FINANCE AND TRADE

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4312, 22 March 1901, Page 6

FINANCE AND TRADE

The Customs returns for yesterday amounted to £B6l 19s 6d. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, is in receipt of the following cabled message from its London house: —Merino Wool. —Since the close of last sale there has been an average advance of about 5 per cent, on last sales’ closing rates. Medium crossbred —There is little demand. DAILY PRODUCE REPORT. . 1 The following wholesale quotations ruled yesterday in Wellington with Messrs Laery and Co., Townsend and Paul, Thompson Bros, and Co., and Mr J. Dandy: Wheat—Whole fowl, 2s 6.\d to 2s 9d; broken, 2s 3d to 2s 6d; oats, short feed Is 10dl to 2s 2d, dun Is lOd to 2s; barley, feed Is lOd to 2s,pearl 11s 6d to 13s; maize, 2s 9d to *3s 3d; flour, roller, £6 15s to £7 ; pollard, £4 15s to £5 ; barley, dust £4 os to £4 10s; bran, £3 15s to £4; oatmeal, £lO to £lO 10s; split peas, £l2 10s; chaff, £3 os to £3 10s; i hay, £4 to £6; potatoes, £3 to £3 16s; ! onions, £1 10s to £6; , partridge peas, ; Ss9d. i

Butter, dairy 7d to 8d (pats), 7d to Sd (bulk), separator 7d to 9d; cheese, factory, medium Sjd to '6|d, loaf 51 d to 6d. , ? : Baoon, sides 5!,d to 6d, rolls 6d to 7d ; bams, 7cl to 7-id; fowls (mixed), 2s 6d to 2s 9d per pair; roosters, 3s per pair ; ducks, 3s 6d to 4s per! pair; turkeys, 6s to 10s; geese, 4s 6d to 5s 6d; eggs, fresh Is 5d to Is 6d, preserved Is; honey, 4d to 4jd. Apples, dessert 4s 6di to 6s 6d 401 b case, cooking 3s 6d to ss; pears, dessert 4s to 8s 6d, oooking 4s 6d to 7s; quinces, 3s to ss; peaches, 4s 6d to 6s; water melons, 4d to lOd each; pie melons, 4s to 4s 6d per cwt; grapes, outdoor 2dl to 4dl per lb, hot-bouso 6d to lid.

Tomatoes, 2s to 3s 6d per case; 1 green peas, 4d to Bdi per peck; cauliflowers, Ss 6di to 4s 6d per sack; cab_ bages, 2s to 3s per sack; parsnips, 9d per dozen bunches; oarrots, 6d per dozen bunches; turnips/ 3d to Gd per dozen hunches; turnips!(swede), £1 10s to £2 per ton; French beans, J-d per lb; vegetable marrows, Is to' 3s per dozen; pumpkins. Ss to 5s per cwt; celery, Is to Is 6d per dozen. The prices quoted are the highest and; lowest returns on the market yesterday, the difference in price being regulated by (be quality and' the supply and demand at the different marts. In many cases the extreme prices did not rule with all the firms, the lowest and highest prices supplied being quoted above.