COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8670, 12 September 1891, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald Office, Friday cveniug. The Customs duties to-day amounted to £423 19s lOd.

AUCKLAND STOCK EXCHANGE. AUCKLAND, SEPTEMBER'II, 1891.

Joseph Newman, S. Vickeis, J. Friar Clarice, 11. Prater, J. M. Lennox, I). 11. McDonald, I). O. MacI>o!ineil, Aitken Canick, It. Spratt, Francis Hull, James Held, 11. (J. .Mucky. T. A. Mou/.ies, James Prater, G. F. Briinblecomhe, A. Brodie. C. A i.hxasokk. Chairman.

CALL AND DIVIDEND LIST.

calus. •• i. it. Due. Waitemata Ci.M.Co. .. ... 0 0 1 .. Sept. 12 W;iihi (i.M.Co .. .. 0 5 0.. Sept. 15 City of Dunedin .. ..001.. Sept. 18 Waitaia (1.M.C0 0 0 1.. Sept. IS lUuraki G.M.O 0 0 1.. Sept. 20 I'riiloof the Hills G.M.C0... o o I .. Sept. 30 Surplus G.M.Co 0 0 1.. Sept. 30 Pride of Kruaka G.M.Co. ... 0 0 3.. Oct. 15

DIVIDENDS. Thames Gas Co. .. ..012.. Sept. 7 Standard Insurance Co. .. — .. Now.

Mr. Richard Arthur's Weekly Retort. —The week has been a busy one in all departments ; although no improvement in the price, there has been in the demand for potatoes : a largo quantity lias been sold, all seed have been cleared. There was an enquiry for new potatoes, but none have come to hand. Onions : Only sound ones will sell, and for..these the demand is limited, all others have to go at any juice. Pumpkins : None to band. Carrots: Only a few red ones to hand: white ones have been asked for. A few citron melons bought 2s 7d per cut. Vegetables sold well, the supply below the average. Cheese : Really good quality is wanted, none ou hand ; but few of any description. Bacon and hams : The demand does not improve : low prices have to be taken to effect sales. Butter in very short supply, no fresh to hand ; t there was good enquiry. Eggs : But few enI tered ; ■ these sold at 7d per dozen. Groceries, oilmen's stores, etc., brought good prices at auction. Poultry brought very high prices .Household furniture and effects at private houses brought first class prices. ■ There have been two sales held; there was at each a crowded attendanco, and first-class competition. There have been three sales by auction this week. Tuesday, at Mart: A freehold property in Beresford-street, an allotment. 40 by *90 feet, with two cottages, sold at £';!00 cash. Several properties in the Waikato were sold by order of the Registrar, and were bought in by the mortgagee. Tuesday, at the Mart: Stock' of groceries, oilmen's stores, provisions, etc., good prices were obtained. Wednesday, the residence of Mr. A. I. Brewer, Cobden-street, Newton : His household furniture and effects, first-class priccs were obtained, many buyers could not get into the rooms, being so crowded. Thursday, at the residence of _ Mr. R. 11. Abbott, Mount Eden Road, his household furniture and effects. There was a very large attendance, and the prices realised were moat satisfactory. Friday, at the Mart, market day sale, poultry, produce, fruit, etc. A fair amount of business done. Poultry : Fowls, 2s Id to 23 Sd : half-bred Brahmas, 3s ; small hen turkeys, 2s Id: ducks, Is lOd: table potatoes, 'is to 2s Gd ; seed, Hobart, 2s to 2s .'id; kidney, 3s (5d to 4s 9d ; melons, 2s 7d ; carrots, red, 2s and 4d to 5d per dozen ; turnips, 4d to 5d : cabbages, Is Id to Is 4d ; cauliflowers, Is Gd: beet, Is *, leeks, Is to ."is; celery, 4s to lis; spring onions, lis; radish, (id : oats. 2s 2d to 23 Gd ; maize, 2s 7d : bran, I* 3d ; sharps. ;"s ; wheat, 4s; bacon, 3jd to Gd ; hams, yd to Gd ; cheese, 2.U1 _to 4,} d; lemons,■■ 2d to 7id; oranges, 5d to sid ; apples, 2}d to 3.} d per lb. j

