COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 72, 26 March 1891, Page 8

COMMERCIAL.

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Auckland, March 26. Farm and Dairy Produce. — Wholesale: Butter, prime fresh, 6d : second quality, 5d : third do. Id; choose, good factory, 4d to 4}d ; dairy. Id; fresh eggs, Is 3tl per dozen; lard in bladders. 41d: hams and bacon (Canterbury), equal numbers, 6jd, sides only. 6.1, equal numbers 7d ; hams, 8:|tl tall clothed) ; hums only, 13d, equal numbers 7d, hams, in cloth, 9d per lb; local euro bams and bacon, 6d to 6Jrl. Flour Market. — Many of tho following quotations aro nominal. Wholesale. Local rollers, first quality (sacks). £10 10s: second. £10; Southern (lour, £10 10s to £11; bran £3; sharps. £3 10s; cabin bread, £15; oatmeal, 2b's, £9 10s : Southern oats, 2s Id to 2s 2d per bushel: fowl wheat, 3s 3d; prime milling wheat, 3s lOd to 4s; maize. 2s lid ; potatoes, £315s per ton ; local wheat, 3s sd. Coat, and Firewood Market.—Many of the following quotations are nominal :—Newcastle coal at yard. 32s ton; Bay of Islands, at mines. 13s; at yards. 24s ; steam. 24s : house, delivered, 30s; Waikato, at mines, Bs. 12s; town, 18sto22s; Taupiri, at mine, Bs, 12s; at Auckland, steam. 17s 6d : household, delivered, 24s to 253 ; Kamo, lis : yard, steam, 17s 6d ; household. 23s ; delivered. 26s ; Miranda, at mines, 7s to 10s ;at Auckland, 17s to 20s. Firewood: Uncut, at wharf, cargo, 6s 6d to 8s 6d per ton ; delivered. 10s to 12s: cut, 14s to 16s

Building Materials.—Frices are as follow at present:—Timber: Boards and soantling100ft best, 12s; mec'ium, 9s ; 2nd-class, 7s; best planed, tongued and grooved, lirst-class, 14s; medium, lis: 2nd-class, 9s; rusticated weather boards, first-class, 14s; medium, lis; second, class, 9s. New Zoaland palings, 5Ct (sap), Is; (heart), Us6d; ti-tree rails. £3 10s per 100; puriri posts, £5; shingles, 13s por 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. Drain pipes, at works: 2in drain tiles, 12in lengths. 50s por 1,000: 2Jin, 70s: 3in, 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; 21iu, Ss ; 24in, 12s. Manures.—Bonedust.Sydney. £7 to £710s,according to quality: boneflour, £7 to £8; Auckland, £7; Long Island guano, £4 10s, bags included ; superphosphate, first quality, £7 to £8 los: second quality, £6 to £6 10s. Kauri Gum Summary.—Since last outward mail the local kauri gum market has been very unsettled, and at present writing it is hard to quote current prices definitely. We quote nominally as follows: Fair to medium ordinary parcels. £39 to £40 per ton: good to superior do., £41 to £44 : Fast Coast, £55 to £56 ; superior rescraped. £80 to £84. Supplies for last four woeks, 591 tons. A fair amount of gum has been shipped away during the month. On the 19th inst., the ship Hermione, for London, took away 228 tons gum, and the steamer Mamari, sailing same date, also for London, took 144 tons, inclusive of 19 tons for New York. The German barque Valparaiso is loading for Now York, and takes about J75 tonsof gum. Tho barque Scottish Admiral is starting loading for London. The Elinor Vernon, barquentine, now at Wellington, should be here before next mail, loading for New York,