AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 455, 19 March 1890, Page 4

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Farm and Dairy Produce. Wholesale: Butler, prime fresh, 9d: second quality, 6d; third do, 4d; cheese, good factory, 4Jd to 4}d; eggs. Is; lard in bladders, 51d; bacon and hams, 6d to 8d; Canterbury bacon, etc., in c-loth: sides, 8d ; equal numbers. Bid ; hams, 9';d. Flour Market.— Wholesale : Local rollers, first quality (sacks). 49 ss; second. 48 153; Southern rollers, 49 ss; stone Hour, £8 15s to £9 ; bran, £3 Es; Southern bran, £3 15s to £4; local sttarps, £3 15s; Southern do., £3 15s to £4: cabin bread, £l7; oatmeal, 25's. £lO 10s: . Southern oats. 2s to 2s 4d ; local wheat. Tuscan, 2s 9d to 3s: Southern wheat, 3s 3d to 3s 6d : pearl barley, £lB per ton ; maize, 3s: local potatoes, £3 10s; beans, 3s 3d; onions, 3d per lb. Wheat (sacks extra), oats, chnfb oatmeal, sold sacks inc u-'ed.

Kauri Gum. The gum market is fairly firm The current rate for fair to good ordinary gum is about £3B and £39 to £4O per ton. East Coast is in good demand, and is firm at £56 The supplies for the month to date arc about 250 tpns. Manures. -Boncdust, Sydney, £7 to £B, ac cording to quality;- boneflonr, £8 to £8 103Aucklund, £8; Bong Island do., £4 10s, bags included : superphosphate, first quality, £7 10s tc £8: second quality, £6 to £6 10s. Coat,'and Firewood Market.— Coal: Newcastle, at yard. 32s per ton; Bay of Islands, al mines, 13i; at yards, 24s ; steam. 24s ; house, de liverod, 30s: Waikato, at mines, 8s 12s ; town. 18s to 225; Taupiri, at mine, Bs, 12s; at Auckland. steam. 17s 6d: household, delivered. 24s to 2as; Whangarei, at mine. 9s 6d : yard, stcum, 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.— Prices are as follow at present Timber: Boards and scantling, 100 ft best, 12s; second-class, 7s; best planed tongued and grooyed, 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). 11s 6d; ti-tree 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. 50s per 1,000 : 2Mn, 70s ; 3ft, 90s ; 4in. 13Qs: 6in, 30s per 100; 3ffi socket pipes 2ft lengths, 6d each; 4in, 7d ; 6iii, 9d : 9in, 2s 6d : 12in, 2s 3:1; Isin, 3s 6d ; I3in, 4s 6d ; 21in, 24ui, 12s,