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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9172, 29 September 1888, Page 4

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IvAIPARA. September 28.—-The schooner Marmion, which sailed for the South two days ago, has put back, and is now at the Heads. The Presto, Cabarfeidh, Parnell, and Stanley are loading at Helensville, the Peerless at Te Kopuru, and the Grasmere at Otamatea.

LYTTELTON. September 2S.—Sailed : Kooringa, barque, for Queenstown or Falmouth; s.s. Mararoa, for Sydney via Northern ports. _ Passengers : —For Wellington : Misses Phillis, Douglas, and Bell, Mesdames Jervois, Cox and child, Morrison, Inspector and Mrs. Clifton and family, Detective Kirby and family, Messrs. Brack, Ross, Brown, Currey, Boyes, Crafer, Staynes, Chiverson, Gordon, \\ hite, Stansell, Earle, and Earle. For Napier : Mr. and Mrs. Anson, Mr. and Miss Jackson, Mr. Gurie. For Gisborne: Miss Gill. For Auckland : Mr. and Mrs. Crocker and child, Messrs. Donovan, Wilson, and Campbell. For Sydney : Miss Wilson, Mesdames Buchanan ana two children, Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Garland, Messrs. Robinson, Crow (2), Anderson, and Ernesboro. S.s. Wakatipu, for Sydney via Wellington. Passengers for Sydney : "Misses Arkell and two children, B'eattie, Mr. and Mrs. Adams and child, Messrs. Stapleton, Todhunter, and Fox.

PORT CHALMERS. September 28.— Arrived : S.s. Wainui and Rotorua, from the North Island; s.s. Grafton, from the West Coast.

BLUFF.

September 28.Arrived : S.s. Stella, from Dunedin, and Circe, from Melbourne.

COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald Office, Friday evening. The Customs duties to-day amounted to £S.SS 7s 7d. . To-day the price of the best dairy butter receded Id per lb, and now commands 7d per lb wholesale.

Messrs. Arthur and Ruddle's Weekly Report.—Business on the whole has been equal with last week, though produce has not come ;>>rward quite so freely. Potatoes maintain late value.-, and are in good demand. Cheese has been in slightly better supply, and good quality finds a ready sale. No good sail butter entered, inferior is hard to quit. Onions are wanted, very few entered. Hams and bacon of good cure sell readily, prices unaltered. Auction sales for the week have been held at the Mart as follows :—On Monday a sale of drapery, etc., was well attended, and good business done. Tuesday: A sale of country laud, not a large audience, and but little competition. Allotments in Raglan district sold at from 2s to 3s 6d per acre. Wednesday and Thursday : Clearing sale of a furni-turf-dealer's stock ; crowded attendance with good bidding ; a large business was done. Friday : Our usual market-day sale. Entries in all departments were up to the average, and the attendance of buyers was large throughout the day. There was a good" demand for all kinds of produce, but little being left on hand at the close of the sale. In the poultry department the pens were not so well tilled as usual ; fair prices ruled. Well-bred young pigs were again keenly competed for, the demand being unsatisfied. The following prices were realised : —Ordinary fowls, Is 3s to Is 7d ; good condition up to 2s Id ; Plymouth Rocks, is 5d to 2s Sd; black Spanish, !s7d to Is lid; ducks, Is lOd ; turkeys, small, 9d to 2s lid ; heavy, 3s 7d to 4s 4d ; pigeons, 7d to Sd ; carriers, Is Id ; young pigs, 9s 9d to His ; dressed pork, 2*d to 3d ; dead rabbits, Is per pair : canaries. 2s 9d to 6s 3d ; cauliflowers. 3s 4d per dozen ; inferior, Is to 2s 3d per sack ; cabbages, 2s 4d per sack ; red carrots. Is Id to Is 3d, and sd per dozen ; parsnips, 2s 7d per cwt; turnips, 4d per dozen ; new potatoes. Id to lid; inferior, Is 3d to Is 5d per bag ; old, local grown, os Sd to 4s 6d ; and inferior, 2s Id to 2s 4d. sacks extra; Southern, kidneys, 4s; onions. 1UI; maize, 2s Pd ; oats, 2s 9d ; wheat, 3s; sharps, 4s 3d; bran, Ss ; chaff, Is 6d per sack, bags extra ; flour, £10 ; bacon, 5d to 6d ; inferior, Hd to 3d; hams, Id to 6d ; Mangapai bacon, 7<l to 7Jd ; hams, 7Jd ; cheese, 2d to 4jd ; butter, fresh, 4jd to 6jd ; salt, 6}d; eggs, 6}d; smoked mullet, Is 7d per dozen; honey, 3d to Sid ; tea, boxes. ISs to 22s ; Indian, 2s 4rt per lb; confectionery, <sid ; biscuits, 4d to Aid ; Hobart apples. Id to* 1 jd"; no local entered ; Sydney oranges, 4s od per case ; local oranges, 5d to bid per dozen ; lemons, Sd to Sid. Mr. Alex, aitken's Weekly Market Report for the week ending September 29Business has been fairly brisk. Good supply of all kinds, butlittle alteration in values. Potatoes : Very firm, but quiet, retailers buying from hand to rcouth, in expectation of a fall, owing to the new crop being so close at hand. Poultry was in fair supply, but conj siderablv short of requirements. Butter: Heavy I supply of fresh, but little corned, and much wanted. Eggs": Large supply, in every case more than market price ruled. Pigs: Greatly increased supply, | duality was not the best, but prices were nigh. Hams" and bacon are getting a trifle scarce, no change in values. Grain of all sorts in good supply : Maize is firm at late prices, but oats show a weaker tendency. Carrots show no improvement, in fact, prices are lower, and will hardly pay growers for labour. Mangolds: Unsaleable. Chaff: No signs of improvement. Onions : Supply has barely met requirements, and quality far behind. Vegetables : All of good quality sold well. Cheese : Good supply, prices a trifle easier. Seed potatoes have all been successfully cleared out, and the demand is fully satisfied for the present season. Friday's sale was favoured with the usual large attendance, and a large amount of all sorts were put through at good prices. Fowls : Poor, Is 4d to Is 5d ; good ordinary fowls, Is 6d to 2s 2d; roosters. Is 9d to 2s 3d ; Spanish, 2s to 3s 9d ; Plymouth Rocks, 2s Id to 4s Sd each ; other varieties at similar rates ; ducks, Is 6d to is Id ; geese, none ; turkeys, poor, 2s Sd to 3s ; heavy, 3s 6d to 5s ; pigs, poorly bred, 4s 9d to 9s 3d ; fair lots, 10s 6d to 12s 3d ; canaries, 2s to 7s each ; hens md chicks, 5s to 6s the brood ; ducklings, Sd to lOd each. Potatoes : Oamaru, £4 15s ; Napier, £4 10s; Canterbury, £4 to £4 5s ; local, £4 5s to £4 10s; new potatoes, Shepherd's, Jd to lid ; kidneys lid to 2d. Onions, Id to lid ; inferior, jd ; carrots. Is to Is 3d ; pumpkins, Is 3d ; parsnips, Is to 4s .'id per sack ; cabbage, up to 3s yd per sack ; oats, feed, 2s 6d to 2s 7d; maize, 2s 9:1; wheat, 3s; bran, 4s 6d ; sharps. 4s 6d ; butter, fresh, 6Jd to 7sd ; ditto, salt, 7d to Sd ; eggs, hen, 6Jd to 7Jd ; duck eggs, 7Jd to Sd ; honey, 3d to 3id ; bacon, dairy fed, Gd to 6id ; hams, 7Jd to Sd; Raglan bacon, 4d to sd; hams, sd; Canterbury bacon, 6d; cheese, new, 4d to4Jd; Manaia factory, 4|d ; other lots, Id to 5d ; tea, lis 6d to 22s per box; tomato chutnee, 10 s 6d; sauce, ss; Hobart apples, lsd to CJd ; ditto lemons, Sid to lOd; local oranges, St. Michael, s}d per dozen ; poor man, lOd ; local lemons, Is lid per dozen ; Sydney oranges, 4s Gd to 5s per case.

