COMMERCIAL

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3125, 26 July 1892, Page 2

COMMERCIAL

77m Waikato i\iats Monday. AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKETS. >IksBHS Ksam and Akthuk's Wkkki-y Repokt.—We have held seven Bales during the week, the volume of business in the iiU-urecate being considerable. The. produce department lias br.eu rather quiet, but other branches have neon active. Produce: Supplies of eating potatoes liuvu been more limited, and at time of writing prices are linn at last week's quotations. The demand'for seed varieties, oarly sorts, improved yesterday. The continued wet weather is seriously militating against plantiug. Maizr, owing to short supplies and inquiries fr.nu Syrlney, has finned, and i i selling at, 2* Gil, small lots. Inquiries for utlier cereals quiet, excepting for seed oats, which* movo off fairly well. Onions eonlinurtpoor in quality. Prime fresh dairy butter is more plentiful; prices averaged List week's rates. Keg butter is in more limited demand, and prices are decidedly lower. Cheese is very scarce, and much inquired for. Local bacon and hams in fair supply only ; Southern cure in Rood request. Friiit: We have had large shipments frein Tasmania and Sydney,prices of apples being very good, the oranges and lemons had suffered from the rains, necessitating the acceptance of lower rates. Poultry in better supply, at satisfactory rites. Our auction values aw as follow :— Si.utbern potatoes. £2 10s to £3 ; Waikato. £2 10s to £2 17s Od ; Magnum Bonums, £2 10s to £3 15s ; Shepherd's unsaleable ; kidneys, £3 to £3 10*; inferior, £1 10s upwards. Maize, 2s Od ; feed oats, 2s 3d to 2s fid ; seed, 2s fid to 2s 7d ; onions, J* to ; carrots, £1 10i; fowl wheat, 3a to 3s 3d. Prime fresh butter, Is 2d to Is 3£d; seconds, Hid to Is Ad ; thirds, 10d; keg, firsts, 10d t«"ls ; seconds, 8d toß|d pastry, 7?d. Eggs, Hid; bacon, 4id to 5.? d; hams, 3d to 7jd ;" cheese, Gd to 7d. Sydney oranges, Gs tr> 6's Gd per case ; mandarins, damaged, 4s to 4s 3d; good, Gs to Gs 9d ; lemons, 3s 9d to us ; local, 4Ad to lid, 8d to O.'id per dozen ; Sturmer pippin apples, fls Id to 12s per case; Stone pippin, 8s 3d to 10a; Newton pippin, 5s 3d ; French crabs, &« to 10s Id ; crows' eggs, 5s 3d to 7s 10d ; pears, 9s ; royal pearmains, 9s to. 10s 9d. Good table fowls, Is 3d to Is 7d ; roosters, special, 2s 9d; ordinary, Is to Is 4d; ducks, Is Gd to 2s; gobblers, 43 to 5a ; turkey hens, 2s 2d to 3s 3d. Mb Alkxandbk Aitken's Market Repout for the week ending Jnly 23.—Business has been brisk during the week, and produce generally has found speedy sale at good values. The auction sales have been largely attended, and competition keen. Potatoes have been in moderate supply and keen demand ; prime Southern realised at auction £2 15s t.) £3 : Waikato, good quality, £2 10s to £2 15* ; poor, £2 5s ; Taranaki, £2 15s to £3 ; Oamaru, £3 5s ; the market is now burs, and Southern advices show a considerable advance in values ; kidney seed, prime Southern, £3 10s to £1 ; local, no demand ; Magnum IJoinun, £3 to £5 ; Earlv Rose, £G to £7 ; Shepherds', no demand, except for cow feed. Onions although plentiful have an upward tendency ; prime lots realised Jd ; inferior, Is to Is Gd per bag ; medium quality, Jd, and 2s Gd to 3s per cwt; kutricras, 3s Gd per cwt ; pumpkins, 2s Gd to 5s Gd per cwt ; mangolds, 20i to 25s per ton ; Swedes, 25? to 30s ; carrots have been in short supply at 25s to 30s per ton. Waikato seed potatoes are dull of sale at £2 to £■2 10a : Canterbury, £3 to £3 5s ; Taranaki, £3. Vegetables in abundant supply at good values. Butter : Supplies from Taranaki have filled the market, and price 3 are lower at auction ; extra prime realised Is Sid, while ordinary realised Is to Is 2d ; kes" butter, although about two tons went off in small lots, quotations are very wide ; prime fresh Taranaki, in boxes, Is to Is 3d ; poor quality, 9Jd to .lOd ; factory-irfade, Is 2d to Is 4d, in bulk ; local keg butter, prime, 10d to Is ; medium, 9d to 9Jd. Eggs, although in good supply, have not been equal to demand at lid to Is per dozen. Cheese remains very scarce ; prime factory, Gd to GJd ; poor and old 3d to 4i.d. Lard. 4d to 4tcl; bladders, sd; bacon, priffte, sA_d to o|d ; poor, 4d to 5d ; ham, prime, GA/1 to 7Jjd ; medium, 4d to Gd. Honey: Bulk, choice, 3d to 3id ; poor, 2Jd ; small tins, 3d to 3.W. Fruit has been in good supply and demand : SO cases apples, ex s.s. Tarawera realised from 8s to 8s Gd for cooking and 8s to 12s for dessert kinds; local apples, 2id to 3Jd per lb, average 3d per lb; lemons have been a drug at very low prices, viz., 5d toSd per dozen ; Sydney oranßes. Gs to Gs 0d per case ; mandarins, 7s to 8« 9d per case ; hares realised Is 3d to 2s Sd each. Poultry was penned in good quantities : Is Sd to 23 Gd ; good, ordinary, Is 4d to Is Gd ; poor, small, and old, Is to Is 3rJ; ducks, Is 7d to 2s 3d ; geooo, 2s .Od to 3s 8d ; turkeys, heavy gobblers, 3e 10d to Gs 3d ; hens and light gobblers, 2s 7d to 4s Cd ; canaries, 2« to 12s ; pigeons, (id. to Is. Pigs were penned in good numbers ; good breeds, 8s to 12s Cd ; others, 5t to 7s 9d. At the sale of priza poultry, held on Monday, there was a very largo supply of good birds, and the attendance was large. All varieties of choice breed realised from Us to lls each ; ordinary, good, 2< Gd to 5s each ; bronze turkeys, 3s 3d to -15s each ; cauaries, Is Gd to Its each ; Pekin ducks, 5s to Sa each ; itoiifti ducks, 5s to Si G:l each.

