FINANCE.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12648, 7 January 1904, Page 3

FINANCE.

BRITISH REPORTS. LONDON, January 5. Shipments of 7,000 and 9,000 bushels of Victorian January wheat sold at 30s. fid., and 11,000 Australian February shipment at 30s. 4]d Copper.—Spot £SB 55., three months £57 15s. Tin.—Spot £SB ss, three months £134 15s. Lead.—£lll Is. 10Jd. Silver.—2s 29-16 th d.

PRODUCE IN AUSTRALIA.

SYDNEY, Wednesday.

Wheat, local milling firmer 2s lid, chick 2s fid to 2s 8d; flour, local new £B, old £ll 10s, Manitoban £l2; oats, New Zealand up to 2s fid; barley, seed 2s 5d to 3s, feeding up to 2s 3d; maize 3s 4d, Argentine 2s 4d; bran, fid; pollard, 6]d; peas, Prussian Blue 6s 9d to 6s; potatoes, £1 10s to £2; onions, £2 10s to £3 10s; butter, Bid; cheese, sd; bacon, 9d. MELBOURNE, Wednesday.

Wheat, 2s lid to 3s; flour, £7 15s to £8; oats, Algerian Is Id to Is 3d, milling Is 4d; barley, prime malting 3s fid to 3s 7d, Cape Is 5Jd to Is 7d; maize 2s 9d; bran, fijd; pollard, 7jJ; potatoes, £1 15s to £2; onions, £1 10s to £2 2s fid •

ADELAIDE, Wednesday. Wheat, 2s lid; flour, £7 10s to £7 15s; bran, fijd; pollard, BJd.

N.Z. AND RIVER PLATE CO. AUCKLAND, Wednesday. The New Zealand and River Plate Land Mortgage Company, in general meeting on the sth instant, resolved to adopt the recommendations of the directors relating ,to the distribution ol the year’s profits its already pubMed,