AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 340, 6 February 1889, Page 4

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Farm and Dairy Produce.— Wholesale : Butter, prime fresh butter lOcl lb ; cheese, Rood factory, 5d to s^d ; eggs, Is ; lard, in bladders, s£d to 6Jd ; bacon and hams, 6d to 8d; Canterbury bacon in cloth, BJd; equal numbers, B}d; haras, 10J,d, in cloth. Flour Market.— Wholesale : Flour, best roller, £14 10s; second, £13 10a ; 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, 3s 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 6dto 6s 6d. All grain, chaff, oatmeaL etc., sold including sacks. Kauri Gum.— The market for good ordinary gum continues active, and a good business is being done at the following quotations : Inferior lots, from £30 ; fair to good ordinary, £35 to £36 ; East Coast, £43. Supplies for January to date, 650 tons. Coal and Firkwood Market. — Coal : Newcastle, at yard, 32s per ton; Bay of Islands, at mines, 13s, 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, 255 ; Miranda, at mines, 73 to 10s ; at Auckland, 17s to 20s. Firewood: Uncut, at wharf (cargo), 6s 6d to 8s 6d per ton ; delivered, 10s to 12s ; cut, 14s to 16s. Manures.— Bonedust: Sydney, £7 to £8, according to quality ; boneflour, £3 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, ]2s 6d ; second-class, 8s ; best pjaned, tongued and grooved, first-class, 14s 6d; medium, 11s 6d ; second-class, 9s 6d ; rusticated weather boards, first-class, 14s 6d; medium, 12a; secondclass, 10a. 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 Avon dale, 3Qs per 1,000; town yards, 38s, delivered 41a. Drain pipes, at works: 2in drain tiles, 12in lengths, 60s per 1,000 ; 2}in. 70s • 3ft, 90a ; 4in, 130s ; 6in, 30a per 100 ; 3in socket pipes, 2ft lengths, 6d each ; 4in, 7d : 6in, 9d : 9in, Is 6d ; 12in, 2s 3d; 15in, 3s 6d; 18in, 4s 6d; 21in 9s ; 24m, 12s.

Seven Chinamen were confirmed at Sydney Trinity Church a short time back. A confirmed Chinaman is nob an improvement. The man who would confirm a Chow would confirm a. thief.