FINANCE AND TRADE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4405, 11 July 1901, Page 6

FINANCE AND TRADE.

The Customs returns for yesterday amounted to £lOsl 18s Id. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKETS. PRESS ASSOCIATION, SYDNEY, July 10. Wheat, chick 2s 5d to 2s 6d, milling 2s 7d to 2s 8d; flour, £5 15s to £6 os, Manitoban £lO 10s; oats, feeding, .New Zealand, prime 2s Id to 2s 2d, medium Is 8d to Is lOd, milling 2s Id, local sorts Is 7d to Is lid; barley, feeding Is lid, seeding 2s 2d; maize, 2s 4d to 2s sd; peas, Prussian blue, 5s 3d; bran and pollard, B^d; potatoes. Circular Heads, £6 to £6 10s; onions, Victorian £ll to £ll 10s, New Zealand £9 to £9 10s; butter, New Zealand, Is Id to Is 2d; cheese, loaf s)d to 5Jd, large sd; bacon, New Zealand flitches,' 5Jd to 5Jd. The above quotations ar© those ruling between merchant and retailer, and do not represent the slightly lower values obtained by recognised brokers. MELBOURNE, July 10. Wheat, 2s B|d to,2s 9d; oats, to Is 9jd; barley, malting to 3s 6d, feeding 2s Id; maize, 2s 4d; bran, lOd; pollard, 10id; potatoes, to £7; onions, £lO 10s. ADELAIDE, July 10. Wheat, 2s to 2s 8d; oats, Algerian Is 9d to 2s, stout white 2s Sd to 2s 9d; bran and pollard, lljd. •STOCK SALES. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) DANNEVIRKE, July 10. At Messrs Abraham and Williams’s stock sale to-day prices were realised as follows : —Two-tooth wethers, 13s 3d ; two-tooth ewes in lamb, 11s; fullmouch ewes in lamb, 11s 6d; culls, 7s 6d to 8s 9d ; three and a half-year steers, £6 Is; weaners, 335. prrss ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURCH, July 10. Fat cattle—l9o head, mostly good sorts, mot brisk sale at 20s to 24s per 1001 b. A line of 17 bullocks from Mount Parnassus brought £9 10s to £11; steers, £7 5s to £lO 6s: heifers, £5 12s 6d to £8; cows, £5 2s 6d to £8 10s. No store cattle were yardedPat sheep—About 400, mostly prime quality, met good demand, both for export and butchers . The Totara estate Shropshire downs brought 30s 6d; Border Leicesters, 26s 6d to 28s; heavy freezers. 19s to 23s ; lighter sorts, 16s Id to 18s 6d ; best ewes,l6s to 18s lOd; others, 14s to 15s 8d; Merino ewes, 10s lid to 12s

Fat lambs—lloo, mostly good sorts; late rates were well maintained. - Totara estate shoiy lambs, 235. Nearly the whole entry was boueht by an export buver at 13s 6d to 16s 2d-

Store sheep—43oo, mostly ewes. A line of 2200 sound-mouthed ewes brought 17s 2d to 17s 4d: afew halfbreds at 16s 4d; aged ewes, 10s 6d to 11s 6d, a few wethers 13s 6d to 16s 4d; 1300 hoggets, 11s 2d to 11s 4d.

Pigs—About 400, mostly fats of inferior quality. There was irregular sale. Baconers, 31s to 45s and up to 49s for extra prime, average 3jd per lb; porkers, 18s to 30s. equal to 34d and 3Jd per lb; stores, dull, 8s to 15s for large and 4s to 6s for small.