FINANCE AND TRADE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4299, 7 March 1901, Page 6

FINANCE AND TRADE.

The Customs returns for yesterday amounted to £3455 13s 6d. COMMERCIAL CABLES. , AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE KETSPHESS ASSOCIATION. - March 0. Wheat, chick, Is lOd to 2s 2d ; milling, 2s 6d to 2s 7.}d. Flour, £6 to £0 10s; Manitoban, £lO 10s to £lO 15s. Oats, feeding. New Zealand prime, Is lid to 2s; other grades, Is 7dtols9d; local, Is 7d to Is lid ; milling, 2s Id to 2s 2d. Barley, feeding, 2s to 2s Id; seeding, 2s 3d to 2s sd. Maize, prime, new, 2s 6d; old, 2s 8d to 2s 9d. Peas, 3s 6d to 3s 9d. Bran, H-’-d to Bld. Pollard, Sd. Potatoes, Circular Heads, £2 13s to £3; local, new, up to £3 7s 6d. Onions, Port Arlington, £G 5s to £6 15a. Butter, dairy, 8d to 9d; creamery, 9d to lOd. Cheese, extra largo, Sd. Bacon, flitches, od to sjd. Hams, Bld. The above quotations arc tbose ruling between merchant and retailor, and do not represent the slightly lower values obtained hy recognised brokers. MELBOURNE, March 6J Wheat, good demand, 2s B.',d to 2s Bjd, tendency to advance. Oats, Algerian, Is 6d to Is 7d. Maize, 2s 9d. Barley, prime, 3s to 3s 6d. Bran, 9ld to Ofd. Pollard, lOd to lOld. Potatoes, £2 to £3 10s. Onions, £4 10s to £5. ADELAIDE, March 6. Wheat, 2s 7,Jd to 2s 8d- Flour, £G os to £G 7s 6d. oats, Algerian, Is 8d to Is lOd; stout, 2s 2d to 2s Bd. Bran, lOd to lOld. Pollard, 10jd to lid. ADDINGTON MARKET REPORT. CHRISTCHURCH, March .6. At the Addington market to-day there were 154 fat cattle, including a few really good steers. Bidding was dull, and there was no alteration, prices 'still ruling being 17s 6d to 22s (3d per 1001 b. Good steers, £8 10s to £lO 12s 6d ; others, £6 17s 6d to £8; best heifers, £7 10s to £9 ss; others, £5 5s to £6 10s; cows, £5 to £7 17s 6d. Dairy cows wore in good demand, best selling at £7 10s to £9 12s Gd; others, £3 10s to £6 10s. Store cattle—A good entry. Twoyear steers, £4 12s 6cl; three-year heifers, £3 5s to £5 10s; two-year, mixed, £3 18s 6d; eighteen-months, £1 17s 6d to £2 10s; fifteen-months, £1 14s; yearlings, 29s 6d; calves, 265; dry cows, £2 5s to £4 ss. Fat sheep—About 3000 of rather indifferent quality were yarded. "Wethers. 16s to 19s 3d; Chatham Island wethers, 14s to 14s Id; best owes, 15s to 17s 6d; others, 11s to 14s. Fat lamb's—34oo of fairly good quality met improved demand, and advanced 6d per head for best sorts; 2300 were taken for freezing at 13s to 15s 6d and up to 16s 8d for extra prime; others down to 11s; 800 were withdrawn, and go to factory on vendors’ account. Store sheep—ll,26o, mostly ewes. With the exception of best sorts the market was easier. Wethers, 14s 2d to 16s 7d; good young ewes, 15s to 18s; medium, 12s 6d to 14s 6d; culls, down to os; lambs, 12s to 13s od for forward, and down to 9s for backward. Pigs—About 400 fats met with good demand, but stores were easier. Baeoners, 35s to 48s 3d; porkers, 22s 6d to 32s 6d; stores, lls to 225; smalls, 6s to 9s.