AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 239, 8 October 1891, Page 4

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Farm and Dairy Produce.—Wholesale : Butter.prime fresh, 6;1 to 7d, retail 7d to Sd ; second quality, 4d to 5d wholesale, 5d to 6d retail; choose, Rood faotory, none second quality, 4d ; fresh eggs, 6d per dozen wholesale, 7d retail • lard in bladders. 4Jd to 6d; hams und bacon (Canterbury), now cure, sides, 6d, equal numbers, C.Jd; hams, Bid ; local cure hams, and bacon, 4d to sd.

Flour Market.—Flour. £13 to £1310s ; bran £4 ; sharps, £4 ; cahin bread, £15 ; oatmeal' 2b's, £10 10s; Southern oats. 2s 3d per bushelfowl wheat, 43 2d ; prima milliner wheat, 4s 6d to 4s 9d (nominal); maize. 2s 3d parcels on wharf ; potatoes, £17s 6i to £110s per ton; pearl barley, £15.

Coat, and Firewood Market.—Many of tbe following quotations are nominal:—Newcastle coal at yard. 28s to 30s ton; Bay of Islands, at mines. 13s ; at yards, 24s ; steam, 21s • house delivered, 003 ; Waikato, at mines. Bs, 12s; town 18sto22s; Taupiri, at mine, Bs, 12s; at Auckland, steam. 17s 6d; household, delivered 21s to gas ; Kamo, lis yard, steam, ISs ; household, 25a* delivered. 265; Miranda, at mines. 7s to 10s • at Auckland, 17s to 20s. Firewood: Uncut, at wharf, carpro, 7s to 8s per ton ; delivered. 10s to 12s: cut. 14s to 16s

Building Materials.— .Prices are as follow at present:—Timber: Boards and scantlini--100ft bast, 12s; mec'ium. 9a ; 2nd-class, 7s; host planed, tongued and p-rooved. flrst-clase. 14smedium, lis; 2nd-clr.ss, 9s; rusticated weather boards, first-class. 14s: medium, lis; secondclass, 10s. Now Zealand palings, sft (san.) 9s; (heart), lis6d; ti-tree rails. £3 10k per 100; puriri posts, £5; ehinplos. 143 to 15a per 1.000: Hobart palings. sft, 17s; 6ft. 19sHobart rails, 303, selling quotation?. Bricks, 45s o ECaperl,Coo. Drain pipes, at works: ?,indrain tilea. lain lengths. 603 per 1.000 ;"_li_, TO3; 3in. 90s: -Sin, 130s : ftiu, 20s per 100: 3in socket pipes. -fUcngths, 6d each; 4in, ?d 5 6in. 9d; Is M; l_in, 2aod ; loin, 3s 6d: }Sin, 4a6d: 21in, 8s; 2<lm. '.2s,

Mats-cues.-Bon eaust, Sydney. 56103t0 £710s, icoordinft t.oauality; 1.-oneflour, £7 to£S; Auckland, &1\ Lonff Island guami, £4 10a, bags in(l'lidud: fmperphojphate, first quality, £7 to *./ lCs; second quality, to &b 5s £6 10s,