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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11314, 8 March 1900, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

KAURI GUM MARKET. . Tiie following at© our quotations of kauri gum for the weel: ending Mnroh 6: —-White gum: Poor ordinary, £37 to £40: good ordinary, unnieked, £54 and upwards: Pupa lor Rood ordinary, £7R and upwards; East Coast (rood quality). S'lb and upwards; rescrapwl. £118 and upward'. Black mm: Nuts, ill and upwards; raixjd, £25 and upwards; pood £50 and uownrds Supplies for month of February, 1005 tons: for six days of March. 350 tons. All renl'y good kinds are scarce and in strong demand, but the supply of all low grades is excessive, and the prices of such kinds are falling.

A TTOHVD A 1" T A "XT "VT A P WIT/PS HTPNET, March 7. , Wheat: Good demand. 2s 2d to2s 4(1: milling, 2s 8d to 2s 94(1. Flour. £6 5s to £6 IPs. Oats, feeding New Zealand. 2s 7d to 2s Bd, Tasmanian, 2s 6d to 2s 7d. Barley, Capo. 2s 4d to 2s 6d. Maine, prime, 2s 8d to 2s U(l. Peas, Prussian blue. 3s 4d to 3s sd. Bran, 7id'to 7Jd. oil ft J, Sid to 8?d. Potato*, Circular Heads, up to £2 15s; local, £ 1 js*. Onions, £2 10s to £4. Butter, dairv, /d to 7Jd; factory, BJd. Cheese. Ne\y Zealand, medium, sj,d. Bacon, 5d to 7Jd. [The above quotations are those ruling between merchant and retailer, and do not represent slidhtly lower values obtained by a recognised broker.] ~ Melbourne, March 7. Wheat, (rood demand. 2s 9d to 2s 9Jd. Oats, Algerian, 2s 3d to 2s sd; stout, 2s 4d to 2s Aid. Barley, prime. 3s 8d to 3s lid Cape, 2s 2d to 2s 3Jd. Maize, 2s 6Jd. Bran, B*d to 9d. Pollard. IDJd to lOid. Potatoes, £1 12s to £117s 6d. Onions, £2 15s. Adelaide, March 7. Wheat, 2s 8d to'2s BJ-d. Flour, £6 7s 6d to £6 10s. Oats, dun. and Algerian, Is lOd to 2s 2d: stout, lis 6d to 2s 9d. Bran, 9(1. Pcllard, lOd. LONDON. By Telegraph.— Association.— London, March 6. The second of the series of colonial wool sales opened with brisk prices, but a five to 10 per cent, decline compared with the closing sales of the hist series. Per New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited). London, March 5. Frozen Meat: Mutton market has an upward tend-.ry. Australian mutton, 2Jd to 3d; Australian lambs, 4d to 4]d. London, March 7. Wool: The sales opened at an average decline of about 10 per cent, on last sales' closing rates. Attendance of both Home and foreign buyers is good. Buyers are not operating with spirit.

ADDINGTOtf STOCK MARKET. CinusTcnußcii, Wednesday. The entries at Addington comprised 2000 sheen, about 3000 (at lambs, 9000 store sheep, 433 head of cattle, and 220 pigs. With tho exception of ft few extra pood steers, which brought from £8 to £9 ss, the 200 head of cattle forming the beef supply were mostly light to handy weights. Competition showed no improvement, and Inst week's rates were about upheld. Good steers, £7 to £7 10s: lighter, £5 17s 6d to £6 10s; heifers. £4 17b 6d to £6 15s; cows, £3 15s to £5 103. A fair yarding of stores met with very poor demand. Pat sheep were a very mixed lot, continuing onlv a small proportion of freezing wethers, which sold at from 14s to 16s, a few pens of extra heavy and prime wethers making 16s 6d to 17s 9d; unfinished wethers, down to 13s. Anj good trade ewes sold well at from 12s to 14s. but there were too many inferior sorts in, and these sold at all prices, from 8s to lis, se\nrfil lots being withdrawn. Merino wethers sold at from 10s 6d to 123 ud. The fat iambs were of fairly even quality, and there was a slight improvement in the demand lor freezers, the bulk of the yarding selling at from 12si to 13s, and running from lis 9d to 13s 7d while lighter sorts, for botchers' purposes, sold down to 10s 9d. The continued dry weather, and the closo approach of several large sales in the country, made buyers for store sheep rather chary, and most of the best lines did not reach owners' reserves, and a considerable drop took place in inferior sheen of all classes. Forward wethers were withdrawn at 12s 9d to 12s lid. and none but Inferior Chatham Islanders were sold, at prices ranging from 7s lid to 10s 4d. Mixed two-tooths of fair quality were passed at 12s 8d to 13s 3d. Two-tooth breeding ewes brought 12s 4d: six-tooth breeding ewes, 13s to 14. 6d; six and eight-tooth breeding ewe". 10s 3d to Ws lOd: and need and inferior, 7s 7d to 9s 6d. A line of 1000 good young ewes wore passed at 12s 10(1. Forward rape lambs brought 9s lid to 10s 9d: medium rapo lambs. 9s to 9s 9d; backward and weedy sorts, 6s 6t) to Bs. The smal' entry of fat. pigs caused improved demand baconors bringing £1 12s 6d to £2 (3d to 35(1 pel lb), and porkers £1 5s to £1 12s fid Md per lb): stores, 12s to 18s 6d; eucltcrß and weannrs, 6s to lis 6d.

