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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 476, 31 May 1890, Page 4

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Auckland, May 24. Mess us Hunter and Nolan’s Weekly Report.—Grain. seed, horsefeed, etc.: A moderate degree of activity lias existed with little or no change in value. We quote. Oats, 2s to 2s 2d; maize, 5s to 3s 4d per bushel; bran, .£3 15s to £4 per ton; oaten chaff, >2 10j to £3. Hordes; A good demand has continued without any material alteration in value. A moderate number were submitted by auction on Friday: bidding was slow, purchasers I o'ding back for a shipment in tia isit from Wanganui. Wo quote: Hacks, from £4 10s 10 £9 10s; medium draughts, £5310s to £l4 10s. Wool, hides, and skins : Tho demand for heavy hides lias continued, and has bieti brisker for other desriptions. We quote: Heavy ox, 4RI to 5d per lb ; medium, 3d to 4d ; light ox and cow, l{d to 2 : Jd; calfskins, 2d to 4d per lb; sheepskins, 2s lid to 4s 8d each; lani"sidn*, 3s 2d to 3s lid; pelts, Is Id to 2s 9d. Cattle: The supply cf stores lias been good, and tho demand for all classes has continued unusually brisk for the scasin of tho year, prices being in fa' our of venomsGood dairy cows have been scarce: medium a.iimn'.s maintained previous prices. Fat beasts were slightly in excess of requirements, consequently prices receded slightly. The Junction Yards on Tuesday were tairly will filled with all descriptions, and competition was good throughout the fa'c. Hairy cows sold at previous week’s vaii:o3: stores were a shade higher, and fat boasts were 10s per head lower on the average, prices ranging lor steers from 12s 6d to 16s per 1001 b; cows, 12s to 14s: some averages of fat steers wore £6 15s, £6 7s6d, £5 14s, £5 12s 6d, £5 103 ; cows, £3 7s 6d, £3 4(. £2 12s (id ; grown store stems, according to quality and condition, sold at from £2 15s to £4 12s 6d ; two-year-old steers, from £1 5s to £2 10s; yearling steers, 20s to 30s each; calves, from losto2(K Sheep: There was barely an aver ge muster ut the Newmarket Yards on Tuesday, but the demand was not so brisk as on the previous week; wethers sold at from Its 9d to 16s 3d; ewes, 10s to 13s 6d ; mixed. 10s 3d to 12s 9d; lamb •, 6s 3d to 7i 9d each. Pigs scarce. Me s.s Alkkk a Buckland & Sons Report. -At the Ilaymarkcs fodder has brought from 2s 6d to 3s 3d perewt; oats, Is lid to 2s 3d ; maize, 3s Id to 3s 3d ; wheat, 2s lid per bushel; chat)) £215.3 ; potatoes, £1 15s to £2 7s 6d per tor. On Friday horse stock, in full number, sold freely throughout the sale; prices for useful stock ranged from £8 to £lßlos each. A spring cart brought £l3. On Tuesday hides and skins w re pitched in full numbe-s; best heavy hides ranged from 4d to 41d per lb; sound ordinary ox hides, from 3 i upwards ; cow hides, lid to 2d; damaged hides, frem id to lid per lb; sheepskins were firm: butchers’ skins ranged from 4s to 5s 11; station skins, 2s to 4s each ; tallow, 14s to 19s perewt. At the country cattle sales held respectively at Pokcno and Drury tho numbers yarded were less than usual for grown steers. There is a good demand at full values, but growing cattle are comp native ly neglected. At ltemuora, on Thursday, dairy cattle were in moderate supply, and fair demand at late values: good animals brought from £4 10s to £5 10s each: store cattle of alt clashes advanced in values; fat cattle in less than usual numbers, were lower; prices ranged from 13s to 14s per 1001 b, and wore steady throughout ti e sale. Sheep, in full numbers, sustained la?t week’s values; long-woolled twotooth wethers were from 12s 6d to 14b : four and six-tooth merinos. 6s 6d; fat ewes, 9s to 11s; shorn lambs, 8s 6.1 each. Well-bred fat pigs sold wel', but coarse pigs were yarded far in exces' ot requirement; many hundred sold; prices very regular. Messrs G. W. Binney & Sons’ Uepo-.t.— On Tuesday we offered an average catalogue of hides, sheepskins, etc. Heavy stout ox are in brisk demand from 4kl to 4|d ; heavy, 3kl to 4d ; medium, 2)d to 3d; cow, best, 2d to 21d ; medium and light, ljd to l:|(l; kips, 2d to 3d ; calf, 3hl to 4Jd ; damaged are dull ot sale at low valutf. Wo expect a rise in value of all medium and lig t hides. Sheepskins. Prucs advanced, extreme values paid lor all offered. The supply is not equal to the demand, hence the rise. Local green longwools, up to 4s 9cl; crossbreds, 43 2d to 4s 9d ; salted, from 3.3 to 4s 4rl; dry. from 2a 9J to 4s 6(1; dry arc now selling equal to ojd per lb. Tallow Only small packages offered, which sold at late values. Bones. 