AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 241, 12 October 1888, Page 6

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Farm and Dairy. Produce.—Wholesale: Butter, prime fresb, 6cl per lb; cheese, pood factory, did to 41d to sd; eggs. 6d; lard, in bladders, 5kl"; bacon and hams, 7d to 8d; Canterburybacon in thin calico, 7d; equal numbers, 7id; hams, 9}d, scarce. Fi.ouk Market.—Wholesale: Flour, best roller £13 0s > second, £12 Os; Southern flour* £9 10s to £10 10s; bran, £5; bran, ton (sacks included), £4 10s; Southern do., £4 10s: local sharps. £4 10s; Southern do., £5 10s- cabin bread, £15; oatmeal (25's), £11 109 ' to £12; oats, 2s 9d to 2s lld; raaizo, 2g

9d: local pr»\nloe*. £'•; S nfchern polafoe_, £4 10»; pearl barley, -^i to „22 iter ton; beans, 3s 3d; onion;.-. -_'io 9... All grain, chaif, oatmeal, etc.. sold including sacks. Kauri Or:..—We Lave to report a firm and active market for tho kst month, a large business having been done at about the following quotations .—Fair to good ordinary, £31; .superior parcels, £32 and upwards; East Ccast, £43 io £44. Supplies from mail to mail, 655 tons; for October to date, 122 ton?. Coal and Firewood Market. — Coal: Newcastle, at yard, 38s to 57s 6d per ton; Bay of Islands (scarce), at mines, 13s, at yards, 245; steam. 245; house, delivered, 30s; Waikato, at mines, Bs, 12s; at Auckland, 18s to 225; Taupiri, at mine, Bs, 12s; at Auckland, steam, 17s 6d; household, delivered, 24s to 255; Whangarei. at mine, 9s sd; yard, steam, 17s 6d; household, 235; delivered, 253 ; Miranda, at mines, 8s to lis ; at Auckland, 17s to 20s. Firewood: Uncut, at wharf (cargo), 6s 6<i to 8s 6d per ton ; delivered, 10s to 12s; cut, 14s to 16s. Manures.—Bonedust: Sydney, £7 to £8, according to qualby;' boneflour, £8 to £8 10s; Auckland, £8; Peruvian guano, £17; Long Island do., ,t4 103, bags included; Fisoir's fertiliser, £310s to £14 ; superphosphate, first quality, £6 to £6 10s; second quality, £7 10s to £8 ; Craig's lime, 35s to 40s per ton. Building Materials.—Prices are as follow at present:—Timber—Boards and scantling, 100 ft best, I2s6d; second-class, 8s; best, planed, tiaigued and croored, first-class, 14s; medium, lis or!; second-ela^s, 9s 6d; rusticated weather boards, lirst-class, i4s6d; medium, 12^; secondclass, 9s. New Zealand palings, sft (sap), 9s; (hearti, lis 6d: ti-tree rails, £3 10s per 100; puriri posts, £6 10s to £7 10s; 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. brain pipes, at works: 2in drqin tiles, 12in lengths, 50s per 1.000; 2.', in, 70s; 3ft, 90s; 4in, 120s; 6111. 30s per 100; 3in socket pipes, 2ft lengths, 6d each ; 4in, 7d ; 6in, 9d; 9in, ls6d; 12in,2s3d; 15in, 3s6d; loin, 4s 6d; 21in, 9s; 24in, 12s.