AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 354, 27 March 1889, Page 5

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Farm and Dairy Produce.— Wholesale: Butter, prime frosn imtter. 7d Ib; cheese, Rood factory, sci to s^d : eggs, Is : lard, in bladders. 5J'l to 6 d; Dacon and hams, 6d to 8d; Canterbury bacon in cloth, Bid; equal numbers, B|d ; hams.lOJd, in cloth.

Fr.otm Market.— Wholesale : Flour. £12 10s to £13 10s ; tJoutuern flour, £11 to £12; bran, £6 ; Southern bran, £5 ; local sharps, ,£5 : Southern. £4 10s: cabin bread. £17: oatmeal (25's). £15 ; oats, 2s 8d to 33 : maize. 3s 9d : local potatoes £5 to £6 per ton; pearl barley, £20 to £21 per ton; beans, 3s 3d; onions, 5s 6d to 6s 6d. All grain, chaff, oatmeal, etc., sold ncludins sacks.

COAL AND FIREWOOD MARKET.— Coal : Newousie, at yard, 32s per lou ; Bay o Islands at mines, 13-, at jaids, 245; steam, 245; house, delivered, 30s; vv aikaio, at mines, Bs, 12s; at Auckland, 18s to 225; Taupiri, at mine, Bs. 12s; at Auckland, steam, 17s 6d; household, delivered, 24s to 255: Whanjfarei. at mine. 9s 6d; yard," steam, 17s 6d; household, 235; delivered, 25s : Miranda, at mines, 7s to 10s ; a> .Auckland, 17s to 20s. Firewood: Uncut, at ! wharf (cargo), 6s 6 1 to 8s 6d per tou ; deliveied, I 10s to 12s ; cut, 14s to 16s.

Manures.— Bonedust:' Sydney, ,£7- to* £8. ao cording to quali y ; bonetiour, £8 to £8, 10s; Auckland,' £8; Long 1 Island do..' *44 1Os f bags included; Fison's fertiliser, £7 to £14; superphosphate, first quality, £7 103 to £8; second quality, £6" to £6 10a ; Craigs lime, 35s to 40a per ton, t '' l ''»').<.' A

Buijloing Materi ms.— Prices are as follow at present:— Timber— Boards and scantling, 100 ft best, 13; second-Vslass, ' 8s ; best planed, t ngued and grooved, first-class, 15s ; medium, 123 5' second-class, 10s; rusticated, .weather boards, first-class, iss; medium 1 , 12-t; secondclass, 10s. New Zealand palings.- sft Msap), 9a; (heart', 11s 6d: ti-tree rails, £3 10s per 100; punri posts, £6 10s to £7 10s; shingles, 13s per 1,000; Hobart palings, oft. 17s; 6ft, 19s; Hobart rails, 80s. selling quotations. Urioksat Avondale, 30s per 1,000; town yards, 38s, delivered 41s. Drain pipes,' at works: 2in drain tiles, 12in lengths, 50s per 1.000; 2sin, 70s; 3ft, 90s ; 4in, 1303 ; 6m, 30s per 100 : 3tn socker pipes. 2ftlengths, 6d each ; 4in, 7d; 6in, 9d ; 9in; Is6d; 12m, 2s 3d; 15in, 3s 6d; 18in, 4s 6d; 21m, 6s: 24in. 12s.

Kauki j-jum —Mr K. P. Barber reports a weak and irregular market for kauri gum with a downward te dency at present, urices having receded consideiably during i the past four months. Buyers are still holding offinexpectat'on of still lower rale 3. Fair to good ordinary 'etches £50: superior parcels, free from s*amp, £31 to £32: East Coast, £43. Supplies lor past four week?. 558 tons. The R.M.s. Tongariro sailed for London on the 7th inst. with 5^ tons gum ; the barque King'om of Sweden, for hoi.djn. on 111 h inst. 'with 274' tons; harquentine Win. Phillips, for New York. on. 11th inst . with 363 tons. The barque Gustav Adolf is loading for New York.