COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9166, 22 September 1888, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald Office, The Customs duties to day amounted to £553 2s sd.

Messrs. Arthur and Huddle's Weekly RE- | PORT.—Business for the week has been good ; sales have been well attended, and, as a rule, satisfactory prices have ruled in all departments. Produce has j moved off freely, the potato market being particu- i larly active, sales of this product for the week totalling up close on SO tons, at prices equal to last week's quotations. The demand still continues, prices firm. There is an unsatisfied demand for good cheese, also for butter of prime quality. Values for bacon and hams are unchanged ; a good sale for the best cures. There is no change to report in the price of onions ; supply small. Carrots j lor cattle feed have come forward in large quantities, and in order to clear very low prices have had to be accepted. Auction sales for the week have been eight in number. On Monday a sale of unredeemed pledges from Mr. lieesing's office attracted a very large audience, but bidding was not so brisk as usual. A sale of household furniture at" Ponsonby on the same day resulted well. Tuesday, sales'of bananas, ex Wainui, and blasting powder, at the mart. Wednesday, our usual furniture sale at the mart: fair business done. Thursday, sale of llobart fruit, ex Rotomaliana, and a stock of drapery ; at the latter, a large number of lines were quitted at very satisfactory prices. Friday's market sale wis, as usual, largely attended throughout ; entries in all departments full. Produce of every description was in pood demand. Poultry came forward in good numbers, and for all in good condition high prices ruled. Not many pigs entered.; what sold were well bred and realised good figures. The following prices were obtained:— Fowls, in good condition, Is Cd to is Id ; inferior, Is I Id to Is 4d ; ducks, Is iM to Is lOii; turkeys, 2s 9d to I 4s; turkey's eggs. Is per dozen; a pen of white Brail mas, Ss : pigeon#, Oil to lid dorkings, Cs 4d ; Cochins, 2s Vd ; young pigs, 9s to 14s 6d ; dead rabbits, 7d per pair ; canaries. 3s !)d to Ss tid ; carrots. Is to Is 3d per cwt and £d per dozen; turnip;-, 4sd j per dozen ; cabbages, 9d to Is sd; rhubarb, 5s per ] dozen; new kidney potatoes, 2Jd ; Southern, 4s tid to .-s, bags in ; Southern seed, 4s Cd; local table, 4s to 4s (3d, sacks extra ; seed, 3s OA to 4s; pumpkins. 4s '2d ; onions, inferior, id ; spring onions, ?u to 6(1 per dozen ; garlic, Jd ; flour, 10s to £10 ; wheat, Ss: barley, 4s ; chatf, Is t>i per sack ; bacon 3d to 5Jd; hams, SJd to 6|d : Mangapai bacon, "id; hams, fid ; cheese, 2}d to 4d ; fresh butter, 6$ a to 7id ; salt, 6j<l; eggs, 5Jd to tid ; local apples, Sjd to 5d . lemons, 6d to SW ; Cape gooseberries, ftjd; citrons, 2d ; preserved bananas, 4d ; green bananas, Id ; Hobart apples, ljd to 2d per lb ; inferior, 2s 9d per case. Mr. Alexander Aitken's Market Report for the week ending September 22 Business in general has been very brisk, every kind of produce meeting with ready "sale. Potatoes were in short supply, and there is a demand for any quantity at payable prices. Poultry in very large supply, more of these could also have been sold well. Eggs show a slight rise, butter a decline. Hams and bacon in large supply ; a large quantity quitted at late prices. Carrots are a drug, heavy supply ; prices offered at Friday's sale were very low, consequently very fewwere sold. Cheese in good supply, nothing but the best quality commanding sale at a high price; holders will require to sell at once. Some new make was received this week from Wairoa, and several farmers have already started to make. Fruit: Good supply of Hobart and Sydney; no local. Vegetables in good supply ; prices advancing. On ! Tuesday a sale of pure-bred poultry was held, but | was not altogether successful, the attendance was j very large, but the only kinds commanding attention were black Spanish and canaries, these sold very well: Spanish realised 4s <Jd to 10s each; Mr. Cornwell's canaries realised lis 6d to 23s each ; others, 6s to 12s each. At the sale of Mr. Williams' furniture and effects there was a large attendance, and every article sold at very satisiactory prices. Friday's sale of produce and poultry was well supplied and very largely attended, with spirited competition from" beginning to end. and in nearly every instance that submitted found buyers at good prices. Fowls (poor conditioned), Is 4d to is 5d ; good ordinary fowls, Is (3d to 2s ; roosters. Is lOd to 2s ; ducks. Is Sd to 2s 3d ; Spanish. 2s 3d to 4s; light Brahmas, Is lOd to 3s ; dark ditto, 2s to 4s ; game, 2s (id to 8s ; other varieties, 2s to Ss ad each ; hens and chicks, from 5s Sd to 7s tid the brood; hens and ducklings, 5a to Ss the brood ; turkeys (small), 2s to 2s 9d ; heavy, 3s 9d to 4s 2d ; geese, 3s 3d ; young pigs, 10s «d to Ids 3d ; pigeons. 9d to 2s 7d each. "Produce : Waikato table "potatoes (good), £4 6s to £4 lUs ; Canterbury's, £4 5s : Oainarus, £4 10s to £4 15s ; local seed, £3 10s to £4 ; kidneys, £2 15s to £4 ss; new potatoes (Shepherds', l|d ; kidneys, Ifd to 2d per lb; onions (fair), Id; ut;;er kinds," |d ; cabbages (good), 2s 7d to 3s 7d per sack ; rubbish, fid to 9d ; carrots, lOd to Is 3d ; maize, 2s 9d ; wheat, 2s lfld to 3s ; feed oats, 2s 7d to 2s 9d; bran and sharps, 4s ; parsnips, 3s 9d ; butter (fresh), 6sd to 9id ; fresh corned, 7£d to 9d ; old, ssd; eggs (hen), 6}d to 7Jd ; duck eggs, 7}d to Sd; honey, yd to 4d ; jams, 3d to 5d ; bacon (dairy-fed), 6d to tf Jd ; hams, id ; other kinds. 4d to 4}<l ; hams, 4d to 5-Jd ; cheese (Manaia Factory), 4Jd ; other lots, 3jd toed ; I Wairoa (new), 4|d : oranges, 4s to 5s ad per case; I Hobart apples, ljd to 2«d ; local oranges, 3d to 4*d ' per dozen.

