COMMERCIAL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2720, 17 December 1889, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Wailcato Times Office, Monday. AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKKT. Mr Ar.KX. Aitkkn'n Makkkt Rkport fur the wcekjending December 14.—Business generally brisk : five unction sales have b;en held, two of property, three of produce, fruit, and poultry, all fairly well attended. The properties were in each sale b night in by the mortgagee. Potatoes are in excess of demand at present ; all could nit bo cleared at any reasonable price. .Shepherd's are almost unsaleable, other kinds are selling at low prices. Shepherd's have been sold at from 30* to £2 per ton ; kidneys, £2 10s to £."> ; onions, market glutted. I epiote, local crown, \i.\ to Id per l'j ; Oalifornian, new shipment, ?jd to a 1 j-.l ; maize, fair supply, 3s ; oats, 2s 5d to LN 7d ; fowl wheat in demand at 3s 2d to 3s 3 1 ; bran and sharps, i' 3 10s ; pig meal, £3 10s, Vegetables of all kinds plentiful ; peas, 8d to Is per peck ; cabbage, Gd to Is 0.1 per sack ; cauliflowers, Is tn 3s per Kick; French beans, 1W to Is 3.4; broad beans, 4d to Gd ; carrots, pvrsnips, and turnips, (j to Is 3d per dozen ; rhubarb, 2s 3d to Is per dozen. In the poultry department, fowls, geese, and dnelts in lartre supply ; turkeys very scarce a-id in poor condition ; fowls, poor and old, made Is 2d to Is 3d ; Rood table lot", Is lid to Is 8d ; roosters, young and in condition, Is 8d to 2s 5d ; small and old, Is 3d to Is G I ; ducks, Is 3d to Is Gd ; ducklings, Is to li Id ; geese, sold at from 2s 'Jd to (is ; bicon and hams of prime quality are scarce ; prime local bacon has made from G.kJ to ; hams, 8d ; other kinds, 4d to old ; Canterbmy bacon, seconds, Gd to 7d ; hams, 7 id ; first quality bacon. S|d ; hams, lOd, slow of sale owing to high price required ; cheese, the supply is very large and demand slack jit from 'Ad to -Id ; (Jisborne, factory, od ; factory, old, 4id ; honey still unsaleable at from 'J.'.d to 3d "; eggs have been "lore plentiful arid sold at higher prices ; hen eggs, na'.ised !Jd to IOAd ; duck eggs, lOd to 11.Ul; fresh butter continues very scarce, prime qiality has made 7d to Sd ; inferior, 4d to 61 per lb ; old keg butter, l.Jd to 3d ; prime naw made a steady demand for export at from fid to Gd ; fruit of all kinds has been more plentiful ; small gooseberries, I.UI to 2.'id ; large and special kinds, to Id ; cherry plums, 5d to 7.'.d ; lemons, large, Is ltd to 2s 2d ; small, Is tn Is 8d ; cherries have sold at from "y(d to Is 7d per lb ; Irish psach applos, 2.\d to 3d ; cape gooseberries, s',d to Sd per \K At Wednesday's sale of American apples, the fruit although in bad condition brought IDs and IDs Gd per case of 401bs. . THE SHAREMARKET. fllV TELEORAPH OW.V COKKKSPOXDKXT.) Auckland, Jjast Night.—On 'change today, Moanatairi were selline at 4s 8d and Is lOd ; buyers. New Prince Imperial at 2-i 3d ; New Albumin, Is Gd ; Royal Oak, rw Gd; Try Fluke. Is 2d.