AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 4291, 22 February 1884, Page 2

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Farm and Dairy Produce. — Wholesale : Butter, fresh, lOd; Butter, salt, 7d to 9d; Cheese, good local, lid to sd; Canterbury, do., od to Od ; Eggs, per doz., Is 6d; Lard, per bladder, 7d; Bacon and Hams, Provincial, 6d to 8d; Hams, 8d to 9d: Canterbury Ham and Bacon. Bd, in oloth; Hams only, lid; Jams, per caso, sdez-„ £117s 6d to £1 18s 3d; Honey in bulk, 4d por lb. Retail: Buttor, fresh Is; salt do., lOd to. 1b; Cheese, colonial, 9d to lOd; Eggs, per doz.,. Is 9d;: Lard, por lb, 8d to 9d; Bacon, per lb, 103 ito Is; Hams,do.,lstols4d.

Flour Market. — Wholesale —_ Superfine flour, silk drossod, por ton, £1310s; 6a, do, house, hold, £1210a; hundreds, sa; flf tica, iQiperton extra* sacks and bags free; Southern dp, £11 to £1110a; bran,per ton.sacksincluded, lcpal,£sloa; Southern, do, £5; sharps, £5 .'£&.; cabin bread, do £18; oatmeal, do, £1310sj maize, 3sfld to 3a3d i: oats. 23 Od; potatoes, £\ per ton; pearl barley, do, £21 to £21; bread, j^aib loaf, 3Jd.

Kauri Gom, Fi^-vx, &a—The market con tlnues firm. Wo. qi^pte:—Ordinary, £32 to £37 ;; good'ordinare, £38 to £12, superior, £13 to £JS ; East "Coast, _55ji to £58; produce for February, 330 tons; Has per ton, £18 to £21; tow, do., £7 to £9; fungus per lb. 2Jd to 3d; cocoanut fibre per owt, 5a tolTs! beeswax, 9d to lQd lb, Coai, and Firewood Mabket.—Coal: r New. I castlO (ship's side), 28s to 30s per- ton; yard, 32s to 355; Bay of Islands, at yards, % 26s (id; screened, 30a fid; ditto at the. mine, 13a^: ship's sido, 2Gs; Walkato, Bs, to, 12s; inAuckland, 183 to 225; Kamo, 125.. per ton. at. loading groundj Taupiri at _alne,Bs6d ; to 12s;: at vara, 18s 6d to22s: Whapgarel, at mine, 9a. Cd; yard (steam), 17s; household, 21s; delivered!. 235. Firewood: Uncut c& wharf (cargo), 9s.to Jos per ton; dollvered, 14?; cut, 17s to 18s.

Building Materials.—Timber: Boar_Sa.aa_a soahtllng, 100 ft, nest, 14s; second-class, 8s; best, planed, toitened, and grooved, firstolasa, Ms rae-ffifc Hs; second ditto. 10s 6cL. Mills: Cargo,he_it,il-l; sccond-olass.Ee Bd; baulk. 8s Bd. Now Zealand palings, sft (sap), 10s •> 5_K (heart), 13a; Oft: lis: tl-tree rails, £3 10s per 100; puriri Boats. £6 10s to £7 10s; shingles. IBs. por 1,000; Hobart palings, s£t, 21s; Oft; 223* Hobart rails, 00s, soiling quotations. Bricks (p_t Avondalo), 10a per 1,000; town yards,sos to 55s ;;__olivored,sss to 00a. Drain pipes (at works), per-100 (B inches boro), 10s; 4 inches, lis; 3 inches,9s; 2 inch®, £2 10s per 1,000; socket glazed.pipes, 19 inches; 2a Od por feot; 15 inches, 2a per-root; 12 inches. Is 0d per foot; 9 inches, Is pw itoot; 6 inchos, 6d por foot; i inchos, 4d per foot. MANURES.-Bonodust. Sy.ttJioy, £710s to £810s, according- to quality; bonpliour,£9los; Auokland £7 to £8 10a; Peruvian, guano, £18; Maiden. ißland. £8; Huon giiswJ, small lots, £5 to *&,. bags included; Huist'a chemical manure, £141 10s.