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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2714, 3 December 1889, Page 2

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The Wnikalo Timss Office, Monday. AUCKLAND PRODUCU MARKET. Mr Alia. Aitkkk's Makkkt Report for Ihe week ending Xnvmuber 30 :—-V large amount of general business has been done, silt's neiiift held as follows:—Wednesday and Tluu-d.iy : Sales of Fiji fruits. The .shipment was unusually large, and much in bad condition ; all sold at satisfactory prices. Thursday : Tim property of the Lite Judge UillWwiw olfcrcd. There was a good attendanc.i', but the property was passed in at t'3,300. Tuesday and Friday : 'L'he usual sales of produce, fruit, and poultry. Friday's sale was a particularly heavy one, lasting seven hours without a break, with a large attendance, and brisk competition to the finish. New potatoes liav,e met with a better demand at slightly improved values ; old potatoes are difficult to quit at cost of freight. Wheat has been freely quitted at late values. Onions : But few to hand, at fair values. A large supply of vegetables at good prices. Bacon and hams have been quiet for sale. Cheese plentiful: demand very quiet at low rates. Butter: Prime fresh has met with fair demand, a good quantity to hand. Corned butter: Old make unsaleable: limited demand for extra prime now make only. Eggs : Large supply ; all sold at high prices. Fruit has been in better supply ; all sold at satisfactory price's. A few cherries to hand .sold at a high figure. In the poultry department there was a large supply of all kinds; ducks and fowls sold at fair values, geese and turkeys realised high prices. A good number of pigs were entered, prices satisfactory. The follouing are the quotations :—Fowls, small, poor and old lots, Is Id to Is 3d; good killing lots, Is (id to 2s ; roosters, in condition, Is 3d to 3s; small and poor, Is 3d to Is -Id ; chicks, 9d to Is 3d ; pure bred fowls, lis to -is ; ducks, Is 2d to Is lOd ; ducklings, lid to Is ; geese, Is to 5s ; turkeys, food birds, us (id to 7s ; small hens, 2s lid to -Is (id ; canaries, 2s to 10s ; pigs, ciioice young, 10s to 12s (id ; poor and inferior, Ss to ll i : potatoes, old, Is to 2s per sack bags in ; new Shepherd's, 2s (id to Is (id, according to quality ; kidneys, prime new, -Is lid to 7s : poor, 2s 8d to 3s (>d ; Hobart, poor, Is !>s to 3s; wheat, 3s i.'id to 3s 2d ; barley, 2s 2d oats,' 2s ',td ; bran, 'Is; kumeras (Ss (1,1 lia.'on. Id to 7d ; hams, 7d_to Sd ; honey, 2d to 3d ; jam-', Is Gd ; lollies, 1.'.,! to ihJcheese, 3d to Id ; butter, fresh, 3 i to lid ; new corned, to lid *, crown brand, 7VI; old, Id to lid ; eggs, hen, 71d luS'.d ; duck. f ; l to !>'. ; gooseberries, Farmer's t<lory, '-'d to 3'.d ; small kinds, lid to :.!d ; cherries, Is H:1 per lb; local cherry phini' ? , 7d ; Sydney ditto, Iyd to ;id ; lemons. 1-: lid'to 2- Id per dozen; Cape -bel l ies, S'.d to IUJ ; bananas, lj.d to I 'd ; coco Hints, 'is lid ; pines, sound, us 3d ; peanuts,to 3d.

AUCKLAND SHARE.M ARKET. (in tixkmi vrri.--ott x coRUHSi'ONi.iK.yr.) \irKI.ANI>, last Illgllt. -l-Vlllk of New /,e,d:iud, sellers to 7s <".<1 (old) ; New Zealand I nsurance, buyers 01" Od ; South Hritish Insurance, buyer* Stf-t ; Colonial Insurance, buyers .Vs •>(] ; Kami timber, buyers 1.-H : Cambria, buyers 2s »5«l ; Saxon, buyers ."is lid : New Province Imperial, buyisr-i 2.-. ; Caledonian, buyers Is 3d : Trenton, buyers 2s ; New Moaiiataiari, buvers 4s ; Roval O.ik, business done lis ■ ;<J' i;;, 'id, buyers Ih (id ; May Oueau, business dune, Is li-i, Is 7. LONDON MARK UTS. (.;v i.i.kcihh; tbi.kuuai-ii—wi'viuuht). Lo.NlioN', November 21>.— New Zealand diet so is linn at an average of -UK At the wool sales there is every indication of prions hardening'. New Zealand hemp is Hunted al from fc'2S -is to £21j_10<.