AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 324, 12 December 1888, Page 4

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Farm andDairv Puoduuk.— Wholosalc : Butter, prime ficsb, 8d pov lb ; oheose, fjood factory, i\^ to sd ; ogga, lOd; lard, in bladders. sid to 6HI ; UacQii and hams, 6d to 8cl; Canterbury b^,cQji in cloth, 81d; equal numbers, fifd; hams,lo}d, m cloth.

Fj.ouk Market.— Wholesale : Flour, host roller, £15 10s ; second, Xl 4 10s ; Southern Hour, 4.12 to £12 15s; bran, £6; bran, tpn (saoKs included), £t> 10s; Southern do.. £6 10s ; local sharps, £4 10s ; Southern do.. £5 10s; cabin bread, £17; oatmeal (25's), £2P; oats, 4s to 4s 3d: maize. 4a 3d to 4s 6d; local potatoes (now). Id per lb; pearl barley. t2O to .£22 per ton; boans, 3s 3d; onions, 5s 6d to 6s 6d. AH grain, chart', oatmeal, etc., sold including sacks,

ItAbTii (siii\T. — The market is firm, and a good steady business is being done at the following quotations :— Fair to good ordinary, J^33 to ,634 ; East Coast. £4 3to £44. Supplied from December to dale, 130 tons.

Coal ax:j Fiukwoqii jUaiucet. — Coal : Newcastle, at yard, 32s per ton; Bay of Tslandss (scarce), at mines, 13s, at, yaitla, 245; steam, 245; house, delivered, 30s; Waikato, at mines. Bs, 12s: at Auckland, 18s to 225; Taupiri, at mine. Bs. '12s; at Auckland, steam, 17s 6d; household, delivered, 24s to 255; Wha-nisavei. at mine, 9a 6d; yard, steam, 17s 6d ; household, 235; delivered, 2os ; Miranda, at mines, 7s to 10s ; at Auckland, 17s to 20s. Firewood : Uncut, at wharf (cargo), 6s 6d to 8s 6d per tou ; delivered, 103 to 12s; cut, 14s to 16s.

Manures.— Uonedust: Sydney. £7 to £8.ac. ac cording to qualify ; boncfloui*, £8 to £8 103? Auckland, £8 ; Peruvian guano. £17 ; Long Island do., £4 10s. bags included : Fisons, fertiliser, ill to £14 ; superphosphate, first quality, £6 to £6 10a ; second quality, £7 10s to £3 ; Craigs lime, 35s to 40s per ton.

I3cii,dingi Materials.— Prices avc as follow at present:— Timber — Hoards and scantling, ]OQft beat, 12s. 6d ; aocqnd-olass, 8s; best planed, lengued and grooved, flrst-class, 14s 6d; medium, lls 6d ; second-class, 9s 6d ; rusticated weather boards, first-class, ] Is 6d; medium, 12s; secondclass, 10s. New Zealand palings, bft (sap), 9s; (heart), lls 6d; ti-lree rails, £3 10s per 100-, puriri posts, £6 10s to £7 10s; shinglos, ]3s per 1,000; Hobart palings, oft, 17s; 6ft, 19s; llobarl rails, 80s, selling quotations. Bricks at Avondale, 30s per 1,000; town yards, 38g, delivered 41s. Drain pipes, at works: 2in drain tiles. 12in lengths, 50s per 1.000; 2lin, 70s; 3ft, 90s ; 4in, 130s ; 6m, 30s per 100 ; 3in socket pipes, 2ft lengths, 6d each ; 4in, 7d ; 6in, 9d ; 9in, Is6d ; I2in, 2s 3d; 15in, 3s 6d; 18in, 4s Z\m 9s ; 24in, 12§.

Tho pin factories of the Uniiecl States manufacture 18,000,000,000 of these diminu- J fcive articles every year. There is a pin a day for each inhabitant). At the twenty-fourth meeting of the Olngo Rifle Association Private Hulchinson won the first match. In the second match, Private Johnston, Clutha, was first with 69. Al the Southlandamateurathlefcic sporfcs» the half- mile championship ot New Zealand was won by P. H. Cox by 16 yards, W. Taylor 2nd, J. Kane, 3rd. Time, 2min l-Ssee, The Royal Humane Society will make an | award to H. Mitchell and Lawaon Robins, i of the barque Coimovant, for gallant conduct in saving a shipmate's life in Lyttelton harbour on November 8.