FINANCE AND TRADE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4396, 29 June 1901, Page 6

FINANCE AND TRADE.

The Customs returns for yesterday amounted to £1177 Os lid. Messrs George Thomas and Co. report the following) wholesale selling pri_ ces on the Wellington produce market: —Wheat 2s 7d to 2s 9d, broken 2s 3d to 2s 4d; oats, Is lid to 2s Id; barley, 2s; maize, 3s; flour, £7; pollard, £5; bran, £4; oatmeal, £11; chaff, £3 ss; hay, £4 10s; field beans, 3s; field peas, 4s; potatoes, £5; early seed potatoes, £4 to £6; onions, lls 6d; butter, pastry 7d to 8d choice 9d to lOd; cheese, 5d to sid; bacon, 6d to fowls, 2s 9d to 3s; roosters, 3 S 3d; duoks, 4s to 4s 6d; turkeys, hens 6s to 7s, gobblers 8s to 10s; geese, 5s 6d; fresh, eggs, Is 2d to Is 3d, limed Is; pears, cooking 6s to Bs, dessert 6s to 10s; apples, cooking 5s 6d v to 7s, dessert 5s to'9s 6d; pie melons, 3s 6d per owt.; cauliflowers, 2 S 6d to 6s 6d per sack; cabbages, Is to. 2s per sack; walnuts, 5d per lb; pumpkins, 2s to 3s 6d per sack; celery, Is to 2s per doz.

STOCK SALE,

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) . LEVIN, June 28. Messrs Abraham and Williams held a sale at Levin to-day. There was a good attendance, and bidding was brisk for sheep and cattle at a rise on late quotations. For horses there was a good demand, and all offered were sold. Quotations:—Fat bullocks, £7 2s 6d; fat cows, £6 2s; cows in calf, £5 Is; heifers in calf, £3 11s; forward cows, £4 Is; yearling cattle, £2 5s 6; weaners £2 4s. Sheep—Wethers, 11s Id to 12s; fat ewes, 12s 4d; fat and forward ewes, 10s 4d to 10s lOd; e wes in lamb, 6s 6d, 7s 9d, 9s, 9s 6d; lambs, 8s 3d; dry ewes, 8s Id. , Draught horses, £2l; hacks, at from £6 to £7.