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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3059, 23 February 1892, Page 2

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The IVaikato Timet Office, Monday. AUCKLAND LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Messrs Km am and Arthur's Weekly Report.—There has been a considerable volume of trade during the week ; four sales have been held, that of Fiiday's occupying six and three quarters hours. Produce: J Piimo Hobarts are firm at late values ; the quality of bulk of consignments can only be classed second-rate,and prices rule according to condition. There is rio change to report in cereals; the market is quiet, l'owl wheat: Our remarks of last week are con- J firmed by Southern advices to the effect that it will ba both plentiful and cheap ;at { present there is none in the market. Grass seeds : We have wild ou Southern accounts -j 2.">00 bushels ot ryegrass, splendid sample. Onions have come forward plentifully, and . maintained an advance of £G per ton ; it is p obable prces may recede shortly. Cheese ni ives off ste-uiily ; the supply is quite e |iial to the demand. Prime butter received . in considerable quantities.thedemand being good. No. 1 realised to IOJd, the latter for what may be described as prize quality No. 2 is not in request to same exteut ; the demand for keg quality has lessened. Eggs ( to hand in good quantities ; for guaranteed there is no difficulty in effecting sales, but when the condition is not advised sellers 1 suffer. Hams and bacon ; lousiness is almost entirely conKned to Southern cure. Fruit: Supplies during the week have been very heavy ; prices at auction Friday's were lower all round, soft fruits being most depressed, owing, we think, to Island shipments filling the market. Apples continue a glut. Poultry : Wo had fair supplies for which bidding was good, although the prices aro not so satisfactory. Our auction rites are as follow Potatoes : Hobarts, £3 to £3 10s ; Port Fairies, £3; onions, £0 to £G 10s and gd to i'd per lb ; maizo, 2s ; oats, 2s to 2s 3d ; bran, 4s ; sharps, 4s ; bacon, 4d to ssd; hams, 4Jd to (iW ; choose. 3d to 3.jd ; fresh butter, No. 1, SJd to 10} d ; No. 2, 7d to 7id ; salt butter, (>Sd t) 7f>d ; eggs, 9|d to lis 0W ; apples, eating, Id to ljjd ; cooking, -Jd to |d ; very large, no moth, Id : Bon Chretien pears, large and clean, 2d to 2{jd ; others, ljd to ; conking pears. Id to 1-M; hothouse i!rapes, 5d to GJd ; outdoor, l£d to 3d ; tomatoes, ljd to 2id ; inferior, ijd ; nectarines, 4Jd per dozen ; peaches, Id to 2.W per lb, 2d to per dozen ; large dessert, lid per dozen ; plums, Pond s Seedling, lid to 2jd : greengages, ljd to 21d ; yellow gage, lid to 2d ; Takapuna Drops, ljd ; blackberries, 2Jd to 3d ; Cape gooseberries, 4d to ; damsons, Id to ljd ; lemons, 9d to Is Id ; watermelons 2s 9d to 4s (id per dozen ; fowls. Is Id to Is 7d; chicks, 4d to 8d ; ducks, Is Id to Is 4d ; turkeys, 3s to 4s 3d. ■ Mr At.kx. aitkens Market Report for the week ending February 20th.—During the week a large general business has been done both by auction and private sale. Supplies all round have been very heavy, and in some lines in excess of demand. In locM fruit, the supply has been the largest for several weeks, and prices suffered considerably. Plums were particularly plentiful, and sold at from Id to 2Jd per lb, the average might be quoted at 1^1! damsons, gd to l|d, average ljd ; peaches, M to2Jd per lb, according to condition. Lemons have been more plentiful, and sold freely at 9d to Is lOd per dozen, according to size. Grapes to hand in very large quantities, and sold at low prices, best brands, 3d to 8d per lb; others to sd; outdoor grapes, 2d to 3d per lb ; tomatoes, still scarce at ljd to 2d per lb; passion fruit, lgd to 2jfrt ; tigs, 2d; pears, good samples of Hon Chretien, 2d to ; medium lots, ljd; Louise Bon of Jersey, to ljd ; cooking kinds, Jd to ljd ; Beurre Diel, very green, ljd to Ud. Apples have been a fair drug ; four-fifths of the supply have not been worth the cases which contained them, and have simply ruined the value ot good brands. Many growers who have been shipping their best fruit to the English and Southern markets are disposing of their culls locally—these kinds have realised from 9d to Is 8d case ; medium lots, Ad to Sd ; first-class quality cooking, Jd to Id; dessert, Id to Ifd; Scarlet Pearmains, choice, up to 2d per lb. In produce good business has been done. Potatoes have been quitted in considerable quality, but the very large quantity of poor samples to hind are keeping the market down. Growers must not run their samples so fine of fairly good lots. About 40 tons have been put through privately at £3 to £3 5«, whilst what might be called really first-class sample of table potatoes reliscfl at Friday's auction £3 los to £4 per ton ; ordinary lots sold in quantities at from 30s to 40s per ton for cow feed, being too small for the retail trade; good ordinary, 2s to 2s (id. For the coming week the requirements will be large for island orders, but only good sized tablepotatoes can be shipped. Onions have also been quitted in quantities, but values for this line are likoly to rule low. The supply has been move than equal to the demand. Several tons were quitted wholesale at £(! per ton, and a few tons, in small bags, sold by auction in small lots at §d to jd per lb; picklers, jd to Id ; garlic, Id to 2d, demand full. Maize quitted in fair quantities at 2s to 2s 3d. Wheat: A few small parcels ot the new crop realised from 3s 9d to 4s Id per bushel. Bran and sharps are without change in value. Butter has been more plentiful; prime fresh, 8d to 10d ; medium to second quality, (id to 7Jd. Eggs; Guaranteed lots lOd to 10.W; others, 4H to (sid. Honey : Tinned, 3d to 4d; section, 3d to 3.W! Bacon : Prime local, sd; inferior, Id t > 3d : Canterbury, O.W ; hams, Sid. Cheese: Prime, 3d to 3td; poor, ld"to 2 : fd. Lird, sd. Grass Seeds: The market is in a bad state at present, and it is difficult to quote any market value, there being no immediate buyers for wholesale parcels at present. Kauri Gum : The. market shows signs of a slight improvement. Poultry were penned in large numbers, and prices were somewhat lower all round, but might be expected to rule higher next week, as shipping requirements will be large. First-class table fowls were in demand, and rsalised Is 8d to2ssd each, including best table roosters ; fair ordinary lots, Is 4d to Is Gd ; poor conditioned, and young small, Is to Is 3d; inferior lots, 9d to Is; duc!is. fat up to 2s, others Is to Is (Id ; geese, 2s Gd to 2s lOd ; turkeys, small 3s lid, heavy gobblers up to Gs each. Pigs were penned in good numbers. Best breeds, well grown, realised from 10s 3d to 13s each; other good lots, 7s to 8s 3d ; good, but small, 4s to Gs ; others, 3s to 4s Gd each.

FROZEN MEAT. The following telegram should be interesting to our sheep farmers London, February 11. —A general rise of Jd per lb has taken place in New Zealand frozen mutton. L>'rib is quoted at Crt.