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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue XXXIX, 1 November 1892, Page 2

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The Waikato Times Otficc, Monday. AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKETS. Messius Ksam and Ahthub's \msekly EbpOllT.—lll produce ami fruit, bu>ine-<* has, for the s*!t<"ii, been satisfactory. Southern potatoes have realised t'2 0-, ex ship, 5s to 7« ad i tuics e x store; Waikatos, 30s to 40i; the demand is getting confined to new crop ; kidney*, Id t:> lAd ; Shepherd'#, to 1. Maize, ex store, 2i 9d to 2s lOd feed oat-, 2s 7tl; chaff, oatrn, £5; fowl wheat, 2s (id to 2s lOd ; sharps, £4; bran £4 to £4 ss. Fresh butter : Supplies large, but as exporting will shortly commence, we think prices may improve. No. 1, (id to (ijd ; No. 2, y|d to 5.1 d ; keg butter, in small enquiry, prices are nominal at 01 to 7d. Kfc.*gs, (id, on the average ; bacon, 4d to 6Jd; hams, 4.U1 to 7d ; cheese, 4d to s^d; small loaf, (id. Fruit: Hobart apples, shipments in inferior condition, from 2s lOd to 8s (id. Local fruit: Loqnats, 2j|d to 2ijd ; lemons, 5Jd to 7}d ; gooseberries, 3d to 4d. Poultry: Roosters, Is 9d to 2s 4d; ordinary fowls, Is 3d to Is 8d ; ducks, Is 4d to Is 9d. Mb Alex. Aii'kkn's Wkekly Report (for the week ending October 2.9.). —Potatoes : Wholesale lines ex ship, 40s to -13s; ex store, 45s to 55< ; Waikatos, 40s to 455; onions, prima 2jd to 3d ; indifferent lots, l§d to 2d ; chaff, prime £4 5s to £4 10s; poor and damaged, 45s to (iOs j | maize, wholesale lines on wharf, 2s (ijd to 2s 7d ; ex store, 2s 9d to 2s lOd ; oats, short feed, 2s (id. Wheat: Lines, ex ship, 2s 6Jd ; small lets ex store, 3s ; bran and sharps, dull at £4 ss. New potatoes: Large supply clcared. Shepherds, Jd to |d; kidneys, Id to ljd ; poor, Jd. Vegetables : Green peai, Is 2d to la lid per peck ; buttor, prime, Gjd to 7£d ; medium, 6d to 6Jd. Eggs: Hen, 6.Jd to 7d; duck, GJd to Bid ; keg butter, slack demand. Bacon : Priir.e, local, Gd to 6.Jd ; poor, et:., 3Jd to sd; Canterbury, prime, Gid; clothed, 7d; hams, prime, local, 7(1 to 8d; medium, 6d to fijrl ; Canterbury prime, BJd ; clothed, 9d. Cheese : dairy, 4jd to 9jd; factory, 5Jd to Gd ; loaf, Gjd ; honey (section), 3.jd ; white clovor, in 21b tins, 9s 3d per dozen ; 101b tins, 3d to 3Ad. Fruit : Apples, _ ex Waihora, in poor condition, realised, 5s to 7s ; good Stnrmers and Crabs, 10' to 10s Gd; oranges, Sydney, 7s to 8s ; mandarins, 7s to 8s ; loquats, local, 2Jd to 3Jd ; lemons, large, 6Jd to ; small, 4d to Gd ; gooseberries. small, ljfd to 2d ; good, 2d to 3d ; Farmer's Glory, very choice, sd; dried apples held in quantity without demand. Poultry in heavy supply, strong demand ; first-class table fowls, Is 8d to 2s 6d ; medium and poor, Is 4d to Is 9d ; roosters, in condition, 2-i 3d to 2s lid ; others, Is 6d to 2s ; ducks, Is 5d to 2s 6d ench ; ducklings, 5d to Is 3d ; geese, 3? to 4s 3d ; turkeys, gobblers, 4s 3d to Gi Gd ; hens, 3s to 5s 3d ; pigeons, Gd to Is 2d ; canaries, Is GJ to Bji each ; hens and broods, 2-- Gd to (is Gd ; pigs, choice breeds, lis to 15s Gd ; good ordinary, 8s to 10s Gd ; poor and suckers, 3s 5d to 7s Gd.

