AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 304, 3 October 1888, Page 4

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Farm and Dairy Produce.— Wholesale: Butter, prime fresii, 9d per lb : cheese, good lactory, 4£d to 43d to sd ; eggs, 6d ; lard, ia bladders, 5Jd; bacon and hams, 7d to 8d; Canterbury bacon ia thin calico, 7d ; equal numbers, 7id ; hams, BJd, scarce. Flouk Market.— Wholesale : Flour, best roller, £13 Os; second. £12 Os ; Southern flour, £9 10s to £10 103 ; bran, £5 ; bran, ton (sacks included), £4 103; Southern do., £4 10s ; local sharps, £4 10a ; Southern do., £5 10s; cabin bread, £15; oatmeal (25's), £11 10s to £12; oats, to 2s 9d : maize. 2s 7d to 2s 9d ; local potatoes, £4 ; S .uthern potatoes, £4 ss; pearl barley, £21 to £22 per ton; beans, 3s 3d; onions, 8s to 9s. All grain, chaff, oatmeaL etc., sold including sacks. Kauki Gum.— We have to report a rather quiet market, quotations standing as follow :— Fair to good ordinary, £29 to £30 ; superior parcels, £31 ; East Ctasl, £43 to £44. Supplies for September to date, about 633 tone. Coal and F irk wood Market. — Coal : Newcastle, at yard, 38s to 37s 6d per ton; Bay of Islands (scarce), at mines, 13a, at yaids, 245; steam, 245; house, delivered, 30s; Waikato, at mines, Bs, 12s; at Auckland, 18s to 225; Taupiri, at mine, Bs, 12s; at Auckland, steam, 17s 6d; household, delivered, 24s to 255 ; Whangarei. at mine, 9s 6d ; yard, steam, 17s 6d ; liouseholdr 238 ; delivered, 25s ; Miranda, at mines, 8s to 11s ; at Auckland, 17s to 20s. Firewood: Uncut, at wharf (cargo), 6s 6d to 8s 6d per ton ; delivei ed, 10s to 12s ; cut, 14s to 16s. Manures.— Bonedust. Sydney, £7 to £3, according to quality ; boneflour, £8 to £8 10s ; Auckland, £8 ; Peruvian guano, £17 ; Long Island do., 103, bags included : Fisoir's fertiliser, £810s to £14 ; superphosphate, first quality, £6 to £6 10s ; second quality, £7 10s to £8 ; Craigs lime, 35s to 40s per ton. Building Materials. — Prices are as follow at present:— Timber— Boards and scantling. 100 ft best, 12s 6d; second-class, 8s ; best planed, tongued and grooved, first-class, 14s; medium, lls od ; second-class, 9s 6d ; rusticated weather boards, first-class, 1 4s 6d; medium, 12-t; secondclass, 9s. New Zealand palings, sft (sap), 9s; (heart), lls 6d; ti-tree rails, £3 10s per 100; puriri posts, £6 10s to £7 10s; shingles, 13s per 1,000; Hobart palings, sft, 17s; 6ft, 19s; Hobart rails, 80s. selling quotations. Bricks at Avondale. 30s per 1,000; town yards, 38s, delivered 41s. Drain pipes, at works: 2in drain tiles, lin lengths, 50s per 1,000; 24in, 70s; 3ft, 90s; 4in, 130s: 6in, 30s per 100: 3in socket pipes, 2ft lengths, 6d each ; 4in, 7d ; 6in, 9d ; 9in, Is6d; I2in, 2s 3d; 15in, 3s 6d; 18in. 4s 6d ; 21in, 9s : 24in, 12s.