AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 57, 8 March 1889, Page 2

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

FARM and Daiiiy Produce.—Wholesale: Butter, prime fresh hutter, 7<l lb; cheese, Kootli'rxtory, Cd to 5Jd; eggs, od; lard, in bladders, SJ-& to 6;d: bacon and hums, 6cl to 3d; Canterbury bacon in c;ofch, B.Jd; equal numbers, 83d; hams.lo.ld, in cloth.

Flock Maisket. —Wholesale: Flour, £12 10s ; Southern flour, £10 10s to £11 and £11 10s; bran, £<1 10s; Southern bran, £5 10s; local sharps. £4 10s; Southern, AS; cabin bread, £17 : oatmeal (2u's), £14; cats, 3?: jr.aizo, 3s Sd; local potatoes, £5 to £6 per*ton; pearl "barley, £20 to £22 per ton; beans, Za 3d; onions, 03 bd to 6a 6i"l. All grain, chaff, oatmeal, etc., sold includinf? sacks.

Coal and Firewood Makiikt. — Coal: ■NTewcastl'J,' at yard, £2a per ion; Bay'of Islands, afc mmes, 13~, at yards, 21s; steam, 245; house, delivered, 50s: _ Waikato, afc mines, Bs, 12s; at Auckland, 13s ro 225; Taupiri, at mine. Ss, 12s; at Auckland, steam, 17a 6d; household, dolivcrca, 24s to 255; Whanjrarei, at mine. 93 6d; yard, steam, 17s 6d; household, 255; deliverer!, 25s ; Miranda, at mines, 7s to 10a ; at Auokland, l"a to 20s. Firewood: Uncut, at wjp.rf (cargo), 6s 6c! to 8s 6d per toil; delivered, 10a to 12s; cut, 14s to 16s.

TiIANUEEf-).—Bonedust: Sydney, &7 to £8, according to quality; boncilour, £S to £3 103; Auckland, j£3 ; Long Island do., SA 10s, bags included ; ITisotrs fertiliser, £7 to '£14 ; superphosphate, iirst o.unlity, £7 10s to £8; second quality, £6 to £6 10a; Craig's lime, 55s to 40s per tou.

Building- Mathriais.—Prices are as follow at present:—Timber—Boards and scantling, ICOXt "nest, 13 ; seeond-elass, 8s: best planed, tongued eiikl grooved, fii's»-clas3, 15s; medium, 12s; second-class, iOs;' rusticated weather boards, /irst-class, 15s; medium, 123; secondclass, 10s. Now Zealand .palings, sft (sap), 9s: (heart), 11s 6d; ti-treo rails, £3 10s per 100; puriri posts, £6 10s to £7 10s; shingles, 133 per 1,000; Hobarfc palings, oft, 17s; 6ft. 19s; Hobart rails, 80s, selling quotations. Bricks at Avon dale, 30s per 1,000; town yards, 335, delivered 41s. Drain pipes, at works: 2in drain tiles, 12in lengths, 50s per 1,000; 2£in, 70a; 3ft, 90a; 4in, 120 a,; 6m, 30s per 100: 3in socker pipes, 2ftlengt.hf 6d each.; 4in, 7d; 6in, 9d; 9in; Is6d; 32in, 2sSdj 15in, 33 6d; 13in, 4s 6d; 21in, 2s; 24in, 12s.