COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 78, 3 April 1890, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Farm and Dairy Produce. — Wholesale : Butter, prime fresh, lOd: second quality, 7d; third do, sd; cheese, good factory, 4.1 d to 4_d; eggs. Is 6d; lard in bladder3,s_d; bacon and hams, 6d to 8d; Canterbury bacon, etc., in cloth:— sides, 8d; equal numbers, B'd : hams, 9?d.

Flour Market.-Wholesale: Local rollers, fi_3t quality (sacks), £9 ss; second, £8 15s; Southern rollers, „9 ss; stone flour, £8 15s to £9 : bran, £3 Es; Southern bran, £4 to £4 ss; local sharps, £3 15s; Southern do., £4 5s to £4 10s : cabin bread, £17 ; oatmeal, 25's, £10 10s; Southern oats, 2s to 2s 3d; local wheat, Tuscan, 2s 9d to 3s: Southern wheat, 33 3d to 3s 6d: pparl barley, £19 per ton ; maize, 3s 6d; local potatoes, £310s ; beans, 3s 3d» onions, 3d per lb. Wheat (sacks extra), oa_3, chaff*, oatmeal, sold sacks inciu-ed. Kauri Gum. - The gum market is firm, with all good qualities in good demand. The current rate for ordinary gum is about £38. with good to superior at £40 and £41 per ton. East Coast is in good demand, and is firm at £56 to £58. The supplies for the month of March, are about 650 tons. Manures. -Bonedust, Sydney, £7 to £8, according to quality; bonefiour, £8 to £8 10s; Auckland, £8 ; Long Island do., £4 10s, bags in eluded: superphosphate, first quality, £7 10s to £8; second quality, £6 to £6 10s. Coal and Firewood Market.—Coal: Newcastle, at yard. 32s per ton; Bay of Islands, at mines, 13s ; at yards, 243 ; steam, 24s ; house, delivered, 303 ; Waikato, at mines, Bs. 12s ; town 18s to 225; Taupiri, at mine, Bs, 12s; at Auc*-_-Jand. steam. 17s 6d ; household, delivered, 24s to 25s : Whangarei. at mine, 9s 6d : yard, steam 170 6d ; household, 23s ; delivered, 25s ; Miran. a at mines, 7s to 10s ;at Auckland, 17s to 20s. Firewood: Uncut, at wharf, cargo, 6s 6d to 8s 6d _er ton : delivered, 10s to 12s; cut, 14s to 16s, Building Materials.—Frices are p.s follow at present:—Timber: Boards and Mantling 100 ft best, 12s; second-class, 7s; best planed' tongued and grooved, first-class, 14s-; medium 12s; second-class, 9s; rusticated weather boards, first-class, 14s; medium, 12s; secondclass, 10?. New Zealand palin.gs, sft (sap) 9s; (heart), lls6d; ti-tree rails. £3 10s per 100; puriri posts, £5; shingles, 13s per 1,000: Hobart palings. sft, 17s; 6ft, 19sHobart rails, 80s, selling quotations. Bricks at Avondale, 3Js per 1,000 ; town yards, 38s ; delivered, 41s. Drain pipes, at works: 2in drain tiles, 12in lengths, 50s per 1,000 ; 21 in, 70s ; Sin 90s ; 4in, 130s : 6in, 30s per 100; 3in socket pipes 2ft lengths, 6d each; 4in, 7d; 6in, 9d; Is 6d • 12in, 2s 3d ; 15in. 3s 6d; 18in, 4s 6d ; 21in, 8s; 24in, 12s.