COMMERCIAL. AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 411, 16 October 1889, Page 4

COMMERCIAL. AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Auckland, Oc tober 11. Farm and Dairy Produce. — Wholesale : Butter, prime fresh, 6d ; second quality, sd : third quality, 4d : cheese, good factory, 5Jd to 5Jd ; eggs, 6d ; lard, in bladders, s\d ; bacon and hams, 6d to 8d ; Canterbury bacon, new cure, sides, ?id, equal numbers, 74' d, bare hams, 91d. Flour Market.— Wholesale: Local rollers, first quality (sacks), £10; second, £9; Southern do. do., stone flour. £8 10s to £9 : bran, £3 10s : Southern bran, £3 10s; local sharps, £3 10s; Southern, £3 10s ; cabin bread,£l7; oatmeal, £13 in 25's ; Southern oats, 2s lOd. to 3s: local wheat, Tuscan, 3s to 3s 3s ; Southern wheat, 3s 3d to 3s 6d ; f'amaru potatoes, £5 15s; pearl barley, £19 to £20 per ton ; maize, 2s £d ; Canterbury potatoes, £b 10a ; local potatoes. £5; beans, 3s 3d; onions, 3d per lb. Wheat sicks extra), oats, chaff, oatmeal, sold sacks included. Kauri Gum.— Since our last report the gum market has been a shade easier, although a fair business has been done at about £1 per ton lower for cr Jinary parcels. We quote : — Fair to good ordinary at £36 to £37. Edit Coast has advanced £48 to £FO, and is firm to-day at this price. The supplies for the 11 days of October to dale are 238 tons Man a hbs.— Boncdust. Sydney, £7 to £8. according to quality; bonenour, £8 to £8 10s; Auckland, £3 ,• Long Island do, £4 lOs.bags included: ifison s fertiliser, £7 10s to £14 . superphosphate, tit at quality, £7 10s to £8; second quality, £6 to £6 10s ; Craigs lime, 35s to 40s per ton. 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, 83, 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, 2bs ; Miranda, at mines, 7s to 10s ; at Auckland, 17a to 20s. Firewood: Uncut, at wharf (cargo), 6s 6d to 8s 6d per ton ; delivered, 10s to 12s; cut, 14s to J6s. Building Materials. — Prices are as follow at present: — Timber — Boards and scantling, 100 ft best, 12s; second-class. 7s ; best planed, tongued and grooved, first-class, 14s ; medium, 12s; second-class, 9s; rusticated weather boards, first-class, 14s; medium, 12s; secondclass, 9s. New Zealand palings, sft (sap), 9s; (heart), 11s 6d; ti-tree rails, £3 10s per 100 ; puriri posts, £5; shingles, 13s per 1,000; Hqbart 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 drain tiles, 12in lengths, 50s per 1,000; 2\in, 70s; 3ft, 90s ; 4in, 1303 ; 6m, 303 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; 21in 2s ; 24 in. 12s.

MESSFS A. BUCKI,AND AND SONS' WIEKLY Report.— At the Haymarket during the past week, straw has ranged from 11s to 17s the loadHay has varied more in price than of late, and brought from Is 6d to 33 3d the cwt. Chaff, £ 3 15s the ton. A consignment of Dunedin oat s ranged with sample, from 2s 2d to 2s 8d the hushel: wheat, 2s 9d to 3s; maize, 2s 9d: bonedust, £7 10s the ton. At the sale on Friday, horse stock were in full number, prices for heavy draught were scarcely maintained, they ranged from £8 to £18 10s ; riding horses, £3 to £10 ; unbroken medium draught, £13 each ; a dray. £6 17s 6d; buggy, £20; spring carts, £7 10s and; £18 10s respectively. At the hide and skin sale on Tuesday, prices were fully sustained ; best ox brought from 4d to 4Jd; cows, 2d to 2gd; calf skins. 4d to 4|d the 1b; butchers' skins, 4s 6d to 5s lOd ; lambs', lid to Is 8d each ; bags of wool, 7d and 7?d the 1b ; tallow, 16s 3d to 18s the cwt; bones, £4 10s the ton. At the Wamku sale, a draught of young cattle from Drury occasioned a fuller muster of stock than usual ; dairy cows were also well represented and in demand, consequent on the opening of the factories, and all cattle brought forward were freely competed for. Horses were unsaleable ; potatoes, 8s a sack ; young pigs, from 8s to 13s each. At Remuera, on Thursday, dairy cattle were in demand consequent on the opening of the Papatoitoi factory, and better worth about 10s eaoh. Few store cattle yarded. Fat cattle in usual immber kept their last week's values, from 16s to 18s the 1001b, and wore highest at conclusion of sale. Fat calves in limited numbers were dull of sale. Sheep in usual supply wero slightly higher in price than last week. Prices for Avethers ranged from 16s to, 20s 6d. Good fat lambs kept their values, nnd brought from £s to 14s; inferior, 5s each. Young well-bred pigs in demand at full raluea.