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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5842, 7 August 1880, Page 4

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New Zbalmto Herald Office. Friday evening. _ The Customs receipts today were £52G 15s 9d. Mr. G. Sibbin's rale passed off very successfully. The following are a few of the lines disposed of :-Oamaru potatoes, £1 2s to £1103 per ton : Wairoa cheese, 3Jd to Gd per lb.; candles, to 9}d per lb.; Wairo* bacon, rolled, 6,1; plain, 8d per lb.; hams. 9d; butler (inferior), sil per lb.; oats, 2s lid to 2s od, according to quality ; bonedust, maize, 3s Uto3s 9d per bushel; Adelaido flour £14 per ton. Mr. W. Dowden's sale of produce, groceries, [ BO i"^ c Vo^o:n»sS^ spirited. A large quantity of merchandise was disposed °|- rthur , a oreek]y report will appear i n "Lewis sold a lot of surplus furniture, the property of Mr. Smith, draper, and good prices wcro obtained. B Y TELEQRAP H. ■WELLINGTON. August C—Mr. Plummer lieeves quotes: Flour, £11 10s to £12; bran, 9d ; pollard, 03 Cd; fowls' wheat, best, 4s Gd, inferior 3« 9d; fowls' barley, 3s 3d ; oats, 2» 3d to 2s 9d ; o»t----meal, 11s ; pearl barley, 20s to 21s; potatoes, £3 5s to £3 10s; cheese, 5Jd; chaff, oj; Canterbury hams and bacon, 10£ d; maize, 3a 9d; early seed potatoes, fa. Market firm; tendency upwards. DUNEDIN. August G,—Prime beef, 25s to 27s Gd per 1001b3.; mutton, 2Jd ; good sample of willing wheat, 33 9d to 4s 3d; fowls wheat, 2s Cd to 3s; feed oats, Is to Is 4d ; milling, Is 7d; malt barley, 2s 9d to 3i 3d; feed, Is JM to 2s Gd; potatoos, £2 5s to £2 7s Gd; grass hay, £2 10s; oaten hay, JiJ; chaff, £3 ; straw, £2; bran, £3 ss; pollard, £4 ; flour, £9 10s : pearl barley, £18; onions, 7d; cheese, 5d ; bacon (rolled), 9d ; hams, 10J; sides bacon, 7Jd. Only two docl»rations of insolvency were Bled during the week.