COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8932, 16 July 1892, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald Office, Friday evening. The Customs duties to-day amounted to £1374 8s lOd. Mr. Thornes, land agent, 81, Queen-street, reports the sale of a property in Mackolviestreet, Ponsonby, lot 7 of allotment 67, having 52 feet frontage to Mackelvie-street. with six-roomed house thereon, to Mr. W. M. Cooke, on behalf of Mr. W. A. Smith, of Bothwell Park, for £475 cash. Mr. Richard Arthur's Weekly Repout.—On account ot press of business, a full report could not be got up for insertion this week. There is but little. If any, alteration in prices of produce. The following prices have been obtained :—Cheese, 4sd to 7d per lb; butter (corned), Is to Is 3d per lb. Large quantity of fresh butter; consequence, the prices realised were lower, and sold at lid to Is 5d per lb. Bacon : Local, in fair demaud, sold at 4Jd to 6Jd; Canterbury, cleared out readily at 6d to 6Jd per lb. Hams, 6d to 7fd per lb. Honey, in fair demand, 2Jd to 3d per lb. Potatoes have gone off at £2 os to £3 per ton ; onions, Jd to |d per lb ; sprouters, 6a to Is 6d per bag ; pumpkins, 3s to 3s 3d per cwt; carrots, 2s per cwt; vegetables have gone off freely at good prices. Grain and fodder in fair demand. Fruit: Apples, supply small and prices low, sold at l£dto2d per lb; great quantity of Hobart fruit in the market; lemons, not many to hand, sold at 7d to lOd per doz. Poultry: A fair supply of fowls, turkeys and ducks; geese scarce; turkeys, gobblers, 4s to 5s 8d; hens, 2s 6d to 3s 6d; fowls, black Spanish, 2s Id to 3s; good table fowls, Is 4d to 2s; ducks, Is 7d to 2s; pigeons, 7d. Produce : Potatoes, 2s 3d to 3s per cwt; damaged, from Is 8d to2s per sack ; onions, id to £d per lb; sprouting, from 6d to Is 6d per bag; pumpkins, 3s to 3s 3d per cwt; carrots, 2s to 2s Id per cwt. Vegetables : Cabbages, Sd to 10d per doz; cauliflowers, 6d to Is per doz; turnips. 3d to 6d per doz; celery, 5s to 10s per doz; beet, 9d per doz ; parsnips 6d per doz. Grain : Oats, 2s to 2s 2d per bushel; maize, 2s 2d; fowl wheat, 2s 9cl to 2s 3d ; bran, 4s 6d ; sharps, 4sb"d; chaff, Is 9d per sack, £3 10s per toil. Biscuit and ginger nuts, 4d per lb; Scotch mixtures, sid; coffee, Is 3d. Messrs. Esam and Arthur Weekly Report.We have held live sales during the week—Monday, jewellery Tuesday, household furniture on account of Mr. J. W. Knight; Wednesday, a shipment of conaemned wire and a sale of nursery stock ; Friday, produce. The principal change in the produce department is the fall in price of butter, prime fiesh, which brought Is 6d last week, only realised Is 3d yesterday, and so in proportion. The quantity coming forward, both locally and from Taranaki, has been greater than anticipated. In the early part of the week demand was good on island account, but now these orders are filled buyers are not so anxious to operate. Potatoes are plentiful, prices remaining about the same ; in seed varieties the output has been restricted by the bad weather. Maize has been scarcer, and about 2d better value. Oats are firm, holders not being anxious to sell. Onions are, as a rule, of. poor quality, and can only be quoted according to condition. Cheese has been so scarce that outside orders could not be fully executed. Eggs more plentiful. Local hams and bacon are not in large supply, yet all coming to hand meeting with a ready sale, For Southern factory cure the demand has been excellent ; we have placed 80 cases within j the last fortnight. Fruit has been in limited quantities, owing to no consign- I ments arriving from Sydney and the Islands, j Poultry: Supplies better; good demand. Our auction rates have been as follow Waikato potatoes, £2 to £2 103 ; Southern, £2 10s to £2 15s; Southern kidneys, £2 10s to £3 10s; Magnum Bonum, £3 10s; Shepherds, £3 to £310s; mangolds, 20s; pumpkins, £2 to £3; piemelons, £2 to £2 10s; carrots, 253 to 30s; wheat, 3s to 3s 3d; sharps, 4s 6d ; oats, 2s 2d to 2s 3d ; maize, 2s 2d ; onions, £2 10s to £4 ss, and Is to Is (3d per bag; bacon, 4id to 6Jd; hams, 6d to 7Ad ; cheese, 5Jd to 6d; butter, fresh. No. 1, lid to Is 3}d; No. 2, 9d to IOI; salt, lOd to Is Id : eggs, lid ; apples, ljd to 2d; lemons, 7d to 9Jd; local oranges, 3Jd to 5d ; Seville oranges, 6id to 7d ; peanuts, ljd ; dates, 4cl; fowls. Is 2d to Is 9u; turkeys, 3s to 4s 2d; ducks, Is 7d to 2s.

