AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 316, 14 November 1888, Page 3

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Fakji and Dairy Produce.— Wholesale : Butler, prime fresh, 6cl per lb ; cheese, good factory, 4\A to sd ; egi?s, 6d ; lard, in bladders. s\d to 6id; liacon and hams, 6d to 8d; Canterbury bacon in thin calico, 7d; equal numbers, 7}d; I hams, 7^d to BJil. j Fj,ou» Market. — Wholesale : Flour, best roller. £12 10s to £12 15s ; second, £12 ; Southern Hour, &11 10s to £11 15&; bran, £5; bran, ton (sacks included), £5 10s; Southern do., £4 lOt.; local sharps, £4 10s; Southern do., £5 10&; cabin broad, £15; oatmeal (25's), £11 10s to £12: oats, 2s 9d to 2s lid: maize, 2s 9d; local potatoes (new). £6 10s; Southern potatoes £4 10s; pearl barley, £20 to £22 per ton; beans, >ss 3d; onions, 5s 6d to 6s 6d. All grain, chaff, oatmeal, etc., sold including sacks. Kauri (xUM.—Alarge business isdoingatabout the following prices : — Fair to good ordinary, £55 to' £36 : superior parcels higher, according to quality : Ea&t Ccast, £43 to £44. Supplies for 10 months in 1858, 6,709 tons. Coal and Fikkytood Market. — Coal : Newcastle, at. yard, 32s per ton; Bay of Islands (scarce), at mines, 13s. at yaids, 245; steam, 245; house, delivered, 30s; Waikato, at mines, 8s, 1 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; deih ered, 2bs ; Miranda, at mines, 8s to lls ; at AuQkland, 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; boneflour, £8 to £8 10s; Auckland, £8 ; Peruvian guano, £17 ; Long Island do., i'A 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 Materiais.— Prices are as follow at present: — Timber — Boards and scantling, 100 ft best, 13s ; second-class, 8s ; best planed, te ngued and grooved, 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 ; puviri posts, £6 10s to £7 10s ; shingles, 13s per 1,000; Hobart palings, olt, 17s; 6ft. 19s; Hobart rails, 80s, selling quotations. Bricks at Avon dale, 3Qs per 1,000; town yards, 38s, delivered 41s. Drain pipes, at works: 2in drain tiles, 12in lengths, 50s per 1,000; 2}in, 70s; 3ft, 90s; 4in, 130s; 6m, 30s per 100: oin socket pipes, 2ft lengths, 6d each ; 4in, 7d ; 6in, 9d ; 9in, Is6d; 12m, 2s 3d; 15in. 3s 6d; 18in. 4s 6d; 21in, 9s ; 24in, 12s.