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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3071, 22 March 1892, Page 2

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The Waikato Times Dflee, Monday. AUCKLAND PRO DUCK MARKETS. MeSSUS K.SAM ASM) AltTHUlt's WUEKLY Rbport.-lii pr.uluM the changes in prices aro unimportant,. r»t:>tuos ar.i to biv.td in good quantity, .mcl prices :.re oaster, the quality as ;l wln.lh is smnewhat poor. Thorn is ii littlo nwvemoiit in cerf-als, lint business is confined to mrmll lots. Onions ;ir<3 too plentiful, and prices have again fallen. Prune fresh butter continues in gou'l demand ; prices advanced yesterday. Keg butter at Al quality is readily saleable: unsatisfied demand. Tha demand for eggs ie far in excess of supply. Fruit .supplies continue plentiful, price-* generally show an improvement, and will move upward. Poultry : The requirements for the week have been very large, prices havo thuiMtnre been a little better. Our auction rites yesterday were :—Potatoes, Hobart, & to £3 10s for first quality, and Hi 5s to £2 10s second ; Magnum Bonums, £•> 10s t» U'i 10s; carrots, £2 10s; pumpkins, £2 10s to £3 as ; onions, id to gd, and £ 1 us to l"l 10s per ton; knmeras, 7s ; nviize, Is 10d to 2s; oats, Is 10d to 2s Id ; bran, Is : sharps, 4s ; barley, 2s i)d ; bacon, :*J t'i M ; liamx, 4d to (id ; fresh butter, B}d ta lljd ; guaranteed etrps, Is 4d to Is 7Jd ; salt butter, 7d to 9d; cheese, 3d to Sjd. Apples, Scarlet Pearrnain. ljd to ljd; King Pippin, ljd to ljd : Reinette du Canada. Id to ; Oliineinnri, Id to ljd ; Stone Pippins, Id to lji ; Northern Spy, \\d to Ud ; Takapnnn Russet, Id to ljd. lJaasert p*W.s, lkl io 2id ; cooking pears, Id t» lkl; watermelons, 4s del to !)s ; peaches, 7.\d to Is Id per dozen, and to 3i<l per lb; passion fruit, 2d to 2J,d ; lemons, 10 J to la 5d ; small, (id; tomatoes, Jd to lgd ; hothousa grapes, No. 1, «£d to B£d; No. 2, 4d, to s>;d ; out-dour grapes, 3id; tigs, lid to 2 ; i'd :""quinces, jjd fri Id; apples, infected with moth, frl to Ad ; fowls. Is 3d to 2s; ducks, Is to Is 3d ; turkeys, 3s 3d to 4s 0d ; geese, Is lid to 2s Gd ; pigs, 5s (id.

Mr Alkx. aitken's Mahkkt Report, for the week ending March 10th.—During the week business tins been very brisk, ttie b ippHes til! round have been heavy, and the domand has been very satis factory. Oμ Thursday no fruit sale was held, and this had the effect »f causing Friday's sale to bo an unusually heavy one. which lasted until G. 30 p.m. Fruit, although in heavier supply, has sold at higher and very satisfactory prices. Aline of one ton of Stone Pippin apples was knocked clown, after keen bidding at l§d per lb, and a ton of virions kinds from the same orchard realised Choice clean cooking kinds, including Reinette du Cadada, Biamarcks, etc have averaged 1d psr lb, while extra eood desert kinds realised ljd to 2§d per Id ; poor and medium lotsjd to Jd. Pears : Fully 30C cases to hand, and all sold at remarkably good prices: choice Buerra Diel, lj|d to 2|d ; Beurre, to 3d ; Buerre de Capiamnnt, 2d to 2|d ; Napoleon, Id to l¥d • Winter Nelia, Id to 2Jd ; poor parcels, •i ito Id. Lemons, in fair supply, realised from 9d to Is s|d, according to size; passion fruit, 2d to 2|d ; quinces, fd to Id per lb Peaches: Fully 350 cases were received in. two days ; on Tuesday prices were 2d to 3td per lb, and 7d to Is 2£d per dozen, damaged lid ; Friday's values were lid to 2\d per lb, and 7d to lid per dozen for 1 vr"O and to Od for small kinds. Grapes : Choice hothouse, 10d to lO.fd ; good, 8d to O.Lrl; inferior, to -Id : tigs, IJd to par dozen; waluuts, BJ,d to 9d ; tomatoes, £■1 to lid ; 2000 bunches bananas ex Ovalau realised from 2s (id to 3s 3d for best bunches, iind Is to 2s 3d for other lots ; 54 sacks peanuts realised from to ljd ; cocoanuts, fre3h, 4s 3d to (is, stale lots Is 8d to 33 ; limes, Is 8d to 4s per case ; potatoes of indifferent quality are held in quantity, and hard to quit at 20s to 40s per ton. Prime samples have sold freely at £3 and uo to £;! 10;?. A consignment from Napifir quitted wholesale m £2 17a Id to £3. Onions ara very plentiful and dull of sale. Primo Siimplns, Jd t' , V' 1 - tll{3 '" wer P ricua being full market value; indifferent sampled unsaleable. Maize to hand in good qur.ntitios : tlio demund continues satisfactory, at 1 1 -10(1 to 2-i. Wheat is in strong demand, at os iW to 4s. Barley, 2s Gd to 3<. Butter : Fresh in moderate supply ; prime, !ld to Hid ; medium, 7d ; poor, to G:jd ; Taranakl separator, 8d to !)Jil ; keg butter Bjaree, aud in good demand ; prime, 8d to Bid ; poor, Eges have been in deirnml beyond supi.lv, at Is 3d to Is 5.M per d-jzen. Chee<B : Market hare ; prime, 3jd t.) 4d ; poor, 2±d to 3d. Bacon and hams : Only Southern offering at late prices. Poultry : Heavy supplies ; prices were somewhat higher ; first-clnss table, Is 8d to 2s 2d ; ordinary, ]s 5(1 to Is 7d ; poor, Is to ]s3J: roostera, in condition, Is 10J to 2< 111 j'l... 1. K,l fn 1). 3,1 'i.npnrfl!n(r t i

Sil ; ducks, 1* 5d to 2* 3d, according fi condition ; ynnng, down to Is 3d ; turkeys li»na, 2* 0.1 t:i 3s (id ; roosters, 53 Oα to B>3d ; geese, 3s to 3s 8d ; laying pullets are in demand. Pi(?s penned in large numbers ; prices ruled lower ; beat breed*, 8-s to 10s ; extra, 14s to 15s (id : ordinary good, 5s to 7s 3d ; small, 4s to 3* 3d each.