COMMERCIAL. AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 387, 24 July 1889, Page 5

COMMERCIAL. AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

AuciCL vnd, July 19. Farm and D \iry Produce. — Wholesale : Butter, prime fresh, Is lb ; second quality, 9d ; third quality, 6d ; cheese, good factory, sd ; eggs, lOd ; lard, in bladders, 64d ; bacon and hams, 6d to 8cl ; Canterbury bacon, new cure, Fides, 7(d, equal numbers, 8 id, bare hams, 9 Id. Flour Makkict.— Wholesale : Flour, £10 10s to £11 10s ; Southern flour, ,£9 15s to .U0 10s ; bran, -£6 10s; Southern bran, £b ; )oeal sharps, £6 10s; Southern, £6; cabin bread, £17, oatmeal, £16; Southern oats, 3s 4d to 3s 6d; L'amaru, £5 10s; pearl barley, £19 to £20 per ton ; maize, os 3d ; Canterbury potatoes, £b ; beans, 3s 3d ; onions, 3d per lb. All grain, chaflf, oatmeal, etc., sold including sacks. Manures.— Boncdust, Sydney, £7 to £8, accoidmg to quality; bonefour, £8 to £8 10^; Auckland. £8- Long Island do, £4 10s, bajrs included; Fison's iertiliser, £7 to £14 superphosphate, fiist quality, V7 10s to £8; second quality, £6 lo £6 10b ; Craigs lime, 35s to 40s per ton. Kauri Guji.— The market for kauri gum at present may be characterised as easy, and the early prospect of augmented supplies promises to make it still easier. £33 lo £34 is paid for rair to good oidinary, and £35 tor choice parcels. Kast Coast fetches from £42 to £43. The supplies for July to dale arc 345 tons. Coal and Firewood Market.- Coal: Newcastle, at yard, 32s per ton ; Bay of Islands, at mines, 13s; at yards. 245; steam, 245; house delivered, 30s ; Waikato, at mines, Bs, 12s ', town, 18s to 225 ; Taupiri. at mine. Bs, 12s ; atAuckland, steam, 17s 6d; household, de livercd, 24s to 255; Whangarei. at mine, 9s 6d, yard, steam, 17s 6d; household, 235; de- ' iivcrcd, 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 to 12s ; cut, 14s to 16s. Building Matekiais. — Prices are as follow at present: — Timber — Boards and scantling, 100 ft best, 13; second-class, 8s; best planed, tcngued and grooved, first-class, 15s ; medium, 12s; second-class, 10s; rusticated weather boards, first-class, 15s; medium, 12s; secondclass, 10s. New Zealand palings, sft (sap), 9s; (heart), 11s 6d; ti-tree rails, £3 10s per 100 ; puriri posts, £5; shingles, 13s per 1.000; Hobart palings, oft, 17s; 6tt, 19s; Hobart rails, 80s. selling quotations. Bricks at AA r ondale. 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 ; 6in, 30s per 100 : 3in socker pipes, 2ft lengths, 6d each ; 4m, 7d; 6in, 9d; 9in 6s 6d; 12in. 2s 3d; 15in, 3s 6d; 18in, 4s 6d; 21m 2S ; 24 n. 12s.

Messrs Alkuicd Buokla^d & Sons' Weekly Rki j ort.— At the llaymarkcl during Uie past week hand-bound hay ranged from 2s 9d to 3s 3d; pressed, hay, 4s tho cwt ; oats, in wholesale parcels, 2s 9d to 3s 2d : maize, 3s tho bushel ; carrots, 35s to 37s ; potatoes, £4 to £4 10s the ton. On Friday the number of horses sold was less than at times, but prices for good animals improved, and ranged from £9 to £14, and a singlcsoatod buggy, *11. On Tuesday, hides and skins were pitched in full number, and although quotations for hides were no higher, bidding was brisker, slum ing a desire to pui chase at present quotations. Skins fully maintained previous quotations. Sound ox hides, medium to heavy weight, brought -Id; cow hides, 2}d ; calfskins, 4M the lb ; butchers' skins, 2s 9d to 5s 4d ; station skins. Is 8d to 5s 4d each ; tallow, 12s to 203 the cwt ; hones, 4s 3d the cwt ; wool, 7Jd toB,'d tht lb. At the country cattle sales, held respectively at Pokeno and Drury, the severe weather occasioned a small muster of stock : those brought forward were froely competed for to full values. At Remuera on Thursday dairy cattle were dull of sale. Prices tor cows nt calving ranged from -€2 to £6 ; dry cows, from 15s to 3Cs. Fat cattle in full supply were better worth fully 5s each, and good steers were steady at 17a the 1001b. Mghty steers received from Waikato averaged £6 ; 100 front Waitava, £6 12s 6d. Sheep were also penned in full numbers, and last week' 1 ? quotation ot 3d the lb was iully sustained. Wether* ranged from 12s to 20s; ewes, 9s to 14s 9d each; lambs, 10s to 11-, 6d. Pigs, generally of a coai se description, were plontilul, and sold better than for eevpral markets. Calves scarcely obtained the extreme pi ices of the pasi two maikets., and a box of jowls brought 1=! Ccl each,