Messrs. Esam and Arthur's Weekly Ri.rur.T.—Since our last prices of produce have undergone but little change, except potatoes and butter, both of which may lie reported lower in price. The market is again glutted with Southern potatoes, and prices arc just what buyers choose to give. Napiers have been sold as low as .'sos a ton, and »/e shall not be surprised to see prices still lower. Waikato seed are v perfect glut, coming entirely to the inferior quality. In cereals prices remain about the same, particularly for seed purposes. Dairy produce : Prime fresh butter is coming forward in such increasing quantities that values have receded somewhat, and we think rates will be still lower next week. Eggs ore very plentiful, and pell readily, but at low figures. The supply of local bacon has not been so large this week : the demand is steady. Cheese of mild finality commands good competition, but the market is principally confined to No. 2 and No. 3 grades. ruit: We held a large sale of Tasmania!) and Island fruits on Tuesday, which realised satisfactory prices. Apples, 9-s to 12s 3d per case; peanuts, 2d to 2id per lb; cocoanuts, 6s Od per sack. The supply of local fruit, except lemons, is now small. Lemons are very* low in price. Poultry: The supply continues good. We had a large number of turkeys; but fowls were more limited, although the quality was excellent. Pigs come forward in good supply, and meet with steady sale. Auction values are as followWaikato table potatoes, prime, £2 to £2 5s *, Robart seed, 80s to 455, alow of sale : magnum bonums, £3 10s : new potatoes, gel to ifd ; maize, 23 7d to 2s 8d ; feed oats, bright, 2s 2d to 2s 4d; dun, Is 8d; white and black Tartarian, 2s Gel to '2-; Til; chaff, £3; barley, 2s Gil to 2s 8d ; fowl wheat, dull of sale, 3s Gd to 3s 9d ; bran, £4; sharp, £1 15s ; pumpkins, 30s to 40s; onions, prime £7, inferior, any price; carrots, 25s to 30s ; prime fresh butter, 8d to 10(1 ; seconds, CXd to 7id ; pastry. 2d to 4Jd ; eggs, f>id to Gjd ; bacon, prime cure, 5d to 5;.(1, other quality 3d to 4tl ; hams. 5d to7d ; cheese, mild, 4d, full flavoured, 3d to 3Jjd ; honey, 2;M ; lard, 4d in bladders, 3d in tins; heavy table fowls, Is 8d to 2s Gd, fancy sorts 2s to 3s Gd, roosters Is Gd to 2s 3d, poor and old la ; turkeys, 3s to ~>a; ducks, Is lOd to 2s Gd ; pigeons, 4d to Gd : pigs, 8d to ]0s Gd, small 23 Gd upwards : Tasmatiian apples, 9s to 12s 3d per case; peanuts, 2d to 2,id; coeoannta, Gs Od per sack, lemons, 2d to 7d per dozen; oranges, Gs to 7s per case, 7Jd per dozen; Cape gooseberries, 7<l.

