FINANCE AND TRADE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4395, 28 June 1901, Page 6

FINANCE AND TRADE.

The Customs returns for yesterdayamounted. to £750 8s lOd. Messrs Laery and Co., Limited, report the following wholesale selling prices on the Wellington produce market; Wheat 2s 7d to 2s 9d, broken 2s 3d to 2s 4dcats. Is llu to 2s Id; barley, 2s - maize, 3s ; flour, £7; pollard, £5; bran, £4; oatmeal, £10; chaff, £3 ss; hay, £4 10s ; field beans, 3s ; field peas, 4s; potatoes, £4 15s; early seed potatoes, £4 to £6; onions, 11s 6d; butter, pastry 7d to Bd, choice 9d to lOd; choose, 5d to sjd; bacon, fid to 6i-d; fowls, 2s 9d to 3s; roosters, 3s 3d; ducks, 4s to 4s fid; turkeys, hens fis to 7s, gobblers 8s to 10s; geese, 5s fid; fresh eggs. Is 2d to Is 3d, limed Is; pears, cooking fis to Bs, dessert fis to. 10s; apples, cooking 5s fid to 7s, dessert 5s to 9s fid; pie melons, 3s fid per cwt. ; cauliflowers, 2s fid to fis fid per sack; cabbages, Is to 2s per sack; walnuts, 5d t 0 fid per lb; pumpkins, 2s to 3s fid per sack; oelery, Is to 2s per doz ; sheepskins, best 3Jd to 4d. inferior 3d to 3id; hides, ox 16s to 21s, cow 10s to 14s. COMMERCIAL CABLES. PRESS association. LONDON, June 26. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 3,430,000 quarters, and for the Continent 1,520,000 quarters. Shares—Australian and New Zealand Mortgage 4J per cent, debentures, £Bl. Wool—The Antwerp sales opened with a good attendance. Of La Plata 1574 bales Were offered—a poor, selection; 634 sold. Merinos and lambs wool showed a fall of five centimes, and crossbreds a fall of ten centimes, as compared with the April sales. At the tallow sales, 2500 casks were offered and 1175 sold. Prices for all kinds were unchanged.