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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5758, 1 May 1880, Page 4

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Nsw Zealand Herald Office. Friday evening. The Customs receipts to-day were £571 7s 3d. Mr. George Sibbin held his weekly sale this morning, of produce, &c., and the following are the prices realised :—Potatoes, £3 2* 6d to £3 10s per ton ; cheese, 4&d to 6d ; salt butter, 9d ; bonedust, £8; tea, in boxes, £17 6d, and at per lb. from Is Sd to 2<s 2d ; kerosene (star), Is lid ; fancy biscuits, 5d ; maize, 4s per bushel. SYDNEY. The Sydney Morning Herald of the 23rd has the following:—The import markets, without exhibiting any speculative tendency, have a firmer tone, as the result of the advance in wool, which must tend to make money more plentiful, and increase the ability of country residents to buy. The tendency of the breadstuffs market is to lower prices, there being I sellers of best wheat at 4s Bd. Candles had I more inquiry : 1000 boxes of D.R.J. sold in ■ three lots at 7jd. A parcel of EL.B.S. cement I was placed at 18s 6d., Plantation coffee steady at 12$ d for trade lots ; a small line of inferior, from the South Seas, was done at 9£d. Hops have a quiet sale ; Is lOd was paid for a small parcel of very fine Tasmanian, and 2s 6d for a parcel of new English. In groceries, we note the sale of Eagle pickles at a uhade under 8s 3d* Anglo-Swiss milk is in demand, and 7s 9d was paid for a small parcel. Brandies are firm. English advices state that in the month's shipments of brandy to this port there were only 2,300 cases of Hennessy's. Three star of that brand sold to-day at 455. Sales of Danville's whisky were made at 5s 9d for bulk and 6s 9d for cases. Ross 7 bulk sold at 4a ljd. Melbourne -buyers are still operating here in teas, and we note the quittance of 1,000 halfchests of first crop. For a small line of coarse Liverpool salt, delivered, £5 10a was paid. Metals are firm. 600 packages nails changed hands at 21s. The shipment of copra just to hand was placed at close to £14, and pearlshell is selling at £135. Beer has a moderate sale at late rates, the Crown, a new brand of stout lately introduced here, is spoken of as of good quality and well got up. The new maize has begun to come forward in appreciable quantities, and is in high favour; tine, full, and thoroughly dry samples fetching up to 2s 7d. The old maize on hand is for the most part inferior, and does not realise more than 2s 3d for the best sorts forward. Barley and oats are unaltered. Potatoes at £2 10s to £2 15s for Hunter River, and £2 15s to £3 for Warrnambool lots, are without much animation. Onions, at £3 to £3 ss, are much in the same state. Butter is dull of sale at from 9d to Is for the better descriptions. Bacon is improved vastly, owing to the finer quality of that coming to market, and the best is worth from 9d to lOd. Pigs (alive) have shared the improvement in the price of salt pork, and are now worth 3Jrd to 5d per a marked rise on late quotations.

ME. E. ARTHUR'S WEEKLY REPORT. There has been a fair demand for general produce during the week. No improvement in price of potatoes. Cheese has gone off readily if of good quality. The demand for butter does not improve. Monday's sale of household furniture and effects, at Mr. J. Smith's, Queen-street, was well attended, and passed off very satisfactorily. Tuesday's sales of furnitures, &c., at the mart, was well attended, and a fair amount of business done.

