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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2618, 23 April 1889, Page 2

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The. iPuikato Times Office, Monday. AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKETS. Mr Ai.kw Aitku.v'.s Market Report fur tho week ending April 10, a largo amount of general business done. In consequence of the usual market salo being held on Thursday, tiie attendance of country buyers was smaller than usual, but supplies of all kinds were large. In tho poultry department every pen was tilled, prices being about the same. Turkeys were in unusual large numbers, and values were lower. Pigs in fair supply, and no alteration in values. Potatoes are coming to hand in largo quantities, the quality in many cases_ being pior; values slightly easier. Onions in fair mipply, and values further advanced. Pumpkins are easier. Melons, no alteration. Oats are scarce and higher in price. Wheat, no alteration. Maizo is easier. Honey is scarcer. Bacon and hams, old lots, difficult to quit, but one lot of new local euro to hand sold well. Cheese is quiet. Butter fresh, in good supply. Prime corned butter is in active demand, but little coming forward ; poor quality quiet. Eggs are freely to hand, and prices aro easier. In fruit there has been a large quantity received, but there has been little alteration in values. Good dessert apples have sold better. Pears, many kinds poor, and for these values were low; choice kinds sold fairly well. Peaches, few to hand, Lemons aro easier. Quinces were a trifle below previous quotations. Tomatoes, no alteration. On Tuesday tho shipment of Island fruit, ex Wainui, sold well Tho bauanas arrived in prime condition, and sold at very satisfactory rates. The following are the prices at which 1 have sold during the week by auction and private, sale:— Fowls (old) and out of condition, Sd to Is ; good table fouls, 1.; 2d to Is lld ; roosters, in condition, Is 7d to 2s ; small roosters, !)d to Is Id ; chicks, Id to 8d ; ducks, Is Id to Is 7d : young ones, lOd to Is; geese, 2s 3d to 3s 2d ; turkeys, heavy, 2s fid to 3s lid ; small, Is 7d to 2s ; pigs, poor kinds, 3s to 4s; fair lots, 5s (id to 6s (id ; potatoes, best lots, £4 10s to .£5 ; poor, A,' 3 10s to t3 15s, sacks in; cow potatoes, £2, sacks oxtra; carrots, 2s to 2s (id ; pumpkins, Is !)d to 3s (id ; mangolds, 15s to 20s ; onions, lAd to 2d ; maize, 3s 2d ; wheat, 3s Gd ; oats (Danish), 2s (id ; bacon, old cure, 4d to (id ; new cure, local, 7.[.d to 7i'd ; hams, 8d ; fresh butter, Gd to lOd; corned butter (prime), Hd ; pastry hutter, 3d to 4d ; eggs, Is to Is 3d ; honey, 2/, d to 3d ; cheese, 3id to 5d j apples, choice dessert kinds, Id "to 2d ; others, ;fd; largo clean cooking, jfd to lj'd ; poor, jd to ijd ; pours, I'eurru Boss, 2d ; I'ourrc l)iol, "il to ; Forrell, Id to lgd; Napoleons, jd to lJ,d; small poor pears, W to :/d ; quinces, Jd to Ijd ; lemons, 8d to Is Gd ; peaches, 2:, ; d ; figs to 2d ; passion fruit, l.yd to 2d ; tomatoes, id to lid ; grape gooseberries, 7d ; watermelons, 2s lid to Is 3d per dozen ; bananas, Ijd to 2d; oranges, B.',d to Is per dozen. CHRISTCiIUROH (JRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS. Mks.sb3 Kayb and Cartkk'* lturoirr f § week ending April loth, J881) : —Wheat: Tuscan, 4s 2d ; pearl, 3s lOd ; Hunter's, 3s lOd to 3s Fowl wheat : flood whole, os 7d ; broken, 3s 3d. Oats : Milling, 3s ; bright short, 2d lOd ; duns, 2a fid ; Danish, 2s Sd, firmly held. Barley : Prime malting, 4a 3d ; good, 3s lOd to 4s, steady; feed, 3s 4d; Cape, 3s ; pearl, £20 10s. Peas : Prussian blue, 4s ; split, £14. Beans : Good whole, 3s 4d ; medium, 3>; 3d. Flour : Best Roller (sacks), £11; halve?, £11 10s ; quarters, £11 15s; stone, £10. Bran, 90s; sharps, 95s (scarce). Oatmeal, in 251b. bags, £14 ; 71bs, £15 103. Ryeoorn, 3s Ud ; linseed, £17. Ryegrass : Machine dressed, 3s Gd to 3s 'Jd (scarcc). Cocksfoot: Prime, 3,] d ; good seed, 2Jd to 3d. Oatsheaf chaff, £4 ss. Hay : Oaten (baled), £4 10s. Butter, lOd for prime quality. Cheese: Loaf, to Gd : medium, 4.W to 5Jd. Hams, O.'.d ; bacon, fj'd ; hams and bacon, Bd. Lard : In kegs, 4d ; bladders, 4id to sd. The above prices current are all f.0.b., Lyttelton, sacks and packages extra, except where otherwise specified. Farmers' more inclined to part, and buyers and Hellers' ideas more in'accord.