FINANCE AND TRADE

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4316, 27 March 1901, Page 6

FINANCE AND TRADE

Tho Customs returns for yesterday amounted to £1279 5s 2d.

Messrs Freeman R. Jackson and Co., in conjunction with. Messrs Abrahams and "Williams, report on their Johnson, viHe sale;—Fa t cattle, equal to requirements, sold briskly at from 20s to 22s the 1001 b, according to quality. Prices ranged from £7 12s 6d to £9 os; fat cows, £5 to £O, made full value, quantity considered. Sheep were steady at- about last week’s rate. Fat wethers, 13s to 16s Id; good quality fat ewes, 13s 9d; others, 12s 6d; stores, 8s to 9s; fat lambs, 10s Id to 10s lid; stores, Ss. No pigs were yarded.

The thirty-eighth annual report of tho British and Foreign Marine Insurance Company, Limited (of which Messrs Murray. Roberts and Co. are the local agents) states that the underwriting account for 1899 resulted in a loss of £40,889 6s, while the interest account for the year 1900 amounted to £43,041 18s Bd. The combined result wa.s a profit of £2152 12s Bd, which with the balance of £124,580 3s Od brought forward from 189 D, leaves to the credit of profit and loss account £126,732 19s 2d. An interim dividend ■cf 8s per share was paid in, July, 1900, and a further dividend of the same amount was paid in February, making r. distribution of 20 per cent, for tho year. After providing for income tax. a balance of £72,334 13s 6d was carried forward. Tho premiums received for the year 1900 amounted to £471,080 10s 9d,. and the claims settled to £191,662 Ss 7d. The net balance to the ere. dit. of the underwriting account is £231,658 6s 3d.

At the first series of London wool sales, which opened on the loth January, and closed on the 9th February, 339.000 bales of colonial wool were available. Of this quantity only 261,758 bales were catalogued, 25,200 bales wore bought in, 80,610 were not offered, and 94,000 hales were withdrawn or held over. Of the 245,000 bales sold, according to Messrs Dalgety and Co.’s report, 145,000 were taken for the Home trade and .100,000 for export (including 5000 for America). The quantity of New Zealand wool available was 70.000 bales, 58,096 hales were catalogued, and 20,000 held over or withdrawn. DAILY PRODUCE REPORT. The following wholesale quotations ruled yesterday in Wellington with Messrs Laory and Go., Townsend and Paul, Thompson Bros, and Co., and Mr J. Gandy:— , Wheat—Whole fowl, 2s 7d to 2s 9d; broken, 2s 3d to 2s 6d; oats, short feed Is lOd to 2s 2d, dun Is lOd to 2s; barley, feed Is 10d to 2s, pearl, 13s; maize 3s; flour, roller, £6 15s to £7 6s; pollard, £4 15s to £5 Ss; barley, dust £4 5s to £4: Ills; bran, £4; oatmeal, £lO to £lO 10s; split peas, £l2 10s; chaff, from £3 5s (ex store) and £3 10s (delivered); hay, £4 to £4 10s; potatoes, £3 5s to £3 10s; onions, £5 10s to £6; partridge peas, 3s 9d.

Butter, dairy 7d to 8d (pats), 7d to 8d (bulk), separator 8d to 9di; cheese, factory, medium 5Jd to "5Jd, loaf 5Jd to 6d.

Bacon, farmers’ od to s',d, factory, sides 6d, to 6 1 ,d, rolls to7d'; liams, 7jd ; ; fowls (mixed), -2s 6d per pair; roosters, 3s per pair; clucks, 3s 6d to 4s per pair; turkeys, 6s to 10s; geese, 4s 6d to 6s 6d; eggs, fresh Is 6d, preserved!, Is; honey, 4d to 4-J-d. -i . Apples, dessert 5s 6d to 7s 6d 401 b ease, cooking 3s 6d to 5s 6d ; pears, des. sert 4s to I.os 6d, cooking 3s 6d to 4s 6d; quinces, 3s to 4s; peaches, 4s to 7s 6di; water melons, 4d to Is 2d. each; pie melons, 4s per cwt; grapes, outdoor 2d to 4d per lb, hot-house 6d to lid.

Tomatces, Is 6d to 2s 6d per case; green peas, 4d to 8d per peck; oauli-! flowers, 2s 6d to 4s per sack; cabbages, 2s to 3s per sack; parsnips, 9d per dozen bunches; carrots, 6d per dozen bunches; turnips, 3d to Cd per dpzen bunches; turnips (swede), £1 10s to £2 per ton; French beans, per lb; vegetable marrows, Is to 2s 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 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 abovel