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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9307, 9 March 1889, Page 4

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New Zkalakd Herald Office, .Friday evening. The Customs duties to-day amounted to £97$ 3s 2d At Messrs. Vaile and Douglas' mart to-day a five-roomed house and allotment, 30 by 90, in Richmond Road, was sold by auction for £170, Miss Benjamin being the purchaser. Mr. Alexander Aitkk.v's Market Report for the wee;; ending: March 9.—A large amount of 1 general produce lias been quitted. Supplies of all kinds hare been large. Grain is selling freely, but at reduced Tallies. Onions are easier. Potatoes of really good quality command ready sale, and Talues are more tied. Vegetables are low. Fresh batter has been in smaller supply, and met with better demand. For keg batter there is still no demand. Cheese of good quality has moved more freely. Honey is dull. Bacon and hams move slowly. In the poultry department the supply has again been larjre, every pen being filled. Values unchanged. Turkeys have been iu large supply, and have sold high. Pigs: SmaJler numbers to hand. All sold at ge-od rallies. Fruit : The supply has again been large, particularly in apples, which ba\e been far in excess of demand, consequently prices have been low. Pears still remain at late quotations. Plums remain at last week's values. Lemons have been in (rood supply and have sold hish. Grapes : The supply, though large, has l>een far short of requirements, and betujr prices have been obtained. Peaches in abort supply, prices high. No Cape gooseberries to hand ; several lota were wanted. A Jari{e supply of water melons cause to h%nd and sold freely. The followine are the week's quotations : Fowls, poor, Is to Is id ; good table fowls, Is 5d to 23 Id ; roosters, small, Is M to Is tsd ; in condition, Is 9d to "is 4d ; chicks, 10d to Is ! ducks, Is 4d to Is 10d ;-geese, 2a 6d to is Id ; turkeys, young, 8s 3d to Ss od; ditto, heavy, 4s 9d to (Sβ 3d. Pigs : medium, 5s to Ss ; good, 1O» to lljiSd. Potatoes : Well sorted and free from disease, 4:5 0d to ss; others, 3a to 3s 6d ; cow potatoes, 15s to SO*, sicks extri. Onions : Seed kinds, 3d to Id ; potato onions. Jd to Jd. Cabbages, 3d to Is6d ; pumpkin.-!, 2a 6d to as 3d ; peas, Sd to 9d ; beans, 2d to 5d ; rhubarb, is to 3a; fowl wheat, 3a Id to 4s; oaU, Danish, Is Sd to 2*. sacks extra ; bran and sharps, 43 M ; maize, 3s 9d. Butter, fresh, 3d to tfj<l ; cheese, ordinary, 4d ; loaf sis«, 4jd to 5d ; egjrs, Sjd to 10d ; honey, 2d to 3d ; bacon, Id to 7Jd ; nauis, Cd to 9d. Apples, all sorts, Jd to lj<i. Pears : Bon Chretien, ljd to 2Jd ; hard cooking sorts. Jd to Id ; Napoleons, id to Id. Peaches, SJd to 4jd per lb; lemons, Is Cd to Is lid ; tomatoes, id to lid ; grapes, ■»jd to 9}d. Damsons, good, Id to ljd ; poor, }d to jd. Plums : Pond's Seedling, l}d to 2d ; choice, 2d to 3d; Golden Drops, ljd to 2d ; Magnum bonuiu, l}d to ljd. Water melons, 4s 3d to f>3 per dozen ; cucumbers, 2d to 7d Der down.

STOCK AND MINING ASSOCIATION. Auckland, March 8, ISS9.

C. Alexander, S. Vickers, J. F. Clarke, R. Frator, J M. Lennox, D. B. McDc.na.ld, D. G. MacDonnoll, Aitken Carrick, R. Spratt, Krancie Hull, .lames Keid, R. G. Macky, Samuel Turtle, T. A. Menzies JosnPii NEWMAN, Cbiirman.

Company. Business, j Closing Prices. Buyers, j Sellers. Bakks : £ 8 d £ s il Hew Zealand (old) — — 860 I.v.sur.o'ci: : South British _ 42/ — 2 2 6 Union .. .. — 16 0 — Colonial .. _ — — 0 4 3 Miscellaneous : Land Mortgage _ — — 0 16 0 Auckland Gaa _ 10,7/ 10 5 01 — Mjxisg : j Cambria .. _ — — 10 2 0 Saxon .. „ — 07607 i) Aloanataiari _ — —020 Colonist .. — I 0 2 10 0 3 3

CALL AND DIVIDEND LIST. calls. £. s. d. Ji ew Mo<uwtaiari G.M.Co. ..000 — Mar. 6 Xew Fearnought G.M.Co. _ 0 0 1 — Mar. 13 Heuben Parr G.M.Co. ..006 — Mur. 15 DrviDKNDS. Thames Gas Co. .. „ 0 1 2 — Mar. 6