FINANCE AND TRADE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4310, 20 March 1901, Page 6

FINANCE AND TRADE.

The Customs returns for yesterday amounted to £L!0;) 12s lid Larry and Co., Limited, report tho following wholesale selling prices on the Wellington produce market: “Wheat, 2s 8d per bushel; oats, Is lOd. 2s id pe;.‘ bushel; barley, 2s per bushel: maize, 3s per bushel': flour, £7 per ton; pollard, £4 1.5 s per ton; bran, £4 nor lon ; oatmeal, £lO os per ton; chuff, £3 5; per ton: bay, £4 Ttl.s per ton ; held I eons, 3.s per bushel; field peas, 3s -id nor bushel; potatoes, £3 os, £3 10s per un . onions, £0 10s; ryegrass seed, 2-; Oil to 4s 3d per bushel; cocksfoot seed, 2:d to 3id per lb; butter, dairy 7d to Bd, inter 9d ; cheese, old per lb ; bacon, tl! per lb; fowls, 2s Gd per pair; 'rooster 2s 9d per pair; ducks, 3s Gd to ; per pair; turkeys, 6s to. Ids per pair; gees . 5s per pair; fresh eggs, Is 4d per ti.-Z.-n

The Department of Agriculture Inn received tho following cable message I real the Agent-General, dated ICth inr,ant : —Butter, K)2s; market dull- Ciu-cse, 495. Transactions in cheese are, v, r, limited. The hemp market is fun;;_ao.i fair Wellingtcn, £24; fair eurreur M.nt ila, £33 10s. Cocksfoot, T7ih, .:tan ;,rd, 335. Buyers have been offering lor ■ m.sfoot seed more readily. Canto, a ary mut ton, average), 4fd; Dune‘in and Wellington, 4d; Australian, 3jd; Elver Plate, 3j-d. Canterbury lamb, s;d; Wellington, ojd ; Australian, 4§ 1: market steady. Beef—Hiud-onavr.er.s, 3jjd; forequarters, 3jd; dull. THE STOCK MARKET. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company report having held stock sales at Rangiwahia on the 12th and at Feilding on the 15th instant, when prices ruled as follows: Rangiwahia sale. Sheep—Wethers, 14s 7d, 13s; 2-tooth wethers, 13s 10.1; 2 and 4-tooth wethers, 9s 9d; 2-iootli wethers and ewes, 8s Gd, 13s 7d ; 2tootli ewes, 12s; lambs, 6s, 9s, Ca GJ, 8s 4d, 4s lid, 7s; 6-toeth to f.m., 9s lid. 9s Kiel, Ids 3d; mixed ages, ss, 8s 9d, 9s tid, 4s 3d. 7s, 5s 3d, 8s Gd, Ss 2d, 6s Bd, 9s 9cl, 4a lid, 7s 2d; Lincoln rams, 10s, 20s, 17s, 13s, lib, 10s, 15s, 20s, 245, 10s, 21s, 17s Gd, 22s 6d, 7s Gd, 225. Cattle Weauers,; 275, 30s; forward cows, to £3.Bs; empty heifers, to £2 17s Gd ; 18-mcnth to 2-year steers, £2 12s Gd, £3 11s Gd, £3, £2 2s Gd, 3-year-old steers, £5 ss; springing cows, £4 10s; yearlings, £2 Is; fat cows, £4. Feilding sale.—Sheep—Lambs, Os, 7s 9d, 8s 7d, Gs 3d, Gs 2d, 0s 6d, Is, 7s Bd, Bs, 7s Gd, 7s 2d, 7s 3d ; fat ewes, lis lid, 10s 2d, 10s Gd; f.f.m. ewes, 12s 3d: fullmonth ewes, 7y Id, 8s 7d, Ss lid, 5s lOd, 5s 9d; mixed ages, 11s Id, hs, 9s 2d, 11s Id, 7s; 2-tooth ewes, 11s 3d, 12s, 13s 7d, 11s 9d ; 2-tooth ewes and wethers, 11s Gel; wethers, 13s, 9s; 2-tooth wethers 11s, 10s 9d. 11s 7d; 4 and G-tuoth ewes, to 12s 8d; 4-tooth ewes, 11s 10d. Cattle—Bull, £1; fat cows, £4; cpws and calves, £3 10s; weaners, 20s Gd, 26i, 325; springing heifers, to £5 ss. Lincoln rams, Gs to 355. Forward pigs, 18. s to 255; sows, ss.

Messrs Freeman R. Jackson and Co., in conjunction with Messrs Abraham and Williams, report as to their JoiuisJiiville sale :—Fat cattle, in usual numbers, were wanting in good average quality. The entry wag made up of young » toons barely finished, and a consignment of workers, fattened up. Both classes met with a certain amount of prejudice, bi:t we consider good cx beef at last week's value por 'loolb. Prices made from 27 7s (id tot £9 10s. Sheep, equal to requirements, and from thorough to extra prime quality made relatively lower rates than recently ruling, prices ranging 14s 6d to 16s 6d per head for an uncommonly good line.