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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2728, 7 January 1890, Page 2

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• Ths Waikalo li'rict Office, Monday. AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKETS. Mn \LKX. Aitken'S MAUKKT RWORT for the .week ending January *1: —Throe siiles bv auction have been held, one of property, two of produce, fruit ami poultry. Poultry bis been in very short supply; all have realised high prices. Fowls, old and poor lots, have realised from Is 41 tola lj(J; good tihle lots, Is 81 to 2s 9d each ; roosters, in condition, 2s 4d to 3s each ; poor and small, l< 3d to lsßd ; ducks, Is 8d to 2s 4d ; ducklings, 7d to Is 31 ; geesa, 2s 9.1 to 4s 6d ; tu' key hen°, 4s to 4s 3J ; gobblers, 4s 9U to i I.os each; pure-bred fowls, various kinds, 2s, 01 to 5s each; canaries, 2s to 12-j each. Pigs, fair quantity entered ; prices ruled from 9s Gd to los, according to size and breeding. Potatoes are still it, glut; about 40 tons have bean quitted at very low prices. ■ Onions have been short of requirements for shipping ordbrs at from $d to Id per lb. Vegetables of most kinds have b*en plentiful at fair prices. Cabbages, 6d to Is per doz.; poas, very scarce at from to Is 2d per peck ; French beans, 5d to 8d ; broad, 4d to Cd ; rhubarb, 6d to 3s 9d; cucumbers, Is 3d to 3s per doz. ; turnips, 3d to 4d ; carrots and par-, snips, Is; beetroot, none. Wheat is in active demand, but little to hand at 3s 3d to 3s fid; oats, 2s 3d to 2s 8d ; bran, sharps, arid pig .meal, £4; maize, none on hand. Bicon and hams, first-class lots find speedy s tie at 6d to 7Jd ; poor and second-class !<its are plentiful, and difficult to get off at from 31 to 4d ; cheese is plentiful and slow of sale, farmers; 3d to 3£d ; factory (new), 4VI t > 51; factory loaves, fljd ; factory old, 21 to 41; honey, 2d to 3d for all kinds ; fre-h liutter of mime quality, very scarce, At from 7d to B.fd ; inferior, 3d ; very prime n a w k«ir is also very scarce, I have sold at from <V 1 to 7d ; Crown, short of de.mind, at from 8d to 9J ; old keg butter, totally un- • ileubln; good fresh eggs were in shorter B'ipply ; at from 81 to Is 3d; st.ile and pickle eggs, 4d. In the fruit department there has been a large supply of all kinds, with the exception of poor apples, high prices have been obtained; bananas are a drug, the market hping far overstocked ; good sound gooaeberripa have realised from s£d to 6d ; over ripe, 2Ad to 3i£d ; damaged, to 2d ; lemons," Is 4d'tola 8d ; Cape gooseberries, 4d to ; grapes, Is 6d to Is 8d ; plums, groengaeo, (id to 9d ; Orleans, Gkd to 9d ; Early Rivers, 2d to 8d ; Green Orleans, 4d to (id ; apricots, 8d to S)Jd ; peaches, ti lsSdper dozen, and 2d to 6d per lb; applon, many poor small kinds are joining forward, which tend to lower the values ; poor and small Irish Poach have been sold at from Jd to gd ; good lots, Jd to 2d ; Red Astracan, 2d to j other varieties, ljd to 3.Jd ; 1 case choice dessert realised Gd ; bananas, to 1§ ; peanuts, 3d ; cocoanuts ate very scarce, at 8a per sack ; pines, sound, 43 9d to us 31 per dozen.

AUCKLAND LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Mkssus A. Buckland and Sons' Weekly Reporl.—At Rainuera, on Friday, du,iry cows were not required ; store cattle at Into values; fat cattle abundant, and at tir*t lower in price, out on passing a draft of 50 steers, prices rallied, and were steady at last week's quotation?—lGs the 1001b. Sheep of good quality wore plentiful, aud lower in piice--about la each. Lambs, short of requirement, and better worth fully Is each. No pigs yarded. THE SHAREMARKET. (BY OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Auckland, ljast Night.—Business in the nharninarket was resumed to-day after the holidays. There has been a great improvement in Cunbria shares, the price having increased from 2s to 3s 31 and 3s 4d, at which figure business was transacted today. The Moanatairi's, which were worth •is GJ before the vacation, having since struck gold, have also had a big jump upwords, to-day's transactions being quoted at 5s 01 and Gs, the market closing with buyers at 5* 9:i; no sellers. Albumin's : have a promising appearance, buyers this morning being at Is IM. In. Prince Imperial's lvi>iness was done at 2s 7d, Trenton's being at 3s Bd, while May Queen's were atIs BJ, but wr-ift subsequently a little easier, viz., Is (3d. The Commando! mines are also looking up, the Roy d flalc having paid a good dividend, while a largj) amount of English capital is being invested and about to be invested in tho Held, which gives promise of i;i,od returns during the year. Good news is also to hand from Koutunu, but there are no shares in the market. On the whole the mining outlook is more encouraging than at the close of the old year.