FINANCE AND TRADE

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4307, 16 March 1901, Page 6

FINANCE AND TRADE

Tho Customs returns for yesterday amounted to £lO4l 5s -Id,

Messrs Laory and Co., Limited, report the following wholesale selling prices on the, Wellington produce market.: Wheat, ‘4s 7d to 2s 8d per bushel; oats. Is lOd to 2s Id per bushel ; barley, 2s per bushel; maize, .'is per bushel; flour,'£7 per ton; pollard, £1 15s per ton; bran, £ll 15s per ton; oatmeal, £lO per ton; chaff, £3 5,s per ton ; hay, £4 per ton; field beans, 51s per bushel; field peas, 3s 4di per bushel; potatoes, £3 10s per ton; onions, £G per ton : ryegrass seed, 2s 9d to 4s per bushel; cocksfoot seed, 2.1 d to 3,\d per lb: linttor, dairy 7d and Bd, separator 9d per !b; cheese, s‘d per lb; bacon, Old per lb; hams, 8d per Jb; fowls, 2s 9d per pair; roosters, 3b"per pair; ducks, 3s 6d to 3s 9d per pair; turkeys, 7s to 11s: geese, 4s Cd per pair; fresh eggs, Is Id to Is 3d per dozen. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company report on their Palmerston North sale last Thursday as follows: —-Thor© was a geiod attendance of buyers, and a moderate yarding of cattle, but only a few lines of sheep came forward. Jimuing was fairly brisk, most lines being quitted under the hammer. ■ The balance, with the exception of one oi-two pens of cows and heifers, was disposed of ■ privately. Wc qnotq: Slice-—Four and six-tooth and full mouth ewes, 9s 6d to 9s 10d; fullmouthed awes. 7s Id; six-tooth and fnllmouth, Us Id ; rams, £"i Is and £1 1 Is 6:1. Cattle—Weane/s, 265, 27s and 29s ; 18-month steers, £3 8s; empty cows. £3 17s; empty heifers, £2 19s; heifers iu- calf, £4 lOs; fat cows, £4 15s and £5.

COMERCIAL CABLES. MIESS ASSOCIATION. LONDON, March 14. According to “Bradsteet’s” estimate, the American, visible supply of wheat east of the Rockies is 79,300,000 bushels. . . At yesterday’s wool sales prices were fully maintained. Best crossbreds improved slightly. The Puketahi clip sold at 6d per lb, and Ivuinine. at 7{d. The imports of lead last month amounted to 17,069 tons, including 4440 tons Australian, and the exports to 2795 to»A.