FINANCE AND TRADE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4288, 22 February 1901, Page 6

FINANCE AND TRADE.

The Customs returns for yesterday amounted to £2169 10s lid. LIVE STOCK MARKET. ■PEESS ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURCH, February 20. At the Addington market to-day 5000 fat sheep, 5100 iat lambs and 6090 store sheep were yarded. Fat catlm numbered 143, mostly light weights. The market was irregular, and prices were slightly easier. Bullocks. CS to £0 12s 6d; steers, £5 2s Gd to £7 15s; heifers. .£4 17s 6d to .£7; cows, £4 17s 6d to £6 15s. Store cattle were in keen demand. Three and four-year steers. £7 10s; threeyear heifers. £4 ss; two-year heifers, £3 15s; 18-mouth cattle, £2 7s to £2 10s; calves and yearlings, £1 to £1 12s. Fat sheep—The bulk of the yarding were ewes, which were in over supply and sold irregularly, showing a drop of Is per bead Heavy wethers, np to 21s 8d; freezing wethers, 18s to 20s; lighter, down to 17s; maiden ewes, 16s 3d tp 19s; heavy ewes, 14s 6d to 163 3d; aged and lighter, s)s 6d lo 13s; merino wethers, 12s sd; ewes, 7s lid. Fat lambs—Mostly secondary quality. Export buyers held off at the start, and about 1000 were passed, but matters improved later on and 'came within 6d of last ■ week’s rates. A few extra heavy went to butchers at 16s; freezers, 13s 6d to 15s 10d; lighter, down to 12s 6d. Store sheep—Mostly breeding ewes and lambs, with a few wethers. Not very much demand, and prices were easier. Wethers, 14s 5d to 15s 2d; young ewes, 15s to ICs 4tl; aged ewes, lls 8d to 13s 6d; lambs, 8s 9rt to 12s 6d. Pigs—Fair demand for fat. baconcrs selling at 31s to 455, and up to 50s for extra prime; porkers, 22s to 325; stores in very strong demand for stubbling. 13s to 27s Gd; suckers and weaners, 6s to lls. LONDON, February 20. . At tho tallow sales 925 casks were offered, and 525 sold. Prices of all kinds were unchanged. NAPIER, February 21. Messrs Nelson Bros., Tomoana, have received tho following cable message from tho Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company, London:—“There s a farther heavy fall in tho prices’ of mutton. Quotations. —Best Canterbury, 4|d; Napier and North Island, 4jd.”