Mb. Alexander aitken's Market Report for the week ending September ll.— During the week the demand for general produce has b en very satisfactory, and large quantities have been disposed of. Auction sales have been largely attended, with spirited competition. On Monday I held a sale of Island fruit, cx fl.f). Taupo, for which there was a satisfactory demand. 1000 bunches bananas realised from 2s 3d to 3s per buhcli. Cocoanuts, 50 sacks sold at (is 9(1 to 7s per sack; peanuts, : ,'d per lb. Oranges have been scarce until the arrival of thes.s. Richmond. Apples : Several lots of local to hand; have sold at from 3d to 4|}d per lb, dried apples, 8d ; Hobart apples, 12s per case. Lemons have sold somewhat bettor, viz., Giil to Del for -large and 2£d to 4d for small. "Potatoes : Owing to heavy arrivals from Napier and the season being now well advanced, prices have suffered another drop, from which I see no prospects of a recovery. As regards Waikato seed I cannot recommend any further consignments, as such might not prove profitable to growers. A consignment of prime Canterbury, ex Talune, sold on arrival at £2 5s to £2 10s ; 300 sacks exGairloch, from Taranaki, sold at £2 15s to £3 for Derwents and Brown Rivers, and £'"> for picked Circulars. A very choice line of Breese's Prolific and kidneys also cleared at £2 18s to £3; Waikato table, .35s to CO.?; seed, 30s to 50s; cow potatoes, 255; Napier, upwards of 500 sacks quitted at 32s Od to -Jos per ton, and up to 2a (id for single sacks; new kidneys, 2d per lb; round sorts, fd: mangolds, 10s to 20s ; carrots have been in short supply, and realised from 2s to 2s Od per cwt; wheat, milling. 4s Oil to 4s lOd; fowl feed, 3s Sd to 4s 2d barley, 2s 9d; sharps, 5s to 5s (id ; bran, very difficult to procure at £4 10s to £5; maize has sold well lit2s9d for small lots; local oats, discoloured, Is (id to Is 0d; short feed, 2s 3d to 2s 4d ; seed sorts, 2s (id to 2s Bd. Vegetables were staged in good quantity, and sold well. Butter : The supply of fresh has been large, and the demand outside of local consumption has been strong; best local dairy made 10d to lOJfd at miction; medium grades, 9d to 9 .Id ; Taranaki dairy .roll, 9£cl; separator, lid to Is; roll, in pickle, lOd to Is; new corned, 10Ad to lid ; separator, in kegs. Is ; tinned, Is 2d to Is 4<l. Eggs to hand in large quantity, for which the demand has been equally good, at G£d to 7d for hen, and 7d to 7Ad for duck eggs. Honey, bulk, 2d to 2Ad ; lard, bladders scarce at 4d to 4id ; keg, 3d to 3id. Cheese has sold on arrival"; prime mild, 4^d t ; other lots, 2d to 4d, Bacon and hams ot tino_ quality have sold freely at 5d to 6d for prime, and up to 44d"for medium lots; choice 'hams, 6Ad to 7£tl ; others, 4d to sd. Canterbury, 8d to 9tl; boiled lollies, to 4d ; biscuits, 3i'd to 5d :\desicoated cocoantit, fad. i oultry : Although the supply was largo, |

the demand was far from satisfied, at high prices for all kinds; several largo shipping orders could not be filled : First-class table fowls, from Is lOd to 2d; medium lota, Is 6d to Is 9d; poor, Is 3d to Is sd; roosters, ill condition, 2s to 2s 5d ; others, Is 6d to Is 8(1 ; ducks, from 2s 5d to 3s 3d ; special lots, up to 4s each ; geese, 33 3d to ss; turkeys, hens, 2s 5d to 3s 9u; gobblers, 3s 3d to 6s 3d ; pigeon3j ■Is2d to Is lOd each canaries, 2s to3s(3d. Tigs were penned in large numbers, and realised very satisfactory prices, viz., 10s to 14s 3d for best bred young Yorkshires and Berkshires; good medium lota, 7s 6d to 9s; poor suckers, 5s to Gs; porkers, up to 28s each; dead rabbits, Is ud to 2s per pair; hares, 2s to 2s 6d each; dressed pork, 2jd to 2.i ! d. A quantity of groceries arid sundries sold at end of Friday's sale realised satisfactory prices. The Remuera Hail and grounds, submitted to auction ou Friday, were bought in by the mortgagee at £200 ;"tho house and allotment, West-street, Newton, was passed in at £210, and is now for private sale.

AUSTRALIAN. Press Association.—Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Sydney, September 11. Butter: Dairy, Is Id; factory, Is 3d.

Company. Business. Closing Prices. ___ - ————— —• jj U y er jjeiier.*. Banks : • « s d C <• d. Now Zealand .. — _ 5 10 0 National .. .. — _ 0 9 C Colonial .. .. _ 210 — I.nsuha.NCK: South British .. — 1 11 C — National .. .. 15/ _ — MiscKiXANicouji: Auckland Gas .. _ _ 10 12 0 Thames Gas .. _ — l 11 0 N.Z. it It.P.I,and M. 8/ 0 7 0 — N./.. Loan Mor. .. — 2 12 0 — Auckland Fibre .. — 0 0 3 — Ml.M.Nd ; May Queen.. .. — — 0 0 0 Saxon _ .. — — OOO Victoria (T.) .. 1/:J , 0 13 0 14 Waihi .. ... — — 0 19 0 Silrorton .. .. 2/10 0 2 0 0 2 10 fry I'luku .. .. — 0 4 0 0 5 0 .Mariposa .... /■! — — Kapai .. .. — 0 10 — Sylvia .. .. — — 0 10 0 Pulilpuhi Prspectrs — — 0 2 0