COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9142, 25 August 1888, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

Messrs. Arthur and Buddle's Weekly Report.Good business has been done throughout the week. Seven sales have been held, with good audiences and fairly brisk competition. Monday : Sale of drapery at the mart. A lot of lines were quitted at satisfactory prices. Tuesday : Sale of household furniture at Mr. Urauhart's, North Shore. Very large attendance ana good bidding, the furniture being new and in first-rate order, was keenly competed for, and satisfactory prices ruled. At the Mart, a collection of fruit ana other trees from Mr. Costello's nursery, Epsom, were sold at good values. Wednesday : Sale of furniture at the Mart was well-attended, but bidding was languid and prices low. Thursday: Furniture sale at Brown-street, 1 Ponsonby ; brisk bidding for all lots, and fairly good prices, piano realised £22 10s, horsehair suite £7 7s 6d. Unredeemed pledges at the Mart attracted a large attendance, competition not so brisk as usual. Friday: Market sale of produce, poultry, fruit, etc. Potatoes were entered in considerable quantities, and notwithstanding heavy arrivals from ' the South during the week, prices remain firm. Very little local cheese entered, but a fair supply of Southern ; there is plenty of demand for prime quality. Good butter is still very scarce, and commands. a high price. Bacon and hams of' good quality move off freely. Honey is in demand. A much larger quantity could" have been sold. Poultry were entered in larger number, and realised well Not many pigs : the competition for those entered was very brisk, leaving an unsatisfied demand. The following prices were realised Fowls, in condition, is 6d to Is lOd; poor, lOd to Is 2d ; game, 3s; light Brahmas, 3s 5d ; turkeys, heavy, 3s 7d to 4s ; small, 2s 3d to 2s lid ; ducks, 2s 2d ; Pekins, 2s 6d to 4s ad ; pigs, small, 8s to lis; heavy, 15s to 18s 6d; dead rabbits, 3sd to 4d ; canaries, 2s lid to 7s 6d ; carrots, Is 6d per cwt and id per doz ; cabbage, Cd to 2s" 7d; turnips, 3d to Is per sack, 2jd to 4Ja per doz ; cauliflowers, 2s per sack ; potatoes.local, 4s to 4s 6d : local seed, lis.; kidney seed, 3s 9d to ss; Port. Fairy seed, 3s 6d (all sacks extra); Oamaru, 4s 3d (sacks in); new potatoes, Jd ; onions, jd to fd ; maize, 2s lOd; wheat, 3s ; chick wheat, Is 9d ; oats, 2a to 2s 3d ; sharps, 3s 6d ; bran, 3s 6d ; flour, ££ 10s to £8 ; barley, 3s; cheese, 4d to s}d ; bacon. Manga 6W : hams, Mangapai, 7W to 7Jd; bacon, other cures, id to Sid ; hams, 4id to 7Ad ; Canterbury, bare, 4d to 4J<i; shoulders, 3Jd ; roll bacon, 3d to 4d ; lard, 3|d to 4d: honey, 3d to 3id; biscuits, 4d to 4Jd; confectionery, 6,<1; tea, i-chests, is 4d; boxes, 14s to 22s ; soap, 5s ; local apples, 3d to 5Jd ; 1 lemons, 6d to IOJd ; citron lemons, Id ; walnuts, I 7£d; oranges, ss" 6d to 7s 7d ; Cape gooseberries, Bid ; cornea butter, 5d to 9d. >■

Mr. Alexander Aitken's market report for the week ending 25th Augustßusiness has been fairly brisk, receipts of farm produce have not been heavy, consequently stocks on hand were, in most cases, cleared out. Bacon and hams are in better demand: prices a shade better. Butter has declined in value, not in consequence of increased supply, but owing to retailers - having found difficulty in selling to a profit on late prices. Eggs show a further fall, but no further decline is expected, as an outside market has been found temporarily, for surplus receipts were very large. Poultry was entered in unusually large numbers; every pen was filled to excess, and all sold at very satisfactory prices. Pigs were also in large supply, none of. choice sorts,' some sellers requiring more than value : those of fair breeds sold well. Cage birds in food supply; few sold. Potatoes are quiet but firm ; Oamanvs are difficult to sell at cost of landing, owing to Canterbury being sold a& Oainarus. The only kind in demand are good locals, owing to their being kept at a lower rate than Southern. Onions in good supply; demand small, prices firm. Carrots: " Slignt improvement on last week's prices, although double the ruling rates would not pay growers. Cheese: No local coining to hand. Some choice Canterbury entered, met with fair demand, but' the price required was high. Honey in large supply, demand fair, but no large sales can be effected, as sellers require prices which can only be obtained by selling in single tins, or in other words, retail price. Friday's sale was numerously attended and fully supplied, and a large business was done at the following prices Fowls, poor, Is 2d to Is 3d; good ordinary fowls, Is 5d to Is lOd ; roosters, Is 6d to 2s ?d; average, 2s; ducks, 2s 2d to 2s 6d; drakes, heavy, 2s lOd ; light Brahmas, 3s to 3s 6d ; dark ditto, 2s to 2s 3d ; Cochins, 2s 9d; Leghorns, 2s 3d to 2s 6d; Wyandottes, Is 9d : Spanish, Is 7d to 4s ; geese, 3s 3d to 3s Cd ; turkeys, small, 2s 3d to 3s; heavy, 3s Od to 4s 4d; pigs, small, 6s to 8s : fair average size, 10s to 12s each; canaries, 2s to 103 each; pork, 3Jd; rabbits, 64 to lid per pair; potatoes, local, £3 10s to £4; seed, £3 15s to £4 ; Oamaru, £4 10s ; Canterbury, £4; lapstone kidneys, £3 10s to £4; carrots, 22s 6d _to 30s; onions, Jd to Id; vegetables at late prices; butter, really prime, Is 3d to Is Cd; ordinary, Is to Is 2d; inferior, 8d to lid ; salt butter,' prime, 84d ; inferior, id to 3d ; fair,- 5d to 7d; eggs, 6d to 7fd; duck eggs, 8d ; honey, Waikato white clover, 3jd to 4d ; Barrier, 3d; bulk, 2Jd to 3d ; hams, 7d to 8d :. bacon, sides, 5d to 6Jd ; equal numbers,' 5Jd to 6Jd ; cheese, old, 2d ; Canterbury, choice,'6jd; Opunake, 4sd to fid; lard, 4Jd to r>d"; new potatoes, round, id to 4d ; kidneys, Id to lid ; teas and groceries at market rates; wheat, 3s; maize, 2s 9d; oats, feed, 2s (Id; feed, 2s 3d to 3s ; bran, £3 10s ; sharps, £3 15s; chaff. Is to 2s ; mangolds, 14s to 20s. Furniture and agricultural implements cleared at satisfactory rates.