AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 135, 9 June 1898, Page 3

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Farm and Dairy Pkodcce.—Butter: New Zealand Dairy Association, Is 3d wholesale; Anchor Brand, Is 3d wholesale; first quality dairy, wholesale Is. retail Is 2d ; second quality, wholesale lOd : cheese, factory, ild, wholesale ; farmers', 3jd to id ; fresh eggs, Is (id per dozen wholesale, Is fid retail; lard, 5d ; bacon and hams, ba.ro sides, 7d ; equal .numbers, 7Jd : hams, Sid to fid: clothed. }d extra. Floor Market.—Flour, wholesale, £1310s; wheatmeal, £13 10s; bran, 1001b sacks, £1 15s; 1601b sacks, £4 12s Gd; sharps, 2001b sacks, £5155; oatmeal, £11 per ton 25's, £15 10s for 7's. Grain.—Uats, 2s Bd, c.i.f.; Dun seed. 3s 2d to 3s 4d ex store ; Tartarian seed. 3s -Id to 3s Gd ; fowl wheat is 3d. sacks included ; Southern millinH; wheat, is Sd. sacks extra : local milling wheat, 4s Gd, sacks extra ; maize, 3s to 33 Id (on wharf). Chaff— £-1 5s to £1 10.3 per ton (at tho station.)

Onions—Prime samples, £10 per ton (ex store.)

Potatoes.—Prime samples. £7 10s: beat kidney seed, £10; Early Hose, £12; Bruce and Magnum Bonums, &'.). Coal and Firewood Markets.—Many of tho following quotations are nominal:—Newcastle coal at yard, 28s to 80s ton ; Waikato, at mines, £s to 12s; town, 18s to 225; Taupiri, at mine, 8s to 12s : at Auckland, steam, 20s : household, delivered, 2is to 255. Firewood: Uncut, at wharf, cargo, 7s to 9s ton; delivered, 12s to 14s; cut. Vis to Pis.

BUILDING Materials.-Prices are nominally as follows:—Timber: Hoards and scantling, undressed, 100 ft best, Ms; medium, 10s fid; second-class, 8s (Id ; best planed, tongued and grooved, first-class, lGs; medium. 2s 6d; second-class, 10s Gd ; rusticated weather-boards, first-class. His; medium, 12s Cd; second-class, 10s Gd. Undressed boards, Jin thick, best, lis (id; medium, Ss; second-class, (is Gd; rough lining boards, jjin, second-class, Gs; lining boards, planed, tongued and grooved, best, 15s Gd; medium, 12s; second-class, 10s; boat boards, specially selected, 15s 6(1 for Jin ; 14s 6d, for gin. 'Kuiiri palings, 5 feet (sap) !)s, (heart) lis; tl-treo rail, £3 10s per 100; purlri posts, is to Is tid each: mhingles, Ills per 1,000; Hobart palings, sft, 17s; Oft. l'Js; rails. 80s; selling quotations. Dry pressed bricks, 52s Gd per 1,000; ordinary brick, 60s per 1,000; (ire bricks, SMin £8, and ,'Jin i% per 1,000; lire clay, 00s per ton ; hydraulic lime, -is per li bushel bag. Drain pipes, at works, 2in drain tiles, 12i» lengths, 50s per 1,000; '11 in. 70s; Sin, (Msi-fin, 130s; Gin, £15 per 1,000; ;?m socket pipes, 2ft lengths, 7d each ; 4iii, 0d; Gin, Is; 9in, 2.-i; 12in, 3s; loin, 'Is Gd ; 18in. lis ; 21in, its; VAui, 15s.

Manukes.—Bonodust and bone/lour: Sydney, £5 10s to &H : according to quality : Auckland, £S 10s; Long Island guano, ¥A 10s, bags included.

Kempthorne, Prosserand C'o.'s (Nov/ Zealand Drug Company, Limited) WesUield manures price list, season 1897 :— lTon. £s.d. " A " Superphosphate (total phosphates 40 per cent., soluble 32*31 percent., li per cent, ammonia) 'lis 0 " H " Superphosphates (total phosphates 31 per cent., soluble 20 per cent.), 2cwt sacks .. .. .. ..- .. ..430 •'C" Superphosphate (total phosphates 40 per cent., soluble 15 per cent.), 2cwt sacks 4,9 0: Bonedust (pure) steamed ... .. •.. 7 0 0 Boncdust (pure) green ..' ~.. 7 0 0 ! Bonedust and Blood ~ .., «- ~6 60,

Special Root Manure 7 00 Drcssii|) aBS Manuro "A' (For T °P . Special Grass Manure "B" (for Pcrmaneht Pasture) n 10 0 Special Potato Manure ___ '' " ? Spec a Turnip Manure ~. .. " 610 0 gpeuiaUtiipo Manure 1 « 10 0 Special Corn Manure., . 610 0 Special Maiw Manure .. "0 bpccial Orchard Manure "A" (for young-trees) 7 10 0 Special Orchard Manure " 13" (for fruit formation) .. 710 0 Special Clover Manure ".' " " alO 0 , Special Onion Manure " " 7 10 0 Special Sueur Biiet. Manuro' " ','. 810 0 Sulphate of-Ammonia .. MOO Loral Queen Uuitno. Hewt. sacks (63 per cent, phosphate of lime) .. . iv> a Kiumt, original sacks about 2cwt '.'. 1 10 n Nitrate ol Soda (original sacks about *OWt) l-lsncrcwt Muriate of Potash, original sacks about Sulphate of Potash, original casks' about? 01 °W 2owt' 0 13 0 Sulphate of Iron, original casks"'about a 1 w, ',' ,1 lOsporcwt Special Garden Manure, U\b bags.. Is (Id each I'owl Grit, Hlbbugs, coarko medium or lino .... , \g c,d each Discount leas 2>J per cent.for cash. Prices subject to alteration without notice.