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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7657, 7 June 1886, Page 4

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» New Zealand Hebald Office. Saturday afternoon. The duties collected at the Customs for the the ending June 5 wore as follows Duties _ £6,771 1 10 Beer duty .. 190 8 2 Light dues 60 19 6 Forms and fees ... ... ... 9 16 6 Port charces (Onehunga) .. 4 9 0 Gold duty 164 14 1 Other rocclpts .. ... .. 0 13 6 £7.202 2 7 Mr. R. Arthur's Wehkly Report.—Last week, owin? to press of lm>ice;s, a report could not be prepared ; it was a busy one in all department, and prices ware about the same as the farmer week. This week a great advance h»s taken place in the price o JX! ow ' n K to the local supply being nearly done and but little to hand from Hobart. Potatoes of good quality are wanted, Carrots, mangolds, and pumpkins hare sold at low prices. Bacon of first-class sample is wanted, a large quantity of second-class and interior could not be cleared off. Butter : No good to baud, demand limited, Inferior not wanted. Cheese Hut little to hand, good sample is wanted. Poultry do not improve much in prices. Pigs this week difficult to get a bid for. The auction sales outside and at the mart have bean well attended, and fairly good competition. Monday : Sale of household furniture and cffecta at Mrs. Powell's, Belgrave House, Symouds-street. Tho attendance was very large throughout, and good prices were obtained. Clear-ing-out 3ale of groceries, provisions, Ac., at the Cooperative Store, Hobion-street, was alio well attended, and prices realised were very satisfactory. Tuesday : Sale ot household furniture, &c., at mart. The

attendance was large, bidding brisk. A large quantity of stuff changed hands at prices satisfactory to tlio vendor. Sale at Co-operative Storo was continued with tlic same result a3 Monday. All was cleared out. Wednesday : Sale of fruit- provisions, Ac., at mart. A fair number were present. Prices ruled fairly (rood. Trees and shrubs could not be sold. The sale of jewellery, 4c., was well attended, a /air business was done at prices in favour of tho purchaser. 125 tramway shares sold at 7s S3 each. Tho furniture sale was largely attended, fair prices wero obtained. Thursday: Sale of furniture, &c, at Concert Hall, Greystreet. A small attendance, prices ruled low. Friday: Market-day sale of poultry, produce, fruit, Ac. Attendance large ; supplies not so large as usual. Only good samples of produce would command a price. Fruit brought a very high price. Poultry were entered in good number, prices ruled low. Pigs: But few entered, these were sold with great difficulty at extremely low prices. Fowls Is 2d to 2s Sd, turkeys 2* lOd to 4s, ducks 2s 5d to 2s 9d. pigeons Sd to Is, plus 2s to 3s. 1 largo pig 10s, potatoes 2s 2d to 4s 3d, mangolds Is 4<l. carrots 2s, pumpkins 2s to 2s Bd, onions Jrt, oats 2* Sd, flotir 10s, cheose sd, bacon Id to 7Jd, biscuits 3d to 5(1, lollies 4£d, confectionery 6Jd, candles 4£d to sd, tea (halfrha?tl Is 2d to la 4d per lb, Indian tea 2s 6d, box tea 225, lomon peel 9d, cigars 9s 6d box. Hobart apples 10.1 to 13s «d case, Auckland apples 2Jd to Sd, pears 3d to medlars lemons 10£ d to Is 2d, coneo Is 2d, butter Id to (id. ■ CALL AND DIVIDEND LIST. Oir.T.s. & *. d. Date. Southern Cross Petroleum Co. 0 0 3 — Juno 9 N.Z. Sugar Co. .. .. .. 5 0 0 — June 18 North N.Z. Farmers' Co-opera-tive Association ~ ..010 — .Tune 23 Diamond G.M. Co. .. ...001 — July i 4 Dubbo G.M. Co 0 0 1 — July 14