CENTRAL PRODUCE MART (LTD.). Reilly, Scott, and Gill, Proprietors.

Otago Witness, Issue 2842, 2 September 1908, Page 41

CENTRAL PRODUCE MART (LTD.). Reilly, Scott, and Gill, Proprietors.

Messrs Reilly, Scott, and Gill report as follows : — We have pleasure in reporting that supplies of fruit are coming to hand more freely. We received some nice consignments of bananas, oranges, and cocoamits from the Islands ; also a fine line of Sydney fruit and some choice local apples. Eggs have been arriving freely. Poultry in fair supply, our firm receiving the bulk of the consignments coming to this market. Potatoes hang fire, and sales are slow. Pigs are wanted, and high prices are available. Bmtter and cheese in great demand. Onions in short supply. Chaff, wheat, and oats offering freely, and sales are slow. We bog to quote prices based on actual Bales made by us during the past week •. — Apples : Choice cookers, 2£d to 2Jd ; othera, lid to IJd; dessert, choice, 2£d to 3£d per ib. Tomatoes, Is 3d per lb. Bananas, 10b per case (green) ; ripe. 2£d per lb. Coooanuts, Bs. per sack. Oranges: Island repacks, 14s. Pines, 9s 6d per case. Lemons, 10s 6d per case. Passions, 8s per case. Swedes, 2s 6d per sack. Potatoes : Derwents, se; Up-to-Dates, 4s to 4s 6d per cwt. Onions: Melbourne, 13s per cwt. Chaff: Prime oat sheaf, 4s 6d. Straw: Ti yh€aten. 2s 3d; oaten, 2a 3d to 2e 6d. 'Pines: Tinned (prize winner brand), 4s 3d per dozen. Nuta: Walnuts, s£d ; peanuts, 2d to -3d; Barcelonas, sd : Brazil, Bd. Parsnips, 5s 6d per sack. Cabbage, 2s 6d to 4s per eack. Cauliflower, 5s to 9s 6d per sack. Carrots. 3s to 4s per bag. Raisins, lid per. lb. Currants, ljd to 2id per lb. Sultanas, 3d per lb. Ginger, 7Jd per lb. Honey (bulk), 4id^per lb. Figs: Bags, 3d; layer (ohoice). 4£d per lb. Dates: Packet 6, 3id. Eggs: Fresh, 10id to lid. Butter: Separator, Is 4d ; bulk, lOd to Is 2d per lb. Poultry: Hens, 3s &d to 4s od ; cockerels. 4s 6d to 6s 4d ; ducks, 6s 6d to 86 6d ; jreese, 7s 6d per pair for good-quality birds ; turkeys — bens. sd; gobblers, 7£d to 8d for $;ood birds. Beeswax, Is 6d per lb. Horsehair, Is 3d per lb. Reilly, Scott, and Gill, Auctioneers. CUSTOMSI RETURNS. Figures obtained from the Customs o<Ticps show that the amount of Customs duty levied during the past month was £57,080 10s, as against £47,305 13s 7d for the corresponding period last year. Boer duty levied last . month was' £2473 12s Id, the revenue bbtained from this source for August, 1907, being £2383 19s lid. Tho amount of gold" exported shows a marked increase, the figures reading: — August, 1908, 13.9890z, valued at £56,681; August, 1907, 790105, valued at £32,098. INVESTMENT STOCKS. AuguEt 31. "National Bank— Buyers £4 19s, sellers £5 Is. Bink of Now South Wales— Sellers £9. National" lnsurance — Buyers £1 7s 3d. »»v Zealand Shipping Company — Buyers £6 3*. r S S. Co.— Sellers £1 15s. We^inort Ccal Co.— Sellers £6 ss. Now Zealand Coal and Oil— Selkrs Is 3d. Nat'onal Mortgage Co — Buyers £3 Is, jseUo<-=i £3 2s. Afo-fiel Woollon Factory— Sellers £3. Ejn.-i Timber (contrib.) — Buyers 12a 9d, sellers 14s 6d.