COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 154, 29 June 1907, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

FRUIT AND PRODUCE' MARKETS. Auctioneers report mat business generally on the local fruit and produce markets has been quiet daring then*, week, the severe weather prevailing greatly interfering with business. The supply of poultry was very short in consequence of'tbe weather conditions, and prices ruled high throughout in produce a fair amount of business was done, but in potatoes tHe only transactions were in Tasmanian-growi. There was practically no inquiry for seed varieties Grain and fodder were somewhat firmer In values Prime local chaff was In better demand. \ egetables generally were scarce at men rates, but pumpkins cqnlnne almost unsaleable. Locally-grown lumeras met a lair market. In dairy prodijee moderate quantities of farihers" butter were sent in to the auction sales, and jthe prices realised were well up to values of factory kinds. Factory makes found a B}uch-increased outlet for local consumption! Fresh e"»s were in increased supply, andiprk-es ruled lower than last week. The market for cheese was easier. Bacon andlhams were m full supply. The fruit market, owing to the cold and severe weather, suffered in the demand. Supplies were fully up to, if not beyond, local requirements. Local consignments consisted of heavy! supplies of apples from Port Albert, which* although sold at satisfactory values, showed a marked decline on values realised at a similar date in former years. The Mpnapouri landed a light shipment of bananas from Fiji on Tuesday, and. being generally in good condition, sold at much improved prices than those ruling for last mouth's shipments. The Waikare landed on Monday a fair shipment of Sydney mandarins, passion-fruit, and Queensland pines, all of which were quitted at fair values. The following were the ruling prices at the auction sales yesterday:— Field Produce.—Potatoes: Local seed varieties (nominal), £5 to £6 per ton; Ta'smanian. table, prime, £5 to £5 10*. Kumeras: Local, 6/ to 7/ cwt. Onions: Local, prime. £5 to £6 ton; do., medium, £3 to £4; do..' Australian, £7. Chaff: Local, prime, £5 10/. Dairy Produce.—Farmers' and separator butter, in pats, 9d to 10_d lb: farmers' bulk. Hid; milled, in bulk, for export, 8&d; pastry, eid. Eggs: Fresh. 1/7 to 1/S dozen: do., pickled, 1/2. Cheese: Factory, 6Jd to 7d lb; do., loaf. 7_d. Bacon: Faetory,"7d to 80. Hams: Factory. TJd to Sd. Fruits.—Apples: Local dessert, superior, 8/ to 9/ case; do., good. 7/ to 7/9; do., medium, 5/ to 6/. Apples: Cooking, choice. 7/ to S/; do., medium, 5/ to 6/6. Grapes. 2/8 to 3/6 lb. Oranges: Local, Poor Mans. 4/ to 5/ case: do.. Island. 5/ to 8/; do., Sydney. 3/. Mandarins: Sydney, 2/11 to 6/ (according to condition). Lemons: Local, prime, 5/ to 6/: do., rough and coarse, 2/ to 3/. Pa6sion-fru!t: Sydney, 8/ to 9/. Peanuts: 2Ad to 3d lb. Bananas: 2/ to 3/ bunch; do., repacked, lid lb. Pines: Queensland, 7/ to 9/ case. Cocoanuts: 12/ sack.

Poultry.—Hens. 2/ to 2/6 each; table roosters, 2/6 to 4/; ducks, 2/6 to 3/6; geese, 3/6 to 4/.

