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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9220, 24 November 1888, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald Ofticc, Friday evening. The Customs duties to-day amounted to £Sti4 f>s 6d. Messrs. Arthur and Huddle's Weekly Repout.— Produce has come forward freely during the wee.;, and been all cleared at satisfactory prices. Potatoes are a shade easier in price than last week. X-> alteration in the value of cheese ; good demand exist-. Corned butter of good quality has sold at CJd. arge quantity of bacon and hams entered, | and nearly all cleared at fair values, Hood onions are in short supply. Grain of all kinds has advanced considerably ; fair business was done. During the week seven auction sales have lieen held. On Monday, property and sundries in Waketieldstreet by oider ;.i the Sheriff ; good attendance, but no competition ; household furniture in Conk-street i sold well. Wednesday's furniture sale at the Mart j was largely attended ; bidding fairly brisk; pianos I realised £18 to £27, American organ £17. Thurs- | day : An allotment at Kanika was offered, but not | sold ; drapery, etc., at the Mart, attracted a good attendance of buyers, and a large number of lines we _ quitted at good prices. Entries lor Friday's market sale were very numerous ; attendance of buyers large throughout the day, and good business ! done. We quote prices as follow Ordinary killing ] and laying fowls, is Id to Is 7d ; cockerels. Is Cd j to Is lid ; chicks, Od to Is Cd ; Brahinas, Is 3d to '2s Gil: white Cochins. Is yd ; Wyandottes, 'Js ; Plymouth rocks. Is isd to 2s Cd ; Hamburg's, 2s; turkeys, hens. 3s 5d to 4s 3d; hens and ; chicks, 2s 3d to ;,s bd ; geese, 3s 3d to 3s Id ; J ducks, Is Id to Is 6d ; young ducks, t>d to 0d ; game I fowls, 13 till ; pigeons, 7d ; pigs, rough bush 3s lid, ! better bred Ss to Ss Gd ; peas, lOd to Is Id ; beans, OJd to 9d ; cabbage, Is Gd per sack, Sd to 9d per dozen; rhubarb, 3d to 4id; cucumbers, 7jd ; caulii flowers, 2s to 4s per dozen : kidney potatoes, |d to j Id. and Gs Gdto 7s 3d per cwt, small 'd to M and 0s I to Gs 4d per cwt, Shepherd's Magnum Homuiis, j Early Rose, Pink lives, etc., $d to ■jii ; old potaj toes, Gs 3d ; onions, Id to Jd ; barley, 3s ; maize. 3s I Cd; flour, £12; new cheese, 4d to 4j.l ; old, jd to : 2J<l; bacon, sides 3d to s£d, tlitcnea, 4bi to ;>Jd ; > hams, oil ; fresh butter, in pats, ."»jd to Gd ; corned j butter, GJd; pastry, 2d; gooseberries, ljd to 3jil. (Growers would do well to pack in small rases, not I exceeding 251b5.) Loquats, 2jd to 4jd ; Lemons, Gd to lid ; oranges, 4d ; citron lemons, 2d ; American apples, 3Jd per lb, lCs Gd pur case ; ginger nuts, 4d ; honey, in tins, prime, 3d to 3Jd, inferior dark 2d ; condensed milk. 3s to 3s 3d ; box tea, 15s. MR. ALEXANDER AITKE.N'S MARKET REPORT for the week ending 24th November shows a heavy rise in all kinds of farm and dairy produce and grain of all descriptions, the demand for all kinds l>eing very active, and prices are rapidly rising. Forty tons of new potatoes, and upwards of 86 tons of old ones, have been quitted at and above last, week's quotations. Corned butter shows a considerable advance; all prime on hand was privately sold in the early part, of the week sit Old, while that received at the latter end found quick sale at Till, and an advance on this price can now be obtained. Fresh butter was in good supply ; advance in price. Eggs in good supply; heavy advance in value. Vegetables in large