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Waikato Argus, Volume VI, Issue 398, 14 February 1899, Page 2

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Ihk Waikato Argus Office, Monday. KIHIKIHI SALE. There was a good attendance at Mr W. J. Hunter's auction in the town saleyards on Saturday last. The yards wero well filled with cattle and sheep, mostly fat stock. Beef «old well, but moet of the sheep failed to be disposed of. Some harness and several produce, also a few horseß, were sold at fair prices. AUCKLAND MARKETS. Mr J. Jones' Weeely Report.— Butter, 5d to 7d lb ; keg, 4jd to sjd ; eggs, lid to Is Id ; cheese, 3d to 3jd ; bacon, 6d to 7£d ; hams, 6d to 7jd ; rolls, 5d to 6d lb ; potatoes, £2 10s to £3 ; onions, 4s to 5s 6d cwt; pumpkins, 7s cwt. Poultry : Roosters, Is 6d to Is lOd ; cockerels, Is to Is 4d ; hens, Is 2d to Is 6d ; ducks, Is 3d to Is 8d ; geese, 2s 6d to 3s ; turkeys, 5s to 8s; pigs, 8a 9d to 12s 4d. Fruit : Apples, Is 3d to 3s ; plums, fd to ljd lb ; pears, l*d to 3d lb ; peaches, 3d to sjd ; others, prime, 8d to lid dozen ; tomatoes, jd to fd lb ; nuts, 4d to 5d ; nectarines, 2jd to 3d lb and 5d to sjd dozen ; grapes, 5d to 8d lb ; oats, 2s 6d ; bran, 2s 6d ; nharps, 4s 6d ; maize, 3s to 3s 3d ; chaff, £3 10s to £3 15s ; eggs, honey and bacon in good demand ; potatoes, market low. Mr Richard Abthur's Weekly Rh port.—During the past week business has been busy in all department. Kidney potatoes, 2s 5d to 3s; hobarts, 2s to 2s 5d ; make, 3s 2d; wheat, 3s; oats 2s 4d ; bran, 3s 9d ; sharps, 4s to 4s 3d ; onions (best), 6s to 6s 6d ; potato onions, 4s to ss. Fruit: Big supplies to hand during the week. Plums (Japanese), Id to ljd ; English, Jd to ljd ; greengage, Id to ljd ; pears, first quality 2d ; second quality fd to ljd ; peaches choice, 6d to 9d; cooking and others, 2d to 4jd; apples desert, large cases 2s 3d to 3d ; small cases Is 6d to 2s ; apples cooking, large cases Is 9d to 2s 4d ; small cases Is to Is 9d ; grapes hot house, 5d to 7jd ; others 3Jd to 4d ; blackberries, IJd lb; lemons, 5d to 8d doz ; tomatoes, large cases ls6d to 2s; small cases Is to Is 6d ; Canterbury bacon, 7Jd to 7jd ; hams, Bjd; pigs small, 10s 6d to lis 6d ; fowls, Is to Is 4d ; roosters table Is 9d to 2s 6d ; ducks, lid to Is 4d; turkeys wanted ; chicks 6d to 9d each. Section honey wanted ; fresh butter 7d to 9d lb ; ' guaranteed eggs, 10jd to Is ; pickled 6jd to 8d doz ; keg butter, 5d to 6d lb. Messes Donald & Edenborouoh's Weekly Report, ending February 11th. Large volumes of fruit have been coming to hand this week, but not beyond their requirements. Plums have shown a decided improvement in value. Grapes slightly lower. Produce about the same as last week Below is our highest and lowest prices for the past week : Apples, Is to 3s 6d per case ; pears, Bon Chretiens, 2d to 3d per lb, other Varieties, Id to 2d ; oraDges, Italian, 10s to 12s per box ; lemons, 4s 6d to 7s 6d per box, according to quality ; passion fruit, local, IJd per dozen ; bananas, Is 6d to 3s per bunch ; plums, fd to ljd per lb ; damsons, small boxes, Is to Is 6d ; grapes, 6d to 9d per lb ; nectarines, ljd to 2d per lb ; peaches, Id to l£d lb, 2d to Is per dozen, according to size ; tomatoes, £2 10s to £4 10s per ton, according to quality ; pineapples, 4s to 6s per doz. ; melons, Queensland, lis to 12s per doz. ; eggs, lOd to lid per dozen ; onions, £4 10s to £6 per ton ; potatoes, £2 to £3 per ton, according to quality. We are in a position to place this season's grass seed at fair market prices. Messes Alex. Aitken & Co.'s Weekly Report.—We are glad to report a great revival iu stone fruits, good dessert plums selling at Id to lfd lb. The demand for Sydney is a myth, as we can obtain better prices here. Potatoes are glutted and difficult to quit, and will be very low all the season. Onions again lower. Chaff wanted. Big demand for guaranteed eggs and prime pat butter, both of which lines are scarce. Good

