COMMERCIAL.

Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 313, 12 July 1898, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Waikato Argus Office, Monday. AUCKLAND MARKETS. Mr J. Jones' Weekly Report.— Butter, 8-M to 11 Jd ; rolls, lOd to IOAd ; kegs, B£cf to bacon, s£d to 6Jd ; rolls, 4d to s{d ; turns, 6d to 7£d ; lard, 4:1 ; cheese, 4d to 4|d ; others, 5d to s}-d ; honey, 3s to 3s 6d ; potatoes, £7 5s to £7 15s ; kidneys, £8 10s to £9 10s ; local potatoes, £6 to £7 ; kidneys, £6 5s to £6 15s ; onions, lid to IJd ; pumpkins, 3s to 3s Gd ; carrots, £llos ; kumaras. 7s to 8s ; poultry, roosters, Is 3d to Is 6d ; hens, Is to Is 6d ; ducks, la 4d to Is 9d ; turkey hens, 2s 5d to 3a 3d ; gobblers, 4s 6d to 5s 4d ; pigs, 53 to 10a 4d ; fruit, apples, 3s 9d to 8s 3d ; prime full cases, 9s to lls 3d ; oranges, 3s 6d to 5s 3d ; mandarines, 5a 3d to 6s lid ; Cape gooseberries, 3Jd to 4Jd ; oats, 2s 8d to 2s lOd ; maize, 2s 9d to 3s : bran, £4 5s to £4 10s ; chaff, £i 10s to £5.

Me Richard Arthur's Wheklt Report.—Business transacted during the week at the following rates : Southern potatoes, table, £7 10s to £7 15s ; seed, £9 to £9 10s ; local, £7 to £7 5s ; pumpkins, £2 10s to £3 10s ; kumaras, £7 ; white carrots, 30s ; red, 38s to 40s ; onions, Id to Ifd lb ; cheese, wanted, 4sd ; fresh butter, brisk demand, 9d to lid ; keg, 8d to Is ;* local bacon, 5d to 6id ; hams, 6d to 8d ; Southern bacon, Id ; hams, to 9d ; honey, 2d to 3d ; fruit, dessert apples, 6s to 8s ; cooking, 4s to 5s 9d ; lemons, 3s to 5s per case ; poultry, prize birds at Tuesday's special sale sold at satisfactory prices, very heavy supplies : Table roosters, Is 5d to 2s 5d each ; others, Is to Is 3d ; ordinary, lOd to Is 8d each ; ducks, Is 51 to 2s 2d each ; turkey gobblers, 43 to 6s ; hens, 2s to 3s 6d ; geese, 2s to 2s 6d ; small pigs, 5s to 12s each. Mr Alex. Aitken's Weekly Report.—Sales still increasing, and all prices satisfactory excepting for potatoes and apples. New kidneys arc selliug below values. Local and Canterbury Hobarta are dull of sale. Onions still improving. Pumpkins, carrot 3 and mangolds plentiful and cheap. Eggs weak. Dairy butter again scarce and firm in value. Taranaki butter in good demand at,a slight decline. Keg butter going off well; pastry still scarce. Old maize sold at 2s 8d to 2s lOd ; new unsaleable. Apples dull of sale. Poultry and pigs in good demand. Pork again rose in ?rice. The following are the prices : otatoeß: Canterbury, £7 15s; local Hotarts, 6s to 7s; Canterbury seed kidneys, 7s 9d to 9s ; Hobart seed, 6s 6d to 7s. Onions, Globes, £l2 10s ; locals, 9s 6d to lis ; pie and citron melons, 4s to ss: kumaras, £8 10s to £11; pumpkins, £3 to £4, for prime table sorts ; swede turnips, 30s per ton, slow of sale ; carrots," white, £1 5s to £1 15s; red, £2, slow ; mangolds. 15s to 20s per ton ; oats, firm ; ex store, 2s 9d ; c.i.f, 2s 7d ; bav, oaten, £5 to £5 15s; maize, old, 2i lOd : new, 2s 8d ; bran, £4 10s ; sharps, £5 15s ; chaff, £4 15s to £5. Butter : Prime dairy, lOd.to lid ; factory rolls, Is to Is id ; bulk, lid to daily, 8d ; new keg, lOd ; pastry, 8d to 9d. Eggs, la 2d to Is 4d; bacon, 6£d to 7d ; farmers', 5d to 6d ; hams, 8d to 9d ; cheese, 4Ad to 5Jd; farmers', 3£d to 4j-d, wanted; honey, bulk sections 3s 3d to 3s 6d ; apples, 40lb cases, best dessert, 7a to 8s 6d caso, double cases 8s to 12s 6d; lemons, 3d to 6d per dozen ; oranges, Tahitis 8d dozen, 16a per crate, poor man's 8s per case; St.' Michael's, 3s to 3s 9d j bananas, 1-Jd lb; peanuts ,2d to lb ; passion fruit,3d dozen ; Sydtiey, case, 7s 6d; grapes, hothouse, lid to la 4§A lb ; tree tomatoes, to l : Jd lb ; walnuts, 5d to 6d lb, scarce ; charcoal, 3a to 3s 6d Eack. Poultry, rising : Roosters la 8d to 2s 4d, mixed Is to Is 9d ; hena, la to Is 6d ; capons, small 2a 9d, large 4s ; cockerclls, lid to Is 6d ; ducks 2s 3d to 2s 6d, young is 6d to 1b 9d ; turkeys, roosters, 2s 6d to 5s 6d each, hens 2s to 2s 6d each ; geese, 2s to 3s 6d, wanted. Pigs, 3s 3d to 6s each ; large, 401 b each, 83 6d to 14s each ; pork, to 3fd, accorniug to quality.