AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9497, 28 April 1894, Page 3

AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Me. R. Arthur's Weekly , Report.—But little alteration in the produce market. Onions scarce, and have advanced in price. i Potatoes remain about the same, only good , samples will bring £3. Supplies to hand from the South. Carrots wanted, none to hand. Pumpkins and melons very slow, at low prices. Bacon and hams of good quality still very scarce. Eggs lower. Cheese goes off fairly well if the quality is right ; other lots difficult to get off at any price. Fruit: A large quantity of apples to hand; prices were lower than last week, owing to the shipments from Hobart. Some lines had to be held back; but little of other kinds. Lemons quiet. A large number of fowls entered ; a fair supply of turkeys, ducks, and geese. Bidding was languid, and prices ruled very low. Fowls sold at lOd to 2s 8d ; chicks, 6d to Is Id ; turkeys, small gobblers, 3s Id to 4s 3d ; hens, 2s to 2s 9d ; ducks., Is Id to Is 2d; geese, 28 Id to da ; pigeons, 5a to 6d. Fresh-laid eggs, lid to Is 4d; pickled, 8d dozen ; bacon, best samples, GJd to 8d; hams, 9d ; other lots, 3d to id; bacon, Id to 4d ; cheese, best, 3d to 4d ; others, Id to 2d ; honey, white, 3£d; potatoes, 2s to 3s; cow, Is (id; pumpkins, Is 2d to 2s; melons, Is to Is 4d; kumeras, 4s ; onions, l|d to l^d; cabbages, Is to Is 7d dozen; wheat, 2s 7d; maize, 2s 9d; oats, Is 9d to 2s; bran, 3s; sharps, 3s 9d ; ohaff, 3s. Apples, Id to 2|d lb, and Is 6d to 4s oase; quinces, l£d lb; guavas, 2d; chestnuts, 6d to 7Jd; walnuts, 6fd; lemons, s£d to 8d; persinimotis, 3d to s£d dozen ; tomatoes, Is 3d to Is 9d case. Messrs. Esam and Arthur's Weekly Report.— is no unusual activity to chronicle either in the produce or fruit markets, and values as a rule remain at recent quotations. Supplies of potatoes about equal the demand, but the quality varies so much that the margin in prices is considerable. Onious are remarkable for the scarcity of supplies.. Fresh butter was in more limited quantities than for a long time past, prices same as last week's. Demand for prime salt, principally for export, has been fair. Eggs continue very scarce. Hams and bacon in shprt supply, with high raies ruling. Fruit: Two large supplies have been received from Hobart of apples and pears, the market being weakened in consequence; the local crops are well nigh exhausted. . Our auction rates have been as follow : — Potatoes, Hobarts, £3 to £3 ss, best lines Magnums, £3 to £3 5s ; pumpkins, £1 108 to £2 ; mangolds, 20s ; pie and citron melons, 20s to 30s; kumeras, £3 10a to £4 ss; onious, lid to l£d; maize, 2s 6d to 2s 8d : wheat, 2s 9(1; oats, 2s 3d to 2s 4d; bran, £3; sharps, £3 15s to £4; fresh butter, Mo 1, Sid to 9.sd ; No. 2, 6Ad to 7d; salt, to 7£d;' inferior pastry, 2£d to 3d ; guaranteed eggs, Is 4d to Is 7d; pickled, 7sd ; cheese, 3d to 4d. Fruit : Apples, dessert, 4s to 6s 3d; cooking, 3s 6d to ss; Cape gooseberries, 3Jd to 44d; lemons, 4sd to 7£d ; figs, 2d; grapes, 7id; guavas, 3d; tomatoes, Is to Is §d; green bacon, local, 6id to 7d ; hams, 7Ad. Poultry; Fowls, la 2d to Is 7d; table, ls"sd to Is 9cl; ducks, Is 3d to Is 6d. Mr. Alex. Aitken's Market Report Potatoes have been quitted in large quantities, best lots sold at £3 to £3 5s ; medium, 2s 6d to 2s 9d ; cow, Is lOd ; pumpkins, Is 6d to 2s 3d ; pie melons, Is to Is 6d ; citron, Is to Is 8d; onions, IJd to 1-Jd; kumeras, 3s 6d to 4s 3d ; maize, 2s 9d to 2s lid; wneat, 2s 9d; mangolds. lOd to Is Id; carrots, Is 9d to 2s. Butter : Best fresh, 8d to 9|cl ; medium, 6id to 7&1 ; prime keg, 6Jd to 7|d; medium, ' s|d to fid ; pastry, 4(1 to sd; Taranaki dairy in boxes. 