COMMERCIAL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2761, 25 March 1890, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

— — '-+-> The Waikato Time/ Office, Monday AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKETS. Mb Alex. Aitken's Mauket Report for the week etjding March 22nd.—Supplies of most kinds of produce have been large, and good quantities were quitted. Sales were held as follows : Tuesday and Friday,- the usual produce and fruit; Wednesday, furniture and etfacts at North Shore; Thursday,,, sale of bananas, etc., ex Arawata. The shipment was a large one, and far in excess ■i of market requirements. Bananas, Is 6d to 2a 9d per bunch, and gd tc Id ; pines, 4s 6d to 5s per dozr Poultry of all kinds havebeen in shorter supply., There is a largo demand for ducks, fowls, and good young pigs for Island orders; all have fetched higher prices. Poor and old fowlsjls 3d to Is 5d ; good ordinary, Is (id to Iβ 10d ; roo9tera, young, in condition, Is Od-to 23 3d; others, Is 4d to Is ,7d ; ducki), Is 6d to 2s; geese, 3s to 3s 6d} turkeys, hens 4s to ss, gobblers, 7s to f& each. Pigs: Moderate supply; first-olass lots, 10a to 12s: medium, 7s to 8s; sma|L 4s to ss. No cage birds entered. Potatoes* have been more plentiful;- guaranteed samples have been quitted in fair quantities at £3 to £6, other kinds sell only at auction at from £2 to £2 15s; cow potatoes, 30s to 40s. Onions'. Orders for several tons of first olass. at £710s, could not be executed, owiiig to short supply. A quantity of inferior on band could not be quitted; prime , have been sold at £d to Id. Carrots, 2s 3d to 2a 6d; wheat is wanted at 3s; bran, £4; sharps, £4 10s; maize, nono. Hams and bacon: Only Southern to ' hand; farmers' cure, by the case Gd, for equal numbers ; firsts, bacon B|d, hams 10d Cheese: Farmers,lots overstocked ; -de-' mand dull at 3d to 4d ; factory, none. Eggs : Moderate supply at Is Gd to 2s per dozen. Fresh butter : Short supply at 9d to 10d; keg butter, 3d to 7d. Honey : Several tons of ordinary quality in bulk on order at 2Jd ; clover, in small tins, 3Jd ; section, dull at 3d to 3Jd. Fruit of; all kinds plentiful at slightly lower values. Good cooking apples, fd to lsd ; dessert varieties, Id to ; quinces, cases, Jd to l}d ; sacks, gd to |d ; lemons, 3d to Is 2d, per dozen ; Cape gooseberries, 5d ; water melons, 5s per dozen ; rock, 3s to 4s ; pears, dessert, to 4£d ; cooking, ljd to 2d; plums,. 3£d to 5d ; peaches, large, 2s 6d to 3s per dosen ; small, 5d to Is Gd ; passion fruit, 2Jd to 2£d ; grapes, indoor, 4d to 6d ;" outdoor, 2d to" ; damsons, 2|d to 3Jd ;; bullaces, Id ; figs, 2id. LONDON MARKETS. ~ [DT Et.EOTRIO TELEGKAPft— COPIBIGHT.I London, March 23.—The money market is firmer, owing to the increased demand. Three months' bill, 3 per cent. Tallow: Mutton (medium), 24.4 6d ; beef (iredium), 235. The English wheat market is lifeless, but the continental market has a buoyant inclination, and American is advancing. Fer cargoes of Australian wheat, new crop en the passage, sellers are asking 34s 9d. The highest pi ice obtainable for colonial barley ia3ss. '-.'.-'.