COMMERCIAL.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume V, Issue 210, 6 January 1865, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

AUCKLAND. PROVISION MARKETS. The following are the market prices, which wo take from the Southern Grout of 31st December Farm and Dairy Produce.—Milk, per quart. 6d; butter (fresh), per lb. Is 6d to 2s; cheese (colonial). Is 3d to Is 6d; eggs, per d«z„ 2s fid to 2s 9d ; lard, per lb. Is 4d to Isfil; fowls, per pair,os to 6s; ducks, ditto, 6sto7s6d; geese, each. 7s lo 3s; turkeys, each, 8s to Ms 6d; bacon, per lb, Is Od; hams, English, per lb, ls6d; potatoes, per ton, £8 to £lO, or 9s Jo 10s per cwt. Butchers’ Meat.—Beef, per lb, Sd to 7d ; mutton, 7d to 8d; pork, 9d; veal, 8d to 8d: lamb, 7s to 9s per quarter. Bread, per 2lb loaf, 7d. THE MILLS. Wholesale;—Pine Sour (siik dressed), par ton. £35 ; seconds, £2O; sharps, £ll. Wheat, per bushel, Adelaide, Pis. Bran, 2s. Retail.— Fine flour, per 100 lbs, 275; seconds. 225; sharps. 13s. Bran, per bushel, 2s 3d. BUILDING MATERIALS. Timber.—Boards and Scantling, per 100 feet, l«s to 19a ; boards tcogued and grooved. 25s to 27s 6d; shingles, per 1000, I : 'H to 30s; palings, per 100, J6s. Posts and Bails, per 100, £4 10a. ; Bricks, per 1000, £4105., delivered. lime, per bushel. Is 9d to 2s. The New Zealander, of the 3rd Instant, In its Commercial Record, reports:— The receipts at the Customs for the week ending 3lst December amounted to £2,502 13s 3d. From Newcastle we have news to the 19th, from which we extract the following telegrams:— Mei bourne. —Decemberie.—Business stagnant. Western tobacco, Jibs. Is 3d; maize, 4«9d. At auction ; Mauritius yellow crystals .at£3B;, grey counters, £37; good brown, £.ti Pis to £3l. Arrived; Johau Cezar, from Foochoo Foo, with a cargo of teas; Hobart Town.— December 14.—Breadstuff! active: Chilian flour, £l7 10s; Californian and Chilian wheat, 8s 9rt and 9s; oats, 3s 3d. Adelaide. —December 16.—Business quiet. Bottled ale and porter in demand. ■ Flour, £lB to £3O; small parcels new wheat sold at 7s Sd; did wheat, 7s6d. Fat cattle: test bullocks, £7 and £9; second, £4 10s -o £6 Ms ; best cows, £5 P.'s to £7 10a; second. £4 to, £5. . Fat sheep abundant: prim? wethers’, 13s to 15a; second. Ils to 13s. Fat lambs sell readily at 9s to 10s.