COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9154, 8 September 1888, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

Messrs. Arthur and Bcddle s w keklt Re port.—The week has been a comparatively quiet one. Only five auction sales held, and all in the mart. Monday and Thursday, drapery, &c., for which there was good competition, a lot of stuff changing hands at satisfactory prices. Tuesday : We sold Ilobart fruit, per Tarawera. There was a large attendance, but the quality of the fruit told against high prices. Wednesday's furniture sale at the mart passed off fairly well, though the ati tendance was not so large as usual. For Friday's ! market sale, entries in all departments were very numerous. Poultry pens were all full, and lor the better class of birds high prices ruled. The market is overstocked with potatoes and carrots, and values have suffered in consequence. Local bacon and hams have come forward freely, and all of good cures were cleared at a satisfactory figure. Onions are in plentiful supply with no alteration in prices. There is next to no local cheese ill the market; prime Southern finds ready sale. The value of butter has declined somewhat, but there is still a food sale for both fresh and corned of first quality. 'rices realised were as follows Fowls in low condition, Is 2d to Is 4d; good, Is 6d to Is Sd; cockrels, Is 7(t to 2s Id; game, 3s sd; partridge Cochins, Is 9d; white Spanish, 2s Id; ducks. Is lid to 2s 2d; turkeys, 3s to 4s; geese. 3s 3d; pigs (suckers), 10s 3d to 13s Cd ; canaries, 4s to 8s 9d; dead rabbits, Is per pair; turnips, 4J-d per dozen ; cabbage, lOd to Is 3d per sack; new potatoes, id to jd; rhubarb, sd; pumpkins 3s Cd ; red carrots, Is 3d ; white carrots, lid to Is Id: potatoes (local), 3s 2d to 3s Cd, sacks extra; local seed, 3s to 3s tfd ; Southern kidneys, 4s 6d ; onions, id to Id ; maize, 2s lOd, damaged Is 6d ; wheat, 2s lOd to 3s; oats, 2s; flour, £3 10s; sharps, 3s lOd; bacon, 2jd to 6<l; hams, 4Jd to 7Jd ; Mangapai bacon, 7d to 7}d ; hams, 7Jd ; fresh butter, lOd; eggs, 6J(I to 7Jd ; cheese, 3Jd to;'»d; old, Jd to 2Jd ; honey, 101b tins, 3Jd, large tins, lid ; tea, boxes, 14s to 18s ; local apples, Sid ; Hobart, 7s 6d; oranges, 3s to 6s Cd ; lemons, S(l to 10Jd per dozen ; citron lemons, 2d ; bananas. Id to lgd. Two allotments in Russell-street, Archhill, sold for £33 10s.

Mr. Alexander Aitken's weekly report for the week ending September Bth : Business has been fairly brisk, farm produce meeting with better demand at slightly improved prices. Table potatoes of good quality have met with ready sale at fair prices, but small seed is very dull, most planters prefer to cut their seed ; about 30 tons of these kinds are now on hand and selling very slow, kidneys are almost unsaleable. Grain is scarce and firm. Poultry: The supply was fair, the receipts were as follows: Fowls, 963 head ; turkeys, 75 head ; ducks, 80 ; pigeons, 30 ; pigs, 23. Prices on the whole were good. Vegetables :In small supply. Bacon and hams : In good supply, prices about the same. Fresh butter: Supply largely increased. Eggs : Good supply, average price higher. Corned Butter : None, and greatly wanted at price of fresh, if good. Cheese : Good supply, sales small, prices high. Groceries: In small supply, demand dull. Fruit: No local received. Onions : Nothing but inferior kinds received, good ones - high pnee. , Amongst all the leading produce merchants and auctioneers in Auckland that sacks are weighed in free of charge, and if farmers persist in being paid for sacks, buyers only give 5s per ton less for the contents, which represents fivepence per sack, the only cases where sacks are charged are onions, chaff, carrots, and vegetables. The sale of plumbers' stock, held on Thursday, was largely attended, but competition was very dull; prices ruled very low in many cases. The sale of island fruit, held on Fridav, at 10.30 a.m., was very largely attended, and 500 bunches bananas! ex Wainui, sold well. The usual market sale at 11 o'clock was numerously attended from beginning to end, and a large business was the result. The following prices ruled .-—Fowls, poor, Is 4d ; chicks, 9d to Is ; good table fowls, Is 4d to Is 8d ; roosters, Is 5d to is lid; ducks, Is 9d to 2s 3d; geese, 3s. Turkeys: Small, inferior, 2s; ordinary, light, 2s Cd to 3s ; heavy, 3s 9d to 4s 8d cach. Pigs, young, 10s Cd to 17s each; pork, 3}d; rabbits, fid to Is Id per pair. Potatoes : Waikato, table, £3 10s to £3 15s ; Oamarus, £4 10s ; difficult to sell; Canterbury, £3 15s ; difficult to sell. Onions : Inferior, id to §d ; good. Id ; Waikato seed, £2 15s to £3 10s ; kidney, £2 10s to £4. Carrots, 20s to 30s ; cabbages, 3d to 2s 7d and Is 3d per dozen ; new potatoes, none. Butter: Fresh, prime, lOd to Hid ; second-class, Bil to 'Jd ; inferior made up salt, Id to 2d ; keg butter, none. Eggs, hen, 6d to 7d ; duck egga, 7d to 8d; honey, 3d to 4d; bacon, choice local sides, 0d to Cid. Hams, 8d; second-class lots, 4id to sd; inferior, 3d to 3Jd. Roll bacon, 4d. Cheese, Canterbury, 4}d to s£d, according to size. Bananas, lid toljd; steamed ditto, Is 3d to is lid per bunch. Oranges, 6s per case. Hobart apples, ljd to 2|d* No lemons. Furniture and sundries sold well.

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