AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 479, 11 June 1890, Page 4

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Farm and Dairy Produce. Wholesale; Butter, prime fresh, 8d: second quality, 6d: third do, sd; cheese, good factory. 31d to 6d; fresli eggs, Is 6d per dozen; lard in bladders, 5Jd; bacon and hams, 6d to 8d; Canterbury bacon, 6)d to 7Ad; new cure (local), 6d; equal numbers', BJd; hams, 93d, Flour Market.— Wholesale: Local rollers, first quality (eacks). £9 15s; second. £9 ss: Southern rollers, £9 15s; stone flour, £9 5s to £9 10s; bran, £3 10s; Southern bran, £4 to £4 ss; local sharps, £4 6s ; Southern do., £4 5s to £4 10a : cabin bread, £ls : oatmeal, 25’s, £10: Southern oats. 2s to 2s Id; local wheat. Tuscan, 3s; Southern wheat, 3s 2d to 3s 3d;

pearl barley, £l7 per ton; maize, 3s 3d to 3s 6d: local potatoes, £3 10s ; beans, 3s 3d ; onions, £5 to £7 per ton; Southern potatoes, £3lss; Napier potatoes, £3 15s, Wheat, sacks extra; oats, chaff, oatmeal, sold sacks included. 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 to22s; 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 nest, 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; soeondclass, 10s, New Zealand palings, sft (sap), 9s; (heart), 11s 6d; ti-trec rails. £3 10s per 100; puriri posts, £5; shingles, 13s per 1,000; Hobart palings. sft, 17s; 6ft, 193; Hobart rails, 80s, selling quota! ions. Bricks, at Avondale, 3Js per' 1,000; town yards, 38s; delivered, 41s. Drain pipes, at works: 2in drain tiles, 12in lengths, 50s per 1,000 : 24in, 70s ; Sin. 90s; 4in, 130 s: 6in, 30s per 100; Sin sockot pipes 2ft lengths, 6d each; 4in, 7d: 6in. 9:1; Is 6d; 12in123 3d; 15in, 3s 6d; 18in, 4s 6:1; 21 .a, 8s ; 24in, 2s. Kauri Gum.— Tho local gum market is very firm and active for all good qualities. Poor ordinary is at about £4O to c4l per ton; fair ordinary, £43: best quality, £44 to £45; East Coast. £56 to £SB. The supplies for last months were 620 tons, and for this month 1o date 111 tons. Manures. - Bonedust, Sydney.£7 to £7los, according lo quality; bonctlour, £7 to £8; Auckland, £7; Long Island guano, £4 10s, bags included; superphosphate, first quality, £7 tc- £3 10s; second quality, £6 to £6los.