CIIRISTCIIUR.CH LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Tub New Z-sdand Loan and Mercantile Ag«ney Company report under diite : —• Cukistchukch. July 15.—Store Sheep : The rough weather the two days preceding the sale no doubt was the cnu«« <>1 so small nn entry, a total <if about 700 bnins penned. Buyers for these and p. great many more wiM'ii present,and cool! v dues were realised, everything changing hands. A line <rf useful cr.i.-s-l)r.)il eu-os, in J;unh, six-tonlii and sound-mouth, l.ruiglit 17s (id, backward merino w«l,lu;rs ~n 13d, small cross-bred wether* 12s 3:1, aged cross-bred ewes, in lamb, hU !).l, and do merino ewes 8s Id. — T-t Sheep: The wenther was also proba:.:. .i.-cousitablo for so light a supply in the fat pens, only about two-thirds ot an average entry being yarded. Merino wethers wore well represented, and met pood competition, especially for really prime sorts. Among the first-class freezers were a few lines of exceptionally well grazed sheep, principally fi">ni Smith Canterbery. Steady competition ruled for all fit for export, and lati: values were niaintained. Second-class cross-bred ewes—of which the market was rather bare —were wuli competed for, and made a shade better values than la3t week's. Prime heavy cross-bred wethers and maiden ewes brought 19s to 24a (3d for outside weights, medium and lightweights 16s (M to LSs (id, rn«rin<i WRthurs (prime) 12s to Ms Crl, light and inferior 9s to lls.—Fat Cattle: The supply of beef in this market seems to have suddenly nnd sadly degenerated, yesterday's entry being anything but a credit to the district either in quality or numbers. On account of the small supplies, however, week after week, good competition meets anything in the shape of beef, except some of the veriest old " hairtrunks," which do not. command sensational prices at any time. Best steers and heifnrs brought Ifls (id to 21s per 1001b, cows, 15s to ISs per lb.—St"re Cattle : There was very little doing in this department, but any young cattle were well competed for and full prices paid.

