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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8472, 24 January 1891, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald Office. Friday evening. {The Customs duties to-day amounted to £471 Os lid. Mr. Thornes, Land Agent, 81, Queenstreet, reports the sale of the following ' properties during the week through his agency :—Shop and cottage in Victoriastreet, with 24 feet frontage, for £350 cash, [ on behalf of Mr. Philips; fruit farm at Henderson, on behalf of Mr. Bullock, for £400; 1 a fruit farm at Lucas' Creek, leased at £52 per annum, with purchasing clause of £1050; ' the goodwill of a village homestead section for £60; and several leases of city and suburban properties. Messrs. Arthur and Huddle's Weekly REPORT.—Business has been active. Produce has been in good supply, with a fair demand for most lines. Potatoes are at about last week's values. Onions in better demand at about £7. Fresh vegetables have'been in good supply and have sold well. Cheese is slow of sale. We have cleared out several . old lines at low prices. > (iarlic is wanted for «hipment. Fresh eggs short of demand, at B£d to 9d. Fresh butter not so plentiful, sold at about last s week's prices ; corned butter is little enquired for. Hams and bacon slow of sale. Fruit has come forward in increasing quantities during the week, and has met with ready sale at first-rate prices. Poultry has been penned in large numbers, and good A prices have ruled. We have held six auction sales ' since last report. On Monday, drapery at the mat ! a fair business done. ' Tuesday, Thru-•"' and

Friday, poultry, fruit, and produce at the mart, all being largely attended. Friday's market sale lasted nearly seven hours, a latgo quantity of stuff being put through. Sales of household furniture have been held at the mart, and at Mr. C. H. vans', North Shore, the latter was very successful, all lines sold at hi«h prices. The following are the highest and lowest prices at which we have sold during the week .'—Fowls, In Id to ?s 6d ; roosters, in condition, Is lOd to 2s Id, poor, Is 2d to Is 5d ; ducks, Is to Is 9d; ~ chicks, 7d to Is 9(1 ; Plymouth' rucks, Is 4d to 2s 2d ; 11 leghorns, 2s ; Spanish, Is 6d to 2s 2d ; Turkeys. 5s 23 7u to 6s Id ; geese, Ss to 3s 4d ; pigeons, Is 3d ; hen B, and chicks, 7s ; pigs, 7s 6d to 19s; potatoes, ,3 Hobarts, 2s 9d to 4s 3d ; kidneys, 2* to 4s; cucum- ' bers, 3d to 6d per doz. ; beans, 4d to s}d per peck : ' peas, 7d to 8d ; marrows, Is 7d per doz ,3dto Sd - 8 per bag ; cabbages, Sd to 7d' per sack, Sd per doz. ; -» red cabbages, 5d to 7d ; turnips, 2d per doz. ; rhu3, barb, lid to 3d; onions, Jd to jd; pieklers, Id to 1- lj<i ; cheese, 2id to 3Jd ; inferior and old, id to 2d ; n bacon, ljd to 6d ; hams, 6d to 7d ; damaged flour, 12s per sack; sharps, 3s to 8s Cd; bran, 3s Cd ; '» maize, as Oil; oats, 2a to 2s 3d ; chaff, 4s ; barley, 2s 4d ; eggs, «d to 9.1 ; fresh butter, Ski to 4d; bist, cuits, 4d ; apples, I.P. and others, Jd to ljd ; Gravensteiu. 3d Jo ljd: red astrachans, ljd to 2d; - quarrendeus, fd to lid ; pears, various, ljd to 3Jd; plums, cages, S£d to 51d ; Mitchelson, 3dto4id ; Orleans, 4}d to 4grt ; red diaper, 5Jd ; golden, 4jd to Ski ; Washington, 3jd to 4jd ; early rivers, SJd to 4|d ; damsons, 4jd ; various, 2Jd to sjd ; inferior, [. 