AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 360, 17 April 1889, Page 5

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Farm and D mky Produce. — Wholesale : Butfer. prime fresh butter, lOd lb: cheese, sroodfactorj, 5d to 5 Jd ; eggs, Is 3d ; lard, in bladders, s^d to 6<d ; Dacon and hams, 6d to 8d ; Canteroury bacon in cloth, B}d; equal numbers, B]d; hams.HHd, in cloth. Fj.our Market.— Wholesale : Flour, cl 2 10s to £13 10s ; Southern flour, €11 to £12 ; bran, £6 ; Southern bran, £5 ; local sharps, £6 : Southern. £5 5s : cabin bread. £17 ; oatmeal (25's), £15; old oats, 2s Bil to 3s: maize. 3s 6d : local potatoes, £4 10s to £5 per ton ; pearl barley, £20 to £21 per ton ; beans, 3s 3d ; onions, 5s 6d to 6s 6d. All grain, chan% oatmeal etc., sold including; sacks. Coal asd Firfavood Market. — Coal ; 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 255; Whansarei. 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 6i to 8s 6d per ton ; delivered, 10s to 12s; cut. 14s to 16s. Manures.— Bonedust: Sydney, £7 to £8. according to quality; bonefiour, £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 -S6 10a ; Craigs lime, 35s to 40s per ton. Building Materiu«j,_ Prices are as follow at present: — Timber — Boards and scantling, 100 ft best, 13; second class, 8s; best planed, tongued and grooved, first-class, 15s ; medium, 12s ; second-class, 10s ; rusticated weather boards, first-class, 15s: medium, 12*; secondclass, 10s. New Zealand pslinga. bft (sap), 9s; (hearU, 11s 6d: ti-tree rails, £3 10s per 100; puriri posts, £6 10s to £7 10s; shingles, 13s per 1,000; Hobarfc palings, sft. 17s; 6ft. 19s; Hobart vails, 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 ; 3iii socker pipes, 2ft lengths, 6d each ; 4in, 7d ; 6in, 9d ; 9in; Is6d; 12in, 2s 3d; 15in. 3s 6d; 18in, 4s 6d; 21in, 6s; 24in. 12s. Kauki Gum.— We have thisweek to report a fairly active market. Prices rema-n about tho same as last quoted, viz. : Fair to gooi ordinary. £30 ; superior pai'cels, £31 ; East Coast, €42 to £43. Supplies for month to date, about 200 tons.

London, April 10 Is'ew Zealand meat is firmer, and frozen mutlun is now quoted at 4>kl. Leather, best sides, 9VI to lOd. The wool sales to-day had to be postponed owing to a heavy fog which prevailed in the city. London, April 11. Nlw Zu.visAXD Sini'Pixr; Company shares are quoted at £4 15s. New Zealand frozen mutton is quoted at from 4scl to H\(\ ; lamb, s}d to 6d, and beef unchanged. The Kaikmira's cargo of frozen meat has been found to be partly damaged, and 100 carcases have been condemned. As compared with tlio closing 1 rates of the February sales, wool is generally from 5 to 1\ per cent, higher ; prreasy merinos, from id to Id, and sometimes lid higher ; fine greasy crossbreds ai"c id dearer ; cojrse crossbreds are recovering the decline they experienced at the opening of the series. German buyers are competing briskly. Beetsugai', 18s l»d.