AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 441, 29 January 1890, Page 5

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Farm and Dairy Produce. Wholesale; Butter, prime fresh, 7d: second quality, sd: third do, 3d to 4cl; cheese, good factory, 51d to 5-jd ; eggs, lOd: lard, in bladders, s*d ; bacon and hams, 6d to 8d; Canterbury bacon, new cure, sides, 7Ad, equal uumbers, 7:id; bare hams, 9fd ; clothed", id extra. Flour Market.— Wholesale: Local rollers, first quality (sacks), *9 ss; scoond, £8 ss; Southern rollers,£9ss; stone flour,£Blos to £Blss; bran, £3 ss; Southern bran, £3 ss; local sharps, £3 10s ; Southern, £3 Os ; cabin bread, £l7 ; oatmeal, 25’s, £1010s; Southern oats. 2s 2d to 2s 4d; local wheat, Tuscan, 2s 9d to 3s; Southern wheat, 3s 3d to 3s 6d: kidney potatoes, £2; pearl barley, £l7 per ton; maize, 3s; local potatoes, £3 ; beans, 3s 3d; onions, 3d per lb. Wheat (sacks extra), oats, chaff, oatmeal sold, sacks inciu cd, , , , Kauri Gum. The gum market is somewhat firmer, and prices have advanced a little on the whole since our last report. The current rate for fair to good ordinary gum is now auout £3B to £39 per ton. East Coastis in good demand, and is firm at £56. The supplies for the presentmonth to date are 411 tons, and 448 tons from mail to Manures.—Bonedust, Sydney, £7 to £B, according to quality; boneflour, £8 to £8 10s: Auckland, £8; Long Island do., £4 10s, bags included : superphosphate, first quality, £7 IQs to £8; second quality, £6 to £6 IQs. Coal and Firewood Market.—Coal: Newcastle, at yard. 32s per ton.; Bay of Islands, at mines, 13s ; at yards. 24s ; steam, 24s ; 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, 23s ; delivered, 25s ; 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.—Brices 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, 10s. New Zealand palings, sft (sap), 9s; (heart), Us 6d; ti-tree rails, £3, 10s per 100: puriri posts, £5; sj3i,nj?les, per 1,000; Hobart palings. §ft, 17s; oft, 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 por 1,000 ; 2)in. 70s ; 3ft, 90s • 4in, 130 s: 6in, 30s per 100; 3in socket pipes 2t‘t lengths, 6deacli; 4in, 7d ; Sin,9d : 9in, 2s 6d ; 12in, 28 3d; 15in, 3s 6d ; 18in, 4s 6d; 21in, 8s; 24in, 128. ■ ■