AUCTIONEERS REPORTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9401, 6 January 1894, Page 3

AUCTIONEERS REPORTS.

Mr. Richard Arthur's Weekly Report.--Business has not yet recovered the effect of the holidays. Limited demand at lower prices for most lines. Potatoes : Stocks j lighter, but only good, fresh, well-bagged ones command attention; others difficult to get off at any price. Growers must be careful to send only first samples, and not to glut the market. Onions in fair demand at Tate prices. Vegetables in large supply, prices ruled low. Fresh butter brought fair prices, supply, j much smaller. Spring-made corned butter goes off slowly at s|d to Gd. Cheese quiet, | still a quantity of old Southern in the market, and a good number of inferior local. It is hoped another week or so will clear i these out, and the market will be steadier. I Bacon: No ■ first-class local entered; it is wanted; only last season's Canterbury and inferior to hand; the same may be said of hams. Honey is wanted. Grain moved off slowly at late prices; a rise has taken place in sharps. Fruit: Supply small; most of the peaches to hand were in bad order some of the plums were too ripe to stand transit no pears entered, they are wanted; market very full of Sydney fruit; this keeps prices of local low. Poultry : A small supply—but little demand ; prices ruled low; the larger buyers not requiring. Eggs scarce, an unsatisfied demand. Fowls sold at Is ».» Is lOd each; chicks, 7d to Is 3d ; no turkeys entered ; ducks, 9d to Is 4d; geese, 2s 3d; pigeons, 7d: eggs. Bid per dozen; fresh butter, ojd to 6d per lb; corned butter, 5Jd to Gd; bacon, sid; cheese, local, 2Jd to 4d ;no demand for old ; potatoes, 2s to as; onions. Id to ljd ; and Is 5d per dozen bunches ; cabbages, 9d to 2s per sack, and 5d to 7d per do/en; red. Is Id; carrots, 6d to 7d ; turnips, Id to 6d ; beet, 8d to 2s ; cauliflowers, 9d ; cucumbers, 2d to 7d ; rhubarb, Is to 2s; peas, 4d to 7d per peck; French beans, 2d to 4d ; oats, 2s 7d ; wheat, 33; barley, 2s 6d ; maize, 3s ; sharps, 4s 3d ; bran, 33; plums, 2|d to 4fd per lb. Some in bad order at low price per case. Peaches 4d I to 9d par dozen, and bad order at low prices Ser case. Apricots 4d per lb. Tomatoes ?est) 3|d; inferior at per case. Apples Is 6d to 3s 4d per case. Mr. Alex. Aitken's Weekly Report.— j Fruit and produce has been put through in ! large quantities. Potatoes: Forty tons quitted ; prime samples, £4 to £5 ; others, 2d Gd to 3s Gd. Onions met with good demand, at Id to 1 Jd; fowl wheat, 3s ; maize, 3s to 3s 3d; bran, £3 10s to £4 43 ; sharps, 4s ; green peas. 4d to 9d ; beans, at per bag ; rhubarb, 1 2s Get to 5s 3d ver dozen; garlic, 3d ; blue peas, 4s 9d: butter, prime fresh, 7d to 8d j, poor, 3d to Gd; eggs, B\d to 11 Jd; keg butted overstocked, demand very limited ; cheese, prime dairy, 3+d to 4d ; factory, 4d to ; loaves, sid; bacon, prime, 7d to 8d ; poor, 4d to 6d; hams, prime, 8d to 9d.; others. 