COMMERCIAL. AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET. Auckland, August 10.

Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 395, 21 August 1889, Page 4

COMMERCIAL. AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET. Auckland, August 10.

Farm and Dairy Propuoe. — Wholesale Butter, prime fresh. lOcl ; second quality, bd third quality, 6d : cheese, good tactory, bid to s}d: eggs, 7d ; lard, in bladders, 5Jd ; bacon and hams, 6d to 8d ; Canterbury bacon, new cure, sides, 7sd, equal numbers, 7?d, bare hams, 9}d. Flour Market.- Wholesale : Flour, £10 lOsto £11 10s ; Southern flour. £9 5s to £10 ss ; bran, £5 to £5 10s ; Southern bran, £5 10s to £5 153 ; local sharps, £5 10s; Southern. £6; cabin bread, £17; oatmeal, £W 10s in 25' a, £16 in 7's ; Southern oats, 3s 2d to 3s 4d; damaru potatoes, £5 10s : pearl barley, £19 to £20 per ton ; maize, 3s ; Canterbury potatoes, £b ss ; beans, 3s 3d ; onions, 3d per Id. All grain, chaff, oatmeal, etc., sold including sacks. Manures.— Bonedust. Sydney. £7 to £8, according to quality; boneflour, £8 to £8 10s; Auckland. £B ; Long Island do. £4 lOs.bags included: Fison s tertiliser, £7 10s to £14 ; superphosphate, fii st 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 linn ; a good business has been done during the week at about the following rates :— Fair to good ordinary. t36 ; superior parcels, £37 and upwards, according to quality; .East Coast. £43. The supplies for the 16 days of August to date ai c 379 tons. Coal and Fiubwood Market.— Coal : Newcastle, at yard, 32» per tun ; 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 ; at, Auckland, steam. 17s 6d; household, delivered, 24s to 255; Whangarei. at mine. 9s 6d, yard, steam, 17s 6d; household, 235; delivered. 2os ; 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, 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; 6ft. 19s; Hobart rails, 80s. selling quotations. Bricks at AvoDdale. 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 ; 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? Weeki y Report.— During the past week 100-<e foduer has ranged from 2s 6d to 6a 6d ; machine pressed, 4s to 4s 6d the cwt. ; can % ots, 303 ; potatoes. 70s; chaff, 60s to 80s; coarse bones, 100s; fine bonedu^t. 130s to 150s the ton ; maize. 2s Bd, 2s 9<i, and 2s lOd ; oats. 2s 5d to os 4d the bushel. The 20 d( j er sold at auction from 4s to Bs, and thebal.ncsat 7s each. At the horse sale, on Friday, prices for useful horses ranged from £6 to £11. Set double harness brought £4 15s; single sets, t2ancl £2 17s 6d; and a spring cart, £6 10s. At the hide and skin sale, on Tiiesiay, p> ices were firm ; best ox hides reache 1 3d 1516ths; cow hides, 2id; calfskins, 44d the lb: bheepskins, in good demand; butchers' skins ranged from 3s fed to 5s lid ; station skins. 3s 9cl to 4s 9d each ; wool, 6]d the lb ; tallow, 16s 6d the cwt.