AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 457, 26 March 1890, Page 5

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Farm and Dairy Produce. Wholesale : Butter, prime fresh, lOd: second quality, 7d; third do, sd; cheese, good factory, 4id to 4£d; eggs, Is 3d; lard in bladders,sJd; bacon andhams, 6d to 8d; Canterbury bacon, etc., in cloth:— sides, 8d; equal numbers, 8(d; hams, 9:3d. Flour Market. —Wholesale: Local rollers, first quality (sacks). *9 ss; second, £8 15s; Southern rollers, £9 ss; stone flour, £8 15s to £9 ; bran, £3 £s; Southern bran, £3 15s to £4; local sharps, £3 15e; 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 3b: Southern wheat, 3s 3d to 3s 6d; pearl barley, £l9 per ton ; maize, 3s: local potatoes, £3 10s . beans, 3s 3d; onions, 3d per lb. Wheat (sacks extra), oats, chaff, oatmeal, sold sacks ino u H ed. Kauri Gum. The gum market is firm. The current rate for ordinary gum Is about £3B. with good to superior at £4O and £4l per ton. East Coast is in good demand, and.is firm at £56 to £SB. Tho supplies for the month to date are about 350 tons.

Manures. Bonedust, Sydney, £7 to £B, according to* quality; bonefiour, £3 to £8- 10s ; Auckland, £8; Long Island do., £4los, bags in eluded; superphosphate, first quality, £7 10s tc £8: Becond quality, £6 to £6 10s. Coal and Firewood Market.—Coal: Newcastle, at yard, 32s per ton; Bay of Islands, al mines. 13s ; at yards. 24s \ steam, 24s ; house, de livered, 303 : Waikato, at mines, Bs. 12s ; town, 18s to 22s ; Taiipiri, at mine, Bs, 12s at Auckland. steam.. 17s 6d; household, delivered. 24s to 255; Wbangarei, 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, fcs 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 grooved, first-class, 14s;- medium, 12s; secOnd-clqsS, 9a; - rusticated weather boards,-first-class, 14s; medium, 12s; Secondclass, 10s. —New Zealand palings, ’ 5ft 1 (sap), 9s; (heart), -Us 6d; tfitree 1 raffs. £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, 30a per 1,000; town yards, 38s; delivered, 41s. Drain pipes, at works: 2in drain tiles, 12in lengths. 60s per 1,000 : 2Jin, 70s; 3in, 90s; 4in," 130 s : 6in, 30s per lOO; 3in socket pipes 2ft lengths, 6d each; 4in, 7d; 6in, 9d; Is 6d; 12in, 2s 3d; 15in. 3s 6d; 18in, 4s 6d ; 21in, 8s ; 24in, 12s.