COMMERCIAL. AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 344, 20 February 1889, Page 5

COMMERCIAL. AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Farm and Dairy Produce.— Wholesale : Butter, prime fresh btitter, 8d lb; cheese, good factory, sdtosJd; eggs, lOd ; lard, in bladders,' ssd to 6Jd; bacon and hams, 6d to 8d; Canterbury bacon in cloth, 81d; equal numbers, B^d; hams,lo}d, in cloth. Flour • Market.— Wholesale : Flour, best roller, £14 10s; second, £13 10s ; Southern flour, £11 Jss to £12; bran, £6; Southern do., £5 10s ; local sharps, £5; Southern do., £5 ; I cabin bread, £17 ; oatmeal (25's), £16; oats, 3s 4d to 3s 6d : maize, 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; local potatoes £5 to £7 per ton; pearl barley, £20 to £22 per ton ; beans, 3s 3d ; onions, 5s 6d to 6s 6d. All grain, chaff, oatmeal, etc., sold including sacks. , Kauri Gtjm.— The market is a little easie 1 ' this week, and the following are present quota tions:— Good ordinary. £35 ; Rood East Coast £43. Coal and Firkwood Market. — Coal : Newcastle, at yard, 32s per ton; Bay of Islands, at initfes, 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, 2<fe to 255: Whangarei. at mine, 9s 6d; yard, steam, 17s 6d; household, 235; delivered, 25s : Miranda, at mines, 7s 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, accoi'ding to quality ; boneliour, £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, J2s 6d ; second-class, 8s; best planed, tongued and grooved, first-class, 14s 6d; medium, lls od ; second-class. 9s 6d ; rusticated weather boards, first-class, I4s6d; medium, 123; secondclass, 10s. New Zealand polings, sft (sap), 9s: (heart), lls 6d: ti-tree rails, £3 103 per 100; puriri posts, £6 10s to £7 10s; shingles, 13s per 1,000; Hobart palings, oft, 17s; 6ft, 19s; 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, 50s per 1,000; 2iin, 70s; 3ft, 90s ; 4in, 130s ; 6in, 30s per 100 ; 3in socket pipes, 2ft lengths, 6d oach ; 4in, 7d ; 6in, 9d ; 9in, Is6d; 12m, 2s 3d; 15in, 3s 6d; 18in, 4s 6d; 21m ' 9s: 24in. 12s.