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Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 328, 16 August 1898, Page 2

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TbkWaikato Argus Office. Monday. MR W. J. HUNTER'S TE AWAMUTU SALE. Mr W. J. Hdntbr's usual monthly sale was hold on Saturday at Te Awamutu, and was largolv attended. The cattle yards were welffilled and a good number of horses was entered. Pigs and poultry were in large numbers, and a Rood quantity of farm produce of every description, all sold well. _ AUCKLAND MARKETS. Mr J. Jones' Webkly Retort.— Poultry : Roosters, Is 6d to 2s 3d ; hens, Is 3d to la 6d : ilack«, Is 4d to Is 8d ; geese, 3» 6d : turkey gobblers, 4s to 5s 6d ; hens, 2s 3d to 3* 3d. Pig*, 5s 3d to 108 4d each ; bacon, skl to 6jd ; rolls, s±d to 6id ; hams, 6d to 7£d. Eggs, 8d to 9jd : cheese, 4£d to sjd ; butter, 9d to lOd; potatoes, £7 15a to £8 sa; • Kidneys, £6 15s to £7 10s ; onions, Hd to l£d ; inferior, fd to Id ; pumpkins, 4s to 4s Pd ; carrots, £1 10s ; kumaras, 7s to 8a 6d ; oats, 2s 9d to 2a lid ; maize, 3s ; bran, £4 10a ; sharps, £5 to £5 5s ; mandarins, 4s to 6s 8d ; passion fruit, 5s 3d to 7b. Mr Richard Arthur's Y\ kekly Report.—Business during the week has been of a brisk nature. Southern prime kidney potatoes, 8s to 9s; medium, 6s to 7s 6d ; table potatoes, 7h 6d to 7s 9d ; Derwent seed, 7s; table Derwents, 6s 6d to 7s 6d ; local potatoes, £6 10j ; onions, Id to rots, 30s to 35s ; pumpkins, £3 to £4; Cape gooseberries, 3id to 4£dib ; dried apples, 5d to 6jd lb ; lemons, 4s to 6s, according to size of case ; fresh butter, 9Jd to lOd ; keg tutter, lOd ; cheese, 4d to 4Jd; eggs, Bjd to 9d. Fresh cut vegetables demanding good prices ; cauliflower, 5s to 6s 6d doz ; bran, 4s ; sharps, 5s ; feed oats, 2a 9d to 2a lOd ; seed oats, 3s 3d to 3s 6d ; barley, 3s 3d to 3s 5d ; maize, 3s 3d to 3s 4d ; wheat, 3s 9d. Fowls, Is 4d to Is lOd ; roosters, la 6d to 2s 3d ; ducks, la 5d to la lOd ; turkey gobblers, 4s 6d to 6s ; hens, 2s 4d to 3s ; geese, 2s 8d to 3a; honey 2d to 3d ; pigs, email, 4s to 6s. Mr Alex. Aitken's Weekly Report.—Prices for the week hrtve been very firm :Southern potatoes are abort stocked, and rose to £8 5s for best samples; onions, scarce and firm ; pumpkins, rising rapidly for good table sorts ; maize, in short supply, rose to 3s; oats also scarce locally, and firmer; chaff—l advise holders to quit stocks, as prices must fall as the spring advances ; eggs and butter are still far from plentiful, but local newspaper quotations spoil prices ; all fruit realising eplendidly ; hares, rabbits and pork again advanced ia value ; poultry, same aa last week : pigs realised"2o per cent, to 50 per cent, over laat week's rates, and demand improving for any quantity ; vegetables sold at low prices ; cabbages, Is 4d to 3s doz; cauliflower, la to 6s 9d doz. Prices s Potatoes (Canterbury), £7 15a to £8 ss; local Hobarts and kidneys, 6s 6d to 7s ; Canterbury seed kidneys, 7s 6d to 9s 6d ; Hobart Beed, 6s to 7s 3d ; snowflakes, 7s 6d ; new kidneys, l£d to lfd per lb; onions (globes), £ls; local, 14s; pie and citron melons, 6s 6d ; kumaraa, £7 10a to £8; pumpkins, rising—best, £6 ; poor, £4 ; swede turnips, 25s per ton, slow of sale ; carrots, white, £1 5s to £1 10s per ton ; red do., 35a, alow ; mangolds, 20s, slow ; oatß, firm, ex store, 2a 9(1, c.i.f., 2s 7d ; hay, oaten, £5 to £5 15a ; maize, old, 3a; new, 2a lOd ; bran, £3l7s 6d ; sh'irps, £4 15a; chaff, £4 10s to £5; butter, prime dairy, 9d to lOJd; factory rolls, Is to Is Id; bulk, Bjd to lOd; medium dairy, 8d; new keg, lOd : pastry, 7d to 9d ; eggs, 8 d to 9Jd : bacon, 6fd to 7d ; farmers', 5d to hams, 8d to 9d ;. farmers', 7Jd ; cheese, 4sd to 5Jd ; farmers', 3}d to 4d, wanted ; honey, balk, 2jd to 3d ; aections, 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; apples, local, 401 b. cases, best dessert, 9s 9d to 13s 6d case ; Tasmanian, 8s 9d to 12a 6d ; dried, 4d to 5d lb ; lemons, 4d to 7d per dozen, 5s 3d to 6h 6d caac ; mardarius, 6s 6d to 7s 6d ; oranpes, Tahitis, 8d dozen ; Poor Man's, 8s to 9s case ; St. Michael's, 4s to 6s ; Sydney, 5s to 5s 6d case ; bananas, IJd lb, bunches, Is 9d to 2s 6d ; pineapples, 3a 6d to 5s 6d dozen ; passion fruit, 3d dozen, Sydney, 7s 6d case ; shaddocks, Id to lsd lb ; tree tomatoes, 2d to 2£d lb ; walnuts, 5d to 6d, scarce ; peanuts, 2jd to 2sd lb ; charcoal, 3a to 3s 6d per sack ; hares. Is 9d to 2s 6d each ; rabbits, 1b 6d to 2s 3d pair ; poultry, roostera, la 6d to 2s 6d, mixed, Is 3d to 2s Id ; hens, Is 4d to 2s ; cockrells, Is 3d to Is 9d ; ducks, Is 4d to 2s ; ducklings, 5d to 9d ; turkey roosters, 3s 6d to 6s 9cl each ; hens, 2s 4d to 3s 6d ; geese, 2s to 3s ; pitjs, common suckers, 3s 9d to 7s 6d each ; weaners, 7s 6d to 12s 6d each ; . pork, to 3fd per lb, wanted.