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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8360, 13 September 1890, Page 4

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New Zealand Herald Office. Friday evening. TThb Customs duties to-day amounted to £2915 7s 6d. Owing to wheat coming forward more freely, flour declined a further 208 per ton to-day. Roller flour is now £12 per ton. Cermina and porridge foods have also dropped to the price they were at previous to the strike excitement. Messrs. Arthur and ruddle's Weekly Report.—Only four auction sales during the week— drapery on Monday and Wednesday, and produce Tuesday and Friday. Until Friday but little business was done of any kind, the week bavin;: been an exceptionally slack one. A better tone was, however, apparent at Friday's sale, and a fair quantity of produce was quitt-d. Potatoes have come to hand In great quantities, the market being completely glutted. Unless some at piesent unforeseen demand springs up very low prices will rule. We Jiave placed no large lines during the week, so that the prices we quote apply to small lots. Good onion i have been in demand at from £13 'us to £18. Supply of Al cheese not equal to demand. .Several lots of nicely-cured bacon have coin-- to hand during the week. Fresh butter was entered in large quantity for Friday's sale. Prices ruled a shade lower than last week. Eggs in small supply. The following are the prices at which we have sold during the week, viz. :— Fowls, Is to 2s 2d ; ducks, 'is 4d ; pigs, 2s 6<l to 10s ; carrots, Is to Is CI and 5Jd per dozen ; mangolds, 10d; new potatoes, gd to ljd and 2s M per cwt; cabbages, 8d to Is per doztn and 6.1 to lOd per sack ; turnips, 2d to 4d ; leeks, Id to Sid ; cauliflowers, Is Id to Is 9d per sack and 2s 6d to 6s 3d per dozen ; celery, 2W to Od ; potatoes, 3s to Gs lid ; onions, id to 2d; cheese, lid to ijit; hams, 4jdU> ad ; bacon, 2ld to 7d ; eggs, 7Jd ; fresh butter, 4Jd to 7*d ; honey, 2jd; lolli-s, Id ; bananas, Jd to Jd ; oranges, local, 6Jd per dozen ; island, lud ; lemons, ©id to Isold ; maize, 3s 4d to 3s 9.1 ; wheat, chick, 3s 3d ; oats, 2s 3d to 2s &d ; bran, 4s Cd to ss; sharps, 4s 3d to 4s (3d Messrs. Esam and Arthur's Weekly Report. Produce :— Potatoes : Owing to very large supplies and the disturbed state of business generally prices have receded to values ruling three weeks ago. The highest price reached to-day for prime quality is £4 10s, whilst inferior have been difficult to quit at £3. Supplies are so large that we anticipate prices may be lower still. Bacon : Good quality quitted readily. Onions : All catalogued for sale were sold, first quality at 2d, inferior pi to l}d. Cheese : In small supply, 4d for first, inferior at 2d ; demand is good. Cereals : Only small enquiries. Notwithstanding the strikes and consequent disorganisation of trade, there has been very fair demand for furniture at satisfactory rates. To-day's produce auction rates are :—Potatoes. 3s to 4s tkl ; new kidney potatoes, ljd : Shepherd's, Jd; carrots, Is and Is 3d ; mangolds, 7d ; onions, 2d aim }d to lid ; oats, 2s to 2s 3d ; bran. 4s (id ; flour, £8 to £11 10s ; oatmeal, £12 ; chaff, 2s, sacks extra ; rye, 3s Cd ; bacon, s{d to 7d ; hams,(id to Bd, shoulders 3jd to 3Jd ; Canterbury bacon and hams in doth, equal numbers. CJd in lines ; cheese. 2d to Id ; salt butter, 2d to 3Ad : lemons, 3d to 4Jd ; cocoanuts, fis per sack ; tea, half-chest. Is (id, boxes 15s 6d : coffee, Is ; pickles, 6s to 7s Oil ; jam, 4s fid ; biscuits, id. A large lot of vegetables entered brought good prices. Egg-carriers, is til. Mr ALEX. AITKEN'S Market REPORT for the week ending September 13 :-A fair amount of business has been done, although the demand for some lines has been less keen, particularly potatoes, which are now glutted. Large quantities have come in from Waikaio and Bast and West Coasts, and values continue to fall daily; and even with this in view it lias been almost impossible to quit in any quantity. Purchasers will only buy from day to J

