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Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 367, 24 June 1874, Page 6

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A. Mercer repoits for- the week- ending J une' 19 : — Retail prices only : Fresh, butter in $lb and lib prints, Is 9dpcr lb ; second quality, Is 7d to- Is 8d per lb ; fresh butter,, in lumps, Is 6d per lb.: salt butter,- ,1s 6d per lb ; in, salt butter,- in kegs, -there . is. nothing* doing, Fresh. ..butter ia -much, scarcer.' this Week, and. the ' grocers are barely getting "enough to -supply*- 'their trade,' and another, 'ad^** ■vance in tbe price! is 'looked "for, 1 - Cheese,- best quality, JOd to Is per lb : second quality quite -unsaleable. Side and rolled bacon, lid. to Is ■perlb. Colonial hams, Is Id # to Is 2d per lb and more plentiful. For. English hams the. demand isvery_ple.ntifuland selfingat Is 6<f*per lb. English cheese is completely out of the market. Eggs' are getting yeryple'iitiful, and- every day;falling in price, -and ihay be ' quoted *4tt= present at 2s to 2s 3d per 'dozen. -. ■• ;.•■- •«*- Oii Wednesday^ Messrs 'Whitißlaw J md <Jo. . offered {he 'sugars Per Farninghanl. fof sftle.; and yesterday Messrs M'Landrest anil Co. put up at auction 4,sot»_ppcketß of.^faritiiu. Owing to. the fulL stocks; held by. the trifle but very few, sales /were, effected. . Of theTarninffham's .cargo, a small parcel of sugar was placed at L 22105; a line of'brewersVcirystals I realised L 32 Ids'; and one '''of gtJod'Vhite, 1 L3o 10s. YesterJay similardulnessiW demandwas r manifested, and the transactions' wel» con- '• fined to the' sale of a parcel of white -crystals at . L 36. Ia brandy the market has been- very active ; large- parcels of Hennessy's, both in bulk, and case, have changed hands at considerably . advanced rates \ and as advances, from' Home quete as high as .from, 10s to ,los 6d v iiniSorters are^ not Inclined to . press bales. Kfereseno, which in consequence of 'BBort 'supply^ rttlei high for some time past, is lower; tne arrival of three vessels, how in -the harbor,' haviag" stocked the market fully; Sales' have been made of parcels deliverable from the railway shed at Is 11$ in, bond. . , Candles realise lid ; currants, 4d per lb. Both these article^' however, are quoted higher ai. Home, and thereforo an advance is probable. ' Butter and cheese remained unchanged, and dairy prodtteebf all classes may be considered steady.