FINANCE AND TRADE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4318, 29 March 1901, Page 6

FINANCE AND TRADE.

The Customs returns for yesterday amounted <6 £4llO 17s 4d. Messrs Murray, Boberts and Co. have received the following wool market cablegram from their London house, Messrs Sanderson. Murray and Co., da. ted 27th inst.; Sales have closed strong. Good attendance of. buyers. Market shows no material change.Greasy merino advanced 7-1 to 10 per cent; scoured merino - advanced 7i percent. Fine greasy, crossbred advanced 5 per cent. Held over 58,000 bales. At the Taratahi yards on Tuesday sheep were chiefly represented by breeding ewes, of which some very good sorts were offered. These elicited keen competition, several pens of full-mouthed Romneys selling at 12s 9d to: 12s 6d, a line of 500 sound Lincoln Romney ewes was cleared at 10s Bd, others at 10s scl, aged ewes sold from 6s Gd, small 4-t.ooth wethers 12s 6d, small -.culled woolly lambs 6s 6d to 6s Id, Romney rams from H guineas, heifers and calves 92s 6d, fat and forward cows 90s to 80s, cow and calves 755, calves 255, weaner nigs ss. At Wanganui on Wednesday, Messrs Freeman R. Jack-on and) Co. had a full yarding of sheep, which consisted chieli of half to three-quarterbred wethers and ewes - (small) from Moawhango district, on account of several natives from that district. The auctioneer couldn’t manage to do business with them, the reserves being excessive throughout. Very good prices wero offered for the hulk of the lines, hut the owners preferred to take them back and keep them until after shearing.* Cattle sold well, and bidding was brisk, everything being sold at auction. Quotations Cattle—--18-months to 2-year heifers, £3 2s: forward cows, £4 Gs 6d; weaners, 32s to 265; . yearling heifers, £2 3s to £2 ss. Sheep—Store wethers, 11s to 11s Cd; fat and forward ewes, 10s Gd; forward ewes, 9.5; lambs (small), 3s lOd to 5s 6d. Pigs—Pcrkers, 18s to 235; large pork, 2os to 28s; small sorts, 5s to Bs.

DAILY PRODUCE REPORT. The following wholesale quotations ruled yaster.day in Wellington with Messrs 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 fecit Is lOd to 2s 2d. dun Is lOd to 2s; barley, feed Is lOd to 2s, pearl, 13s; maize 3s; flour, roller, £6 15» to £7 ss; pollard, £4 15s to £5 ss; barley, dust £4 5s to £4 10s; bran, £4; oatmeal. £lO to £lO 10s; split peas, £l2 10s; chaff, from £3 6s (ex store) and £3 10s (delivered); hay, £4 to £4 10s; potatoes, £3 to £3. ss; onions, £5 10s to £6; partridge peas, 3s 9d. Butter, dairy 7d to 8d (pats), 7d to 8d (bulk), separator 8d to 9d; cheese, factory, medium s)d to 'sid, loaf 540 to 6d. Bacon, farmers’ 5d to SJ<I, factory, sides 6d to Gjd, rolls Gjcl to7d ; hams, 74d ; fowls (mixed), 2s 6d per pair; roosters, 3s per pair, ducks, 3s 6d to 4s per pair; turkeys, Gs to 10s; geese, 4s Gd to 5s 6d : eggs, fresh Is 5d to Is Gel, preserved Is; honey, 4d to 4Jd. Apples, dessert, 4s to Gs, 40! i case, cooking 3s Gd to 'ss; pears, insert 4s to 10s 6d, cooking 3s Gd to 4s GJ; quinces, 3s to 4s; poaches, 4- to , Vs Gd ; water melons, 4<i to Is 2u each ; pie melons, 4s por.cwt; grape,,, outdoor 2d to 4d per ib, hot-house Gd to lid. Tomatoes, 2s to 2s Gd per ca.-,e: green peas, 4ct to Sd per peck; cauliflowers, Is Gd to As Gd per sack ; cabbages, ;Is t.) 2s per suck , parsnips, nil per dozen hunches; carrots; Gd per dozen bunches; turnips, 3d to Gd pel dozen bunches; turnips (swede), £1 10s to £2 per ton; French be«n», £d pur lb) vegetable marrdweh lis to '2s per i jnimpkin.’, «a t» per •wv s ealefy, 1* t*> li> ttrf par (lesen. Th* priqan quoceu are th* hjgiiesfc and lowest raturns on th« mufcrt ye»t«.T il»y, the dfrferenoe in price being m gulated by the quality and the supply and demand at the uiffemn niurts, In many : cases the extreme prices did not rule with all t-be Arms, the lowest and highest prices supplied being quoted above.

COMMERCIAL CABLES. PEEBB ASSOCIATION. LONDON, March 27. Wheat—The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 3,790,000 quarters, and for the Continent 1,470,000 quarters. Bank, shares The latest quotations are:—Bank of Australa.sia, £75; Bank of New South Wales, £42 10s; Union Bank, J £3B ; others unchanged. Wool—A poor selection was offered yesterday. Prices are unchanged. Tallow —At the sales 1225 casks were offered and 875 sold. Mutton, fine, un. changed at 28s 3d per cwt; medium, nhchanged, at 265. Beef, fine, unchanged, at 26s 9d; medium, unchanged, at 25s 3d. '