COMMERCIAL. AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 415, 30 October 1889, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

AuCMAXD, October 25. Faum am) Daiky Pkodcui:. — Wholesale Jiullcr. prune tresh, 6d ; second quality, bd thud quality, 4d; choose, prood factors, s]d to Fid ; eggs. Id : lard, in bladdci'3, 51d ; bacon and hams, 6d to 8d : Canterbury bacon, new cure, sides, 7',d, equal numbers, 7,' d ; bare hams, 9ld. Flock Market.— Wholesale: Local lollcr.s, fir-jL quality (sacks), 49 10s; second, £8 10s: Southern do do, stone Hour, £8 10s: bran, £3 10s; Southern bran, £3 ss; local sharps, t3 ss; .Southern, £3 5s ; cabin bread, £17 : oatmeal, €12 10s to £13. 2b s ; Southern oats, 2s 8d to2s lOd; local w heat. Tuscan. 3s to Cs 3d ; Southern wheat, 3s 3d to 3s 6d : O.uuaru potatoes, £6 10s; pravl barler, -£19 to £20 per ton ; maize, 2s 9rt : Oantoibury potatoes, £6 10s ; local potato' s, £5 5s to fib 10s ; beans, 3s 3d ; onions, 3d peril). Wheat (sacks extra), oats chair, oatmeal sold, sucks mc u cd. Kauui Gum. — There is jittle change to report in the mailed. We quote:— Fair to good ordinar\ nt £36 to £37. East Coast is firm at £50 per ton. The supplies for the 25 days of October to date are 510 tons. Manukls. -Boned u&t, Sydney, £7 to £8, accordiiiK to quality; bonetio ji\ £.8 to £8 10s: Auckland, £8; Lonj? Ibland do, £4 10s. bass included ; Fison's fertiliser, £7 10s to tM; superphosphate, first quality, £7 10s to £8; second quality, £6 to £6 10s ; Craigs lime, 35s to 40s per ton. Coal and Ftkkwood Maktcei\— Coal: Newcastle, at yard. 32s per ton ; Bay of Islands, at mines. 13s ; at yards. 24s ; steam, 24s ; house, delivered, 30s : Waika'o, at mines, 8s 12s; town, 18s to 225; Taupiri, at mine. Bs, 12s; at Auckland, "team, 17s 6d ; household, delivered, 24s to 25s ; Whangarei. at mine, 9b 6d : yard, steam, 17s 6d ; household, 23s : delivered, 25s ; Miranda, at mines, 7s to 10s ;at Auckland, 17s to 20s. Firewood: Uncut, at whari, cargo, 6s 6d to 8s 6d per ton ; delivered, 10s to 12s ; cut, 14s to 16s BuiUMNU Mateiii vii". — Prices are as follow at present: — Timber. Boards and scantling, lOOtt best, 12s; second-class, 7s: best planed, tongued and grooved, first-class, 14s; medium. 12s; second-class, 9s; rusticated weather board«, first-class, 14s: medium, 12s; seooudclass. 9s. New Zca'and palniars, sft (&ap), 9s; (heart). Us 6d; ti-trce rails, £3 109 pt'r 100: puriri posts, £5; bhinjdes, 13s per 1,000; Hobart palings sfl, 17s; 6lt, 19s; Hobart rails, 80s, selliD^ quotations. Bricks, at Avondale, 30s per 1,000 ; low n yards, 38s ; delivered, 41s. Drain pipes, at works 2in drain tiles, 12in lengths. 50s per I,OCO ; 2Jin. 70s ; 3ft, 90s ; 4in, 130s: 6in, 30s por 100 ; ~3m socket pipes, 2ft lengths, 6d each; 4in, 7d ; 6in. 9d : 9in. 2a 6d : ]?in, 2s 3d ; 15in, 3a 6d ; 18in, 4s 6d ; 21in, 83 ; 24in ISM.

The Puhipuhi silver find (writes our Whangarei correspondent) is going to turn out something altogether better than I expected. Mr Gordon was both pleased and surprised with what ho saw. The prospectors have been keeping the thin or as quiet as possible, as their title is not yet confirmed, owing to the clashing of Hie controlling interests. The Waste Lands Com* missioned is the authoiity, and as Waste Lands Commissioner ho granted them a prospectors' licenso ; then, as Chiof of the Forest Roserves, lie oiderod all present (gumdiggers ostensibly) out of the forest at the end of this month. He again has other powers under the Mining Act which take precedence of the former, but he has not yet acted on them. As soon as the prospectors get their lease, the land will be rushed from here by those in the know,

TV Islington, this day. The Cqlonial Treasurer has received a cable frona the Agent-General that tenders for the conversion loan Qf £2,700,000 were opened yesterday. The total amount tenderod is approximately n\e millions. The price is ppqr. Tenderers i 95 8s 0d rpepive' 21 por cent., ?\nd the vemaiu^QV W