COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7644, 22 May 1886, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

I New Zealand Herald Office. The Customs duties to-day were £751 us Sd. Mr. R. J. Carbines reports the following business at his yesterday's sale. —A fair attendance of bidders and prices very satisfactory throughout :—Poultry: ducks, Is 4d to 2s each ; fowls, Is 4d to Is lOd ; chicks, lOd to Is 3d ; pigeons, (id to 7d ; small pigs, 3s to 7s ; medium-sized ditto. Ss to 13s; Brahma fowls, 4s lOd ; turkeys, ss; geese, 4s 2d; Houdan fowls, 2s yd ; buff Cochins, 2s 2d. Produce : Apples (hobart), 5s per case; ditto (local), Id to 2|d per lb ; salt butter, Gd to 7d ; hams, to O^d; bacon (inferior), 2d to ojd ; cheese, 2d to 4iii ; salt beefed to Id ; wheat, 3s 9d per bushel; bran, £6 per ton ; sharps, £7 ; maize, 3s 9J per bushel; oats, 2s 8.1, 2s 9d ; potatoes, £2 10s to £5 per ton ; onions, id to Id ; chaff, 2s 6d and 3s per sack ; honey, 4d per lb ; lard, 2d ; pumpkins, £3 1 0a per ton ; piemelons, 30*. A tew lines of flowering shrubs, ornamental and shelter trees, etc., wore cleared at fair rates. Messrs. G. W. Binney and Sons report that they held an extra sale of hides, &s., to-day. over 300 being sold, and the competition keen for every lot offered Extra heavy ox realised up to 4id, heavy 4d to 4^-1 ; cow hides from 3.Jd to 2£d ;. medium weights 3d to 3sd ; calfskins 4Jd to 5d per lb ; country skins, la 2d to Is 4d each ; wool (small lots), 5d to tid per lb. Mr. George Sibbin reports of his sale of hams, bacon, cheese, etc., on Thursday as follows Canterbury bare bacon (»hoalders), very fanlty, Ijd per lb; Canterbury in cloth (seconds), 5d ; Canterbury hams (guaranteed), lOd ; local tobacco, 3d to 4d ; cheese, 3d to 4id ; apples, ljd to li ! d ; potatoes, £4 os per ton. The last of the series of unreserved jewellery sales takes places at Mr. R. Arthur's auction mart to-day, at 11 o'clock, when £1000 worth of goods will be put up and knocked down to the highest bidder. This is positively the last sale of the aeries, and the goods must be cleared, so that those in search of presents or disposed to buy for personal adornment could not have a more favourable opportunity of suitng themselves at their own prices. STOCK AND MINING ASSOCIATION, Auckland, May 21,1856.

A. Sounciors, C. Aleiaiidor, S. Vickers, J. K. Clarte. R. Frater, John Mowbray, J. 1). Morpeth, J. M. Lennox, D. li. McDonald, I). G. MacDonnoll, Aitken Carrick. R. Spratt, Francis Hull, James Reid, R. G. Macky. Joseph Newman. Chairman.

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CHRISTCHURCH. May 21.—Retail prices : Fresh butter, Is 3d to la 4d ; eggs, 2s ; cheese, 7d to lOd ; milk, 4d ; beef, 3d to 8d ; mutton, 2d to 5d ; pork, 3d to 7d; bam, Is; bacon, 10J. Wholesale produco prices : Barley, 2s 2d to 3b 3d ; butter, Is : cheese, 4Jd to Cd; flour, £8 10s ; ham and bacon, in cloth, 8d ; oats, 2s to 2i 2d ; onions, £5 103 to £6; wheat, medium to good, 3s 3d to 3s (id; bran, sacks included, £5 5s per ton ; pollard. £5 10s. Live stock prices : Fat bullocks, £5 10s to £8 153 ; heifers, £4 to £6 10» ; store cattle, £1 to £5 ; milch cow», £3 to £9 ; light harness horses, unbrokon, £3 to £.'{ 18s; draught horses, unbroken, £7 to £20 ; sound, useful hacks, £10 to £24 ; carriage horses, £20 to £40; light harness horses, £8 to £20; draught horses, £14 to £35; good merino wethors, 43 to 9.j 6d ; good crossbred wethers 9s to 13s 6d; medium ditto, Gs to 7s; fat crossbred ewes, 5s to 7s; beef, 17a to 20a per lOOlbs; mutton, to ]Jd per lb.

piny. Entlneu. Closing Prices. Banks— Uuyeri. i .Sullors, New Zealand .. — — 'JO 0 0 National .. _ — 1 IS 0, — Insurance— New Zealand „ — — ! 3 10 0 South British .. — 1 12 6 1 15 0 National .. .. — — 0 14 0 Union .. .. — — 110 . Colonial .. .. — — 0 fa 0 Miscellanbou«— Auckland Gas (new) — — 5 12 6 Thames Gas.. .. — — 1 14 6 Union Sash and Door — — 110 0 N.Z. Land Mortgage — — 110 Mining— (cum) Taupiri Coa! .. — 10 0 — Cambria .. .. 9/6 0 'J 0 0 10 II New JUnukau .. — 0 0 11 ; 0 1 1 lloanataiari lixt. .. — — I 0 1 0 Atloline .. _ — I — [ 0 2 0 Silverton .. .. 3/7 10 3 6 0 4 0