AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 242, 12 October 1893, Page 3

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Farm and Dairy Produce.—Butter: factory, wholesale Is, retail Is 2d; first quality dairy, wholesale lOd, retail Is: second quality, wholesale 6d, retail. Bd. Cheese, 4_d to 4Jd. Fresh eggs, (id por dozon wholesalo, 3d retail. Lard, 6id lb. Flour Makkbt.—Flour: First quahty,£Blos; second quality, £8 ss; wheatmeal, £8 10s; bran, £3; sharps, £3; cabin bread. £15; oatmeal, 25's, £11 10s; Southern feed oats, 2s 6d. ci.f. sacks included, 2s 9d to 2s lOd retail; Seed oats, white aud black tartarian. 3s wholesale, 3d 3d retail : dun do. Danish, 2s 6d wholesale, 2s 8d retail. Crushed wheat, 3s, sacks included. Fowl wheat, 2a 9d, sacks included ; prime milling wheat, local, 2s 9d, sacks extra; Southern milling, 3s, ci.f., sucks extra; new maize. 2s Sd on wharf, 3s ex store: potatoes (prime), £5 10s; pearl barley, £21 wholesale. Grass and Clover Seeds.-Southern ryo grass, Is6d loßspor bushel; Poverty Bay d0.,6s *6d per bushel; cocksfoot, 7s to 7s 6d par bushel; Italian rye crass (Bcarco), 5s 6d to 6s per bushel; white clover. Is to Is 2d per lb; red do., lOd to lid; cow grass, lid to Is; alsykc, Is to Is Id; Timothy, 5d to 6d ; trefoil, 5d to 6d; rape. 4d to 6d.

Coal and Firewood Mari-UT.—Many of tho following quotations are nominal:—Newcastle coal at yard, 288 to 30s ton; l?ay of Islands, at mines.l3s; Waikato, at mines, Bs, 12s; town, 18s to22s; Taupiri, at mine, Bs, 12s; at Auckland, steam, 193: household, delivered 21s to S-s. Firewood : Uncut, at wharf, cargo, 6s 6d to 7s 6d por ton; delivored, 10s to 12s; cut. 14s to 16s

Builoinq Materiits.—Prices are nominally as follow —Timbor: Boards and scantling.

undreased, 100 ft best, 12a; met? ium, 9s; secondclass, 7s; best planed, tongued and grooved, first-class, 14s; medium, lis; second-class, 9a; ruaticated weather boards, flrst-class, 14s: medium, lis; second-class, 10s. Undressed boards, Jin thick, best, lis; medium, 8s; second-class, 7s ; rough lining boards. §, secondclass, 4s6d, and safor4-in.; liningboards.planed, tongued and grooved, best, 13s; medium, 10s; second-class, 8s; boat boards, specially selected, 13s 6(3 for .in; 13s for Ith. Kauri palings, sft (sap,) 9s: (heart), lis; t.i-tree rails. £3 10s per 100; puriri posts, Is 3d to Is 6d each; shingles, 12s per 1,000 ; Hobart palings, sft, 17s; 6ft, 18s: rails. 80s, selling quotations: Bricks, 4ba to 50s per 1,000. Drain pipes, at works: 2in drain tiles, lzin lengths. 50b per 1.000; 2}in. 70s; 3in, 90s! 4in, 130s : bin, 30s per 100; 3in socket pipes, 2ftlengths, 6d each: 4in, 7d: 6in, 9d: Is 6d12in, 2s 3d ; 15in, 3s 6d; 18in. 4s id.; 21in, 8s; 24in, 12s.

Manures—Bonodust, Sydney, _tb 10s to £7 10s, according to oualitv; bonefiour, £7 to £8; Auckland, £7; Long Island guano, £4 10s, bags included ; superphosphate, first quality. £7 to til 10s: second ciuall_y.£6ss to £610s. Kempthorne. Prosser, and Co.'s (N.Z. Drug Company) manure price list is as follows :—

„ _ . . 1 Ton. 5 Tons. Superphoaphato, "A" 32 % .. 615 0-6 10 0 Do "C"25% .. 515 0-5 11 6 Bonedust (pure) _ 617 6-6 15 0 Do. and Blood .. .. ..6 0 0-5 17 6 Root IHanure ~ 75 n—7 0 0 Grass Manure A 615 C—6 10 0 Grass Manure b ._. .. „7 0 o—6 15 0 Potato Manure 75 o—7 0 D Corn Manure „ 7 0 0-6 17 6 Turnip Manure .. «. .. 0 0-6 17 6 Maize Manure .. .. „. 7 0 o—6 17 6 Orchard Manuro 8 10 o—B 5 0 Onion Manure .. „ .. 7 1/5 o—7 10 0 Hop Manure „ ~ 710 0-7 5 0 Clover Manure .. ... .. 610 o—6 5 0 Sulphate of Ammonia .. .. 16 0 o—o 0 0 Guano, 66*57 515 0-0 0 0 Nitrate of Soda. 2ewt saoks .. 015 0 per cwt. Sulphate of Iron .. .. _ 010 0 per cwt. Terms, 2J per cent, discount for cash within one month.