COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 161, 9 July 1910, Page 8

COMMERCIAL.

FROTX. AND PRODUCE MARKETS. Business during the past week has been fairly good at the local fruit, poultry, and produce markets, although the bad weatner retarded supplies of poultry and detrimentally affected the retail fruit business. Fruit all round was in supply equal to demand, -with the exception of bananas, the high cost of which seriously affected ■the outlet. Lemons were again dull, while other lines-sold -well. There was practically no change worth special note in any other lines. Following were the ruling prices at the auction sales yesterday:— Field Prodnce. —Potatoes: Prime Southern, £7 10/ ton; medium, £5 to £6; seed potatoes, good, £7 10/ to £9 ton; medium, £3 to £4, only best saleable. Onions: Local, 4/ to 6/, nominal; imported, 4/ to 6/. ■Dairy Produce.—Butter: Farmers, in prints, lljd to 1/ lb; prime farmers', bulk, 9dto lOdf prime milled, in bulk for export, Hid; factory, 1/OJ. Fresh eggs, I/a to 1/2J dozen. Fruit—Apples: coloured extra superior. 10/ to 11/ case; good, 9/ to 9/6, others, 5/6 to 8/; 2/ to 4/ box. Pears: Dessert, 14/ to 16/ case; cooking,. 6/ to 7/. Tree tomatoes, 4/ to 5/6 box. Oranges: - Local, dessert. 3/6 to 5/ case; Poor Man, 3/6 to 5/; Islandf 7/6; Sydney, 3/ to 5/6. Mandarins: Sydney, 6/6 to 12/9 case. Lemons: Local, prime, 5/ to 6/6 ease; local rough and coarse, 2/ to 3/; Sydney/?/ to 8/. Passion fruit, 4/ to 6/6 box. Peanuts. Id to 2Jd lb. Bananas: Repacked, 2£d. Pines, 8/ tO Poultry.—Hens', 1/8 to 2/9 each. Table roosters, 1/9 to 3/9 each, according to weight and condition. Ducks, 3/ to 3/ each. Geese, 2/6 to 5/ each. Turkey gobblers, 4/ to 9/6 each. Turkey hens. 3/ to 5/9 each.

LONDON.

By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright. LONDON, July 8. Consols: 821. Colonial Stocks: Queensland three-halfs, 98 ; New Zealand three-halfs, 97i: Westralia three-halfs, 97£; Tasmanian threes, 86. Other stocks unchanged. Wheat: The markets are firm and shipments small, but buyers are indisposed to take distant cargoes owing to nearness of the haryest. The American visible supply is 3,101,000 bushels. Two Australian cargoes sold at 33/9, and a third at j 33/7 J. For March-April shipment, sellers want 34/: for parcels afloat, I 33/. Quiet trade is doing in Australian spot at about' 37/. Flour: Firmer; at 26/6 in lx>ndon, with the same bid for June and July shipment landed in Glasgow. Oats: Firm; La Plata Jnly-August shipment, 13/. Wool: The Antwerp sales closed with more business doing, prices irregular and the tendency unchanged. 0484 bales oi La Plata offered, and 1637 sold. Bank of England Returns: Gold coin, £40,327,000; reserve, £31,082,000; proportion of reserve to liabilities, 46.4 ; circulation, £28.850,000; public deposits, £21,515,000; other deposits, £45,453,000; Government securities, £17,070,000; othei securities, £35,934,000. Money Market: Bans rate, three per cent; short loans, lg per cent; three months' Mils, 2J; Paris 2; Berlin, 21. Butter: Quiet; Australian and neglected unchanged; fair demand for Siberian at 98/ to 100/. Cheese: New Zealand white, 56/6 to 57/; coloured, 54/. Copper: Spot, £54 6/3; three months, £55. Tin: Spot, £149 12/6. Lead: £12 11/3; Spelter, £22 2/6. Iron: 49/4. Sugar: German, 14/11; first marks, 16/10. . , Wool: The Bradford wool market Is quiet and unchanged, awaiting the operations of the London sales. Kauri Gum : At the sales 469 cases wen offered, and 239 sold at full prices. Dark brown three-quarter scraped, 92/6 to 93/; stock, 320 cases. Messrs. Dalgety ana Co., Ltd., have received the following table from their London office under date 7th Inst. :—Butter: Market steady but quiet. Total imports into the United Kingdom for the week end ing Saturday last, 79,000 cwts, as com pared with 92,000 cwts for the correspond ing period of last year. Copenhagen official quotation unchanged. We quote: New Zealand butter, salted, 108/ tw.t; Danish butter, 115/.cwt; finest. -Australian salted, 107/ cwt; finest Australian unsaltcd, 107/ cwt; exceptionally, 106/ cwt. Cheese: Market dull. White, 56/0; col oured, 54/. Wool Sales: Competition fairly anhnate< at Antwerp sales. As compared with las" London sales' last series closing rates, fine crossbreds are 25 to t> per cent lower, am merinos generally 2i to 5 per cent lower. A good deal was withdrawn. So far hardly any coarse crossbred wools have beet offered.

PROPERTY SALES.

A successful sale was held at Messrs. Paul Hansen and Co.'s land auction rooms yesterday, when Mr. Louis Lewis, auctioneer, submitted a number of properties at Onehunga, in the estate of the late Peter McKenzle. The following sales were effected:—Three acres, with seven-roomed residence, at Mangere, £950; f<hir-roomed cottage in Queen-street, Onehunga, £265; four-roomed cottage in Queen-street, Onehunga, £280; six-roomed cottage in Queenstreet, Onehunga, £445; 66ft section ir Queen-street, Onehunga, £2 15/ per foot For the balance of the lots private sales are now pending. The attendance was verj large, "and bidding brisk. The farm ai Matakana, submitted at last auction, was sold the same afternoon for £354.