COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. AUCKLAND MARKETS (RETAIL). Thursday, September 12, 1861.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XVII, Issue 1435, 13 September 1861, Page 3

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. AUCKLAND MARKETS (RETAIL). Thursday, September 12, 1861.

Faum ai.d Dairy Produce. — Milk, pei quart, fid. ; buiter (fresh), per ib., 25.; cheese (colonial), per ib., li. 3d. ; eggs, perdozen, If. (id., lard, per Id., I<i , fowl?, per pair, 5i , ducks, per pah, (is ; gceie, each, ss. to 6s ; turkeys, each, ss. to 7i.; bacon, per Ib., ad. to Is. ; hams, per Ib., Is. to Is. 3d.; potftoes, per cwt., si. to 6&. ; onions, per Ib., 4d. ; hay, per ton, £7 ; straw , £5.

Butcheri' Me it.— Beef, per lb., 7d. to Bd.; mutton, 7d. to 8(1.; pork, 7d to Od. BrsoDin (cabin), 32i. per owt. Buead, per 2-lb. loaf, sd.

The Mills.— Wholesale— Fine flour, per ton, £19 ; lecondi, £15 to £17; shurps, £9 to £12; bran, per bushel, 1«. Od. ; maize, 65.; vheat, 7i. , oati, ft. lletail— tine flour, per 100 lbs., 21i.; second*, 17g. to 195.; sharps, 11*. to 145., bran, per buihel, Is. flcl.; maize, Cs. to 7i., oaU, as. Gil.

Euildino Mateeials.— Boards and scantling, per 100 feet, 155.; board*, tongued »nd grooved, 20i. ; «lnngle«, per 1000, 14s. to 165.; palings, per 100, 13s ; posts and rails, pel 100, £3 to £3 55. : brick*, per 1000, £2 17*. fld. to £3; lime, per buihel, I*. Oct. to I*. Sd. Bond* and scantling, at Onehunga, pel 100 feet, 13s. to 14s

Messrs Cheeseman, Hunter, »nd Co. report that at their horse sale last Saturday there was a good supply of horse stock, »nd a large attendance of buyers. Seyenteen horses sold at good prices ; two-year old colts, £21 and £25 10s.; yearling colts fetched from £6 2s. 6d. to £10 ; pony colts from £6 53 to £9 6a. ; riding horses from £14 ss. to £24 55.; unbroken mare and foal brought £31 ; horse and dray went for £41 ; light draught and saddle went privately for £28. At their cattle sale, at Newmarket, last Tuesday, there was a plentiful /show of cattle and sheep, which changed hands at advanced rates : — Thirteen cows sold at prices varying from £8 to £14 ; fat cattle realized from £11 to £12 ; for cows, from £10 to £18 7s. 6d. ; for two and three year old steers and bullock*, went at £U 2«. 6d , £15 10s. £17 5s , £18 17s. 6U, £19 2s. 6d.; and £22 12i. 6d.; 100 fat sheep and lambs went to the butcher, sheep at from 21s. 6d, to 42»., and lambs at lOi. 3d. and lls. Gd. each ; a lot of store sheep fetched 20b. each; a pair of working bullocks told for £25 10a.