3d to sd. Fruit: 300 cases Sydney plums sold at 3s 9d to 5s per box; local black plums, 4d to 6-id; greengage, 4d to Gjd ; peaches, sound and good, Early Rivers, 6Jd to lOd; others, including bad lots, 3jd to ; coloured kinds, Is to Is 9d per dozen ; grapes, Black .Hatnburgs, lOd to Is; White Muscat, extra samples, up to Is 8d ; pears, Jargonelle, 2d to 3|d ; lemons, 4s to 8s 6d per case ; apples, choice dessert kinds, 4s to 7s 3d; ordinary, 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; poor, Is 3d to Is 8d ; choice large cooking, '2s to 4s 3d; others, Is 3d to Is lOd : tomatoes, ljd to 3d; Cape gooseberries, Gd to 6|d; walnuts, 5d to G.Jd; green, 2d. Poultry : Table roosters, 2s 3d to 2s 9d ; others, Is 3d to 2s Id ; fowls, Is 5d to Is l()d ; others, Is to ls4d , ducks, Is to Is lid; geese, 3s; turkeys, gobblers, 5s Gd to 6s 9d ; ducklings, 4d to Is 4d ; hens and broods, 2s Gd to 33 9d ; pigeons, 6d to 9d. Pigs : Best breeds, 13s to 15s 9d ; medium, 8s to 12s 6d; poor and scrubbers,, 5s to 7s 3d. Messrs. Esam and Arthur's Weekly Report.Business generally is beginning to revive, now the holidays are over. The Island steamer's departure moved off a, considerable quantity of general produce. Prices. are low, however, also of fruit, but we anticipate an upward tendency all round. .Large supplies of potatoes have been sent in, the quality of so many lots being so poor necessitated quick sales, and has affected values of prime quality. In cereals there has been but little activity. Fresh butter a shade lower some consignments to hand in very soft condition. ' No ; material alteration in other dairy lines. Fruit: Supplies of local are increasing; values , have been low, owing principally .to the large quantity of Sydney shipments during the last fortnight. Local plums will be scarce this season. Sales during the week have been effected as follows Potatoes : First quality kidneys, £4 10s to £5 ss; Magnum Bonums, £4 53 to £5; Hobarts, £3 15s to £4 10s ; second quality, £3 5s to £4 2s ba ; Shepherds, £2 10s to £3 lOa. Onions, lid to lid ; maize, 2s lOd to 3s; oats, 2s 7d ; bran, £3 5s ; wheat, 2s 4d to 2s Bd. Fresh butter : No. 1, 5Jd to 7d ; No. 2, 4d to sd; salt butter, spring-made, 5Jd to 6Jd; old, no demand. New cheese, 3sd to 4d; inferior, 2d to 2jd ; old, 3d to 3Jd. Eggs, guaranteed, 7§d to 9d ; bacon, no first-class entered; inferior, 3d to 4d. Fruit: Apples, Red Astrachan, lid to 2d per lb and 2s Gd to 5s per case: Irish Peach, 2a to 3s; large cooking, 2s 6d to 4s; small sorts. Is 3d to 2s ; pears, lfd to ojd • lemons, s.jd to 7d; grapes, lOd to Is 2d; tomatoes, ljd to 2^d; peaches, Bsd to Is; others, in bad order, 4d to 6Jd ; local oranges, 6s to 7s; plums, 3£d to4|d. Poultry: Fowls, Is to 9d: roosters, Is (id to 2a Id ; turkeys, 4s 6d to 6s 3d ; ducks, Is 4d to Is Gd. Mr. J. Jones' Weekly Report.—Potatoes : Kidneys, choice samples 5s 4d, other s qualities, 3s 9d to 4s 6d ; Hobarts, 3s 3d to ' 4s '3d; Shepherds, 2s 6d to 3s 3d. Onions, ■ ljd; cabbage, Gd to Is 4d per sack, 5d to 10(1 per dozen;, rhubarb, Is 3d to 2s 4d per doz. peas, s|d to 9d per peck; beans, 2Jd to 5d per peck ; cucumbers, 5d to lid per dozen ; tomatoes, 2d to 2£d per lb; maize, 3 ; sharps, j 4s per cwt; bran, 3s 6d per cwt; oats, 2s 6d per bushel; wheat, 2a 8d per bushel; chaff, slow of sale ; Canterbury bacon, best, 7£d to Bd, seconds 6Jd to 6|d; hams, lOd ; butter, first 6id to 7(1, seconds 5d to fid; eggs, guaranteed Bid to 9Jd, not 3d to 6d per dozen; keg, small demand, first-class. s£d to 6id; new local cheese, 3d to 3Jd, old Id to l£d ; pears, 2}d to 3d per lb; Red Astrachan, 3s to 3s 9d per case ; Jupp's, 2s 9d to 3s 6d ; Irish Peach, 2s 9d to 3s 6d per. case; other kinds, Is 9d to 2s 9d per case.