olean apples are being shipped to Sydney and realising well. Peaches are scarcer and rising. Tomatoes glutted. Turkeys if in good condition wanted badly. Pigs realising splendidly. The following are the prices :—Potatoes, new kidneys, 2s to 3s cwt; round and Hobarts, £2 to £3; kumaras, 2s 6d cwt; onions, silverskins, 4a 6d to 63 ; picklers, fd to ljd ; green peas, 6d to lOd per peck ; beans, French, 3d to 6d ; oat 3, ex store, 2s 3d ; c.i.f., 2s; maize, 3s, easier ; bran, £4 ; ■harps, £5 ; ohaff, new, £2 15s to £3. Butter : Prime dairy, sjd to 7d ; factory rolls, lOd ; medium dairy, 4d to 6d ; kegs, 4d to sjd; eggs, lOd to Is ; bacon, 7d to 7jd ; farmers', sjd to 6d, soarce ; hams, Bjd ; farmers', 6jd to 7d ; cheese, 4d to 4jd ; farmers', 2jd to 3Jd ; honey, bulk, 2d ; ■ections, 3s 3d, nominally ; oranges, local, 4s case ; Italian, 5s to 7s 6d case ; lemons, 5d to 7d pei dozen, 4s 6d to 6s case, falling ; bananas, lfd ; bunches, 2s 6d ; grapes, 4jd to 7d ; apples, Is 3d to 3s case, easier ; choice dessert, 4s 6d ; pears, Bon Chretien, lfd to 3£d ; pears, Jargonelle, lfd to ljd ; LouiH Bonne, ljd to 2d ; ordinary, Id lb ; watermelons, 6d to Is each ; nectarines, ljd to 3d lb ; peaches, Id to 2fd lb, 4d to 9d dozen, ecarce ; plums, Burbanks, Id to ljd ; Orleann, fd to l£d ; Satsumas, Id ; Greengages, Id to lfd ; Pond's Seedlings, |d to ljd ; tomatoes, jd lb, 9d to la lid case ; peanuts, lfd lb ; charcoal, 2s 9d to 3j ; poultry, gcocl demand j roosters, Is 6d to 2s 6d ; hens, Is 3d to 2s ; ducks, Is 3d to Is 6d ; turkey roosters, 4s to 7s 6d, good demand ; hens, 2s 6d to 3s 6d. good demand ; geese, 2s 6d ; pigs, good sorts, 9s to 30s ; pork, 3Jd.

FRUIT MARKEI. The Otago Fruit and Pboddce Agency report under date, Dunedin, February 3rd. The market has been teeming with fruit all wjek. Notwithstanding this, prime samples have commanded attention, and very fair prices have been realised generally. Apples : Prime large cooking sorts have had fair demand at ]|d to Hd per lb; dcesort sorts have still little inquiry. Anything but prime samples of apples are quite unsaleable. Peurs : Prime dessert in good demand. A consignment of Melbourne Bon Chretiens realised 16? per case ; a nice line of dessert pears from Port Albert, 13s per case ; Jargonelle pears, 4s to 5a per case, Other sorts unsaleable. Plums : The demand for choice varieties in good condition has been very satisfactory. Tevict greengages, to 3d per lb ; other sorts, lid to 2d per lb ; Nelson and Auckland greengages, 03 to 5a 6d ; Japanese, 3s to 4s 6d ; Orleans, 3s to 3s 6d per box of 24 to 261 b. Large quantities of Northern - grown have arrived in terribly bad order. Apricots ; Nelson are done and Teviot supplies have been short of requirements. Prime dessert sorts have realised up to 5d per lb ; inferior to medium, 2£d to 4d per lb. Peaches : Teviot suppies have been fairly large. Good prices have been realised. Prime dessert sorts, up to per lb ; inferior to medium, 2d to &$ per lb. Consignments from Northern port's, although of very fine quality, have arrived generally iu bad order,