German, 21/1; first marks, 15/2. Eradford wool market is cheerful, the price 3 for all sorts being fully toalntalnpd with a slight hardening tendency In crosste«4s. ____________„