WOOL SALES. London, March 7. At tho wool sail!? 13niton anil Ronald, thn I?Rlmo Company, Mid JSoomh and Son offered 7362 bales. It was a poor selection. There was a large attendance, and better competition than at the .Tannnry sales, Continental nuvers operating freely in merinos and Yorkshire manufactnre"i In crossbred*. The prices realised were: Merinos, 71 to 10 ncr cent, aid crossbreds 5 to 7't per cent, below January 6 cues.

, AUCKLAND- BTOOK EXCHANGE. •* . BUSINESS done.—Waihl, £9 17s 6d; Waihl Extended, Is; Tairua Broken Hills, 2s 6d, • BuyBES.-National Bank, 69a; New Zealand Insurance, 60s; National Insurance, l&a 6d; South British Insurance, 64s i New Zealand Accident Insurance, 22b 6d; Auckland Gas, old, £13 2s fid; Auckland Gas, new (£3 10s). £9 18s; New Zealand Shipping, 955; Northern Steamship, 6s 10d; Union Oil, 19s 6d; D.S.C. (Limited), 103 6d; Tonson Garlick Co. (Limited), 19s 6d; May Queen HauraKi, 2» sd; Crown, 13s 3d; Imperial. 2Jd; New Zealand Talisman, lis 9d; Waihi, £9 15s; Waihi Extended, lid; Woodstock, 2s;. Tairua Broken Hills, 2s 4d; Great Barrier Gold and Silver, 4d. SELLERS.—New Zealand Insurance, 61s 6d; National Insurance, 16s 9d; New Zealand Accident Insurance, 245; Auckland Gas, new (£3 10s), £10 ss; Gisborne Gas, 395; Northern Steamship, 7s 2d; Devonport Steam Ferry, 38s; Taupiri Coal Mines (Limited), 18s; Northern Boot, 9s 6d; Union Oil. 20s 6dj Kuranui-Caiedonian, lOd; Mahara Royal, lOd; May Queen Hauraki, 3s; May Queen Extended, 4d; Monowai. Is; New Alburnia. 9d; New Whau, 4d; Victoria, 4d; Alpha, 7d; Crown, 14s 6d; Ethel Reef, 4d; Grace Darling, 7d; Imperial, 3Jd; Komata Beefs, 2s; New Zealand Talisman, 123 3d; Ohinerauri, 3d; Ohinemuri Syndicate, Is 6d: Waihi Consols, 2d; Waihi Extended, Is Id; Waihi Grand Junction, 375; Waihl Silver ton, 84 6d; Waihi, South, lOd: Woodstock, 2s 9d; Tairua Broken Hills, 2s 6d; Maratoto. Is 8d: Bunker's Hill,' old, 8d; New Four-in-Hand, 3s 6d; Hauraki New Zealand Associated Gold Mines, 4d; Barrier Beefs. 6s 3d; Great Barrier Gold and Sliver, 6d; Whangamata Gold Corporation, sa. J. MOWBRAY. Chairman. Alfred OLDHAM, Secretary. 3.15 p.m., March 7, 1900. CALL AND DIVIDEND LIST. calls : Made. & s. d. Date. Kuranui .. .. Feb. 19 ~ 0 0 1 _ M*r,l3 . Efferton .. .. — ~0 0 6J., Mar.l 4 Bunkers Hill.. Feb, 27 .. 0 n 8 .. Mar 22 Young New Zealand Mar: 6 .. 0 0 1 .. Mar. 24 Hauraki No. 2 .. Mar. 6 ..001 ..Mar.l4 Alpha Mar.fi .. 0 0 3.. Mar.l 4 Chelmsford.. ..Mar.O ..0 0 1.. Mar. 23 Orion Mar. 7 .. 0 0 3.. April DIVIDENDS: Mount I,yell Mining and Hallway Company 0 6 0 .. April 2 Standard Insurance .. .. — ..Now.