2d ; grapes, 9d to 10} d; tomatoes, 2Jd to 3d ; j. peaches, SJd to Is Gd per doz., and 2Jd to 4d per pound. Sydney fruit, ex Waihora : Plums, quarter- " cases, 4s 2d to 5s 7d ; nectarines, 2s lid ; peaches, : 4s; passion fruit, 4s 4d; Nelson apricots, 2kl to 7 6*a; Cape gooseberries, 4Jd to Cd; strawberries, , GJd per box. Messrs. K-am and Am ''.'is Weekly Report. j —Produce—The demand .....s been fairly nood for prime samples of potatoes and onions for ship- • ment, but for local consumption the requirements have not been so large. Potatoes are coming for- • ward in good quantities, but the quality of Hobarts , is most disappointing, scarcely a really good sample : submitted for sale. We quote price at about £4 to £4 5s for first quality ; inferior from £2 upwards Kidneys are worth £4 10-, and for a superior sample 5s to 10s more. Onions have been inquired tor, > and every line fit for shipping cleared at an average j of £0 to £6 10s. Bacon is slow of sale, except for , prime quality, of which there is not much offering of local. We sold to-day at Cd to 6d ; inferior ueglec- , ted altogether. Canterbury, in cloth, equal numbers, fetches Gfd to 7d ; hams alone, BJd to Sjd. Butter ■ is still plentiful. Fresh, 4d to tiki ; salt butter, no 1 enquiry of consequence. Kggs "in good demand at lOd to lid. The supply not up to requirements. Cheese is moving ..ft' better at 3Jd to 4d, nood quality. Fruit: The demand keeps good for plums at 3d to 4d. and pears at 2}d to 3Jd. Of the former there seems a scarcity. Apples are worth 3d to 2d ; grapes, s)jd ; Capo gooseberries, sd. Our prices at auction yesterday were as follows :—Kidneys, 4s to 5s : Hobarts. 3s to 4s (3d ; Pinkeyes, 2s to 2s Cd ; Magnum Bonum, 4s 2d to 5s ; Port Fairy's, Ss to ::s 'd ; onions, seed, Id ; potato onions, 4s Sd to 6s Cd ; peas, Sd to 3d ; cabbage, lOd to Is 7d dozen ; . cucumbers, 2d to ojd dozen ; ca. rols. S]d ; turnips, , id ; beans. -Id to 6.1 peck ; rhubarb, Is Cd to 2s 3d ; marrows. 9d to lOd bag ; oats, is 2d to 2s 3d ; barley, 2s 4d ; bran, Ss Cd; sharps, 3s Cd ; chaff, Is 9d* ; flour, £9 to £10 ; eggs, 10.1 to lid ; bacon, 5d to Cd ; hams, CA.I to"d: butter, 4Jd to CJd ; cheese, 2Jd to 4d; biscuits, 4d; tea, box, 15s Cd ; coffee, Is white paint, 6s Gd ; black, Cs ; raw oil, 3s 9d. Apples : Bed Astrachan, 2d ; Quarantine, ljd ; Irish Peach, Id to lid; other sorts, id to lki. Plums, 3d to 4d ; pears, Ski ; Cape gooseberries, 3d ; tomatoes, ripe, ljd to 2Jd ; green, j<l; grapes, Ojd. MR. Alex. Aitken's MARKET REPORT for the week ending January 24:—A largo business has been done, both privately and by auction, the usual produce sales held, and very largely attended, with keen competition. Friday's sale lasted from eleven a.m. to half-past seven p.m., with crowded attendance and brisk competition to the tinish, and all lines were successfully got through. The supplies all round have been heavy. In the poultry department all pens were tilled ; prices ruled somewhat lower than at previous week's sales: First-class table fowls realised from Is "d to 2s 3d ; medium lots, Is 4d to Is Cd; poor, old, and small, Is to Is 3d ; chicks, Sd to Is 2d : roosters, well grown, and in conditio. Is Sd to 2s sd; small and poor, Is Id to Is Cd; purs-bred variety fowls, Is 9d to 3s; ducks, Is 4d to Is lOd ; young ducklings, Is to Is 3d ; geese, 2s Cd to 3s 3d ; turkeys, gobblers, 3s Cd to 6s 3d; hens, 2s Cd to 3s 3d ; canaries, 2s to 8s ; pigeons, lOd to Is 3d. Pigs came to hand in large numbers, for well-bred lots there w.us a good demand ; inferior lots neglected ; good voung Berkshires and Yorkshires, from 9s to 13s 9d ; medium lot-,. Cs Cd to 8s ; poor to inferior lots, 2s M to 5s Cd ; dressed pork, dairy-fed, Sjd. In produce good quantities quitted for shipment: Potatoes, plentiful, at somewhat lower values—private sa.'es for prime samples in quantities, £4 5s