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Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 259, 15 March 1898, Page 2

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The Waikato Argus Owick, Monday. AUCKLAND MARKETS. Mr J. Jones' Weekly Report.— Poultry : Roosters, Is 6d to 2s ; hens, Is 3d to Is 8d ; ducks, Is Id to Is Bcl ; geese, 3s ; turkeys, hens, 2s 9d to 3s Sd ; gobblers, 5s to 7s 4d ; pullets, Is 3d to Is 4d ; pigs, 6s to 8s 3d ; potatoes, 4s to os cwt. ; onions, 6s to 7s 3d ; pumpkins, 3s 9d to 5s cwt. ; kumaras, 4s 9d to 7s ; bacon, sides, 5d to 6d ; hams, 6d to 7d ; middles, 4d to 4Jd ; rolls, 5d ; cheese, 3Jd to 4d ; honey, 2s 3d to 2s 9d dozen ; butter, 8d to 9Jd lb ; eggs, Is to Is 3d ; lard, 3£d ; fruit, apples, 2s 'o 4s 3d ; pears, to 4d lb ; plums, to 2-Jd ; lemons, 6d to 7jd ; Cape Gooseberries, 4d to 4sd ; tomatoes, $d to Id lb ; water melons, 3s to 8s 6d dozen ; grapes, 1-Jd to 3d ; hothouse, 6d to 83d ; damsons, Id to lid ; oats,2s 6d to 2s 8d; maize,2s 2s 7d to 9d ; bran, £4 5s to £4 10s ; sharps, 4s ; cocksfoot,6s 7d to 7s ; rye, 4s 3d to 4s 6d, best samples. Mr E. Turner's Weekly Report.— Prices of fruit remain about the same as last week, with the exception of plums and peaches, both of which show an improvement in price. Apples, eating 2s 61 to os 6d per case, cooking la 6d to 3s 6d, according to quantity ; pears, Williams 3£d lb, Louis Bon \%d to 2d lb, other sorts to 2£d ; plums, 2d to 3d lb ; peaches, 6d to Is dozen ; lemons, 6s per case ; grapes, outdoor lid to ljd lb, hothouse 6d to Is lb ; tomatoes, unless very good, quite a drug ; passion fruit, half-cases, 2s to 3s ; cocoanuts, 8s sack. The Ovalau arrived from Fiji, Tonga aud Samoa last Saturday with a large cargo of fruit, about one-half the cargo consigned to this firm. Prices for bananas ranged low, Is 9d to 2s 31 per bunch ; half-cases, 3s to os, according to condition. Poultry market steady at last prices. Potatoes, £4 10s to £5 10s ton, according to quality ; onions, £4 10s to £5 ton. Mr Alexander Aitken's Reports, under date, 11th March.—Notwithstanding the advance of the season, great quantitiea of first-class fruit continue to arrive and sell at very payable prices. Pears and peaches are in great demand, aod plums are eagerly snapped up. Really good apples are sought for. Potatoes are weak. Onions are scarce and rising. Maize and oats arc firm and scarce. Butter and eggs are scarce aud firming. Cheese plentiful. Farmers' bacon dull of sale unless cleanly butchered. Pigs are firmer, and poultry retains late valueß. The following are the prices :—Potatoes, kidneys 4s 6d ; Hobarts, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; onions, best, £7 ; oats, 2s Bd, firm ; maize, 2s 9d ; bran, £4 ; sharps, £5 10s ; chaff, £3 5s to £4 ; butter, best dairy 7gd to 9d, new keg 6d to 7d; eggs, Is Id to Is 2d : bacon 6fd, farmers' 4d ; hams, o'd to 9d ; cheese, 3jd to 3d, sections 3s 9d ; apples, 2s 6d to 6s 6d case ; pears, Bon Chretien, prime, 4d ; medium, 2d to 3d ; Beurre Diel, lid to 2Jd; Louis Bon, to 2d; Napoleons, to 3d ; Marie Louise, 2£d ; lemons, 7id to lOd doz. ; watermelons, 3s to 12s 6d doz., rockmelons 5s to 6s 6d; crab apples, 2s 3d case ; passion fruit, Id to dozen ; peaches, best, Is 3d to Is 8d dozen ; medium, 6d to lOd ; stewing, 2d to 3d lb ; plums, Takapuna, 2jd to 2sd ; Late Red, 2d to 2£d ; Damsons, l£d to l a d ; St. Martins, 2d lb ; Golden Drops, 2d to 3d ; grapes, outdoor, lid to 4d ; hothouse, 9d to Is ; tomatoes, |d to Id lb ; figs, 3d to 4d lb ; Cape Gooseberries, 5i lb ; fowls, mixed, Is 3d to 2s 3d ; roosters, Is 6d to 3s Id ; ducks, Is to 2s 6d ; turkey, hens, 3s 6d ; roosters, 4s 9d to 6s 6d ; eeesc, 4s each. Pigs, two to three months old, 4s 9d to 5s 6d and 8s 3d to 15s each. a

FRUIT MARKJET. Messes G. Thomas and Co., Wellington, in writing to us in connection with the prices current for fruit in Wellington, as published by us, say :— *• We beg to point out that the prices, we send you, are those obtainable for first-class fruit at the time of wiring, and that fluctuations occur almost daily. The values vary according to the quantities received and the quality, but tor really prime fruit, good prices are always obtaiutable."