BY TELEGRAPH CHRISTCHURCH. September 2S.—Retail prices : Fresh butter, Sd to lOil; eegs, &d ; cheese, 4d to 6d ; milk, yd ; beef, 3d to fed"; mutter:, 2d to 5d ; pork, 5d to 7d ; hams 6d to lOd; bacon, tad to fid. Wholesale produce prices : Wheat, prime milling, 3s 6d to S3 7d ; f.o.k, medium, 2s 3d to 3s 3d ; oats, milling, 23 3d; oats, bright short feed, 2s to 'is 2d ; barley, prime malting, 4s Id to 4s 4d ; barley, prime medium, 33 to 3s 6d ; peas, blue Prussian, 2s"9d per bushel ; potatoes, Derwents, ?>os, country stations; onions, £4 to £5 per ton ; butter, prime, 9d per lb ; second quality, 4Jd to 6d ; cheese, small loaves, 3Jd to 4d ; other sizes, 3pi to Sid ; hams and bacon in cloth, 6Jd to "id ; flour, firsts, £9 to £10 per ton. Live .stock prices : Fat cattle, prime, £1 per lOCJlbs ; medium to good, 16s to IDs ; store cattle, no quotable change; fat sheep, prime, 2jd to 3d per lb ; medium to good, 2d to 2£d ; store sheep, cross-bred hoggets, 10s 2d to lis 7d"; ewes, 15s 6d; wethers, 10s 5d ; pigs, 3id per lb. STOCK AND MINING ASSOCIATION. Auckland, September 28, 1888.

A. Saunders, C. Alexander, S. Vickers, J. F. Clarice, R. Frater, J. M. Lennox, D. B. McDonald, D. G. MacDonnell, Aitken Carrick, R. pratt, Francis Hull, James Reid, R. G. Mackv, Samuel Turtle. Joseph Newman, Chairman. CALL AND DIVIDEND LIST. CALLS. _ & s. d. Due. Goldwater G.M. Co 0 0 2 — Oct. 1 Gladstone Claim (Marototo) 010 0 — Oct. f> Mata G.M. Co 0 0 2 — Oct. 17 DIVIDENDS. Bank of Australasia.. .. 12 p. cent— Oct. i

Company. Business. Closing Prices. Buyers. j Sellers. Insurance : £ s d . £ « <1 New Zealand .. — 4 0 6 4 10 South British .. — 2 6 0 2 6 0 National .. .. — — I 1 0 0 Miscellaneous: | N.Z.L. <fc Mercantile 80/6 4 0 0 — Auckland Gas .. — — 10 17 C Thames Gas .. 35/ 1 li 0 - Mining: i Cambria .. _ — — 10 4 8 SiXon .. .. 4/6,4/4,4/3 0 4 3 0 4 & Gem — _ j 0 12 Crown .. .. — —040