7d; separator, 8cl; eggs, fresh, Is 5d to Is 7'id ; pickled, 8d to 9d ; bacon, local dairy fed, 7d to 8d ; hams, 8d to 9Jd ; Canterbury, none in the market; cheese, 2|d to 4Ad, according to quality and size; loaf cheese, 6a ; honey (section wanted) 4s Gel to 4s 9d ; bulk, 3£d to 4d ; vegetables, in heavy supply at satisfactory prices. Fruit: Heavy supplies of Hobart fruit have had a tendency to lower the prices of local apples. Notwithstanding this, best dessert apples, free from moth, 6s to 7s 9d; others, 4s to 5s lOd; culinary, best lots, 4s 6d to 6s lOd ; others, 3s to 4s 3d ; Cape gooseberries, 3£d to 4£d ; guavas, ljrd to 3d ; lemons, slow of sale, 4s 3d to 7s, and 2s 6d to 3s 6d half-case ; tomatoes, Is to 2s 9d ; tigs, Is 3d to Is 6d; grapes, best hothouse Is o£d to ls4d, out-door 4£d to 6d; persimmons, 2s Id to 3s 6d ; chestnuts, s&d to 6Jd ; Hobart apples, 7s to 7s 3d ; pears, 6s 9d to 10s case ; walnuts, to sa. Poultry : 2000 bead penned ; best table roosters, Is 6d to 2s 2d ; others, Is to Is 5d ; table fowls, Is 3d to Is lOd; others, 9(1 to Is 2d ; ducks, Is 3d to Is lOd ; geese, Is 6d to 2s 3d ; turkeys, gobblers, 3s 6d to 7s 6d ; liens, 2s 6d to 4a ; chickens, 4d to 7d ; pigeons, 4d to 9d; canaries, 3s 9d ; p : .; r s, best lots, 12s 6d to 18s 6d; medium, 8s to 103 9d ; poor and suckers, 3s to 7s 6d. Mr. J. Jones' Weekly Report.—Potatoes: firmer, a good first-class, £3 to £3 5s ; other classes, £2 10s to £3; cow potatoes, £1 10s ton, and Is Gd to 2s Gd sack : bacon, first- : class, 7&d to 8d lb; seconds, sid to 6£d lb; 'green hams, Til to Bsd lb; rotf bacon. 4d to fid ib; butter, first-class, B£d to 9|d lb; second-class, 4Jd to 7£d lb; eggs, Is 4Jd to Is 6£d dozen; cheese, first-class, Southern Wairoa, 3Jd to 4d lb; old Canterbury. 2d to 2Jd lb; rabbits, Is 6d to Is 9d pair; vegetables, cabbage, 8d to Is dozen, and Is to Is 9d sack; pumpkins, Is Gd to 2s 3d cwt; piemelons, Is Gd to 2s sack, and j Is to Is 3d per cwt; citron, Is 3d per cwt; mangolds, Is 3d to Is Gd per sack ; new po- \ tatoes, Id per lb ; beans, Is to 2s Id per bag ; carrots, Is 9d to 2a per cwt; carrots and parsnips, 3d to 6d per dozen ; green peas, Is per peck: kumeras, 5s to 6s per cwt ; swedes, Is 6u to 2s per sack; celery, Is to Is 6d per dozen; onions, lid per lb, lis to 12s per cwt ; passion fruit," 3d per dozen ; tomatoes, ' Gd to Is 6.1 per case : lemons, 4d to 6d per ' dozen ; figs. Id to 2d per dozen ; guavas, Id to Ihd per lb ; pigs, young, Is 9d each; turkeys, hens, 3s, gobblers 4s to 5s ; ducks, Is 3d to la 8d each ; fowls, Is 3d to Is 8d each ; maize, 2s Sd to 2s 9d per bushel ; bran, 3s ; sharps, 43 ; oats, 2s to 2s 2d per bushel; wheat, 2s Gd to 2s 8d per bushel. THREE FORTUNATE WOMEN. We will introduce you to the oldest one first. Her name is Mrs. Jessie Russell, and she lives near the city of New York, in America. She was bom in London in 1787, and is therefore 105 years old. She remembers many incidents of her childhood, and still has traces of former beauty. Her eyes are bright, and become animated when she talks. She retains her mental faculties, completely. She