AUCKLAND MARKETS.

Northern Advocate, 20 August 1887, Page 3

AUCKLAND MARKETS.

■ l- -■- -- — -^-1- --Auckbind, Friday. ' > Auckland Grocers' Association quote ! wliolesale price of fresh butter Is. p^er i |b., fredi trgfgs 10d.; per doz. . > _ '■ ' MR. ALFRED BUCKIAND'S BEFOBT. ! Alfred Buckland reports at Eemu- | era, on Thursday, dairy cattle in moderate iiumbeps and without alteration in price ; yearling steers in good enquiry ; other store; cattle dull of sale ; fat cattle in full numbers, sold steady at 1 8/|the lOOlbs. Sheep yarded plentifully, but sold well, last ■■ Week's values being fully maintained. \ A few early lambs brought from 7fto , 10/ each. , Fat calves short of supply, ■■ brought high values. Pigs plentiful, c well bred ' porkers in demand, but \ coarse pigs low. *' ' . , FIiOtTB. . . ; . Maize stD\ quotable at 2/9 on wharf, • oats 2/ to 2/3 for feed ; wheat 4/ to 4/3, potatoes £3. ■ ! i KAtTRI GUM MARKET. | Kauri gum steady at quotations ■ ibelow. East Coast still so unsettled and transactions so limited that we can only quote nominally. For*re- • scraped gium -. ihere is very little de>- ; mahd, ;and prices are lower. Supplies ; for 1 7 days of August about 350 tons, i ,We quote fair ordinary" 42/ to 43/, 1 superior ordinary 44/, and East Coast 57/^to*s9/, with downward tendency. ■ by mail^yesterdfey show, London quotations t<y bej fine pale selected £7 to £12 per cwt., clean, hard, good, ' chiefly amber, £5 to, £6, good, fine, IcleariJ h'arVi, scraped 80/ to 94/, three iparts scraped 69/ to 76/, hard, half \ jscraped, fair to .fine, 61/ to 66/; rough. ' sorts, ordinary to good, 52/6 to 55/6 ;, ; black and. brown, hard scraped, No. 1, r ;fine tp'superior, 60/ to 66/ ; black and ibrbwmj 1 ; hard,: chiefly scraped No. ; 1, • 49/ to 57/ ; pickings, ordinary to fine, 40/ to 53/6 ; chips, low and ordinary .to fine and^superior, 20/ to 37/ ; dust, ; low to.fine pale chipping, 12/ to 36/.