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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3047, 26 January 1892, Page 2

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Th» Woikato fanes Othet, Monday. ■U/CKLAXU I'IIODUCK SAMvS. MesSHS KrtAM AND AlvrilUK'rt WjiF.KLY llKi'OHT.—Tho distribution of both fruit and goneral produce during tho week has been very la.*-, P»t,at»os have cmr.e forward in increased quantities; prices ..reia shade 1..W.-I—an nveragu of fis a ton. Market lor cereals is quiet, and values are without change. Onions more plentiful, the aver.iße mice for which is £7 per ton. 1' re.=h butter was in strong demand at auction yesterday, prime dairies being eugerly competed I for at !,„ advance all round of 1M to ad. >'"lues will still further increase until feed is more plentiful. Salt butter in sympathy is also better value. Cheese: Several lines cleared on arrival at .in average of 3d to djd. <,Bgs readily saleable at lljd. Honey dull of H-ile. Bacon : Not much local offering, and that only of very medium quality. J here U a fair demand for Canterbury factory euro. Fruit: Supplies during tho week h ivo been very heavy, tho salo yesterday o-cupying three hours and a-lialf. Lon HileriDß the quantities offered, it is surprising prices have not fallen to any great extent. Plums have about maintained late rates, but we think prices will have _to lower shortly. Nothing in pood condition brnneht under 2d, whilst the ayerage will uot be much less than 2.{d to 2Jd. Teaches are lower in value. Tomatoes have fa len nearly 2d per lb within the week. Apples : Our remarks in previous reports still hold good, so we need uot reiterate; nothing but prime eating sorts command attention ; it is weary werk endeavouring to effect sales of other sort". Red Astraohans top tho market, Gravensteins next. It is a pity growers persist in sending so much inferior and mothed to auction, as the inevitable result is tho greater depression of better duality. Lemons to hand in better quantities ; the demand is fully equal to the lupply. Pears realised fair prices. 1 imltry : The supply was only medium, whilst the demand is very good, particularly for good table fowls. Wo quoto prices obtained at Tuesday's and Friday's auction asi follows —Potatoes: Hobart, £2 10s tg £310s ; kidneys, £2 to £3 10s; Magnum Bonums, £3 to £3 IDs ; Shepherds, to 30s ; maize, 2s Id to 2s 2d ; oats, 2s 3d; onions, jd; picklers, id to gd; cheese, 3d to 3.^d; bacon, Mto6d ; inferior, 2d to 3d ; hams, Jd to Ittd; fresh butter, 8d to 92(1; salt butter, (id to 7id ; eggs, UJd. Plums: Green bam, 2d to 3|d ; Diamond, 3kl; Musse , 2|d to ; Purplo Gage, 2d to 2^d; Orleans, 2d to 2td ; Goliath, 2jd ; large red, 2Jd to2.Jd. Blackberries, Ud to 3&d ; Windsor pears, 2d to 2kl ; Bon Chretien, 3Jd to 3.id ; nectarines, small, 2id per lb; peaches, large Gd to Is Id per dozen, medium 3d to 4Jd, small lid to 2.} d, and lid to 3Jd per lb ; Cape gooseberries, 4dto4|d; lemons, If to Is 3d per dozen; tomatoes, Jd to l=jd; grapes, 6d to Is. Apples : Red Astrakhan, Id to 2d ; Gravenstein, Id ; cooking, Jd to Id; poor lots, Jd and Is per case, Sydney oranges, 7s ; section honey, 3s 6d : fowls, Is ■Id to Is 9d ; turkeys, 3s 3d to 4s Gd; ducks, Is to Is Gd.

