COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. AUCKLAND MARKETS (RETAIL). Thursday, September 19, 1861.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XVII, Issue 1437, 20 September 1861, Page 3

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. AUCKLAND MARKETS (RETAIL). Thursday, September 19, 1861.

Fahv and Dairy Produci.— Milk, per quart, 5d. ; butter (fresh), per Hi., 25. ; cheese (colonial), per lb., It. 3d. : eggi, psrdoyen, li. 6d.; lard, per lb., Ib.; fowls, per pair, 55.; ducks, per pair, 65.; gee«e, each, ss. to 6i.; turkeys, each, ss. to 75.; bacon, per Us., »d. to 1». ; hams, per ib., Is. to li. 3d.; potttoes, per owt., s>. to 65. ; omoni, per lb., id. ; hay, per ton, £7 ; straw, £5. Butchem' Meat.— Beef, per lb., 7d. to Bd.: mutton, 7d. to Bd.; pork, 7d. to 9d. Biscuits (cabin), 32?. per cwt. Bar ad, per 2-lb. loaf, sd. Thb Mills.— Wholesale— Fine flour, per ton, £19 : leconds, £15 to £17; sharps, £9 to £12 ; bran, per bushel, li. 6d. maize, 6i.; -wheat, 75. ; oats, ss. Retail— fine flour, per 100 Ibi., 215.; seconds, 17i. to 195.; sharps, Hi. to Us.; br»n, per buihel, 1«. 9d.; mal/e, 6i. to 75.; oats, ss, 6d. Building Matibiali.— Boards and icantling, per 100 feet, 155.; boardi, tongued and grooved, 205. ; shingles, per 1000, 14i. to 165.; palings, per 100, 135.; poiti and rails, per 100, £3 to £3 55.; bricks, per 1000, £2 17s. 6d. to £3; ifine, Her bushel, U. 6d. to li. Bd. Boardrand icanthng, at Onehunga, per 100 feet, 13s. to 14».

Messr*. Chieseman, Hunter, and Co., have to report that there was a larger attendance of buyers than usual at their Newmarket sale of live stock on Tuesday last, with a considerable number of cattle driven in, which went to the hammer at full prices, unless an exception may be taken to dairy cows, for which little competition offered. Store cattle were knocked down at satisfactory rates, cows and steers selling at £7 and £11 ss. respectively. A lot of yearlings went off at £3 ss. each. Working bullocks'at £22 158. per pair. Heifers, sixteen monthi old, at from £4 17s. 6d. to £5 15. Beef maintained last week's quotations. Cows were run up ft> £13 7s. 6d., and bullocks £16 10s. The Wangarei cattle were quitted at from £10 2s. 6d. to £15 17s. 6d. The market was exceedingly bare of fat sheep; those sold averaged 335. Lambs- (this season) were bought up at 11s. and 13s. 9d. each. Store sheep sold well : a lot from the coast averaged 275. ; two other lots of ewes and lambs, 235. 3d. At their weekly horse sale last Saturday there was a fair supply of horses, and those of good quality found ready sale. Bay My fetched £45 ; three-year old colt, £43. Riding horses went from £15 to £20. Messrs. Cochrane and Co. report, at their sale of cattle held last Tuesday at Smithfield, Mount St. Jchn, store cows sold for £8 to £9 10s. each ; dairy cows, at the calving, £10 ss. to £11 10 i. each ; heifers, in calf, £9 7s. 6d. each; and a pen of small pigs, 11s. 6d. each.

SUMMARY EjECTMENOWniE " CROWBAR BRIGADE" in Auokl/AND.— An amuiing scene took place in Lower Durham-street, on Wednesday evening last, which attracted a Urge crowd of spectators. The landlord of a tenement in that street, failing to enforce the payment of rent from his tenant, William Doran, 1 took advantage of that worthy individual's incarceration the same day for an assault on his wife) to dispossess Mrs. Mary Doran from the house. But the female thought on the Irish maxim—" possession is the nine points of law,"— and stoutly refused to leave. The enraged and cheated landlord then had recourse to that summary process of ejectment, which is familiar in the Emeral Isle, under the jtyle of " crowbar evictions"; and set about removing the roof of the house. StiU the Celtic mother stuck by the walla, which in Jheirjrtirn.fell, board by board, and it was not until she was deprived altogether of shelter that she yielded tip the contest.