MARKET KBPOHTS. Tim Nrw Zetland Loi'n and Mercantile AsmiiJ.v C'liipauy report under date :— Chkistohcikoii, July 15.—Wheat: Owing to tho continued depressed stato of the English market and completion of tonna/e engagements, the local market h;is been. { n n very languid state, and to eifect sui'o a of any but exceptionally choice lots, vr.ndors have to accept low rates. Prime milling stands at 3s (id to 3s Bd, and sf, CO nd'iry quality 3s to os 3d .per hushoi, f,i\.b., sacks extr.-i. IJiidlv 'ainnsjud lots ir.ade a still greater decli. . —UaU : Sii.u-.u our la 4 report there ii s bean, a hrisk enquiry in this market, and several transactions have resulted at improved value* of 2..1 to 3d per bushel. To-day's quotations are : Prime milling Is lid to 2s, heavy f rie j i s ]0d to Is lid, ordinary Is 7d to Is 9j per bushel, f.0.b., sacks extra. -Potatoes : No improveto note.—D:iiry produce,: Butter in keg Od to 10d par lb, chnese. 3Jd to 4iii i>er lb. Dunbdik, •inly 17.—Grain : Wheat The market for this, doubtless in sympathy with Ilio Hume market, continues weak, and prices foi- secn-id-class quality further diM')pi!K'. There is no demund for export, with the MClpli m of small parcels occasionally sbinped cna-'twi-p. The consumptimi \i not incivasinp: locally, and unless are nceepted conforming to millers" inVis ..f vrdu.\ Mil-s are difficult to effectThorn is bill" lilt'ii dum.ind fid , any dfscrii)tion. .".iid with millers having siiffte:i«n!) mi hutid.- uieuiti'iie. j.invhasns are onlv inside wii':ii pries are in their favour ; and uvea

then only to a very ino.lm-sw extent. Wβ K ive last weok's quotations for primn milling velvet, red stww, ami Ti.scin, !W,d t, 3< Sd.-Oats: Business tninsnctions during the week have only been to ii inuderato extent ; still Kales both for shipment and local requirement', huve been made at prices on a par with those ruling last week, but wo cannot report any advance, stocks held in store are light, being now reduced very considerably, and considering that fresh arrivals are f«w and far between holders are nut pressing sales, as, if the deinaii'l were to show the sliirhtsst tendency to increaee, values would undoubtedly further improve. Wβ quote prime milliner, Is 10d to In lid ; best short feed lsild to Is 10.1.—Potatoes : The market for these could hardly bo less unsatisfactory. Sellerare unable to quit even at list week 3 quotation?, except in retail lots. —Dairy Produce: Prime salt butter is readily placed at Is per lb ; medium slow of sale. Factory cheese, medium 3ize, held for 5d ; loafshape, 5.', d ; dairy-made, 3d to 4d per I b.—Flax ; The local market shows no signs of any animation, and no business of any consequence is being done. We are in receipt of a cablegram from our London office saying that there is more inquiry for New Zealand flax. Medium is worth £18 15s tho ton. ___«-■