Mn AtBX. Aitkkn's Market Report for the week ending January 23.—Business during the week has been very active, and large quantities of all sorts have been quitted. Fruit, produce and poultry sales (3) have been held, all largely attended with a fair amount of competition. Local fruit has been in very heavy supply; the supply for the week has boen 2231 cases, including all sorts, of whicli IM3 cases wero received on Friday. Plums sold at previous quotations on Tuesday and rhiirsday, but fell fully Id per lb on Friday; apples continue very low, nothing but special quality will command competition, choice oookew %d to ljd; choice dessert kind, Id to liid ; a few cases extra fine selected realised 2d to 2id ; ordinnry, Jd to : r i • prior, Sd to 2a per case. Plums on Tuesday and Thursday realised from 2Jd to 3d, and up to 4]d for diamond and Pond's aßodliiig ; damsons, 2d to 2jd. l> nilay's prices were ljjd to 2; [ 'd for plums of various sorts, the higher figure being obtained for that of extra quality ; large and attractive damsons, Lid to 2<l ; pears, cooking, fid to yd ; dessert, to 3d ; Gape gooseberries, to lid ; lemons, Is to Is Sd ; peaches are very plentiful, and sold at from lid to 3d per lb ; nectarines, lad to 3d, and'up to 7d per dozen; peaches, extra choice red ; 8d to Is a dozen ; ordinary lots 4d to 7(1, small Ud t. Sifd. Potatoes of pncii-quality and very small are plentiful, and sell at auction from 30s to 50s per ton, while all lots oE (rood quality and siza are disposed of on arrival at £3 10s to £4 ; cow potatoes, 25s to 30s ; onions, have moved off freely at to Ltl, but supply is quite equal to demand. Maize has gone i>if in good quantity at 2a 3d ; wheat hardly procurable for fowl feed at 4s (id ; oats, bailey, bran, and sharps are without change Butter, fresh and prime corned, in demand far beyond supply. Prime fresh, 8d to 101 d : poor, Gd to 7*d ; prime keg, spring made, 7d to Sd ; other kinds, tkl to OAd. l'jjjgi are also scarce, and realised from B.Jd to la per dozon. Cheese, supply, about equal to demand ; good dairy 3.Jil to 4d. other special, including factory loaves, 3stt to 5.Jd ; honey without change. Bacon and hams, no change in tho market, no prime local offering. Poultry penned in very large quantity ; good fowls continue to command a good price, but ducks and geose rule very low, and quality generally poor ; first-class tabln fowls, Is (id to 2s ; ordinary, Is 4d to Is 7d ; poor lots, Is to Is 3d ; roosters, in condition, Is 8d to 2s .Id ; poor, etc,, la to la (id ; ducks, 104 to Is (id ; geese, Is (id to 2s 3d ; turkeys, small hens, 2s 11 to 2i 9d ; heavy, 3s to 4s 3d ; gobbU-r-, 3s lid to 5s 3d ; (ilrh plentiful, scarcity of food has checked tho demand, and prices Imva rnlsd low; fine-bred IoU sold up to 10s (ill : erdinary, 4.s tu 'Si ; other.-, "is 0d to Si Oil each. I cannot recommend fanners to send to marktit either pitfrf, diickti, or geese until feed becomes n:oi'U pluntiful.

