AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 356, 3 April 1889, Page 4

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Farm and Dairy Produce.— "Wholesale : Butter, prime fresh butter. 8d lb; cheese, goodtactory, sdto sad ; eggs, Is 3d ; lard, in bladders. ssd to 6}d ; bacon ana nams, bel to 8d; CanterDury bacon in cloth, B}d; equal numbers. Bsd ; hain&,lo]d, in cloth. Flour Market.— Wholesale : Flour, £12 10a to £13 10s ; Southern flour, £11 to £12 ; bran, £6 ; Southern bran, £5 ; local sharps, £5 ; Southern, £4 10s to £4 15s: cabin bread. £17; oatmeal (25's), £15; oats, 2s 8d to 3s 3d : maize. 3s 9rl ; local potatoes, £5 to £5 10s per ton ; pearl barley, £20to £21 per ton; beans, 3s 3d; onions, 5s 6d to 6s 6d. All grain, chaff, oatmeal, etc., sold ncludine sacks. Coal and Firewood Market. — Coal ; Newcastle, at yard, 32s per ton; Bay of Islands, at mines, lZs, 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, 2bs ; 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 ro 12s; cut. 14s to 16s. Manures.— Bonedust. Sydney, £7 to £8. Ac cording to quality ; boneflour, £8 to £8 10s; Auckland, £8 ; 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, 13; second-class, 8s; best planed, tnngued and grooved, first-class, 15s ; medium, 12s; second-class, 10s; rusticated weather boards, first-class, 15s; medium, 12-»; secondclass, 10s. Now Zealand palings, sft (sap), 9s; (heart), 11s 6d; ti-tree rails, £3 10s per 100; puriri posts, £6 10s to £7 10s; shingles, 13s uer 1,000; Hobart palings, sft. 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; 2£in, 70s; 3ft, 90s ; 4in, 130s ; 6m, 30s per 100 : 3in socker pipes. 2ft lengths, 6d each ; 4in, 7d ; 6in, 9d ; 9in; Is6d; I2in, 2s 3d; 15in. 3s 6d; 18in. 4s 6d; 21m, 6s: 24in. 12s. Kauri Gum —Mr H. P. Barber reports a weak and irregular market for kauri gum with a downward tendency at present. There is little disDOsition to buy even at the present rates. Fair to good ordinary fetches £28 to £29; superior parcels. £30; East Coast, £43. Supplies for month to date, 550 tons.

Adelaide, March 30. True corundum, a mineral nearly allied to rubies and sapphires and only inferior to the diamond in hardness, has been found in the Central Australian fields. Favourable indications have also been obtained of the presence of rubies and probably of diamonds. St. Petersburg, March 29. As a result of the discovery of the bomb manufactory at Zurich and the extensive dynamite conspiracy against the Government, a large number of arrests have been made here. Pakis, March 29. The French Government are determined to prosecute General Bqulangerin connection with the alleged treason charges against the Patriotic League.