AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET,

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 314, 7 November 1888, Page 5

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET,

Farm ani> Dairy Produce.— Wholesale : Butter, prime fresh, 6d per lb ; cheese, good factory, d^d to 4'id to sd ; eggs,6d; lard, in bladders, ssd ; Dacon and hams, 7d to 8d; Canterbury bacon in thin calico, 7d; equal numbers, 7id; hams, 9id, scarce. Flour Market.— Wholesale : Flour, best rollor, £13 Os; second, £12 Os ; Southern flour, iAO to £10 10s; bran, £5; bran, ton (sacks included), £5 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 2s lid ; maize. 2s 9d; local potatoes (new), £6 10s; Suuthernpotaloes £4 10s; pearl barley, £21 to £22 per ton; boans, 3s 3d; onions, 8s to 9s. All grain, chaff, oatmeal, etc., sold including sacks. j Kauri Gum.— We havo this mail to report a firm and active market, and prices havo advanced about £2 to £3 per ton from our last quotations, and a large business is doing at about the following prices :— Fair to good ordinary, £32 to £33 : superior parcels higher, according to quality; East Ctast, £42 io £43. Supplies for the month of October, 670 tons, and from mail to mail (say four weeks), 641 tons. Coal and Firewood 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; household, 235; delivered, 2fas ; Miranda, at mines, 8s to 11s ; a Auckland, 17s to 20s. Firewood: Uncut, at wharf (cargo), 6s 6d to 8s 6d per ton ; deliveied, 10s to 12s ; cut, 14s to 16s. Manures.— Boncdust: Sydney, £7 to £8, according to quality ; boneflour, £8 to £8 10s ; Auckland, £8 ; Peruvian guano, £17 ; Long Island do., it 4 10s, bags included ; Fison's fertiliser, £7 to £14; superphosphate, first quality, £6 to £6 10s ; second quality, £7 10s to £8 ; Craigs lime, 35s to 40s per ton. Building Materi us- Prices arc as follow at present:— Timber— Boards and scantling, 100 ft best, 12s (id; second-class, 8s ; best planed, tcngued and grooved, first-class, 14s; medium. 11s 6d ; second-class, 9s 6d ; rusticated weather boards, first-class, J4s6d; medium, 12-i; secondclass, 9s. New Zealand palings, sft (sap), 9s; (heart), 11s 6d; li-tree rails, £3 10s per 100; puriri posts, £6 10<3 to £7 10s; shingles, 13s per 1,000; Hobart palings, oft. 17s; 6ft, 19a; Hobart rails, 80s, selling quotations. Bricks at Avondale, 30s per 1,000; town yards, 38s, delivered 41s. Drain pipes, at works: 2in drain tiles, 12in lengths, oOs per 1,000; 2^in, 70s; 3ft, 90s ; 4m, 130s ; 6m, 303 per 100 : 3in socket pipes, 21t lengths, 6d each ; 4in, 7d ; 6in, 9d ; 9in, Is6d; 12in, 2s 3d; 15in, 3s 6d ; 18in, 4s 6d; 21m, 9s; 24in, 12s.