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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9011, 26 March 1888, Page 4

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New Zealand Herald Office, Saturday evening. The Customs receipts to-day amounted to £218 13s 4d. The following are the Customs receipts for the week ending March 24, ISSS :- Duties £5332 9 0 fleer dutv 139 5 1 Light Auckland.. .. .3 8 3 ~ Onehunga — 0 15 6 Hokianga .. 0 14 0 Forms and fees (S. and S. Act, IsTT) 2 2 6 Merchant Shipping .. « dl 6 0 Other receipts .. - - OIT 0 £5559 S 1 Messrs. Arthur and Biddle's Weekly Report.—The week has been a busy one in all departments. There have been three sales of fruit and produce; all have been well attended, and good prices obtained. One sale of drapery, Ac. : The attendance was pood, hut few buyers. Four furniture sale*, one at mart, three at private houses : At each there was a fair attendance, and prices satisfactory. The sale at Mr. George Smyths, Hepburnstreet, on Wednesday, was very largely attended, and prices realised were good. Produce : The supply has not been quite so treat as for some time past;' all cleared out at fair prices, except some second-class corned butter and cheese, for which there is but little demand. Fruit : The supply of soft kinds has dropped off considerably, but few pears to to hand. There has been an advance in price all round. Poultry has come to hand in very large numbers. Yesterday was the largest sale since Christmas. Many of these were too young for present use, therefore prices were not high; large, good-condition cockerels sold well. lMgs : A good number entered : prices ruled low. The following are lowest and highest price.-, realised during the week:—Common fowls, is to is 3d ; large, goodconditioned. Is 6.1 to is Id ; chicks, Sd to Is 3d ; light Paahmas. is Tdto is Id ; .lucks, Is Id to Is Td ; geese, 2a t*l to is 10d ; canaries, is 6d to 4s 3d ; pics, 5s 6*l: onions, jj to Jd ; picklers, jd to fd ; cabbage. is to Is i\i per sack : "carrots, is per cwt ; pumpkins, 2s to 3s Id ; uiemelons. is JKI : potatoes. Is lod to is ('•d ; oats, is 2d to is 3d ; fowl wheat. 3s 2d ; chaff, Us 6d ; cheese 3d to 3Jd : lot of inferior, jd to ljd ; bacon, 4Jd to «>jtl ; shoulders, l-;d toad; inferior, lid to 3d; hams, Td toTid; section honey, ljd to 3id; honev in bulk, Ud"to2jd; small tins, 3d to old ; eggs, ; damsons, lid to 3d . apples, jd to 2jd ; moth, id to M : pears. 2id to 4;d ; small inferior, jd to id ; grain'.-, out-door. ljd to 4Jd ; hothouse, s}d to n1 : quinces, id to ljd; plums, 3Jd to 4id; watermelon-. id to Td each : peaches, 4jd to lljd per dozen ; lemons, lod to Is per dozen ; tomatoes. 2d to 2Jd ; bananas, id to ljd. MFjssH.s. Paget ami Rai'.ston report ia satisfactory week business, good sales having taken place, and the demand for all classes of produce having been almost equal to the supply. Fruit of good quality i- scarce, and meets with ready .tile at greatly improved prices, (iarden produce of all classes sold in quantities, but price.- are anything but satisfactory to producers. Poultry came to hand in fair quantities, and prices were fairly satisfactory. Bacon and hams of prime quality were inquired for, but high prices a-ked prevent good sales being made. The following prices were ruling during the week :—Fruit : Peaches, good, 3d per lb ; plums. 3d to ;d : damsons. IJd to i\A; grapes, poor quality 2ld to 3<l ; passion fruit. 2d per dozen ; pears, ljd to to 2d per lb ; apples. |d to lid : quinces, Id ; lemons ■id to \n\ per dozen. Produce: Pumpkins, CI f>s per ton ; carrots, £2 los ; potatoes, ci os to £2 13s 4d per ton ; onions, jd per !h : cabbages, is per sack; celery. Is per doz : cheese. 2d to :;jd per lb ; baron, local. 3d to M ; hams, local, 2id to r»{ ; hams, Canterbury. Til to "id: bacon, Canterbury, tijd to Til; fresh butter. sd* to Til; coined butter, 3d to sd; honey, 2Jd ; corned beef, Jd; oats, is to is 3d per bushel; maize, 3s M; wheat, :>s 6d , bran, £3 15s per ton: sharps, £'• ss; chaff, is tkl to 3» 3d per sack. Poultry - : Fowls, Is 1.1 to Is lOd each ; ducks Is ;'<i to Is ml ; turkevs, i- tit I to 3- M ; chicks, Td to VM : small pigs, 2s 3d and is M. The sale of household furniture and effects at Onehunga, on Monday last, was well attended, and satisfactory prices resulted.

