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Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 334, 30 August 1898, Page 2

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Tbk Waikato Argub Office. Monday AUCKLAND MARKETS

Mr J. Jones' Weekly Report.— Roosters, la Sd to 2s 6d ; hens, Is 4d to Is 9d ; ducks, Is 5d to Is 8d ; turkeys, gobblers. 4s 6d to 6s Gd ; hens, 2s 3d to 3s 3d ; pigs. 9s to 13s 6d ; butter, lh\ to hams, 6d to 7jd ; rolls, 5d to 6d ; shoulders, 3|d to 4J-d ; cheese, 4d to potatoes, £7 15s to £8 ; Port Fitroy potatoes, £7 53 to £8 ; kidneys, Ss ; nions, ljd to 2d ; new potatoes, Ijd to l|cl ; carrots, £1 53 to £1 15s ; kumaras, 7« to 9s cwt ; pumpkins, 7s to 8s 3d ; oats, 2s 8s to 2s 101 ; maize, 2s 10d to 3s ; chaff, £4 15s ; bran, 4s to 4s 3d ; apples. 4s to 9s 8d ; mandarins, 7s to 8« ; passion fruit, 3s Gd to 5s 3d ; Cape gooseberries. 3d,to 4d ; Sydney manges, 4s 6d to 5s Bd. Mr Richard Arthur's Weekly Retort. —Business during the week has been good. I quote : Southern table potatoes, 7s 9d to 8s ; local do.. 6s 6d to 7s 6d : Hobart seed, 7s to 7s 61 ; kidney seed, 8s to 8s 6d ; new potatoes, l|d to 2d ; pumpkins, £6 ; onion?, l£d to Ifd ; seed oats, 3s to 3s 4d ; feed oats, 2s 8d to 2s lOd ; barley, 3s 3d to 3s 4d ; bran, 4s ; sharps, 5s ; fowl wheat. 3s 9d ; maize, 3?. Fruit : Lemons, 5d to 7d dozen ; Cape gooseberrie3,3-£d to 4d ; very large supplies fresh cut vegetables, demanding satisfactory prices ; fresh butter, 9d to lOd ; keg, 8d to lOd ; Southern bacon, 6£d to 7d ; do. hams, B£d to 9d ; local bacon, 5d to hams, 6d to 7|d ; cheese, 4Jd to 5d ; honey, 2£d to 3d ; small pigs, 5s to G* 9d ; fowls, Is 2d to Is 7d ; roosters, Is 5d to 2s ; turkey gobblers, 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; do. hens, 2a 2d to 2s 9d ; ducks, Is 6d to 2s ; geese, 2s Gd to 3s ; eggs, 7|d toߣd. , . _ , Messrs Alex. Aitkens & Co. s Weekly Report.—There has been very little alteration in prices for the past week. Potatoes firmed up a little; onions weaker ; knmaras and pumpkins wanted at extreme values; butter still scarce ; eggs more plentiful; local chaff is scarce ; the fruit market is very dullNew Zealand apples from North and South are nearly done, and values easier ; poor man's oranges still in great demand ; lemons still retain values; hothouse tomatoes, 6d to 7d lb ; hares and rabbits sell well, and it would pay any one to kill for this market; poultry and pigs very firm at late values; all dairy fed prime pork realised 3d to 4d per lb. We quote : Potatoes— Canterbury, £8 to £8 5s ; local Hobarts, 7s ; Canterbury seed kidneys, 8s 6d to 9s 6d ; Hobart seed, 6s to 7s; new kidneys, ljd to lfd lb; onions (globes), £l4; locals, £l3; kumaras, £8 10s, wanted ; pumpkins, £7 to £B, wanted ; swede turnip 3, 303 per ton; carrots (white), £1 5s to £1 10s ton; red do., 355, slow; oats, firm, exstore, 2s 9d : c.i.f., 2s 7d ; hay, oaten, £5 to £5 15s ; maize, 2s lOd to 3s ; bran, £3 17s 6d ; sharps, £4 153 ; chaff, £4 10 1 to £5 ; butter, prime dairy, 9d to lOd ; iactory rolls, Is; bulk, Bjd to 9£d; medium dairy, fkegs pastry, 7d to 9d ; eggs, 7£d to Bid ; bacon, 6Jd to 7d ; farmers, i\A to 6d; hams, 8d to 9d ; farmers', 74d ; cheese, 4jd to s£d ; farmers, 3£d to 4d, wanted. Apples : Local, 401 b cases, best deasert, 8s 6d to 10s 6d ; Tasmanian, 83 6d to 103 ; dried, 4d to 5d lb. Honey, bulk, 2d to 3d ; ■ections, 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; lemons, 4d to 7d per dozen, 5s 3d to 6s case ; mandarins, 6s 6d to 7s 6d. Oranges : Tahitis, lOd doz. ; Poor Man's, 8s 6d to 10s 3d case ; St. Michael's, 4s to 63; Sydney, 5s to 5s 6d case. Bananas, lfd lb; bunches, Is 9d to 2s 6d ; pineapples, lis to 4s doz ; passion fruit, 3d doz ; Sydney, 7s 6d case ; shaddocks, Id to l£d lb ; Cape gooseberries, 4d to 4£d lb; tree tomatoes, 2d to 2£d; hothouse tomatoes, 6d to 7d lb ; walnuts, 5d to 6d lb, scarce ; peanuts, 2£cl to 2£d ; charcoal, 3s to 3s 6d sack ; hares, Is Gd to 2s each, wanted; rabbits, Is 6d to 23 pair, wanted. Poultry : Roosters, Is 3d to 2s 9d ; mixed, Is 3d to 2s Id each ; hens, Is 3d to 2s; cockerels, Is 3d to 13 9d ; ducks, 28 2d to 3s 6d : ducklings, 5d to 9d ; turkey gobblers, 3s to (is each ; heus, Is 6d to 4s ; geese, 3s to 3s 6d, wanted. Pigs, suckers, 4s to 6s each ; weaners, 7s 6d to 12*; pork, 3£d to 3£d lb., according to quality ; wanted.