THE MAILS. CHIEF POST OFFICE, AUCKLAND. Mails will close as under: THIS DAT. For Thames, per Wakatere, at 6.45 a.m. _ For Paeroa, Waihi, and Thames, per train, at 7 a.m. „ , „. . For Tanranga, Te Puke, Pongakawa, Itftata, Ohiwa, Opotiki, and Whakatane, via Kotorua, per train, at 7 a.m. For Waiwera and Warkwortli, per Hose Casey, at 8 a.m. , _ , . For Waiwera, Te Kapa, and warkwortli, per Kapanni, at 8,30 a.m. , For Paeroa, Waihi, and Thames, per train, at 8.30 a.m. , „ For New Plymouth and Southern Ports, per Maponrika, at il a.m. For Australian Colonies and Mauritius, per Maponrika, at 11 a.m. . For Whangarei, Kamo, Hikurangi, and Whakapara, per Ngunewu, at 4 p.m. For Matakana, per Kotiti. at 4.30 p.m. For Turua, Paeroa, and Waihi, per Waimarie, at 4.30 p.m. For Coromandel and Cabbage Bay, per Waitangi, at 6 p.m. _ For "Wtmnpapona, Opitonm* ana Port Onarles, per Chelmsford, at 7.45 p.m. Friday. For Thames, nor Wakatere, at 7.15 a.m. For Paeroa, Waihi, Tauranga, Katikati, and Thames, per train, at 8.30 a.m. For Omanero, Opononi, Eawene, Kohukohn, and Hokianga District, per Kanieri, at 11 а.m. For Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji, per Man&pouri, at 11 a.m. _ , , For Tama, Paeroa, and Waihi, per Taniwha, at 5 p.m. For Tauranga. ner Clansman, at 6 p.m. For Coromantlel and Cabbage Bay, per Rotomahana, at 6.30 p.m. For Thames and Paeroa, per Terranora, at б.30 p.m. For Knaotunn. Whitianga, and Gumtown, per Mnritai, at 7.45 p.m. For Whanearei Treads. Marsden Point, Wafpu, Parua Bay, Mangapai, Wliangarei, Kamo, Kaurilinhore. Hikurangi, Ngungurti. Hukerenui, Towai, Puhipulii. Whakapara. Kawakawa, Oliaeawai, and Kaikohe, per Wellington, at 7.45 p.m. MONDAY, MARCH 12. Per Wailinra as follows:—

For Oevlon. India. China. Japan, Straits Settlements. Aden, Suez. Mediterranean nnrts. Continent, of Europe, and United Kingdom. via Suez, at 4.30 n.ra. For Capetown, Durban, Natal, Johannesburg. and South African States (per Lund's Line), at 4.30 p.m. For Australian Colonies and Noumea at 4.30 p.m. Money orders, itered letters, books, and newspapers. at 3.30 D.m. Parcels for New South Wales and Queensland, at 4 p.m. Correspondence for United Kingdom and Continent, of Europe must be specially addressed " via Suez." Mail will bo due in London April 22. Tuesday. March 13. For P.arotonga and Tahiti, per Ovalau, at 4 p.m. Monday. March 19. Per Moana, as follows:— For Samoa. Hawaiian Islands. United States of America, Canada. British Columbia. Central and South America. British and Foreign West, Indies. United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe, at 11 a.m. For money orders, registered letters, and newspapers at 9.30 a.m. Parcel mail for Samoa and Hawaiian Islands wi'.! close at 10.30 a.m. Late letters bearing an extra fee of 2Jd in addition to the postage maybe posted in the late letter box on board the stealer tin to the time of nailing. Mail will be due in London April 18. Tuesday, March 20. For Norfolk Island, per Southern Cross, at 11 a.m. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28. For Fiji, per Taviuni, at 4 p.m. S. B. Biss. Chief Postmaster. MAILS BY TELEGRAPH. For the United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, via Monte Video and Teneriffe, close at Wellington, per Karamea, to-mor-row (Fridavl, at 5 p.m. For Australia. Tasmania,. Ceylon, India, China, Japan, and Straits Settlements, also South Africa, Continent of Europe, and United Kingdom, close at Wellington, per Mokoia, on Saturday, 10th inßt., at 2 p.m. H. JTEiroS, Acting-Officer in Charge. - DAILY MEMORANDA. ' SALES: Messrs. Richard Arthur and Co.—Boots, Shoes, etc., Karangahape Road. 11 a.m. Messrs. Gabriel Lewis and Boot Manufacturer's Plant, 11 a.m. Mr. R. 0. Household Furniture, etc., North Shore, 11 a.m. AMUSEMENTS: City Hall-Gaiety Company, 8 p.m.