.Mil. ALEXANDER aitken's WEEKLY REPORT.— Business for the past week Las been very brisk. Larue quantities of produce have been quitted at advance prices, and all lines show :t considerable improvement in prices, while the week's sales on the whole have been very satisfactory. Potatoes have improved : the prices rulincat the'eomuienceuient of i the week were £2 ss, and at the latter end as high as £3 was obtained tor really good samples. Onions also show an improvement. Butter, both salt ami fresh, of good quality, has also advanwd in value. Good new cheese is also in active demand at advanced rates. An entire clearance has been effected in all the above lines ; cheese and fresh butter have found buyers as soon as received ; pood fruit has taken a slight rise, inferior sorts still low, large supplies still coming to hand. Poultry shows but little alteration in price; supply large. The follow. ing are the prices obtained, privately and by auction :—Fowls : Inferior, lOd to Is ; good. Is M to , 2s Id ; roosters, Is 3d to -is 2d ; chicks, Sd to Is 3d ; ducks, common. Is 3d to is 2d ; well bred, 3s 3d to 3s ed; dark brahmas, ."s to 3s M ; turkeys, 3s tolls 3d; geese, isOd to 3s lid. Small pi**, is 6d to 5s 3d ; well bred, '• 3d to 'js ; heavy young pigs, 13s to lis 0,1; Hobart potatoes, 12 .'s to c; { ■ kidneys, difficult to sell, £2 to £3 ; onions. Jd to id ; vegetables of all descriptions at a slight advance on previous prices; fresh butter, 7jd to BJd ; salt prime, sirt to 6jd ; inferior, 2d to l{d ; cheese, interior, ljd to 2d; prime, scarce, :.d"to 4Jd ; bacon (arst class), sides, Sd ; hams, 1M to 11 jd ; bacon (second class), sides, tiju to 7*d; hams, Sd to !Md ; shoulders, 4d to ;,,d. Fruit : I.arge clean conking apples, ljd to l|d ; small sorts, Jd to |d ; dessert apples, lid to 2*d ; Hismarcks and Emperor Alexander, lid to 2jd ; dessert pears, ;Udto4d ; cooking, ljd to 2jd; plums, few to hand and condition poor, 2d to 4jd ; damsons, _'i<J to 3d ; lemons, '/>d t<» Is 3d : Cape berries, lid per lb: picked table tomatoes, -.'jd to 3d ; rough sorts, lid to 2jd ; quinces, 3d to Ud ; grapes, 3kl to Sd. Section honey, 3d to 3Jd ; white clover honey, 3d to 3Jd in rough tins ; ditto,' Sid to 4d in -mall tins ; bush honey, in kegs. '.'.Jd to 2jd. About t"00 bunches bananas, ex Wainui, realised from Jd to id per lb. A large quantity of furniture and sundries sold at fair values. CALL AND DIVIDEND LIST. call: £. a. d. Due. Te Awamutu Cheese and Bacon Factory Co 0 1 0 ..April 2 DIVIDENDS : Auckland Agricultural and Mercantile Co . .. .. _ ..March 28 Bank of Australasia .. ..2 8 0.. April In