AT THE MARKETS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 924, 17 September 1910, Page 4

AT THE MARKETS.

THE'CHANGE'OF SEASONS. , "these are the days of change—thr fag .end of ' seasons , here and the" beginning'.of others there.. There is^\th9. ; A usual disparity of .prices between the old and the new, with tho ever-present; ■ demand for the best. The Athenic landed 600 cases ,of Hobart apples hero on Tuesday, but they were second . grade, "and in a poor oonditioni With London calling for her }>est, it. is not , ■likely--that -Hobart : shippers are' going'. to send-, them : this, way, .and . interior . lines aro no good to Wellington... Golden! russits, in a shocking oonditipn,-. were • sold as low as 45., per case; and.-French, crabs': ;from :■ 7s.\ to 9s.- . Oranges,' lemons,; passion'-fruit,'; man- - darins,' and sweet potatoes (yams) arrived from Sydney on Wcduesday by the -Moana: . The stuff from tho orchards was in good condition, which could not be said of the fruit forward- '; ed from the markets." ; The.:condition was : lowered a point or two by the fact that it was not packed on .deck, as was usual. Fruit stowed below deck always sweats moro or less. There were no 'new potatoes.- from Sydney, this week, owing to the' Blight; over there being so bad. Shippers, if suo-' cessfulin getting certificates on the other side, are scarcely likely, to. tako the risk of having their stuff blocked over here, so _that .the supplies of new potatoes from' Ausl ralia are likely to bo small. The .iloana'B cargo for. Wellington from Suva consisted of 20 cases of tomatoes and 50 cases of . bananas. New' Zealand is not* likely to get large shipments of bananas from • Fiji until December or January iiest-ft in the. meantime we shall ; have to de- ■ pend on Rarotonga . for our island fruits. -. - The first shipment of : Californian apples for the season-left Sac Francisco on Monday last, and will reach here/early in Octobec.