STOCK AISiD MINING ASSOCIATION. Auckland, September 21, isss.

A. Saunders, C. Alexander, S. \ickers, J. F. Clarke, R. Prater, J. M. Lennox, D. B. McDonald, I). G. MacDoiwell, Aitken Carrick, R. pratt, l'Vanci" Hull, James Reid, R. G. Macky, Samuel Turtle. Joseph Newman, Chairman.

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CHRISTCHURCH.

September 21.—Retail prices : Fresh butter, Sd to lOd ; eggs, 8d ; cheese, 4d to 6d; milk, 3d ; beef, 3d to 8d ; mutton, 2d to 5d ; pork, 5d to 7d ; ham, 6d to lOd ; bacon, 6d to 9d. wholesale produce prices : Wheat, prime milling, 3s 5d ; wheat, medium, 3s 2d; oats, milling, 2s 2d : oats, bright short feed, 2s ; barley, prime malting, 4s to 4s 3d ; barley, medium, 3s to 3s 4d ; peas, blue Prussian, 2s 6d ; potatoes, Derwents, 50s to 52s «d at country stations. Onions, £4 to £5 ; butter, prime, 9d ; butter, second quality, 4jd to 6d per lb ; cheese, small loaves, 3£d to SJd ; other sizes, 3d to 3}d ; hams and bacon in cloth, to 7Jd ; flour, £8 10s to £9 10s. Live stock prices: Cattle, fat prime, 20s per 1001b; fair to middling, 17s Cd; inferior, 15s; calves, lis to 255; stores, 3-year-old steers, £3 15s to £4 7s fid; 2£-year-old steers, £3 to £3 10s <3d ; 2-year-old heifers, £2 ; cows, £2 12s 6d to £3 17s 6d ; sheep, fat prime, 3|d per lb ; good, 3d ; lambs, 8s to 13s ; store sheep, no quotable change ; pork, prime, 3d to 3jd per Id ; horses, no quotable change.

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