AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 326, 19 December 1888, Page 4

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Farm and Dairy Produce.— Wholesale : Butter, prime fresh, 8d per lb ; cheese, good factory, 4Jd to sd ; eggs, lOd; lard, in bladders, sid to 6jd ; bacon and haras, 6d to 8d ; Canterbury bacon in cloth. 81d ; equal numbers, 8?d ; huns.lOld, in cloth. Flour Market.— Wholesale : Flour, best roller, £15 10s ; second, £14 10s ; Southern flour, £12 to £12 15s; bran, £6; bran, ton (sacks included), £6 10s; Southern do., £6 10s; local sharps, £4 103; Southern do., £5 10s ; cabin bread. £17 ; oatmeal (25's), £20; oats, 4s to 4a 3d : maize, 4s 3d to 4a &d ; local potatoes (new). Id per lb« pearl barley, £20 to £22 per ton: beans, 3s 3d; onions, 5s 6d to 6s 6d. All grain, chaff, oatmeal, etc., sold including sacks. Kauri Gum. — The market is weak and busiues3 is being dono at the following quotations ".—Fair to good ordinary, £32 to £33 . East Coast, £43 to £44. Supplies for December to date, 276 tons. Coal and Firewood Market. — Coal : Newcastle, at yard, 32s per ton; Baj of Islands, at mines, 13s. at yaida, 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: Whangarei. at mine. 9s 6d; yard, steam, 17s 6d ; household, 235 ; delivered, 2bs ; Miranda, at mines. 7s to 10s ; at Auckland, 17s to 20s. Firewood : Uncut, at wharf (cargo), 6s 6d to 8s 6d per ton ; delivered, 10s to 12s ; cut, 14s to 16s. Manures.— Bonedust: Sydney, £7 to £8, according to quality ; boneflour, £8 to £8 10s Auckland, £8 ; Peruvian guano. £17 ; Long Island do., £4 10s, bags included ; Fisons, fertiliser, £7 to £14 : superphosphate, first quality, £7 10s to £8 ; second quality, £6 to £6 jOb ; Craigs lime, 35s to ios Per ton. Building Materials. —Prices are as follow at present :— Timber— Boards and scantling, 100 ft best, J2s 6d ; second-class, 8s ; best planed, tongued and grooved, first-class,l4s 6d; medium, lls 6d ; second-class, 9s 6d ; rusticated weather boards, first-class, 14s 6d; medium, 12a; secondclass, 10s. New Zealand palings, sft (sap>, 9s; (heart*, lls 6d: ti-tree rails, £3 10s per 100; puriri posts, £& 10s to £7 10s; shingles, 13s per 1,000; Hobart palings, sft. 17s; 6ft, 19s; Hobart rails, 80a, selling quotations. Bricks at Avondale. 30s per 1,000; town yards, 38s. delivered 41s. Drain pipes, at works: 2in drain tiles, 12in lengths, 50s per 1,000; 2Jin, 70s; 3ft, 90s ; 4in, 130s ; 6m, 30s per 100 : 3in socket pipes, 2/t lengths, 6d each ; 4in, 7d ; 6in, 9d ; 9in, Is6d; 12in, 2s 3d; 15in. 3s 6d; 18in. 4s 6d; 21in 9s; 24in. 12s.