AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 120, 29 May 1885, Page 2

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Farm and Dairy Produce.—Wholesale: Butter, frosh. Is 3d; Butter, salt (scarce). 8d to Did; Cheese, good factory, 5d to Did; Canterbury do., 4Jd to 5Jd; Eggs, dozen. Is 9d; Lard, in bladders, 7d; Bacon and Hams, Provincial, 6d to 8d; Hams, 8d to 9d: Canterbury Bacon in cloth, 9id; Bacon and Hams, in equal numbers, scarce, UJd to lOd; Hams, very scarce, only 113 dto 113 d: Jams, per case, 5s doz., £1 12s 6d to 61 15s 6d v Honey in bulk. 4d por lb. Retail: Butter, frosh. Is6d: Bait do.. lOd to Is: Cheese, colonial, Bdto9d;Eggs,perdoz..2s; Bacon, per lb.lOdto Is: Hams, do.. Is to IS 4d. Flour Market. — Wholesale. — Superfine flour, silk dressed, per ton, fill 10b ; do, do, house. hold, £1010s; hundreds, ss; fifties, 10a per ton extra; sacks and bags free; Cantab, sacks, £9 10s; hundreds, sa; fifties, 10s extra; Southern do. *8 15s; bran.:per;ton. fcacksjinoluded. local, £4 las to £5; Southern do. Hi 10a; sharps, £415s to £5; cabin bread, £16; oatmeal, do, £12 10s; oats, 2s Id to 2s 4d; maize, 3s 8d to 4s: potatoes, B3 15a per ton; pearl barley do. £20 to £21; beans, 3s 8d ; onions, £7 to £8 ; fowl Wheat,2s6dto2sßd Kauri Gum. Flax, &o. — Poor ordinary, nominal, £25; good ordinary. £32 to £34; superior. £34 to gs& and upwards; East Coast £48 to£so; flaxperton.£lßto«2l; tow. do.. £7 to £9: fungus, per lb, 2Jd to 3d; cocoanut fibre, per cwt, 15s to' 17s. Coal and Firewood Market.—Coal: New castle (ship's side), 27s to 30s per ton; yard. 32s to 355; Bay of Islands, at yards, 2Ba 6d; screened, Sos6d; ditto at the mines, 13s; ship's side, 265; Waikato. 8s to 12a; in Auckland, 18s to 225: Kamo. 12a per ton at loading ground: Taupirl at mine. 88 6d to 12s, M ytfiti.^yS WTO 3ZSi muumn.l, at, u>l»C, Do 6d; yard (steam), 17s; household, 21s; delivered, 235. Firewood: Uncut at wharf (cargo), 8s Ed to 9s per ton; delivered, 14s; cut, 17s to 18s. Buildino Materials Timber: Boards and scantling, 100 ft, best, 14s; eccond-class, 8s 6d; best, planed, tongued, and grooved, first-class, 16s 6d; medium, 13s; second ditto, 11s 6d. Cargo, best (at mills), 10s Bd; second olass (at mills), 6s; baulk, 7s. New Zealand pailings, sft (sap), 10s; sft (heart). 13s; 6ft, 14; ti tree rails, £110s per (100; puriri posts, £6 10s to £7 108; shingles, 16s per 1,000; Hobart palings, sft. 19s; lift, 31s; Hobart rails, 30, Belling quotations. Bricks (at Avondale), 35a to i6a per 1,000; town yards, 45s to 555; delivered, 50s to 60s. Drain pipes (at works), per 100 (6 inches bore), 40s ; 4 Inches, 14a ; 3 inches, 9s; 2 inches, £2 10 per 1.C0O; socket glazed pipes, 18 inches, 4s per foot; 15 inches, 4a Bd per foot; 12 inches, 3s per foot; 9 inches, 2s per foot: 6 inches. Is per foot; 4 inches, 9d per foot; 3 inches, 7d per foot. Manures.—Bonedust. Sydney, £7 15s to £8, according to quality; bonetlour, £810s; Auckland, £8; Peruvian guano, £18; Maiden Island, i.6 ; Huon guano, small lots, £5 to £6, bags included : Hurst's chemical manure, £1410s.