MARKET REPORTS. The Now Zealand Loan sind Mercantile Agency Company report under data : CHUiSTCHUiicir. January 14.—Wheat : Pending the opening of the market for new season's grain the tone is quiet. Some holders of old stocks are making overtures to millers or preparing to ship on their own accounts, but actual transactions are limited. We quote 4s 3d f.o.b. as the ruling price for mixed parcels of good milling. In the early district* harvesting operations are being busily conducted. — Oat?: A quieter tone prevails in this market owing to completion of cargoes for shipment Home, and also to tho near delivery of new season's groin. We qaote present values of old stocks as follow :—Prime milling, Is lid to 2s : heavy feed, la 9d to Is 10(1; long, Is 7.1 d to Is Bld per bushel, f.0.b., sacks extra.—'Circus Soad: Ryegrass has boon offered freely during the week, but owing to tho foal condition of the majority of the sample?, not mnch business has been done. We quote fanners' parcels, undressed send, 2s to 2s '.Id per bushel, delieved ; towndressed, 4s ]wr bushel, ex store, sacks extra. Cocksfoot: Nune of the new crop has been offered an yet. Town-dressed seed 4yd to fid per lb. Dairy Produce.— Butter in kegs, fid to 7d per lb ; cheeao 3.W to4d per lb. I MiNKDIN, January 14.—(Srain.—Whoat: In the wheat market duliicss prevails, and transactions are not extensive, being wholly confided to the execution of willing orders ; and millers being pretty fully stocked with flour are content to work oif the balauco of their wheat stock, consequently they merely buy when particular lines run short. Prime velvet is tho only class in request. Quotations for prime milling volvet, 4s 10d to 53 Id ; best Tuscan (nominal), 4s 9d to 5s ; medium to good, 4s 4d to 4s 8d ; inferior to medium, 3s «d to 4* 3d ; brokon, 2-i Sd to 3s 3d (ex store, sacks weighed iu, terms).— Oats : The market lr.is again resumed its usual toup, but theiM is no grnat keenness on the part of buyers t> operate. Stuck in etnro, with the exception perhaps of a few lut< of inferior, aru now cU-nvd out. For best tmllins. l-> S.t<l t . 1* Skl-ex'ri nriin* id more ; best short ' riali: f.vil, 1- 7.Jd to Is Sd ; ineliiiin. Is ti'.'l to l»7i'l ; iiiiVrwi, Is sil to Is lid (ex s-t'ire, -sicks extra, net cash) —D-'i'"v pr • ■'"'•« : L"e .llv tha market 'is vory qniet, and iv.it (<■>■ th ■ • x ; >.irt u-d>i to tho Old Country, ii.ninly on pr..clicurs' •vc-'ount, business would be alin-ist at, h standstill. Quotations are unchanged—say, f,.r heir, cliiry ma i« butter, in keg*, Cd to 7d- factory-made, 10 t. 11-1 per Id; fao tury-nwle cheese, medium size, 4<l to 4VI ; limf shape, 4*.l t Sd -er H> Flax: Thirinrket is steady at at- quotations, ami ii" fHlicn.'.'v i" i-la-inir c■.Nswnmo.nts whm

V •. • -r .•••:. M r and ("!■•.'•< ~ /. : ..«..i-iui, -i-U, 18JJ:Th'e lienr approach of our harvest, together I

with larger deliveries of wheat during the month, have had tha effect <«f establishing much lower quotations ; since our last monthly rrport was issued a full of fully it shilling por bushel has been sustained, nnd in view (if much larger supplies of the new seisnn'.s crcip being now forthcoming, prices will, for the next few months, he determined by values ruling in tho European uiarkrt-tho news from them of late boin?

of a very unsatisfactory nature for shippers. The returns from this season's harvest niv likely t" lenvu a surplus of fully 150,000 tons available for shipment; n largo part <>f this will, however, Uβ shipped fur Intercolonial requirements, in the manufactured article, so Hint we can scarcely calculate on mor.i tlvtn 100,000 tons being exported to foreign markets. The quality of our wheat crop this season is very iiregular, and not oqii.il tr, tho bulk of the previous year: much «l the grain is pinched, and will scarcely kiss for shipping requirements. Wheat : We quote fr.nn -Is 4d to 4s 5:1 as current quotations for lanroshippitig paieels uf prime quality, iuferinr and medium parcels realising from 4s to 4s 3d per bushel. —Oats : The season closes with large stocks on hand, and a limited enquiry. We quote from Is (>d to Is !)d for Algerians, and 1* 3d to 2s M for thin to milium feed.—Barley : Oid stocks are now exhausted, and the new season's crop promises to be a light one, but of Rood quality. We quote up to 3s fad for prime malting, with inferior and medium from 'As 4d to 3s.—Maize : In large supply, is dull of salo up t<. 2slod fc.r prime quality.— Bran, Is ; and Peas, 2s 3d.

LONDON COMMERCIAL. (BY ELKCTKIC TKLEORAPII.— COl-YRIOTIT.) London, January 24.—Tallow, medium mutton, 2li* ; beef, 24< (id. Colonial barley averages 34s (id : oat*, 27s ; beans, 38s.