Mr J. Jones reports the following sales: —Poultry came forward in good supplies to a good market. Pumpkins came forward in very heavy supplies to a very poor market. We quote: Boosters, heaw, 2/9 to 3/6; medium. 1/10 to 2/3: cockerels, 1/ to 1/6; hens, 1/6 to 2/1: ducks, 1/5 to 2/2: turkey gobblers. 6/9 to 10A; bens. 3/9 to 5/3. Potatoes, Tasmanians. £5 to £5 10/: seed potatoes, £6 10/ to £8 15/: onions, 5/ to 5/6: horse carrots. £1 7/6 to £1 10/; pumpkins, 2/ to 2/6. Butter, keg and box, 7d to 7d: pats, 7ld to BJd; eggs, fresh, 1/7 to 1/S: preserved, l/l to 1/3: cheese, farmers', 5d to SM: bacon, sides, 6d to 6Jd: hams. 6Ad to 7*d. Fruit, choice dessert apples. 7/ to S/6: others. 5/6 to 6/; cookers, 5/ to 6/$; lemons, 3/9 to 5/; capes, 3d to 4d: tomatoes. 4/ to 5/6. Maize. 3/1; wheat, 4/4: oats. 3/5: sharps. £6 10/: bran, £5 10/: chaff, £5 ex station; Algerian recleaned oats, 3/7J to 3/9. MESSES. ALFRED B UCKLAND AND SONS' KEPOKT. Horses.—At the Haymarket on Friday last we again had a full yarding, and there was a keen demand for all sound, young, useful workers. Active young -waggon and express class realised from £32 to £51; light sorts, £26 to £28; buggy horses and good hacks, £15 5/ to £24 10/; light haxness and ordroacs- hacks, j£6.;to £l&;.-gig jponies, £2 to £5 10/t aged draughts; £18 to i'2o 10/. Eight medium young sorts from Taranaki averaged £37 9/ each.

On Saturday we held a clearance sale at Mr. John Fitzpatrick's, Pafeuranga. TUere was a large attemlnee, and bidding was spirited throogboot The cows, whicb were a choice lot, sold at from £4 2/6 to £9 IV/U; empty cows, £3 to £4 2/6; yearling heifers, £2 to £2 17/6; farm mares, £17 10/ to £2o; two-year-old ally, £15.

Stock of all classes were well represented .' at Remuera on Thursday, and sold at late ! values, cows near their profit selling from ;£5 to £8; dry, 30/ to £3 IT,/. Few stores i penned kept recent quotations. Fat and I young calves, short of requirements, sold I freely from 3/ to 45/; G9 sold. The beet ] pens were again well filled with cattle, good ! quality ox beef selling from 20/ to 22/ per I 1001b. cow 17/ to 20/. Steers made from .£5 17/6 to £11; cows, £3 15/ to £8: 397 ] sold. Sheep, penned in average nuuiDers, ; sold freely, best wetbers selling to 27/3. 1 lighter weights to 22/; heavy ewes £1 1/. ; others 16/ to 19/; hoggets, 11/ to 18/; 1560 i sold. Pigs were in better demand, baconI era selling from £2 to £2 11/, porkers to | 36/; no small penned; 70 sold. Hides, Skins, Tallow, etc.—Hides: Ox 5d to 7Jd. cow od to s}d, calf 6d to 6id, horse 7/ to 11/6, stags' 31d. damaged hides 3d to 4Jd, horsehair lid to 1/GJ, tallow 20/ to 27/6, fat ISd, bones £4 15/ to £5 Skins: Best botchers' 4/11 to 5/8, medium 4/ to 4/9, small and damaged 1/4 -to 3/11. LONDON CABLE. (By Cable.—Frees AssoclaUon.—Copyright.) LONDON, June 28. Three months' bills are discounted at 3 11-16 per centConsols, £84 12/6. New Zealand 4 per cents £108, 3J per cents £97 10/, 3 per cents £87. Tasmanian 3* per cents £98, 3 per cents £S7 10/. West Australian 3J per cents £87 10/, 3 per cents £85. The wheat markets are hardening on evidence that European crops are considerably below the average of the past five years. There is good demand for cargoes at 34/ li to 34/6. Flour is quiet and firm. Copper: On spot £96, at three months £80 10/. Tin: On spot £190 15/, at three months £181 a/. Lead: On spot £'-0 5/. iron: 56/9. Sugar: German 9/9, .first marks 11/3. The Bradford wool market is generally firm. Super 28d. Sales: 3790 bales offered, of which 3150 were Australasian, and 3540 bales sold. There was an average attendance, but competition was occasionally 6low. Merino combings were from par to a farthing dearer than May rates; crossbred combings, par to a halfpenny lower. The butter market Is dull and unchanged. There is no demand for colonial, except the very choicest. ,