AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 310, 24 October 1888, Page 5

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Fabm and Dairy Produce.— Wholosale : Butter, prime fresh, 6d per lb ; cheese, good factory, did to 4|d to sd ; oggB, 6d ; lard, in bladders, 5Jd ; bacon and hams, 7d to 8d ; Canterbury bacon in thin calico, 7d; equal numbers, 7id; hams, 9id, scarce.

Flour Market.— Wholesale : Flour, best roller, £13 Os ; second, £12 Os ; Southern flour, £9 10s to £10 10s; bran, £5; bran, ton (sacks included), £4 10s; Southern do., £4 10s ; local sharps, £4 10s ; Southern do., £5 10s; cabin bread, £15; oatmeal (25's), £11 10s to £12; oats, 2s 9d to 2a lid: maize, 2s 9d; local potatoes, £4; Southern potatoes, £4 10s: pearl barley, £21 to £22 per ton: beans, os 3d ; onions, 8s to 9a. All grain, chaff, oatmeal > etc., sold including sacks.

Kauri Gum.— We have to report a firm and active inarkot for the last month, a large business having been done at about the following quotations :— "Fair to good ordinary, £30 ; superior parcels, £31 and upwards; East Ct-ast, £43 to £44. Supplies for October to date, 407 tons.

Coal and Firewood Market. — Coal ; Newcastle at yard, 38s to 37s 6d per ton: Bay of Islands (scarce), at< mines, 13a, afc yaids, 245; steam, 245; hemso, 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 25a; Whangarei. at mino, 9s 6d; yard, steam, 17s 6d ; housohold, 235 ; delivered, 25s ; Miranda, at mines, 8s to 11s ; at Auckland, 17s to 20s. Firewood : Uncut, at wharf (cargo), 6s 6d to 8s 6d per tou ; delivered, 10s to 12s ; cut, 14s to 16s.

Manures.— Bonedust: Sydney, £7 to £8, according to quality; bonefiour, £8 to £8 10s; Auckland, £8 ; Peruvian guano, £17 ; Long Island do., £4 10s, bags includod ; Mson's fertiliser, £7 to £14 ; superphosphate, first quality, £6 to £6 10s ; second quality, £7 103 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, tcngued and grooyed, first-class, 14s ; medium, lls 6d ; second-class, 9s 6d ; rusticated weather boards, first-class, 14s 6d ; medium, 12s ; secondclass, 9s. New Zealand palings, sft (sap), 9s; (heart), lls 6d; ti-tree rails, £3 10s per 100 ; puriri posts, £6 10a 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, 58s, delivered 41s. Drain pipes, at works: 2in drain tiles, 12in longths, 50s per 1,000; 24in, 70s; 3ft, 90s ; 4in, 130s ; 6in, 30s per 100 ; 3m socket pipes, 2ft lengths, 6d each ; 4in, 7d ; 6in, 9d ; 9in, Is6d; 12in, 2s 3d; 15in. 3s 6d; 18in. 4s 6d; 21in, 9s : 24in, 12s.

Messrs Arthur and Buddles Weekly Report.—Business generally has been better than last week. Produce was in short supply in the early part of the week, but entries for Friday's market sale wore fairly full. Af ow lines of new olieeso met with ready salo at 3Jd to 4?cl, old of good quality scarce. New potatoes came forward freely, but the majority were unripe. Bacon and hams in good supply, and satisfactory sales were made. Fresh butter plentiful, good corned very scarce. The following auction sales have been held during the week :—: — On Monday, at 11, several properties were offered by order of the Registrar of the Supremo Court. A large attendance at the sale, but no competition, each lot passing to the mortgagee. Subsequent to the sale wo sold an allotment fronting Remuera Road at £3 10s a foot. On the same day sales of household furniture, etc., were heldatNewmarketandKyberPa&s Road ; both were well attended, and satisfactory prices realised. Wednesday's furniture sale at the mart was fairly attended, as was also a sale of drapery on Thursday ; at both good business was done. Friday's market sale was a marked improvement on the previous few weeks ; buyers were very numerous, and prices on the whole ruled high. Poultry and pig pen 3 were well filled, competition brisk, and first-rate prices realised. Wo quote as follows :— Fowle, in poor condition, Is to Is 4d; good table fowls, Is 6d to 2s ; Dorkings, 3s 9d ; game, 2s 9d ; Houdans, 2s 6d ; ducks, Is 7d to 2s ; Peking, 3s ; turkeys, 3s 3d to 4s ; geese, 3s 5d to 4s 4d ; hen and ducklings, 3s 9d to 5s ; goslings, lOd ; pigs, 8s 6d to lls 3d; small and rough, 4s 6d ; canaries, 4s to 5a 6d ; sacks cabbages, Is 2d to 2s Id ; rhubarb, 2}d to sd ; pumpkins, 3s 6d ; carrots. Is 6d ; new potatoes, round and shepherds, to 'Id ; kidneys, |d to l£d ; onions, 2d ; kumeras, l^d ; local potatoes, old, 3s 6d to 4s 6d, sacks extra; Southern, ss, sacks in; Southern seed, 2s 6d ; fresh butter, in pats, 4*d to sid ; salt, 4d ; inferior. \d to lAd ; eggs, 7£d per dozen ; turkey eggs, Bgd ; bacon, 5d to 6d ; hams, 6d ; cheose, 3Jd to 4Jd; inferior, Id to Hd ; chaff, Is 6d; sharps, 4s 4d; bran, ss; maize, 2s lOd; chick wheat. Is 9d ; biscuits, id to 4^d ; London mixtures, 8d ; honey, 3d ; syrups, 7s 6d ; box tea, 15s to 225; lemons, 3d to Bid ; oranges, 6s.