FINANCE AND TRADE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4313, 23 March 1901, Page 6

FINANCE AND TRADE.

The Customs returns for yesterday amounted to £946 14s 4d. DAILY PRODUCE REPORT. The following wholesale quotations ruled yesterday in Wellington, with Messrs- Laery and Co., Townsend and Paul. Thompson Bros, anil Co., and Mr J. Gandy: Wheat —Whole fowl, 2« 6Jd to 2s 9d ; broken, 2s 3d to 2s Cd; oats, short feed Is lOd to 2s 2d. dun Is lOd to 2s; barley, feed Is lOd to 2s,pearl 11s Cd to 13s ; maize,- 2s 9d to 3s 3d : flour, roller. £6 13s to £7 bs ; pollard, £4 13s to £5: barley, dust £1 os to £1 10s; bran. £3 13a to £4; oatmeal. £lO to £lO 10s; split peas, £l2 10s: chart’. £3 ms to £3 10s; hay, £4 to £4 10s: potatoes, £3 to £3 Xss onions, £4 10s to £0 10s; partridge ipoas, 3s 9cl. ! Butter, dairy 7d to fid (pats), 7d to [fd (bulk), separator ,d to 'M : cheese, (factory., medium .. J to old. loaf Siu j to 6d. Bacon, sides old to 0 i, rolls (id to 7d ; I hams, 7d to 7id ; fowls (’mine, 11, 2s 0., to 2s 9d por pair: ro-stois. 3s per pair; ' ducksi, Ss 6,1 to 4s c*r- pair: turkeys’, 0; to TOs ; geese, 4s 0 f to os Gd ; eggs, fresh Is 4d to Is 3J. pre'-.erved Is: I oaoy, 4d to 4p'A ' Apples, dessert 4s Cd to 8s 401 b oase, cooking hit 0j tb ok j - ponra, ’doß* ► svt 4s to fis 04,. oooUiug 4s 3d to 7s; quinces, 8s to Gs: peaches, 6» to its! white? melons, . r .i to uhi each) pie .melons, 4s to 4s fld per .jwt; grape*, outdoor 20 to 4d our .!■>. Uot-house Clo to Ud. Tomatoes, 2s to 2s fld per caKPj preen p ■,>«», 4 U to bd per peck; cauliflowers, 2a Od to 4k Od p*r «ack; cab. Cages, 2# to 8» per suck) parsnip*, 9d per dozen bunches; parrots, fld per dozen bunches; turnips. 3d to 0(1 per dozen bunches j turnips (swede), £1 10* to £2 per ton; French beans, id per lb; vegetable marrows, Is to 3s .per dozen; pumpkin.',, 3s to 6s per cwt; celery, Is to Is fld per dozen. The prices quoted are the highest and lowest returns on the market yesterday, the difference in price being regulated by the 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.

( YESTERDAY'S WOOL AND SKIN SALES. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report as fellows:—At our fortnightly sale we brought forward a cataloged of about 60 bales wool and some 1200 skins. .There was a good attendance of buyers, j Prices for wool were, if anything, a little ■ firmer, but we have to. record a further drop of Jd per lb in crossbred skins. We ■quote—Wool; Locks, id 1 to IJd per lb; i bellich and pieces, Id to 2Jd; coarse cross- , bred, 3jd to 4', d; log-stained and inferior, 2d to 3jd; fine crossbred, to. 4fd per lb. Sheepskins—Good crossbred fullwoolled, 4d per lb: halfbred, 4Jd; medium crossbred, 2jd to 3Jd; broken and dead, 1-Jd to 2jd per lb; pelts, from 3d to. lid each. , . . ' MurrayJ Roberts and) Co. report: We offered 30 bales wool and 1300 sheepskins. We have no alteration to report in prices, which, howdver, were well up to the level of last sales. The following are the prices realised: —Wool—Crossbred and lambs (clean), 4jdl to 4jd per lb: do.’(std. and inf.), 3d to 3Jd per lb: locks and pieces, Id to 2jd peir lb. Skins—Crossbred and lambs, 3)d to 4d per lb; dead and hoggets, 2jd to 3id per lb'; short wools, 2)d to 3d per lb; pelts (sounds), 6d to 8d each; do (inferior), 2d to 3d each. Messrs Levin and Co. relport:—At the sale prices were maintained at their recent Level. Most of the fleece wool offering now is in heavy condition and seedy, and brings only about 3d per lb. Skins meet with a good demand, but are not quotably higher. Quotations are— Crossbred skins: Good, 3jd to 4d per lb; medium, 3d to 3Jd; dead, 2d to 3d; pelts, •Id to Sd.

PEESS ASSOCIATION. DUNEI)IN, March 22. At the wool sale to-day, 400 bales were offered. There was" an excellent attendance of buyers considering the smallness of the sole. Competition was good throughout; in fact, most animated where anything at all showy or of good quality was offered. The selection was for the most part very inferior, consisting mostly of shabby, seedy, stained, and stragglers lots and late shorn clips. Prices, as compared with last auctions, showed a slight advance for merinos and finer grade halfbreds; crossbred and coarse wools show no change.