MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXX, Issue 3785, 6 July 1899, Page 6

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

LONDON, Tuesday. WHEAT. The Robert Duncan’p cargo has been sold at 29s -ltd per quarter c.i.f. TIN. Tin. ia strong at £122 15s per ton, an advance of £3 15s per ton since last Friday. COPPER. The month’s statistics show the supplies from England and Franco to have been 17,925 tons, .the deliveries 19,077 tons, the stocks 29,001 tons, and the quantity advised from Australia 3000 tons. (Received Julv 5, 10.45 p.m.) SYDNEY SHEEP SALES. , SYDNEY. Wednesday. At the sheep sales to-day three merino rams from Tasmanian flocks realised 900 guineas, 700 guineas and 070 guineas rcspectivelly. Seven Shropshire rams, sold on account of Mr Rhodes, New Zealand, averaged £3 Is Gd each. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKETS. ' SYDNEY, Wednesday. Wheat, 2s fd to 2s 6d; milling, 2s lid to 3s. Flour, £6 15s to £7; Manitoban, £9 15s. Oats, feeding, New Zealand, Is 7jd to Is 9d; Tasmanian, Is 6d to Is 8d; seeding, Is lOd to 2s. Barley, Capo and English, ,2s 3d. Maize, 2s 9d. Peas, Prussian blue, 3s Gd to 3s 9d. Bran and pollard, 8d to B,',d. Potatoes, Circular Reads, £2 10s; New Zealand Derwents, £2 to £3 ss; Early Rose, £4 10s. . Onions, Melbourne, £4 15s to £5 ss; Now Zealand, £4 15s to £5. Butter, dairy, 8d to 9d; factory, 10d. Choe°e, large, lid to 4]d; loaf, s.jd. Bacon, GJd to Bd. MELBOURNE, Wednesday. Wheat is firm, 3s. Oats, Algerian, Is 4d to Is 7d; stout and Tartarian, Is Gd to Is Bd. Barley, Chevalier, 4s Gd to 4s 9d ; Cape, Is 9d to 2s. Maize, 2s 4d to 2s 7d. Bran and pollard, 7 7 ? d. Potatoes, £1 15s to £2. .Onions, £4 10s to £5. ADELAIDE, Wednesday. Wheat.—There have been small sales at 2s 10-id; sellers no,w want 3s. Flour, £7. Oats, bran and pollard are unchanged. - ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET. 1 PKF.£fS ASSOCIATION. „, .CHRIS.TCHURCH, Wednesday. , The entries'for'the Addington stock market to-day 'were: —sooo fat sheep, 1300 fat lambs; 1300 store sheep, 323 cattle and 32 pigs. Tile 209 head'fat cattle, will) the exception of a few good bullocks, which brought from £7 To £B, were mostly IHxt weight steers arid heifers, with very few cows. Beef was slightly easier. Ordinary steers, £5 us to £6 15s ; heifers, £3 17s Gd to £6 10s ; and cows, £3 12s Gd to £5 10s. Bert beef, 17s to 19s Gd per lOOlb; medium, 14s to 16s Gd; and cow arid inferior, down to 12s, with the exception of a few lines. Freezers —The fat sheep were mostly butchers’ ewes. Freezing sorts about held their own, selling at from 15s to 18s lid, and up to- 19s 3d lor extra good butchers’ ewes. Although very sticky in the earlier part of the sale, the market showed considerable improvement before the sale was half through, and closed very firm. Prime ewes, 14s to 16s: others, 10s ,6d to 13s Gd. . Tlie bulk of the fat lambs wore backward sorts, but anything fit for export mot. with keen competition at-from 14f Gd to 17s 9d, and up to 19s for extiv quality. Others sold down to 10s. In tiie store pens, breeding owes met-with a ready sale, and showed a further rise, selling at from 11s 3d for aged up to 15s 2d for good sound young sorts. Turnip wethers, 14s Gd • mixed sexes, 13s 2d ; and lambs, from 10s 4d to 11s 3d. Bacon pigs wore about, the same as las' week, 3-[d per lb. Porkers met witl ready sale at 4jd, and stores, especially the smaller sorts, were much in demand Baconers, 42s to 53s per head; porkers 28s to 40s Gd: stores, 20s to 31s Gd \ wcaners, 13s 9d to 19s. BURNSIDE STOCK MARKET. : DUNEDIN, Wednesday. At the Burnside stock market to-day. 235 fat cattle were yarded, a fair proportion being good to prime beef. Sales were dull, and only the best quality kept up to decent rates. Best bullocks, £7 10s to £8 10s;: extra £9 ,17s 6d; -ood. £6 to £7 ss; best heifers, £C to £G 15s; good, £4 to £5 10s; best cows, £4 to £-5 10s. Of fat sheep 1821 were penned,'which proved quite sufficient for requiremeiuc. Business was fairly firm at about last week’s rates. Best wethers, 14s 6d tq 16s 6d ; few pens extra, 17s ; best ewes, 12s 6d to 14s 6d. Of lambs, 67fj were forward. A! 1 prime lots wore eagerly competed for. Best, 13s to los; few extra, 13s 6d; good, 9s 6d to 12s Gd. Of pigs, 72 were yarded, and were ail eagerly taken at enhanced sates. Suckers, 11s Gd to IGs ; slips, 20s to 225; stores, 2Ss to 325; porkers, 37s to 42s ; light baconers, 44s to 48s; heavy baconers, GOs to 655; extra heavy, 68s to 80s. AUCKLAND, Wednesday. The Fame and Fortune mine has crushed 174 loads for £563 worth of gold. Tribute parties in the Kuranui Caledonian have crushed So loads for £331 worth of gold.