Mr. Alexander Aitken's Market report for the week ending July 16.—Business has been brisk during the week, and large quantities of general produce have been quitted at satisfactory values. Potatoes have been in demand beyond supply at a better average value: Prime Southern, £2 15s to £3 Taranaki, £2 10s to £3 Waikato, £2 10s to £2 15s; poor lots, £2 to £2 5s ; kidney seed of good sample have sold freely ; Canterbury, £3 10s to £4; Taranaki, £3 10s; local, £5 to £2 10s; Taranaki circular seed, £3; Waikato Hobart seed dull of late at 40s to 60s- Beauty of Hepburn, £4 10s to £5: Early Rose, £5 to £6, the latter in good demand; Shepherd's seed have been unsaleable except for cow feed, 10 tons have sold at 20s to 30s. Onions have been received and sold in considerable quantities. Prices continue low. Prime local, $d to fd ; Southern, £3 15s to £4 10.-; Gisborne, £3 to £4. Carrots have been in better demand, at 25s to 30s; mangolds have also sold freely at 25s to 283. Pumpkins, 3s to 5s 6d per cwt. Is ew kidney potatoes, $d to Id per lb; new Shepherds, very choice, ; others, Is to Is 9d per bag. Swede turnips, 30s. Cabbages, Is to 2s 6d per sack ; cauliflowers. 2s 6d to 5s per sack. Kumeras, 5s to 5a Cd per cwt. Butter has been received in considerable quantity during the week ; fully four tons received from Taranaki and SOcwfc of local. The market has been easier, and prices ruled lower. Prime Taranaki, Is 2d to Is 4d ; poor, lOd to Is; prime local keg, Is to Is Id; medium, 10d to Is ; roll in pickle prime Taranaki, Is 3d; local old, to Is; prime fresh butter, Is 3d to Is 4d; medium, Is to Is 2d ; inferior lots, 9d to lOd. Eggs have been in good supply and very keen demand at 10.1 to Is per dozen. Cheese remains very scarce. Prime fac-tory-made has been quitted in quantity at 6d, loaf sizes 6jd to 7d, old and damaged 2d to 4jd. Bacon has been in good demand : all sold. Prime 5d to 6d, poor 3d to 4d. Hams are rather dull of sale. Prime 6d to 6Jd, poor 3d to sd. Honey remains in good demand. Several large Southern orders unfulfilled. Good quality in bulk 3d, clover 3£d to 4d, poor honey 2d to 2Jd ; lard in kegs 4d to 4Jd, bladders 5d to s|d. Maize has been very scarce at 2s ex wharf and 2s 2d ex store. Oats : Feed 2s 4d, seed kinds 2s 6d to 2s 9d ; bran and sharps, £5 : wheat, good whole fowl feed, 3s to 3s 3d, poor 2s to 2s 6d, demand limited. Fruit: The market has been very bare ot all sorts during the week, and will continue so for next fortnight. A fine lot of choice dessert apples, local grown, came to hand for Friday's sale and brought high prices. Choice dessert apples, 2Jd to 3§d; Nickerjacks, 3d ; good ordinary sorts, 2d to 2id ; Hobarts, 2d. Lemons have been very plentiful and in excess of demand; large, 6id to lOd ; small, 4d to sd. Oranges : Local, 7|d to Is per dozen ; Poor Man's orange, 8a to lOd; Island oranges, 8s 6d to 10s per case ; Sydney, 7s to 83 ; mandarins, 10s. Peanuts, l£d to 2d ; pines, 5s per dozen. Poultry has been penned in large quantity ; values were unchanged; fat table fowls, Is 8d to 2s 3d : good ordinary, Is 4d to Is 6d ; poor, etc., 8d to Is 2d ; ducks, Is 3d to 2s 4d , geese, 2s to 2s 6d; turkeys, gobblers 3s to Bs, hens 2s to 4s 6d ; pigeons, 6d to 9d; canaries, 4s 6d to 15s each. Pigs penned in good numbers ; best breeds, lGs 6d to 15s; others, 4s 6d to 9s. Dead rabbits, 2s per pair. Horse, cart, and harness, £15 10s; covered spring cart, etc., £18. A small homestead on the East Coast was disposed of at £550 cash.

THE LONDON WOOL SALES. Prets Association.— Telegraph.—Copyright; London, July 14. The wool sales closed spiritedly compared with the series. Merinos : Sound combing greasy, $d higher. Other qualities £d lower than last closing rates. Good cross-breds closed from par to Jd higher. British buyers took 155,000 bales Continental 164,000, American 11,000, and 43,000 were withheld. The prospects of an advance at next series are doubtful.

Per New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. London, July 14. Wool.— sales closed this day at the level of last sales, except scoured Merino super, scoured Merino medium and inferior, and medium greasy cross-bred, which are Id per lb lower. Greasy Merino medium and inferior, and washed Merino medium and