AUCKLAND MARKETS

Motueka Star, Volume III, Issue 110, 2 September 1902, Page 5

AUCKLAND MARKETS

( /rum the Auckland Weekly News.) Field Produce.—Potatoes : Local L 3 10s to L 4 ton ; Southern Lo, seed kinds L 5 to L 6, new kidneys Id to l|d lb. Onions : Local seed Id, American S mthern to fd. Chaff (at station) Jjs tv> L 5 5s ton. Vegetables-CVtbbages 6d to Is dozen, 3s to 5s sack ; cauliflowers. Is to 5s dozen Dairy Produce—Dairy butter, in prints or rolls, first quality, Is to Is 2d lb ; separator Is to Is 2d lb ; pastry yd to IGd ; farmers’ keg, firsts 9d, 6d to 7d ; milled, in bulk Is ; factory rolls Is 2d. "Eggs fresh 9d to 9|d dozen. Cheese: Farmers’ 4d to 4|d lb ; factory, 4|d to sgd ; loaf 6d. Bacon : Farmers’ 6d, factory 6d to Hams : Farmers’ 7d to 8d ; factory, 8d to 9d. Fruit (quotations for standard cases aud boxes only)--Apples : Local dessert 8i to 10s case; cooking 5s to 7s; Southern 6s to 7s. Tomatoes hothouse, 5d to 6d lb: passion fruit (Sydney), 5s to 8s 3d case ; walnuts 6gd to 7d lb, bananas 2s to 3s 6u bunch, l|ct to 2d lb, pines 10s to 12> crate, cocoanuts 8s sack. Poultrv--Hens Is 9d to 2s 4d each, table roostex-s, 2s to 3s, ducks 2s to 3s, geese 2s 6d to 4s 6d, ducklings 4d to 6.1, turkeys, gobblers 6s to 8s 6d, hens 3s Gd to ss.

“1 had about twenty minutes’ conversation with De Wet,” writes a Victorian living at Vereeniging, the scene of the Peace Conference. “As I looked into his face, I tried to read what there was in him to make him such a successful man. Except for the fact that he is far and away above the average in intelligence there is nothing to d*stiuguish hxm from the ordinary habitue of Flemington sale yards. He was a very successful farmer, and the man who can easily be a successful soldier. . . . When De Wet was leaving I endeavoured to express the pleasure I felt in meeting him, and (as I felt, clumsily) tried to pay him the compliment which everybody will admit is his due. He laid his hand on my sho'ulder and said . ‘I may never see you any more. I suppose you’ll hear a. lot said against me—you will hear a lot said in my favour—l care nothing for either ; but I am satisfied in the knowledge that 1 have done to the end what I considered right in the interests of mj r people, who put their trust in me. That end has now come, so good bye, and God bless us all !’

Mr Alex Bell, of Menzies Ferry, last spring (says the Wyndham Farmer) sowed five bushels of a a new variety of oat, the “Tartar King,” that he had imported from Scotland. Last week he threshed out the yield, which gave 43 bags—equal to 86 bushels to the acre. The seed was sown on medium land, which previously jhad borne very poor crops, but in this instance it had been heavily limed, Mr Bell says that the straw is strong and heavy, and stands up to rough weather well, in their power to make the evening enjoyable, and with the good floor piepared t. eir efforts were crowned with success. How long and disastrous has been the drought in Australia may be gathered from the positive statement by one who is not given to exaggerating that there are children in the back country five and six years of age who do nof remember to have seen rain. That means that in some places no rain has fallen for some three years. •1. tie worm b record ior otea in ships is 560 miles a day, and for sailing ships 325 miles. Rheumatic Pains will soon wear out the strongest constitution. If relief is possible, Chamberlain’s Pain Balm will afford it. This liniment has been a boon to thousands of sufferers. One application gives relief. Try it. A. Manoy sells it. WADE’S WORM FIGS —the Wonderful Worm Worriers—are always effective' is boxes everywhere .