AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 292, 22 August 1888, Page 3

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Farm and Dairy Produci:. — 'Wholesale : Butter, prime fresh, Is 3d per lb; cheese, good factory, 4kl to 4fd to sd; eggs, 7d; lard, in bladders, s^d ; bacon and hams, 7d to 8d ; Canterbury bacon in thin calico, 7d ; equal numbers, 7^d : hams,BJd, scarce.

Flour Market. — Wholesale : Flour, best roller, £11 ss ; second, £10 5s j Southern flour, £9 ; bran, ton (sacks included), £3 10s; Southern do., £3 10s; local sharps, £4; Southern do., £4 10s cabin bread, £15; oatmeal (25 s), £10 5s to £10 15s ; oats, 2s 3d to 2s 4d ; maize, 2s 6d to 2s 9d ; local potatoes, £4 5s to £4 10 ; Southern potatoes, — ; pearl barley, £22 to £23 per ton ; beans, 3s 3d ; onions, 7s to 9s. All grain, chaff, oatmeal, etc.. sold including; sacks.

Kauri Gum. — The market continues unsettled. At present quotations are as follows (nominally) :— Fair to good ordinary, £27 to £2S ; superior parcels, £29 to £30 ; East Coast, £13 to £45. Supplies for August to date, about 318 tons.

Coal and Firewood Market. — Coal : Newcastle (ship's side), 23s to 27s per ton ; yard, 26s to 30s ; Bay of Islands, afe mines, 13s ; ab yards, 235 ; steam, 24s ; house, delivered, 30s ; Waikato, Bs, 12s ; ab Auckland, 18s to 22s ; Taupiri, at mine. Bs, 12s, ab Auckland, steam, 17s 6d ; household, de livered,2ss; Whangarei, at mine,9s 6d ; yard (steam), 17s 6s; household, 23s ; deliveiod, 25?. Firewood : Uncut ab wharf (cargo), 6p 6d bo 8s 6d per ton ; delivered, 10s to 12s ; cut, 14s to 16s.

Manures. — Bonedusfc : Sydney, C 7 to £8, according to quality ; boneilour, £8 to £8 10s ; Auckland, £8 ; Peruvian guano, £17; Long Island do., £4 10s, bags included : Hursfe's chemical manure, £7 15s to £15 ; superphosphate, first quality, i' 6 to £6 10s ; second quality, £7 10s to £8.

Buildixg Materials. — Prices are as follows at present : — Timber : — Boards and scantling, 100 ft best, 12s 6d ; second-class, 8s ; best, planed, bongfued and grooved, first-class, 14s ; medium, lls 6d ; 2nd-class, 9s 6d ; rusticated weather boards, firsb-clas-, 14s 6d ; medium, 12s ; second-class, 9s. New Zealand palings, sft (sap), 9s ; sft (heart), lls 6d ; ti-treo rails, £3 103 per 100 ; puriri posts, £6 10* to £7 10s ; shingles, 12s 6d per 1,000 ; Hobarb palings, sft. 17s ; 6ft, 19s ; Hobart rails, 80s, selling quotation?. Bricks afc Avondale, 30s per 1,000; town yards, 38s, delivered 41s. Drain pipes, at works; 2in. drain tiles, Tin. lengths, 50s per 1.000; 2',in., 70s; 3ft. 90s; 4in., 130s; 6in., 30s per 100; 3in., socket pipes, 2ft lengths, 6d each; 4in., 7d; 6in., 9d ; 9in., Is 6d ; 12in M 2<s 3d ; 15in., 3s 6d ; 18in., 4s 6d ; 2lin., 9s ; 24in., 12s.