4s 6d to 4s 9d per cwt; shank bones, os per cwt. Me-srs Arthur and Buddle’s Weekly Report.—'• here have been nine sales by auction this week. Potatoes are still a glut in the market; low prices liavo to be taken to clear j off. Onions in fair demand, at late prices. Butter : Fresh, of good sample, in demand, any other low in prices. Cornea iu limited demand. Pastry, blit little inquiry. Cheese of good quality moves off fairly well. Bacon : Several lots of local-cured entered,-nd sold at fair prices; there is a demand for good stuff. Eggs: Fresh laid were in demand, far beyond supply. Honey ; Stock light. Fruit of good sample has sold well; tbe supply is dropping off. Growers must he careful not to hold buck too long, for if p ices rise much Hobart will be sure to supply the market. Poultry ; Fowls were entered in fair number; average values better than las;; week, although prices weie not high. Ducks were not entered in large numbers, prices not so high as last week. No geese into ed. Turkeys: Those enter,d were small size birds and young ones. Prices were satisfactory. Pigs: A good supply, and improvement in ptiec. Flax: A fair business done at satisfactory prices. The following arc the lowest and highest prices at which wc have sold this week: Fowls, Is to2s 2d; chicks, 7d to Is; Cochin China, 3s; black Hamburg, 2s 7(1; gold Hamburgs. 2s 6d to 3s; black Spanish, Is bd; turkeys. 2s 2d to 3s scl; turkey chicks. Is sd; ducks, Is lOd to 2s 2d: pigeons, iOd to Is; canaries, Is 9d to 2s !4; pigs, small, 5 1 6rl to 11s ; potatoes, Is 6rl to §3 9d; kumeras, 3s £o 63 ; onions, :|d per J >, 2s lo 7s per cwt; pumpkins, 2 s 9d to 3s £d ; carrots, 8d to 9Ad per doz., 3s 4d cwt; turnips, 7d to 8d per doz., 3s 2d to 3s 9J per sack; parsnips, 4d to lOd per doz.; cauliflowers, 2s 2d per doz.; red cabbage, 8d; cabbages, Is 51 to 3s 7d per sack ; rhubarb. 2s 6d per do;;- ; citrons, 2s; melons, 2s to2s 2d per cat; oatmeal £11; flour, £9; bran, 3s 9d; sharps. 4a 3d to 4s Cd ; wheat, 33 to 3s 2d ; c'teose, 2) el to 4d; inferior, i,‘d to 2d ; bacon, new, 51d to 6',d ; old, lid lo 6d; hams, new, 5d to 7Ad ;6 d, 2Jd to sd; fresh blitter, 4jd to 7.{d; inferior, 2-'.(l ; good salt butter, 5d to 7(1; honey,2-ki to 3UI; biseui's 4d ; lollies, 4UI; apples, various, Id to 2!d ; pears, cooking only, 2ta; lemons, 5d to Is Old, Mr Alexander Aitken’s Market Report. -On Tuesday a special ?ale of purc-bro t poultry was held, with satisfactory results, although no high prices ruled. The following are a few of the prices Spanish. 2s to 5s each ; Brahmas, 2s to 6s ; Houdnns, 2s 3d to 4s; Wyandotte, 3s to 7s: game, various, 2sto 1(B. Several pens of special kinds, 12s to 22s each; bronze turkeys, 11s 6d to 14s; Pekin ducks, 3s to 6s; liouons, 3s to ss. On Friday the sale of the Market lease for two years was effected at the satisfactory figure of £52 10s per month. Potatoes still continue in heavy supi ly, and sales slow at £2 to £3 10s, sacks in ; cow potatoes, 20s to 30s. Onions; Supply barely up to demand at 4s 6d to 7s 6d. Kumeras 3s 6d to 6s ; maize, in demand at 3 5 3s; oats, Is 6d to 2s 3d ; bran, 4s; Bbarps, ss; pumpkins, 2s 6dto4s; piemelons, 23 6dto3s: citrons, 2s 9d to 4s 3d; cabbages. 2s; wheat, linn at 3s to 3s 3d. Cheese: Somewhat scarcer; prime farmers’, 31d to 41d; factory, dull at 4d to 4 Id; loaves." very scarce at bid. Bacon and lianis ; Prime, very scarce; good local bacon. 7d: bams, gd. Butter: Fresh is iome what firmer in price: good quantities to hand. Prime, 6J(I to 7:{d; keg butter, but little of special quality coming in, medium plentiful, but no demand. Eggs in fair supply, from Is 10)d to2s 3d ; good pickled, ls6d to Is 9d. Honey dull at 3d ; section, poor, 2d to 2,1(1. Poultry entered in large numbers; good table lots, J.s 3d to Is 9d ; other's, :0(1 to Is 2d. Roosters, Js 3d to 2s ; ducks, Is lOd to 2s Ed path ; geese. 4s each; turkeys, heavy. 5s 6d fo 9s 6d each; small, 2s 5d to 4g9d each. Pigs entered ip smaller numbers; best lots, 7s 9d to 12s; others, 3s 3d to 7s each. Fruit has come to hand in large quantities, and the demand has boon active for even larger quantities. Apples, various kinds, I£l to 2gd (average price over 2d) pears, Napoleons, 2)(1 to 3d ; quinces. Il lto ljrl; lemons, plentiful, at6Ad to Is 2d ; medlars. Id; tomatoes, fil to id: bananas. ;{d to Id ; rabbits, good quantity to hand, Waikato lots, Is 3d to Is 4Jd per pair, other lots, iOd to Is.