descends two flights of stairs to every meal, and returns without, assistance. Up to three years ago she was a regular attendant at the Greenwood Baptist Church. Her sight is excellent, aud she reads a the newspapers every day, and takes great interest in the news from England. She has never had any severe illness in her life, and her appetite and digestion are almost as good as they were fifty years ago. The second woman says :— Ever since I was 8, child I have suffered from illness. Thirteen years ago a tired, languid, and heavy feeling came over me. Tho whites of my eyes became tinged with yellow, my skin was sallow, and my hands and feet were cold and clammy. My mouth tasted badly, especially in the morning: and I was often sick, vomiting a sour, frothy fluid. I had a pain in the chest and sides, heartburn, and flatulency. For four years I suffered like this, and I shall be glad to recommend the medicine that finally cured me."—(Signed) (Mrs.) Frances Emily Smith, 49a, Woodhousestreet, Leeds, January 25th, 1892. The third woman says "I have been delicate all my life. For the past six years I have always felt tired, languid, and weak. I had a poor appetite, a bad taste in the mouth, and pain after every morsel I ate. I was dizzy, and often felt as if I was going to fall. I always felt sick, and would retch and strain, but could bring nothing up. There was a dull pain at the right side, and a dreadful pain between the shoulders. I never knew what it was to be well. After being on my feet for a time my legs would swell very much. No doctor was able to help me, nor any medicine; that is, up to the time I took the one which gave me my health back. I never felt so well in my life as I ,do now." —(Signed) (Mrs.) Sarah Sharman, Glinton, near Market Deeping, February 19th, 1892. Why do we put these three women in a group—the one venerable woman in America and the two others here in England ? They are perfect strangers to one another, and always will be. We do it to show how long and happily a woman may live if she only happeus to escape the malady that everywhere threatens her sex; and also to show that those who have been burdened and cursed with it may be cured and once more taste the joys of health.. Mrs. Smith concludes her letter in these words :—" After takiug three bottles of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup all pain and sickness left me, and I knew no more of the ailment that had troubled me so indigestion and dyspepsia. I know others who have been benefited by the Syrup. All sufferers should use it." Mrs. Sharrnan adds that after she had doctored and doctored and taken everything, almost without getting any good from it, Mr. Webster, a grocer of Glinton, said, " Why don't you use Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup?" She acted on his suggestion, and health wasn't long in coming. " I cannot speak too highly of Seigel's Syrup," she says. We should agree with her in that opinion, for a remedy that will in a few weeks put an end to a case of chronic indigestion and dyspepsia is certainly worth a good word or two. Now, here you have these three Englishwomen—one so fortunate as to have lived more than a century without an illness : the others (still more fortunate) have known the sadness of suffering and the pleasure of recovery. - • Oh, my ! oh, my ! how hard it is to tell who is best off in this queer orld.