AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 342, 13 February 1889, Page 4

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Farm and Dairy Produce.— "Wholesale: Butter, prune Ircsh. butter lOAlb; cheese, goodiactory, 5d tosUl ; eggs, Is ; lard, in bladders, 5W to 6jd ; oacon unit hams, 6i. to 3d; Canterbury bacon in cloth, BJd; equal numbers, BJd; hams,lo^d, in cloth. Flour Market.— Wholesale : Flour, best ro'ler, £14 10s; second, £13 10a ; Southern flour, £11 10s to i:l2 ss; bian, £6; Southern do., £5 10s; local sharps, £5; Southern do., £3; cabin broad, £17 ; oatmeal (25's), £17: oats, 3s 4d to 3s 6d : maize, 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; local potatoes (new). £3 to jLSlOsper ton; pearl barley, £20 to £22 per ton ; beans, 3s 3d ; onions, 5s 6d to 6<s 6i. All gram, chafr, oatmeaL etc., sold including sacks. KiUiii Guv.— The market for good ordinary yiiiii continues active, and a good bb an.c 3?a n.c3? is he'uyj; ( one at the tol'owingquo alions : Inferior lots, from t-30 ; fair to good ordinary, i-35 to £36 ; East Coast, £43. Supplies for JcViiuuy to date, 650 tons. Coal and Firkwood M^rkkt. — Coal : Neucas'lc, at yaid, 32s per ton; Bay of Islands at mines, 13 J , at jaida, 245; steam, 245; house, delivered, 30s; Waikato, at mines, 85, 12s; at Auckland, 18s to 225; Taupiri, at mine. Bs. 12s; at Auckland, steam, 17s 6d; household, de In crcd. 24s to 255; Whangarei. at mine, 9s 6d; yard, steam, 17s 6d ; household, 235; delnered, 2os ; Miranda, at mines, 7s to 10=3; at Auckland, 17s to 20s. Firewood : Uncut, at wharf (cargo), 6s 6 1 to 83 6d per tou ; dclivcicd, 103 to 12s; cut, 14s to los. Manures.— Boncdust Sydney. £7 to £8. Ac cording to quality ; boncllour, £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 10d ; Craigs lime, 35s to 40s per ton. Buildixg Materi 11s.— Prices arc as follow at present:— Timber— Bo uds and scantling, lOOlt best, 12s 6d ; second class, 8s , best planed, t- nijucd and uroovcd, n>-st-class,l4s6d; medium, 11s 6d ; second-c'tt's, 9s 6d ; rusticated weather bcaids, first-cl.iss, !4561; medium, 12.; becondclass, 10s. New Zealand palings, bit (?ap\ 9s; (heart*, 11s 6d; ti-trcc rails, £3 10s per 100; punri posts, £b 100 to £7 10s; sliingles, 13s per 1,000; Hobart palings, jffc, 17s; 6ft, 19=5, Ilob.ut rails, 30s. selling quotations. Hricks at Avondale, 30s per 1,000; town jurds, 383, deli \ erod 41^. iJrain pipes-, at works: 2in r"rai!i tiles. 12in lengths, 50s per 1.000; 2hn, 70s; 3ft, 90s; 4m, 130 c; 6in, 303 per 100: 0111 socket pipes. 2ft lengths, 6d each ; 4in, 7d ; 6in, 9d ; 9in, Is6d; 12 n, 2s 3d; 15in, 3s 61; 13in. 4s 6d ; 21m 9s ; 24m. 12s.

Siii:ei> Fa t r.— Yesterday Messrs Hunter and Njlan l.clii their annual sheep fii»rai their v aids, UieenLane, o\ cr 5,000 sheep being jarded, besi ies a Luge r.uinbor of ranis. Tnc att.encl.incc was large, and bidding was biisk, almost every lot being cleared at tati^tactory pnucs. Tli'u dcniiind for Lincoln la'iiswas far in excosbo! the supply, and piirei were considerably higher than last jear. A splendid diait ot 2-tooth Lincoln rrm?, trom Mr Robert Hall, of One True Hill, sold at from 5s to t7 10 . Another draft fioin .Mr b'. C. li.urd, of OUihuhu, £3 ,5s to £6. Oxford Down and Shropshire Down, from Mr Edward Coates, of Matakoho, £3 3s to £3 12s 6d. Out or a consignment of about -.',500 from Napier. I.COOwjio sold, lea\ in^ tho roinaindcr to Le vctdisDosulo*. Lo'igw coiled sliccpse-iiicd to be in the greatest demand. Amoi gst tho lai-gest bujcrs were Messrs A. Ti otter and It. Ross