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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3065, 8 March 1892, Page 2

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Th* Waikato Timet Office, Monday. AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKETS. Mkhsrs Kkam and Arthur's Weekly RKrORT. —Business in tlm produce department lias been confined to local wants and up-couutry order*. Potatoes : Supplies have been np to requirements : quality continues varied ; values remain about previous quotations. We am advised that Waikato-grown will bo ready three weeks hence. Cereals : Very little change to report. Business is confined to sm all lines. New local oats have sold at Is !>d to Is lOd, Rood sainp'es. Large supplies will shortly be sent to market. Onions, as we anticipated, have fallen considerably, there being no outlet just now beyond local wants. Cheese has heen c'enred almost onarrival. Tho supply and demand are, however, about equal. Dairy p-odnca : The demand for prime fresh butter is maintained at fully last week's prices. Our supplies havo been considerable for kept sorts. Inquiries have been more limited this week. Eggs are scarcer, whilst tho demand is greater. Every line of guaranteed quality commands (rood prices. We had no local bacon entered. Fruit: Supplies were very heavy on Friday, the sale occupying three hours and a-half Ir.r its disposal. Quality all round was considerably better, particularly apples, of which we had somn fine samples ; prices ranging from Id to ljd ; inferior sorts had t) be sold at per case, and barely realised fr.iight and charges. Plums were better value. Grape* were entered in considerable quantity; over 50 cases sold by auction. Poultry : About the usual quantity penned ; prices about the same. Our auction prices are as follows :—Potatoes, £3 5s to £3 10s and £2 10s to £2 15s ; Masnuin Bonum, £3 t> £310s ; onions, jd to §d per lb and £4 5< to £5 per ton ; maize, 2s ; onts, 2s Id to 2s 21 ; bran, Is ; sharps, 4s ; kmneras, £6 ; pumpkins, £2 15s to £3 15s ; cheese. 3d to ; no local bacon and hams ; fresh butter, No. ISd to 10.1, No. 2 6Jd to 7Jd ; salt butter, 6|d to Sd ; eggs, guaranteed Is to Is 2J, other sorts s£d to 10J ; plums, Coe's Late Red 2d to 3d, yellow ljd to ljjd.purple 3d ; figs, to 2id ; quinces, $d to Jjd ; ln'nons, lOd to Is l£d ; gripes, No. 1 6d to No, 2 3[d to sd, outdoor to 3d ; watermelons, 4s 6d to 8s 6d ; rock melons, 2s to 5s ; peaches, Solway lOd to Is 2d per dozen and 3£d per lb. others, 3d to 7d per dozen ; passion fruit, l|d to 2&d : tomatoes, ljd to 2d ; dainsons.ld to 2£d : Cape gooseberries, 5d ; walnuts, ; pears, dessert Ifrl to 2id, cooking Id to 1-Jd ; apples, Scarlet Pearmain, Id to IJd, iUexandrald, Cellini Id to ljd, Cox's Orange Pippin lid to ljd, Ohir.emnri Id to ljd, Court de Wick l|d, French Russet IJ<l, G >lden Russets ijd to ljd, other sorts jd to ; cooking, freo from moth, jd to Id ; others Jd to §d ; fowls, Is Id to Is 8d ; ducks, Is to Is 5d ; tui keys, 3s 5d to 4s 6d. Mb Alkx. aitken's Market Report for the week ending March s:—The past week has been a busy one, and a large amount of general produce, etc., has been disposed of ; auction sales have been four in number, all largely attended, with fair competition, the Bile of tailors' stock and furniture, etc., at Qneen-street, drew a l attendance, and ttood prices were obtained ; in farm produce the supply has beon very heavy ; potatoes in vary heavy supply, and the market has been a shade easier, up-country lots aro now coining to hand, and are somewhat better in Bumple, a good quantity has been put through, although stock is yet heavy, prime samples, £3 to £3 10s: other lots, 30s to 50s; cow potitoes, 20s to 26s ; maize, is plentiful and a good quality has been disposed of at 2s per bushel ; oats, local lots, are

now coming to hand, and selling at la 9d to 2s ; wheat a few small consignments realised 9d; onions are plentiful but have met with very satisfactory demand al §:l to j[d, and inn few cases Garlic remain unsaleable. Bran and sharps unchanged in values. Vegetables came to hand in large quantities, and sold at fair values. Fresh butter has beon plentiful, and goner illy of poor quality; best parcels 8d to 9Jd ; other indifferent lota, fid to 7Jd ; keg butter continues in strong demand at 7d to Sd; for prime spring made Gd to G|d for paltry many makers holding for higher prices, bat as the season for shipping is about over, supplies from Taranaki might soon be expected. Eggs h iva heen in better supply, and the demand very str ing; all lines guaranteed realised from Is Id to Is 3Jd per (Won. Oheess has gone off freely; prime dairy, 3VI to 4d ; poor lots, 2j:d to 3d ; loaves •f.l ; factory cheese, 4.U1, and up to 5d for loaves, Honey ; A parcel in 10!b tins realised 3.k1; section, 3d to 3 id. Bacon : A few crises realised a satisfactory price ; prime bacon, G.Jd t;> 7d; pour, 2d t > 3J. Hum!) ; Prime, Bkl ; poor, 2d to skl. Fruit supplios have been heavy, and competition has been more keen ; all lots have sold at a considerible advance, excepting quinces, which rule very low. First-class cooking apples, guaranteed free from moth, (jd to ljd ; pour and muthed, id; extra choice dessert, 1/1 to 1 V'd ; mothed, &c., id to £i. Pears h \vj been in strong demand, and although tho supply has been large, prices have r.iled high. A few first-class B>n Uretien rualise.d from 3.Vi to 4d ; other dsssort kind'', to ."}d : I'oiirro Dial, 2d to 2JJ ; poor lots, ljd to Iv< 1 ; cooking, lid to 2.Jd. Plums : A fair quantity to hand. Prices ruled from 2Ad to 3.fd for small kiod-i, excepting a few cases of very poor

quality, at l.jd to to 2d ; damsons, ljd to : lemons, lid to Is sd, according to size. Capo gooseberries, 4Jd to 7d ; grapes in good order, 7d to 8d ; poor. ;U-d to ; out-door grnpas, 2Jd to HI; damaged, Id ; tomatoes, d to IVI ; quinces, '(d t> i'd ; most lines sold at * i ; pulsion fruit, l£d to 2.} d ; figs, lid t'« 21. Poultry penned in usual nnmbsis. and values werj a shade better. B:st, titile roosters sold up to 2s Id oich ; medium t >ble fowls, various, Is 3J to Is G 1 ; heavy young, Is 7d to Is 10) ; poor, lOd 11 Is ; ducks, lid to Is 9J, an lup to2s Id, for good fancy lotsnp to 3s lOd each ; turkey gobblers, 4s to 53 Gd nacli ; hens, 3s t;) 4s 3d ; geese, 2s 6d to 3s 9d. Pigs were penned in full numbers. Best lots, 10s to liis 31 each ; ordinary good lots, 8s to 9s ; medium, 5s 31 to 7s 9d ; poor and very small, 3i 3d to 4s each.