AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 84, 17 April 1885, Page 2

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Farm and Dairy Produce.—Wholesale: Butter, fresh. 8d; Butter, salt (scarce). 8d to 9W: Cheese, Rood factory, 6Jd to 6Jd; Canterbury do., 54 to sjd; Eggs, doz.. Is 9d; Lard, in bladders, 7Jd to 7*d; Bacon and Hanm, Provincial. 6d to 8d; Hams. 8d to 9d: Canterbury Bacon in cloth, 9}d to 9Jd; Bacon and Hams, in equal numbers, scarce, 9ld to 10d; Hams, very scarce, only lijd to U3d- Jams, per caye, 5s doz.. £1 17a 6d to £1 I8s"d: Honey in bulk. 4d per lb. Retail: Butter, fresh lOd : salt do., lOd to 1b : Cheeao. coloalal. Si WBd: Eggs, per doz., 2s; Bacon, per lb, lOd to Ij 3d; Hams, do., la to Is 4d. Flour Market. — Wholesale. — Superfine flour Bilk dressed, per ton, fill 10s; do, do, household £1010s; hundreds, ss; flfeios. 10a per ton extra- saoks and bags tree; Cantab, sacks, £) 10a: hundreds, 6»; fifties, 10s extra; Southern do £8 10a to £9; bran, por ton, sacks included, local. £5 10s; Southern do, £5: sharps, £5 • cabin bread, £18; oatmeal, do, £1310g; oats, ?h Id to 2b 7d; maize, ieOd; new potatoes, £3 to £)10apertnn; pearl barley do, £22 to £23. Kauri GUM. Flax, &c. - The market 13 very weak with few buyers, and prices have a downward tendency. Woquoto: Poorordinary nominal, £30; enod ordinary. £34 to *38: miDorior £33 to £40 and upwards; Kast Coast. Big to £51; supply for month to date, 270 tons; flax per ton, £18 to £21 ;tow. do., £7 to £9; fungus, par lb, 3d to 3Jd; cocoanut flbro, per owt, 15s to 17fl Coai and Firewood MABKET.-Coal: Nowoastlo (ship's sido), 28s to 30s per ton; yard, 82s to 355; Bay of Islands, at yards, mkeh • screened, 30s6d; ditto at tho mines, 13s W- Bhitfa Bide, 26b; Waikato. 8a to 12s; in Auokland, 18s to 225: Kamo. 12s per ton at loading ground; Taupiriat mine, »3 6dtoi2s, Rt yard, 19b (kl to 225; Whansarei, at mine, fla fid1 yard (Bteara), 17s; household, 21s; dolivercd, 13s Firewood: Uncut at wharf (cargo), 8s lid to 8s por ton: delivered, 14s; cut. 17s to 18s. Building Materials.—Timber: Boards and Bcantling, 100 ft. best, 14s ; second-class, 8s 6d; best planed, tongued, and grooved, first-class, Ilia (id; medium, 13s; second ditto, lla 6d. Careo. best (at mills), 11b; second-class (at mills), 5a 6d: baulk, 8s Bd. Now Zealand palings, sft (sap), 10s; sft (heart). 53a- gft, 14a: ti-tree rails, £3 10s per 100; puriri icosta. £6 10a to £7 10s; Bhinglos. IGa per 1.000; Hobart palings, sft, 10a; fitt, 21a; Hobart rails. Bfls Bellinft quotatJons. Bricka (at Arondalo), 40s per 1.000; town yar(ls,so3tosss; delivsred.sss o 60s, Drain pipeß (at works), per 100 (6 inchea bore), 40s; i inottps, lla; 3 inches, 9s; 2 inches, 82-10S per 1,000: socket glazed pipes, ID inches; 2- i. per foot; 15 inches. 2s per foot; 12 inches, la 6d per foot; 9 inches. Is per foot; 6 inchea, 6d per foot: 4 inches, 4d per foot. Manures.—Bonedust, Sydney. £7 las to £8, bo cording to quality; boheflour, £910a: Auckland £3 Peruvian guano, £18; Maiden Island, £8; Huon guano, small lots, £8 to £8. bags inolnded; Hurst's chemical manure, £14 10s