day. Upwards of 700 sacks to hand, of which about 260 were disposed off at from £3 to £.i 10s, and up to £5 for small lota ; poor lota, £2 to £2 16s; Waikato seed (Tuesday's sale), £4 10* ; Friday's sale, £.'!. Onions to hand in moderate quantities, mostly of poor quality; prime Jots, lid to 2d, poor Id to l|d. Pumpkins, £2 15s to £4 10b; carrots, 25s to 3(H, inferior 15a to ISs. Wheat: Poor, 3s to as 3d; good fowl wheat in active demand at Us 3d to Ss M (none to hand); bran, £4 10a; sharps. £.i ; maize, 3s 4d to 3s Cd ; oats, 2s to 2a 3d. Flour : Southern, in sacks, £9 to £10 ; 60's, £10 to £12 ; local, £12 to £14. Bacon and hams, fair supply : prime local bacon, sld5 l d to 6Jd ; hams, c>.Jd to 7|d; cheese, onlv factory makes coming in, of tins one ton ha* been sold at 4}d. Butter, fair supply of fresh, although many of the regular dairies did not arrive owing to weither delaying the various steamers. Values ruled from 4d to TJd. Kg;rs ware in strong demand. Townejcgs, TJd to Kd ; duck egus. SJd to 9}d ; lard, bulk, 2d to Sid ; bladder, 4d to 4j<l ; honey, none ; apples, local, a moderate supply at 2Jd to 3*l ; lemons, scarcer, at 7d to 9d ; Capo gooseberries, 4d to 9d ; cocoanuts, 7s ; oranges, local, 7jl to tkl ; Island, none ; the wot weather had the effect of checking; supnlies, which were smaller. Good table fowls realised Is 8d to 2a 4d ; poor and medium, Is 6d to Is 7d ; roosters in condition, 2s to 2s I*l each ; small. IsSd to Is M ; ducks, 2s to 2s lid each ; seese, 2s Od to 5s 0d each ; turkeys, no ordinary sorts entered, 34 bronze wings offered sold as follows, l!>s to 30s ; hens, Ss to 13s Pigs were in short supply, best lot« fetched 14s to 19s Od ; others, 10s to lis canaries, 3d 3d to ss; dressed pork, 2Jd to 3d.

C. Alexander, S. Vickers, J. F. Clark*-, R. I"i.. er, J. M. Lennox, D. B. McDonald. D. ii. MacDonnell, Aiiken Cinicfc, It. Sprat:, Francis Hull, James Ucid, 11. G. Macky, T. A. Mentis*. Joseph Newman, Chairman. CAM. AND DIVIDEND. LIST. CALLS. £. a. rt. WAir.-a CM.Co. _ -001.. Sept.lo Onslow G.M.Co. — .. 0 0 3 „ Sept 10 Nemesis G.M.Co 0 0 1 „ j.ept.i-2 Caledonian (J.M. Co 0 0 ti .. Sept.l 3 Freedom 0.M.C0 0 0 1 .. Sept. Red Mercury G.M.Co. .. 0 0 4 .. Sept.26 G.M.Co o 0 t> .. Sept. Sylvia G.M.C0... „ -006.. Oct. S DIVIDENDS. Standard Insurance — „ — „ Now. Bank of Australasia .. .. 14 % .. Oct. 8

THE MAILS. CHIEF POST OFFICE, AUCKLAND Mails will close as under: Tins I>at. For Waiwera. Te Kapa, Kawau, and Warkworth, per Roe Casey, at 10 a.m. For Hicks' Bay, Ha.-* Coast Port.-", Gi-<borne, and Nap cr. per Southern Cross, at 11 a.in. For Gisborne, Napier, and Southern Ports, per Manapouri, a: 1 p.m. For Mangawai, Hakaru, and Kaiwaka, per Teviot, at _ p.m. Fur Kuaotunu, Tauranga, and Opotiki, per Chelmsford, at 4 p.m. For Napier, per Kahu, at 4 p.m. For KatUMti, Tauranga, ajid Opotiki, Tia Thames, per Roweaa at 5.30 p.m. For Thames, per Kowena, at 5.30 p.m. M OS DAT. For New Plymouth and Southern Ports, per Orovtaiti, at 7.40 sum. ForLon ion, United Kingdom, Continent of Europe, Ac., via Rio de Janeiro and Plymouth (per Doric, from Lyttclton. IStli inst.), "per Oruaiti, at 7.40 a.m. For newspapers at 6.40 a.m. For money orders at .', registered letters and parcels at 5 p.m., loth inst. Mail will be due in London October 30. For New Plymouth and Southern Ports, per Hairloch, at 11 a.m. For Whitiinga, Gum Town, and Whangamata, per Douglas, at 4 p.m. For Kuaotunu, Tauranga and Opotiki, per Chelmsford, at 4 p.m. For Russell, Kawakawa, Rawene, Whangaroa, and Mangonui, per Wellington, at 5.30 p.m. For Australian Colonies, India, China, Continent of Europe, and United Kingdom, via Suez, for letters, <£■ , specially so prepaid and addressed, per Zeala-'idia, immediately after her arrival from Honolulu. Mail will be due in London on October 38. For New Plymouth and Southern Ports, per Penguin, immediately after arrival of Zealandia from Honolulu. S. B. Biss. Chief Postmaster. TELEGRAMS BY MAIL. For United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, Soutli America, Ac., per Doric, close at Lyttelton on Thursday, ISth inst., at i p.m. Ordinary telegrams should be lodged .not later than 1, and urgent." 1,30 p.m. W. s. Fcrijv, Officer in Charge.

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