AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 336, 23 January 1889, Page 4

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Farm and Dairy Produce.— Wholesale : Bmfctcr, prime Iresh butter 7d lb ; olieese, good factory, 5d to s}d; egg 3, 8d ; lard, in bladders, s£d to 6Jd; bacon and hams, 6d to 8d; Canterbury bacon in cloth, B^d; equal numbers, B|d; hams,lo{d, in cloth. Flour Market.— Wholesale : Flour, best roller, £14 10s; second, £13 10s ; Southern flour, £11 10s to £12 ss; bran, £6; Southern do., £5 10s ; local sharps, £5; Southern do., £5 ; cabin bread. £17 ; oatmeal (25's), £18: oats, 3s 8d to 3s lOd ; maize, 33 6d to 3s 9d ; local potatoes (new), £8 to £8 10s per ton; pearl barley, £20 to £22 per ton; beans, 3s 3d; onions, 5s 6d to 6s 6d. All grain, chaff, oatmeal, etc., sold in' eluding sacks. Kauri Gum. — The market is steady, and business is being done at the following quotations :— lnferior lots, from £30 ; fair to good ordinary, £33; superior parcels (free Irom swamp), £34 and upwards; East Coast, £43. Supplies for January to date, 400 tons. Coal and Firkwood Market. — Coal : Newcastle, at yard, 32s per ton; Bay of Islands, at mines, 133, at yaids. 245; steam, 245; house, delivered, 30s; Waikato, at mines, Bs, 12s; at Auckland, 18s to 225; Taupiri, ab mine, Bs, 12s; at Auckland, steam, 17s 6d; household, delivered, 24s to 255; Whangarei. at mine, 9a 6d; yard, steam, 17s 6d; household, 23s* delivered, 25s ; Miranda, at mines, 7s to 10s : at Auckland, 17s to 20a. Firewood: Uncut, at wharf (cargo), 6s 6d to 8s 6d per ton ; delivered, 10s to 12s ; cut, 14s to 16s. * r Manures.— Bonedust: Sydney, £7 to, £8," according to quality ; boneflour, £8 to £8 ,10s; Auckland, £8 ; Peruvian guano, £17 : Long Island do., £4 10s, bags included ; Fison's fertiliser, £7 to £14 ; superphosphate, first quality, £7 10s to £8 ; second quality, £6 to £6 10s ; 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 pjaned, tcngued and grooved, first-class, 14s 6d; medium, lls 6d ; second-class, 9s 6d ; rusticated weather boards, first-class, 14s 6d ; medium, 12s; secondclass, 10s. New Zealand psliiigs, 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 Avon dale, 3Qs per 1,000; town yards, 38s, delivered 41s. Drain pipes, at works: 2in s drain tiles, 12in 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 :f9in, Is6d; I2in, 2s 3d; 15in, 3s6d; 18in, 4s 6d; 21iu 9s;24in. 12s.

" I wonder,"- says a Melbourne writer, "what a smart Californian, knowing; our natural resources," 'wxmld say if he 'heard that in Melbourne, at the present ' 'time, householders- are x paying threepence a pound for potatoes/ and buying *fruifc, vegetables,,. meat and milk, at the' same absurdly .high.prices/, ' He would probably .say many things, and none of't'nem complimentary, aiici' he would conclude' that; there was room in t Australia for enterprising in'en/ .^nd here ",to starb other American irrigation colonies'," ' { I., ";