CHRISTCHURCH LIVE STOCK MAR KETS.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company report under date ChristchdkcH, October 21 — Store Slieep : The yarding in this class was an average one, namely, 2500, principally 4tooth cross-breds. Cross-bred hoggets, and ewes and lambs were also represented in small lines. The attendance was goad, with a fair number of buyers, but competition was, by no means brisk. However, most of those winch were not sold under the hammer, changed hands privately at owners' reserves. We sold for a client a line of small 4-tooths at 14s 10J. Croes-bred ewes and lambs brought 14s to 21s 6d for a small line, with a heavy percentile of lambs ; 4-tooth cross-bieds, 14s to 17s ; and crossbred hoggets, up to 15s.—Fat Lambs: About 250 formed yesterday's supply, which, considering how early in the season it is, was a very fair entry. They were mostly good sorts, and met spirited competition at tho hands of the trade, resulting in last week's prices being well maintained, Values ranged from 10s to 15 s.—Fat Sheep. —A rather light entry was penned in this olass, and with the exception of, say, half a dozen lines, was of very middling quality. Merino wethers, as is usual now, predominated. Bidding was dall, and, if anything. prices were a trifle easier than last week's, except, perhaps, for a few top pens. —Fat Cattle : Slightly under an average supply of beef elicited, with the assistance of a West Coast buyer, better competition than ruled at last market, and accordingly an improvement in val/es to the extent of about Is to Is Gd per 1001b. Best steers brought i 7 to £910s,best cows and hfifers £o to £8 12s (ss.—St"re Cattle : In addition to a line of about 150 three and four-year-old station steers, little of moment was yarded. The ab.ive were keenly competed for, and the other coast ultimately became the destination of most of thein. Values of the day ranged as follow : —Three and fourye ir-old steers £5 to £G 3s Gd, yearlings to 4os, eighteen-montholds to £3 os, and dry cows to £5. Business in the dairy pens was rather dull, the bulk of the entry beintf of inferior quality. The best made up to £7 3s.

MARKET REPORTS.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company report under date Dunbdin, October 20. — Wheat: The ordinary demand for local requirements continues to exist, but nothing further, and with only a limited output from our mills the sales affected are extremely snail. While occasional Ms »re exchanging hands at quotations, these are almost entirely confined to the choicest giades, and only the requirement* of mi'.Uis have to be supplied, foi in shipping there are no transitions. We (jnote prima milling velvet and Tuscan, 3a 3 1 to 3a U'd.—Outs : Transactions in these during the past week have been rather nn a email scale, mainly confined to filling coastal and local order*. Exporters, while not lacking inquiry, seein utiablo to operato at the present range of pricos. We quote : Best milling, Is to Is lid ; best blight feed, ls9d to Is 10d ; medium to good, Is SJ to Is 9d ; inferior to medium. Is (id to Is 8d (ex store, sacks extra, net). No demand for long oats of any consequences. —Potatoes: Really good boilers are scarce and worth 35 > to 40"; while the market is glutted with inferior sorts, which fetch from 15s to 80s per ton (sacks weighed in, ex store). —Chaff : The same remarks apply to chaff. Very little really good coines to market, and in worth 50s to 55s ; extra primp, on occasion", 57s Cd. The bulk coming forward, however, is disposed of at from 35s to 50s per ton, and the market is now oversnpplied.—Dairy produce : Market quiet. Prime keg butter, dairy-made, m&y be quoted at 8d to 9d, but little offering; factory-made, lOd to lid. Factory cheese: Poor demand. Quotitions for medium-sine, 4Jd to 5d ; loaf, to 51d ; dairy, 2Ad to 4Ad per lb. Chkistchurch. October 21. — Wool : But for the wet weather of this week, shearing would have been in full swing on the plains by now. In fact, it is matter for congratulation that operation* had not been more extensive, for the prevailing cold mid wet is very trying to newly-shorn sheep and also to the young lambs. If the cable announcing thu date of the next London series, Nov. 24, be correct, there will probably be a postponement of the opening sales in Chratchurcli, which had been fixed.—Wheat : The local market has been very quiet d.iring the wrek, arid there is no change to note ill out-ide values. We can only repeat quotations, (jood milling 34J to 3s Sd ; damaged lots, 2s to 2* (id ; inferior from is 9 1 p M r Inishel, f.. sacks extra. —Oats : The t me of this market on tinue.s quiet, n id >al'i.s show no material alteration sine,' our !ast.. W- 1 qu -te prime milling 2s to 2s Id, heavy feed 1" 10|>1 to Is llid. ordinary qualities Is Sd to Is 10J per bushel f.0.b., sacks extra.—Potatoes : As we expected, the Svdnev market has again given wav, and the out-link for holders of st' cks here is no brighter that it has been for some time. L >cal quotations are about 10s per ton at country station. —Dairy Produce : Butter in kegs 7d to 8d ; cheese 3Jd to 4id per lb.