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Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 325, 9 August 1898, Page 2

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• The Waikato Argus Office, Monday. McNICOL AND CO.'S CAMBRIDGE SELE. Messks McNicol and Co. Rkport.— At Cambridge, on Saturday last, we offered some of the best draught horses in u Waikato market for some time, and for which there was keen competition. The thirteen advertised were all sold, and we could still place a few good young heayy draughts if the owners informed us of them. Prices on Saturday, were as follows : Tiptop heavy draughts, £33 and £34 ; farm horses on the heavy side, £lB to £25 ; medium draughts, £ls to £24 ; spring cart horses, £lO 10s to £ls. AUCKLAND MARKETS. Mr J. Jones' Weekly Report.— Poultry : Roosters, Is 7d to 2s 4d ; hens, Is 3d to Is 5d ; ducks, Is 3d to Is 9d ; turkey hens, 2s 3d to 3s 4d ; gobblers, 4s to 6s 3d. Pigs, 5s 9d to 9s; butter, 9d to Hid ; keg. 8d to 9d ; eggs, 9d to lOd; cheese, to s£d; lard, 4d ; bacon, sjd to 6£d ; hams, 6£d to 7}d ; middles, 4jd to s|d ; rolls, 5d to 6£d ; onions, Id to Ud; potatoes, £7 10s to £7 15s; kidneys, £6 10s to £7 10a; kumaras, 6s to 7s 3d ; pumpkins, 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; carrots, £1 5s to £1 10s ; oats, 2s 7d to 2s 9d ; bran, 4s ; sharps, 5s ; maize, 2s lOd to 3s ; apples, Ss 6d to 12s 8d; passion fruit, 6s 9d to 7s 6d ; mandarins, 6s 3d to 7s 6d ; lemons, 4Jd to sd. Mr Richaed Arthur's Weekly Retort.—Business during the week has been good: Kidney potatoes selling at £7 to £8 10s ; table do., £7 to £7 15s ; onions, Id to l^d; pumpkins, 33 to 4s 3d ; white carrots, 25s to 30s; red do., 355; heavy supplies of fresh cut vegetables to hand, and realised good prices ; fresh butter, B|fl to lOJd; keg, 8d to lOd ; fresh eggs, Shd to lOd; cheese, 4d to 4Jd; local bacon, 4d to s|d; local hams, 5d to 7d ; Southern bacon, 6.fd to 7d: Southern bams, B|d to 9d; honey, 2d to 3d lb ; lemons, 4s to 5s per case, according to size of cise ; bran, 4s to 4s 6d : sharps, 5s to 5s 3d ; feed oats, 2s 8d to 2s lOd ; seed oats, 3s 3d to 3s 6d ; maize, 3s ; fowl wheat, 3s 9d : fowls, Is 4d to Is 8d ; table roosters, Is 5d to 2s; ducks, Is 3d to Is 9d ; turkey gobblers, 4s 6d to 6s ; turkey hens, 2s 3d to 3s ; geese, 2s 6d to 3s. Mr Alex. Aitkek's Weekly Report. -Good attendance at sales ; competitions spirited for all lines. Butter, strong demand, last week's rates maintained about 300 boxes factory sold. Eggß, plentiful, slight decline in values for Coast. Farmers' butter, of good quality, sold well in advance of grocer's quotation. Apples, market bare, strong demand at advanced prices. I sold ICO cases of local at prices ranging from 12s 6d to 13s 9d. Dressed pork, to 3|d, fair supply. Poultry and live pigs, demand cood. Canterbury potatoes, table, £7 153 ; local, £5 10s to £6 ; seed kidneys, £7 10s to £9 10s ; Hobart seed, £6 to £7 ; Snow Flakes, £7 10a ; new kidneys, l}-d per lb ; onions, Southern, £ls ; local, Hd to l|d per lb ; kumaras, £4 10s to £7 10s per ton ; pumpkins, scarce, rising, £3 17s 6d to £4 10a per ton ; swedes, dull, nominal, 25s per ton ; carrots, white, 25s to 27s 6d per ton, demand poor ; red, 30a ; mangolds, 25s per ton ; oats, ex store, 2s Bd, c.i.f., 2s 6d ; maize, old, 2s Bd, new, 2s 7d ; bran, £4 ; sharps, £4 15s ; chaff, £4 5s to £5 for good samples ; oaten hay, £5 to £5 15s. Butter : Prime dairy 10fd, medium 8d to 94d, factory rolls lid to Is, bulk 9d to 9|d, new keg 9§d, pastry 7d to Bd. Eggs, fresh Coast Bfd to 9£d ; bacon, 6£d to 7d, farmers' 6d to 6-V1 ; hams, 8d to 9d, farmers' 7£d ; cheese, factory 41A to sd, farmers' 3kl to 4£d for prime (wanted) ; honey, bulk 2£d to 3d, section 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; apples, local grown, best dessert 12s 6d to 14s, culinary 12s 9d, Tasmanian 8s 9d to lis 6d per case ; lemons, 4d to 7d per dozen, 4s 9d to 7s 6d per case ; mandarins, 6s to 7s 6cl per case ; oranges, Tahiti's 6d per dozen, 12s 6d to 14s per crate, Poor Man's 8d to lOd per dozen, St. Michael's 4s, Sydney 5s co 5s 6d per case ; pine apples, 3s 6d to 5s 6d per dozen ; passion fruit, 7s 6d per case ; bananas, If d per lb, Is 9d to 2s 6d per bunch ; shaddocks, Id to Hd per lb ; grapes, hothouse, Is to Is 6d per lb ; walnuts, 4d to 5d ; peanuts, 2£d to 2£d ; hares, Is 9d to 2s 6d each, scarce ; rabbits, Is 3d to la lOd per pair. Poultry : Roosters, Is 9d to 2s 8d ; mixed, Is 6d to 2s Id ; hens, Is 6d to 2s 2d ; cockerels, Is 6d to Is 9d ; ducks, Is 6d to 2s 6d ; ducklings, 7d to Is; turkey gobblers, 3s 6d to 6s 9d each ; hens, 2s to 3s 6d ; geese, 2s 6d to 3s 3d, scarce. Pigs, suckers 3s 6d to 5s 6d, weaners 7s 6d to lis 6d each.