AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 74, 28 March 1895, Page 2

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Farm and - Dairy Produce.—Butter: Factory, wholesale, la; first quality dairy, 1 wholesale, 6d, retail, 8d ; second quality, wholesale, sd, retail, 7d. Cheese, 4^d to sd. Fresh eggs, la per dozen wholesale; 1b 3d retail. Lard, 6sd. Bacon and hams, ' bare sides, 6^d; equal numbers, 7£d ; bams, < B£d; clothed, £d extra. Flour Market.—Flour : Wholesale, £8; wheatmeaK £8; bran, £2 15s; sharps, £4; oatmeal, 25's, £9 10s. Grain.—-Southern feed oats, Is 7d, c.i.f. saeksincluded.ls lOd to 1b lid ex store ; fowl wheat, 2b 7d, sacks included ; old Soubhern milling wheat, 2a Bd, c.i.f. sacks extra; new Southern, 2s 6d, sacks extra ; new local wheat, 2s 6d, sacks extra ;. maize, 2a on wharf; pearl barley,, £15 per ton wholesale. , , , . • Seeds,—Red clover, 9d per lb; , white closer, Is -Id.'; alsike/ lOd ; cowgrassv 10d ; timothy, 6d ; trefoil, Id ; crested dbgstail, 2s j'poa pratonsis, 9d; poa trivialis, Is 6d ; poa hemoralis, le 6d*; meadow foxtail, la 3d ; sheep fescue, 9d; meadow fescue, 9d ; hard do, 9d ; red do, lOd ; agrostis stolonifera<Fiorin), 9d ; brifolium incarnnfaum, 9d; i lotus corniculatuß, Is 9d; lotus major, 1b 9d; Canterbury ryegrass, 4s 6d to 5s por bushel; Poverty Bay ryegrass, 6s to 6s 6d; Italian ryegrasa, 4s 6d to sb; Akaroa cocksfoot, Ss 6d ; Taraoaki cocksfoot, 8a toßs6d. Coal ajtd Firewood Market.—Many of the following quotations are nominal :— Newcastle coal at yard, 28s to 30s ton; Waikato, ab minesj 8s to 12a; town, ]8s to» 22b ; Taupirii at mine, 8s to 12s ; at Auckland, ateam, 20a; household, delivered, 24s to 258. Firewood : Uncut, ab wharf, cargo, 68 6d to 7s 6d per ton; delivered, 10s to 12s; cut, ,14s to 16s. Building Materials. —Prices are nominally as. follow :—Timber: Boards and scantling, undressed, lOOfb best, 12s 6d ; medium, 9s 6d ; second-class, 7b 6d ;, best planed, tongued and grooved, first-class, 14s 6d; medium, 11s 6d; second-class, 9s 6d; rusticated weather boards, firstclass, 14s 6d; medium, lla 6d; secondclass, 10s 6d. Undressed boards, gin thick, ibesb, 10s ;medium, Ba.; second-class, 5s 6d ; rough lining boards §m, second-class, 4s 6d, and 5a for iin; lining boards, planed, tongued and grooved, best, 14s; medjujja," lls; Becondrclasß, 9a; boat boards, specially, selected,l4s for 13s 6d for fin. Kauri palings, s£b (cap), 9a;

(heart), lla; tr- tree - rails,. £3 10s per iO0; puriri postsj -Is'; to Is 6d each; shingles, 13b 6dp6r 1,000 ; Hdbarb palinga, sfb, 17s ; 6fb, 18s ; railsj 80s, selling quobabions. Brick, 45s to 50s per 1,000. Drain pipes, ab works : 2in. drain biles, 12in lengths, 50a per 1,000; 2iin, 70s ; 3in, 90s ; 4in, 130s; 6in, 30s per 100; 3in socket pipes, 2fb lengths, 6d each ; 4in, 7d; 6in, 9d : Is 6d ; 12in, 2s 3d ; 15in, 3s 6d ; 18in, 4s 6d ; 21in, 8s ; 24in, 21s.' . . , WAndres. — Bonedusb v ind Sydney,'£slos to £6, according to quality; Auckland, £6:; Long Island guano, £4 10s, bags included. . , \ ' v .