to £4 10s,; and up to 5s for small lots. Auction prices ruled from Ss !)d to 4s for good samples, and Is 6d to 3s for poor lots. Cow potatoes in active demand at 25s to 27s Cd per ton. Onions in early part of week were short of demand for shipping orders at Jd to Id. Iriday: supplies were large, anil, inconsequence, of full supply of seed kinds, potato onions are now entirely out of demand at 2s Cd to Ss per cwt ; garlic, 3d to 3Jd ; peas, 5Jd to lod per peck : beans 4ki to 7Jd ; other vegetables in full supply at good values. In grain, one line of Waikato wheat (last season's) quitted for milling at 3s 9d. A consignment of T uininga maize to hand quitted at 3s 2d for wholesale parcels, and is Gd for retail lots, ex store. In dairy produce, full supply. Butter, fresh, 3Jd to 6Jd ; eggs, lOd to Is Id ; keg butter overstocked with no demand except at pastry prices ; bacon, prime lots scarce and much wanted at Cid to 7id ; inferior plentiful at ljd to 3d; hams, 5d to 7d ; lard, 2jd to 3d ; cheese, several large parcels quitted at 2Jd to sd. Stocks light in fruit. A large supply of good quality of all kinds : there has been a good demand, and for recognised brands of all sorts a better average price has been obtained. Apples, large cooking sorts, Id to I'd, small and inferior lots Id to jd ; red astrachan, lid to 2Jd ; other dessert sorts, Id to 1J ; Irish peaches, Jd to Id ; plums, 3Jd to 6d, large kinds 4jd to 6Jd ; gages, 4jd to Sjd, over ripe 3d ; apricots, s}d ; peaches, 5d to Is Cd per dozen, and 2jd to 4lb per lb ; tomatoes, 2.1 to 4sd ; grapes, 9d to lOd. poor 7-Jd to Sd ; pears, Jargonelle, 2jd to 3Jd, Windsor 2Jd to 3Jd ; lemons, 4d to Is 6d per dozen ; oranges, local, 9d to lid per dozen, Sydney 15s Cd per case. In consequence of the s.s. Taupo arriving on Thursday night the consignments of bananas were sold at ship's side at as to 3s 6d per bunch ; the other fruits were held for Tuesday's sale, I AUCKLAND STOCK EXCHANGE. Auckland. January 23, 1891. Company. Business. i Closing Prices. ~~~ * Buyers. Sellers. Banks : £ s d £ s d. New Zealand, old.. 4A9/ — 5 2 6 National .. .. — 1 IS 0 - Colonial _ .. 43/3 — 2 3 0 Insukanck: ! South British .. — 15 0 16 0 Miscellaneous: j Auckland Gas, new _ — 5 12 6 Thames Gas .. — 1110 - Kauri Timber .. — — jOIO 0 N.Z.L. 4; Mercantile — 2 IS 0 3 0 0 Taupiri Coal Bxt. . . — — 110 Union Oil .. .. — — 011 0 Northern Boot ... — — 0 7 6 MINIMI : May Queen.. .. — — 0 5 0 New Moanataiari.. 13/, 12/9 012 90 13 0 Saxon .. .. — — 0 3 10 New Alburnia .. — — 0 3 6 'Trenton „ .. 3/2, 3/3 0 3 0 0 3 6 Cambria .. .. — 0 3 3 0 3 6 Norfolk ... .. 1/8 0 17 0 18 Victoria (T.) .. — 016018 Hazelbank ... ... — — 0 1 10 Junction ._ .. /9 00900 11 Alfred ... .. — — 0 0 10 Mountain Flower .. — 0 0 3 — Flying Cloud .. — —005' Try Nuke .. ... 6/4, 6/, 6/3 0 5 6 0 6 4 Bed Mercury .. 2/5 — — Carbine „ .. — 0 2 0 — Otama «. — — 0 0 8 Mariposa _ — 0 0 6 — Kapai ... „ /9, /11, /10 0 0 9 0 010 Owera ... .. — 0 0 9 — Kuaotunu .. .. 10/, 11/, 0 0 91 — Joseph Newman, S. Vickers, J. Friar Clarke, R. fritter, J. M. Lennox, 1). B. McDonald, 1). G. MacDounell, Aitken Carrick, It. Spratt, Francis Hull, James Raid, It. G. Ma.-ky, T. A. Meuzies, James Frater, G. If. Brimblecombe. C. Alexander, Chairman. CALL AND DIVIDEND LIST. CALLS. £ 1. (1. Mountain Flower G.M.Co. ..001 _ Jan. 26 . Consols G.M. Co. .. _ 0 0 2 _ Jan. 26 Pride of Karaka G.M.Co. ..003.. Jan. 31 Bed Mercury G.M.Co. ..002.. Feb 5 Golden Crown G.M.Co. „ 0 0 1 .. Feb. 7 Victoria i..M. Co. „ » 0 0 1 ... Feb. 10 DIVIDENDS. N.Z. Insurance Company » 15 % «. Now. Union Insui ance Co. .. 10 % .. Now.