AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 346, 27 February 1889, Page 5

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Farm and Dairy Produce.— AVholesale : Butter, prime fresh butter, 7d lb; cheese, Rood factory, 5d to skl ; egga, lOd ; lard, in bladders. s^cl to 6Jd ; bacon and hams, 6d to 8d; Canterbury bacon in cloth, B\d; equal numbers, Q",A ; hams,lo',d, in cloth. Flour Market.— Wholesale : Flour, best rolier, £14 Os ; second, £13 Os ; Southern flour, £11 5s to £12; bran, £4 10s; Southern do., £5 10s; local sharps, £4 10s ; Southern, £5; cabin bread, £17 ; oatmeal (25's), £15; oats, 3s 2d to 3s 4d : maize, 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; local potatoes £5 to £6 per ton ; peai'l barley, £20 to £22 per ton ; beans, 3s 3d ; onions, 5s 6d to 6s 6d. All grain, chaff, oatmoaL etc. , sold including sacks. Kauri Gum.— The market is a little easier this week, and the following are present quotations: — Good ordinary, 5.35 , Rood lHasl, (Joast-, ±.43. Coal and Firewood lUahket. — Coalr Newcastle, at yard, 32s per ton; Bay of Islands, at mines, 13s, at jaids, 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 253 ; Whangarei, at mine, 9s 6d ; yard, steam, 17a 6(1 ; household, 235 ; delivered, 25s ; Miranda, at niines, 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, according to quality ; bonellour, £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 Materius.— Prices are as follow at present: — Timber— Boaids and scantling, 100 ft best, 12s 6d ; second-class, 8s ; best planed, tcngued and grooved, first-class, 14s 6d; medium, lls 6d ; second-class, 9s 6d ; rusticated weather boards, first-class, 14s 6d; medium, 12a; secondclass, 10s. New Zealand palings, 51 1 (sap), 9s; (heart), lls 6d; ti-tree rails, £3 10s per 100; purm posts, £6 10s to £7 10s; shingles, 13s per 1,000; Hobart palings, stt, 17s; 6ft, 19s; Ilobart rails, 80s, selling quotations. Bricks at Avon dale, 3Cs 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 each ; 4in, 7d ; 6in, 9d ;_9in Is6d; 12in, 2s 3d; 15in, 3s 6d; 18in, 4s 6d; 9s ; 24in, 12s.