COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13497, 25 May 1907, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

FRUIT AND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Business on the local fruit and produce markets has been considerably upset owing to the holiday this week, and the usual auction sales had to be held on Thursday instead of as usual on Friday. Consequently there was a large falling off in the supplies, and the attendance at Thursday's sales was much lower than usual, with very little business being transacted. The bulk of the ordinary supplies did hot come to hand in time for them to be submitted, and special sales of perishable goods will lake place today. There was little alteration in prices compared with those of last week, the following being the ruling prices at the auction sales on Thursday:

Field Produce.—Potatoes: Local, no demand; do., Tasmanian, prime, £5 5s to £5 103 ton; seed varieties, £4 and upwards. Onions : Local, prime, 4d'6d to 5s c.vt; indifferent, unsalable. Chaff: Local, £4 10s to £5 10s ton. Dairy Produce. —Dairy and separator butter, 8d to 9£d lb; milled, in bulk, for export, 9d; pastrv, 6d to 7d. Eggs: Fresh, Is lOd dozen; do., pickled, 9d to lOd. Cheese: Farmers', 3d to s|d ib; do., factory," 6Jd to 7id ; do., loaf. 7id. Bacon: Factory, 7£d to Bd. Hams: Factory, 8d to BJd. . Fruit.—Apples: Local, dessert, extra choice, 8s to 10a case; do., good, 6s to 8s; do., medium, 4a .to ss; do., cooking, superior,' 6s to 7s; do., ordinary, 4s to ss. Grapes: Superior, Is 6d to Is lOd lb; do., poor, 9d to Is. Tomatoes, Is 6d to As 6d box. Oranges: Island, 4s 6d to 6s case. Lemons: Local, prime, 4s to ss; do., rough and coarse, 2s 6d to 3s 6d. ■ Cape gooseberries, 3id to 4d lb. Passion-fruit:. Local, 5s to 6s 6d box; do., Sydney, 6s to Bs. Walnuts: Local, 4d to 5d lb. Peanuts, 3jd. Pines: Queensland, 5s to 8s 6d case. Cocoanuts, 14s sack. Poultry Hens, Is to Is 8d each : table roosters, heavy, 2s to os 6d; do., medium. Is 6d to Is 9d; ducks, 2s 6d to 3s ; geese,- 3s 6d to.4s; turkeys, -gobblers, 4s to 10s; do., hens, 3s to 6s. : DUNEDIN STOCK EXCHANGE. n ' [BY TELKGRAPH.— ASSOCIATION.] ~, BtTSEDIN, Friday. 5 The following Stock Exchange sales' are . recorded Talisman Consolidated, 32s 9d; Standard Insurance, 23s 6d. ' ' - LONDON. . By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright, (Received May 24, 9.37 p.m.) .'.' . r- : London, May 24. BANK OF ENGLAND RETURNS. • The Bank of England returns for the week are: —Coin. £33,941,000; reserve, £24,680,000; proportion of reserve co liabilities, 46.83; notes in circulation, £28,912,000: public deposits, £10,943,000; other deposits, £41,682,000; Government securities, £15,321,000; other securities, £30,553,000. - MONEY MARKET. Three months' bills are discounted at 3£ per cent. ■ .-' • CONSOLS AND COLONIAL STOCKS. Consols, 84J. - "■ ' , ■ New South Wales 3i per cents., 98£. Victorian 3A per cents., 99iQueensland" 4 per cents., 105£; 3i per cents., 99: 3 per cents., 87. New Zealand 4 per cents., 106. West Australian 3 per cents., 85, 7" Other stocks are unchanged. BUTTER. The market is -dull, with' prices unchanged. There is a poor demand for colonial, except a few of the choicest brands. ; METALS. Copper: Spot, £102 10s; three months, £100. Tin: On spot, £190; three months, £185. 10s. .Silver, 2s bid per ounce Lead, £20. „ : ' • Spelter, £25 7b 6d. . ■ ' '*' .SUGAR. - German, 103; first marks, lis 6<L ';■;.'... .''* ; ; " WOOL. ' , . ' ' : . The Bradford wool market is firm. Forties, 17id ; forty-sixes, 18Jd ; ■ common sixties, 26Jd ; super, 273 d. ' , :-;■>..,,; • ■; WHEAT. ~ ."; •.,, The wheat market is active and strong, on bullish crop reports from America and Northern and South-eastern Europe. There is brisk inquiry for cargoes, and 15 cargoes of -Australian and 12,000 quarters of South Australian have been sold at prices ranging from 34s to 355. Australian, on spot, is held for 34s 3d. The supply of New Zealand wheat is exhausted. American visible supply, 79,775,000 bushels. , ! The flour market is strong. London quotations, 23s to 24s 6d; Glasgow, 275. ~