AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 366, 8 May 1889, Page 5

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Auckland, May 4. Farm and Dairy Produce.— Wholesale : Butter, prime fresh butter, lOd lb; cheese, goodfaotorv, sd; eggs, Is 6d ; lard, in bladders, s}d to6~Jd; Dacon and hams, 6d to 8d; Canter Dury bacon in cloth. 7]d; equal numbers, Bid hams,lod, in cloth. Flour Market. — Wholesale: Floxir, £12 to £13; Southern flour, £11 to £12; bran, £6; Southern bran, £5 10s ; local sharps, £6 ; Southern, £5 15s : cabin bread, £17 ; oatmeal (25's), £15 10s ; old oats, 3s to 3s 3d ; local new oats. 2s 4d to 2s 8d ; maize. 3s 2d ; local potatoes, £ a 10s to £5 per ton ; pearl barley, £19 to £20 per ton ; beans, 3s 3d ; onions, 123 to 133. All grain, chaff, oatmeal, etc., sold including " Manures.— Bonedust: Sydney, £7 to £8, according 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. Kauri Gum. — We have to report a fairly steady market for kauri gum. We quote : Fair to good ordinary, £29 to £30 ; superior parcel'!, £31; E»3t Coast, £42 to £43. Supplies for April, 500 tont>; for three days of May, 77 tons. Coal and Firkwood Market. — Coal: Newcastle, at yard, 32s per ton; Bay of Islands, at mines, 13s, at yaid3, 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, 255 ; 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. Building Materials. — 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, 123; secondclass, 10s. New Zealand palings, oft (sap), 9s; (heart*, 11s 6d: ti-tree rails, £3 10s per 100; puriri posts, £6 103 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 dxain tiles, 12in lengths, 50s per 1,000; 2iin, 70s; 3ft, 90s ; 4in, 130s ; 6in, 30s per 100 : 3in socker pipes, 2ft lengths, 6d each; 4in, 7d; 6in, 9d; 9in; Is6d; 12in, 2s3d; 15in, 3s 6d; 18in, 4s 6d; 21in, 6s; 24in. 12s.