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Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 485, 5 July 1890, Page 4

COMMERCIAL

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET. Farm and Dairy Produce. Wholesale: Butter, prime fresh, 10d: second quality, 8d; third do, 6d; cheese, good factory, 4d to 4Ad; fresh eggs, Is 3d per dozen; lard in bladders, s)d; hams and bacon (Canterbury), equal, numbers, 7d; hams, 8d; local cure hams and bacon, 6Jd ; hams, 7Ad. Flour Market.— Wholesale: Local rollers, first quality (sacks!, £9 15s; second. £9 ss: Southern rollers, £9 15s; atone flour, £9 5s to £9 10s; bran, £3 10s; Southern bran, £4 to £4 ss; local sharps, £4 5s ; Southern do., £4 5s to £4 10s : 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, 23 lOd to 3s; beans, 3s 3d ; onions, £5 to £7 per ton. Potatoes, £3 10s to £3 15s per ton. 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. 133 ; at yards. 243 ; 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; second, class, 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 : 2£in, 70s; 3in, 90.5; 4in, 1303 : 6in, 30s per 100; 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.

Manures. —Bonedust, Sydney. £7 to £7los, according to quality: boneflour, £7 to £8; Auckland, £7; Long Island guano, £4 10s, bags included ; superphosphate, first quality, £7 to £8 10s; second quality, £6 to £6 10s. Kauri Gum.— The gum market is,falling in consequence of latest mail news, as Homo buyers have determined on lowering their prices. Fair to good ordinary has fallen from £44 and £45 to £4l and £42, with a prospect of another fall of £1 or so. East Coast is still at £57. The gum supplies for the month to date are about 550 tons.