COMMERCIAL. AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET. Auckland, August 10.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 389, 31 July 1889, Page 4

COMMERCIAL. AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET. Auckland, August 10.

Farm and Dairy Produce. — Wholesale Butter, prime fresh, lOd ; second quality, Scl third quality, 6d ; cheese, good factory, s^d to 5Jd ; eggß, 7d ; lard, in bladders, 5Jd ; bacon and hams, od to 8d ; Canterbury bacon, now cure, pides, 7jd, equal numbers, 7Jd, bare hams, 9}d. Flour Market.— Wholesale : Flour, £10 lOsto £11 10s ; Southern flour, £9 Ss to £10 5s ; bran. £5 to £5 10s ; Ron thorn bran, £5 10s to £5 153 ; Jocal sharps, £5 10s: Southern. £6; cabin bread, £17 ; oatmeal, £14 10s in 25's, ±Jl6 in 7's ; Southern oats, 3s 2d to 3s 4d; Oatnaru potatoes, £5 10s : pearl barley, £19 to £20 per ton ; maize, 3s ; Canterbury potatoes, £5 ss ; beans, 3s 3d ; onions, 3d per Ib. All grain, chaflf, oatmeal, etc., sold including sacks. Manures.— Bonedust, Sydney, £7 to £8, according to quality; boueflour, £8 to £8 103 ; Auckland. £B • Long Island do. £410s.bags included : Fison s fertiliser, £7 10s to £14 ; superphosphate, flist quality, £7 10s to £8; second quality, £6 to £6 10s ; Craigs lime. 35s to 40s per ton. Kauri Gum.— The local market for gum continues firm : a good business has been dono during the week at about the folio wing rates:— Fair to srood ordinary. ~36 ; superior parcels, £37 and upwards, according to quality; East Coast. £43. The supplies for the 16 days of August to date are 379 tons. Coal and Firewood Market.— Coal : Newcastle, at yard, 32» per ton ; Bay of Tslands, at mines, 13s: at yards. 245; steam, 245;, house delivered, 303 ; Waikato, at mines, Bs, 12s ; town 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. 26s ; 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 Materi \is.— 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, 12a; secondclass, 10s. New Zealand palings. sft (sap), 9s; (heart), 11s 6d; ti-treo rails, £3 10s per 100 ; puriri posts, £5; shingles, 13s per 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, 60s per 1,000; 2Jin, 70s; 3ft, 90s; 4in, 130s ; 6m, 30s per 100; 3in socker pipes, 2ft lengths, 6d each ; 4in. 7d; 6in, 9d ; 9in 2s 6d; 12in. 2s 3d; 15in, 3s 6d; 18in, 4s 6d; 21m 2s ; 24 in. 12s.

Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons? Weiski y Report.— During the past week loo^e fodiier has ranged from 2s 6d to 6s 6d ; machine pressed, 4s to 4s 6d the cvvt: carrots. 30s; potatoes. 70s; chaff, 60s to 80s; coarse bones, 100s; fine bonedu-t. 130 a io 150s the ion ; maize. 2s Bd, 2s 9 1, and 2s lOd ; oats, 282 8 5d to 3s 4d the bushel. The 20 d-er sold at auction from 4s to Bs, and the hal< nee at 7s each. At the horse sale, on Friday, prices for useful hotses ranged from £6 to £11. Set double harness brought £4 15s; single sets, t2'and £2 17s 6d; and a spring cart, £6 10s. At the hide and skin sale, on Tuesday, prices were firm ; best ox hides rearhe 1 3d 1516ths; cow hides, 2}d; calfskins. 4Jd the lb; sheepskins, in ernod demand; butchers' skins ranged from 3s fed to 5s lid : station skins. 3s 9d to 4s 9d each ; wool, 6Jd the lb ; tallow, 16s 6d the cwt.