AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 481, 18 June 1890, Page 4

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Farm and Dairy Produce. Wholesale; Butter, prime fresh, lOd: second Quality, 7d: third do, 6d; cheese, good factory. 3£d to 4£d; fresh eggs, Is 6d per dozen; lard in bladders, sid; hams and bacon (Canterbury), equal numbers, 63d ; hams, 8d; local cure hams and bacon, 6Jd to 7d ; hams, Bid. Flour Market.— Wholesale: Local rollers, first quality (sacks). £9 15s; second. £9 ss; Southern rollers, £9 15s; stone flour, £9 5s to £9 108; bran, £3 10s; Southern bran r £4 to £4 ss; local sharps, £4 6s ; Southern do., £4 5s to £4 10s : cabin bread, £ls : oatmeal, 2b'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 to 3s 2d; 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, de livered, 30s: Waikato, at mines, Bs. 12s; town, 18s to 225; Taupiri, at mine. Bs, 12s; at Auckland. steam. 17s 6d; household, delivered. 24s to 25s ; 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.— urices are as follow at present:—Timber: Boards and scantling, 100 ft oest, 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; 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 ; 2Jin, 70s ; 3in, 90s ; 4in, 130 s : 6in, 30s per 100 ; 3in socket pipes 2ft lengths, 6d each; 4in, 7d ; Sin. 9d; Is 6d; 12in, 12s 3d ; 15in. 3s 6d; 18in, 4s 6d ;21 in, 8s ; 24in, 2s.

Manures. —Bonedust, Sydney.£7 to £7los, according to Quality : bonetiour, £7 to £8; Auckland, £7; Long Island guano, £4 10s, bags included ; superphosphate, first quality, £7 tc £8 10s; second quality, £6 to £6 10s.