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Farm and Dairy Produck. Wholesale; Butter, prime fresh, 7d: second quality, sd: third do, sd; cheese, good factory, 3Jd to 4d; fresh eggs, 2s; retail, 2s 3d to 2s 6d ; lard in bladders, 51d ; bacon and ham=, 6d to 8d; Canterbury tmeon, etc., in cloth sides, 8d ; new cure (local', 6]d to7)d; equal numbers, B.!d ; hams. 9:Jd; Flour Market.— Wholesale: Local rollers, first quality (sacks). £9 15s; second, £9 ss. Southern rollers, £9 15s; stone flour, £9 5s to £9 103; bran, £3 lCs; Southern bran, £4 to £4 ss; local snarps, £4 ss; Soutlid n do.. £4 5s to £4 10s: cabin bread, £ls: oatmeal, 25's, £10; Southern oats. 2s to 2s Id ; local wheat, Tuscan, 3s: Southern wheat, 3s 3d to 3s 4d: pearl barley, £l7 per ton ; maize. 3s 3d to. 3s6d : local potalors, £3los beans, 3s 3d ; onions, 2d per lb; Southern potatoes, £3 15s; Napier potatoes, £3 15s. Wheat, sacks extra; oats, chaff, oatmeal, sold sacks inc u cd. Coat, ast> Firewood Market.— Coal: Newcastle, at yard. 32s per ton; Bay of Islands, at mines, 13i; at yards. 243 ; steam, 24s ; house, do liy'dredtSOa: Wuika'o, at mines, .Ss, 12s: town/ 18s to 225; Taltpiri, at mine. Bs, 12s; at Auckland. st.canV. 17s'6d: household. delivered. 24s to 255; Whnngnrei. at mine. 9k 6d : yard, steam. 17s 6d ; household, 23s ; delivered. 25s ;" Miranda, at mines, 7» to 10s ;at Auckland, 17s to 20s. Firewood: Uncut, at wharf, cargo, 6s 6d to 8s 6d per ipn ; delivered, 10s to 12s; cut, 14s (o 16s '

Building Material?. —l’riecs are as fol'ow at present:—Timber: Boards and scantling, 100 ft be3t, 12s; second-class, 7s; best planed tongued and grooved, first-class, 14s; medium, 12s; second-class, 9s; rusticated weather boards, first-class, 14s; medium, 12s; secondclass, 10s. Now Zealand palings, sft (sap), 9s: (heart), lls6d; ti-tree rails. £3 10s per 100; puriri posls. £5; shingles, 13s per 1,000: Hobart palings. sft, 17s; 6ft, 193; Hobart rails, 80s, selling quotations. Bricks, at Avondale, 30s per 1,000 ; town yards, 38s ; delivered, 41?. Drain pipes, at works: 2in drain tiles. 12in lengths. 60s per 1.C00: 2)in, 70s; 3in, 90s; 4in, 130 s : 6in, 30s per 100; 3in socket pipes 2ft lengths, 6rl each; 4in, 7d : 6in. ?.l; Is 6tl; 12inl2s 3d ; 15in, 3s fcd ; 18in, 4s 6:1,21 a, 8s; 24in, 2s.

Kauri Gum. —The local gum market is very firm and ; o ivo for all good qualifies. Poor ordinary is at about £4O to c4l per ton; fair oi dinary, £42: best quality, £43 to £44; East Crast, £56 to £SB. The supplies for the month lo date are 430 ton?.

Manures. Boncdust, Sydney.£7 (o £7 lCs, according fo Quality; bonohour. £7 to £8; Auckland, £7: Long Island do ,£4 10s, bags included: superphosphate, first quality, £7 tc £8 10s; second quality, £6 to £6 10s.