Wednesday's sale of Hobart Town fruit, ex Te Anau, from Hobart Town, passed off well. The attendance, was good, and over 600 cases were sold, at the following prices Scarlet pearmains, to 3d ; small ditto, lfd to 2d ; stone pippins, 2dto3Jd; Adamson's pearmains, 2Jd to 2Jd; Pearson's plate, 2Jd; Sturmer pippins, 2§d to 3d; French crabs, ,2fd to 3Jd.; Grows' Eggs, 2d to 2Jd; Golden Barvpys, 2d to 2'? d; New York pippins, 2£d to 3d; Wellington pippins, 2Jd to 2jd ; gooseberry ditto, 2d to 3£d ; ribstones, 2jd to 3£; Blenheim orange, 3Jd; blue pearmains, 2d; golden pippins, 2d; winter pearmains, 2Jd ; Lady of Snow, 2Ad; Brown McKenna pears, 4fd ; Brown Park pears, 4Jd ; swan egg pears, 2|d; St. Lawrence, 2d; Bell, 3Jd; Gibbon's Keepers, 2Jd; Bishop's Thumbs, 2Jd. On the same day a clearing-out sale of groceries was held, when tha following prices were realised :— Milk, 8s Cd; capers, 8s; salad oil (am.), Cs; pickles (old), 5s 6d ; Bath bricks, Is 5d ; curry (sm.), lis ; mustard, 9d to 9Jd ; coffee, lOd to is lid; sauce (L. and P.),, 15 5; castor oil, (is 6d; Neave's food, 10s; salt, Cs; twine, Is 3d; sardines, halves, 9s ; sardines, quarters, 5s ; orange peel, lid; lollies, 9d; white sugar, 4gd; brown, 4d; barley, 2d to 2Ad ; hops, Is ; rice, 2Jd ; white pepper, Is ; tea, Is 5d to Is lOd ; paper bags, 4d; blue, 4d to 6 Jd ; paper, 2&d to 7d ; sago, 4Ad ; arrowroot, 4d to 6Jd ; candles, 10Jd; cocoa (Epps), Is 3d ;'.cocoa (Taylor's), Is 4d; chocolate, Is 2d; jam, 6s 6d; marmalade, 8s 3d : box, tea, 20s; .caddies, lis 6d ; knife-powder, 5s 6d; lobsters, 9d; salmon, 9d; essences, 7s. Thursday's a Ue, at Dr. Stockwell's, of his household furniture, plated and glassware, &c„ was thronged with buyers throughout. The Th« not end until after 5 o'clock. The bidding was brisk, and most of the _ articles realised satisfactory prices : Dining-room suite (hair), £30; walnut drawingroom suite, £27 10s; walnut table, £5 10T' chandelier, £3 17s 6d ; vases, 19s te £2 2s per ?? lr J £5 10s ; fender and irons, £1 lis to £1143; wool work, £4 5s ; ottoman, £4 10s ; card table, £3 5s ; Oanterburys, £3 to £3 5s ; mirrors, £7 to £11; wardrobe, £10; chest drawers, £2 10s to £6 10a; secrotary, £7 ; toilet glasses, 15s to £2 ss; toilet table, £2 5s ; chevol glass, £5; marble timepiece, £515s ; piano £24 ■ dining table, ST 2s 6d; side board, £6' 15s* dinner service, £10; dessert, £118s to £3 3s • tea and coffee service (plated), £6 10s ; dessert knives and case, £4 10s; cruet stand, £2 3a ; kettle and stand, £312s 6d; biscuit box, £2. ; Friday's sale was well attended, and a fair amount of business was done. There was a good supply. Fowls sold at Is Id to 2s 4d; chicks, 9d to'ls 3d ; ducks, 2s 2d to 2s 8d; turkeys, 2s 6d to 3s Id; geese, 2s 9d; small pigs, 5s to 15s 6d; potatoes, 2s to 3s 6d per cwfc.; marrows, Is I 9d to 2s 6d per cwt., pumpkins, 4s 6d to Ds 6d

per owt.; carrots, 3s 3d per cwt.; onions! toj Id per lb.; apples, lgd; to 3|d; peara, 2d;', medlars, 2£d ~to 2Jd;. lemons, Is' 9d';. cheese, 3d to 7d; rye grass seed, 3s 9d; maize, 3s 9d,'; - bats,'- 2a 6d; bran, Is; Bharps, 5s Cd ; bacon, 4d to BJd ; chaff, 2s 6d; oatmeal, l£d to l£d ; flour, £8 to £14 ; butter, 4d to 9d ; sugar, 4d to 4£d ; tea (box), 22a to 265; rice, 28s; jam, 6s to 6s 6d; beef, 2d;white lead, 4Jd; paint, 6£d ; barley dust, 63 6d per sack; coffee, Is 3d ; blue, 4d to 6d \ mustard, 9d.