supply ; prices good. Fruit; Large supply of gooseberries ; no material change in value. Chee.ie: Large supply, but little unsold ; prices show signs of an advance, but quality must be good. Poultry were entered in very large numbers, many selling off owing to the high price of feed ; prices were rather irregular; roosters sold high. Pigs: Greatly increased supply, but quality on the whole poor; those of fair breeding sold high, but inferior kinds were dull. Friday's market sale was r largely attended throughout the (lay, with |. spirited competition. The lollowing prices were obtained during the week : —Fowls, poor kinds, Is to Is Id ; ordinary good, Is ;.d to Is 7d ; extra kinds. Is 5 9d to 23; ducks, Is 3d to 2s Gd ; geese, 3s yd; 5 turkeys, 5s Gd to .is fld each ; small, 4s 9d ; chicics, > 4d to lid ; hens and chicks, 3s to 7s Gd ; ducklings, J 3d to 9d each ; pigs, well bred, 14s each ; medium, 10s to lis ; poor bred, 4s to 7s ; very inferior, 2s to 2s 9d ; dressed pork, 2d to 2Jd ; potatoes, old, £0 15s to £7 ; new potatoes, Shepherd's, £0 to £0 7s Gd, * and Sd to Id per lb; kidneys, £7 to .&>, and jd to 3 ljd per lb ; Hobarts, £G to £7 ; onions, good, lijd to 2d ; inferior, Jd to Jd ; new onions, Id ; cabbages, Is to Is 3d per sack, and Is Od to 2s 3d per dozen ; peas, Is 5d to Is 8d p.-r peck ; rhubarb, 2s to 4s per dozen ; maize, 3s 9d to 4s ; wheat, 3s Gd to 4s ; bran, £G 10s ; > sharp, £0 ; oats, short feed, 4s ; Danish, 2s lod to 3s ; i inferior lots, 2s 3d to 2s Gd ; chart ,£4 ; horse carrots, , 19s to 20s ; fresh butter, prime, 7d ; other iots, GM ; corned butter, prime, 6Jd to 7 il ; second class, Gd to GJd ; bird, sjd ; ''ggs, hen, 7Jd to 8(1; duck eggs, ! Bid to B|d ; turkey eggs. Is lOd ; honey in bulk, 2jd ; small tins, 3d ; no Waikato to hand yet; bacon, inferior, 3d to nd ; no good to hand ; hams, good, 7<d to sd; cheese, prime, 4<d to sd ; small and really ! good, Gd ; second-class lots, 4d; gooseberries, ljd to 2jd; lemons, Sd to Is; citrons, lid to 3d per ; dozen.

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; CHRISTCHUItCH. November 23.—Retail prices : Fresh butter, Od to ; 9d ; eggs, 8d ; cheese, 5d to Od; milk, 3d; beef, 3d i 8d ; mutton, 2d to 5d : pork, lid to 7d ; hams, Gd to 1 lOd; bacon, Gd to yd. Wholesale produce prices: k Wheat, prime milling, 4s Id to 4s 3d, f.0.b.; medium, f 4s, f.0.b.; oats, milling, 2s 9d, f.0.b.; oats, bright short feeil, 2s Gd to 2s 7d, f.o.b ; barley, prime uialts ing, 43 Id to 4s 4d, nominal; peas, blue Prussian, 2s 9d to 3s; potatoes, Derwents, £5 5s at country stations ; butter, prime, 8i(l to 0d ; cheese, small [1 loaves, 5d ; other sizes, 4d to 4}d ; hams and bacon r in cloth, 7Jd per lb ; (lour, firsts, £10 to £11 per ton Live stock prices : Fat cattle, prime, I9s Gd per 10<!!b ; medium, 12s to 10s. Store cattle : Dairy ■' cows in profit, £2 10s to £4 15s; yearlings, 255; d 2-year-old heifers and steers, £1 10s to £2 ; 3-year d olds, £4 ; calves, from Gs; fat sheep, shorn, e prime. 2Jd per lb; medium, Store sheep; n Crossbred ewes and lambs, 9s yd; merinos, Gs; fat lambs, Gs Od to 9s ; pigs, 3d to 3±d per lb. t DUNEDIN OATS. Dunedin, November 23.—At the grain sale, to-day if there was a further advance in prices, and especially n in oats, one prime lot of middling realising 4s lii it- per bushel, ex store, price ranging between thai [j and 3s GcL Prime Tuscan wheat realised 4s 'Jd. U , STOCK AND MINING ASSOCIATION. s Auckland, November 23, 1888.

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