FINANCE AND TRADE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4441, 22 August 1901, Page 6

FINANCE AND TRADE.

The Customs returns for yesterday amounted to £429 14s Bd. Messrs and Paul report uie following wholesale selling prices on the Wellington produce' market:—-Wheat, 3s per bushel, broken 2s lid p'er bushel; oats, 2s 4d to 2s Gd per bushel; seed, 2s Oil per bushel; barley, 2s 2d per bushel; maize, 3s 2d per bushel-; pollard, £5; bran, £4 los per ton; chaff. £3 5s to £3 10s per ton; hay, £4 10s ner ton; partridge pc; jr. 3s lOd per bushel; potatoes, £5 10s to £G per ton; seed potatoes, £5 10s to £6 10s per ton; onions, £l3 to £l4 per ton; butter, choice lOd to Is per lb, medium 8d to Ocl per lb; bacon, 6d per lb; hams, 7d per lb; apples, prime cookers, 7s 6d to 9s, dessert vsGdto 9s 6d; oranges, 5s to 6s Gd: lemons, 8s to 9s; bananas, 4s to 5s case; fowls, 3s Gd to 4s per pair; ducks, 5s to 5s Gd per pair •' turkevs, 7s to 12s per pair; geese, 5s Gd per pair; fresh eoys, lud; swedes, 30s netton • carrots, 35s per ton; cabbages. 2s to 3s per sack: pumpkins, 5s to 6s per sack; cauliflowers, 5-s to 9s per sack; marrows, 4s to 4s 6d per sack; lettuce, 2s to 3s per dozen; celery, 2s to 3s per dozen. AUSTRALIA?- MARKETS. mass association. SYDNEY, August 21. Wheat, chick, 2s 7d to 2s 9d; milliner 2s 8d to 2s 10d. Flour, £6 to £6 15s; Manitoban, £ii. Oats, prime New Zealand, feeding, “B,” 2s Gd; ether qualities, 2s 3d; milling. 2s 7d. Barley, best feed, 2s to 2s Id ; Cape, 2s 4d. Maize, prime, 2s Bd. Boas, Prussian Blue, os Gd. Bran and pollara, ,9jd. Potatoes, Circular Heads, £6 to £6 ss; prime New Zealand Derwonts, £6. Onions, Victorian, £l4 10s to £ls. Butter, factors lid to Is: creamery. Is. Cheese, New Zealand; 5d to sqd. Bacon, Gd t > fid. MELBOURNE, August 21. Wheat, 2s to 2s 10jd. Flour, £6 to £6 7s 6d. Oats, Algerian, 2s 3d to 2s 4d; prime stout, ,2s 7d. Maize, 2s s}d. Bran and pollard, Onions, £l4 to £ls. Potatoes, £5 to £6 10s. ADELAIDE, August 21. Wheat, 2s 9d to 2s Old. Flour, £6 5s Bran and pollard, Hid. STOCK SALES. CHRISTCHURCH, August 21. At Addington to-day, 169 fat cattle, mostUt prime steers and heifers, were yardSt. There was brisk sale at 20s to 25s per 1001 b. Special lines of steers £lO 10s to £ll 10s, heifers £lO to £lO 10s; North Island bullocks, £lO 12s Gd to £ll ss; ordinary entries, prime steers £7 to £lO, lighter £7 15s to £8 10s, prime heifers £8 to £9 10s, lighter £5 15s to £7 10s, prime heavy cows £7 10s to £9 12s 6d, others £5 2s Gd to £7. ’ Store Cattle.—Yearlings £1 Bs, yearlings to 15 months old £1 16s to £2 3s, 15 to 18 months old £2 13s Gd to £3' 7s, 2=year heifers £4 5s to £4 Bs, do, £4 7s to £4 15s, dairy cows £3 10s to £8 ss. Fat Sheep.—About 2000, mostly good wethers and owes and a few good merino wethers. Export buyers were competing more keenly, and all classes of sheep were firm. Heavy wethers up to 21s Gd, freezers 17s to 20s Gd, prime ewes 16s to 17s 9d, others 14s to los 6d, prime merino wethers 15s to 17s Id, others 12s 6d to 15a 6d. Store Sheep.—27oo, nearly all wethers and hoggets. Forward wethers 15s 2d to 17s, backward 12s Gd to 13s 2d, forward hoggets 12s Tld to 14s Gd, others 11s lid to 12s 3d, cull ewes 11s’9d. Pigs.—3Bo, including very prime fats, There was good saie. and prices wire firmer. Baconers 44s to 595, an average of 3}d per lb; porkers 22s to 325, equal to 4d; stores, 10s Gd to 18s 6d; suckers and weaners 5s to 9s. PRODUCE. DUNEDIN, August 21. Wheat.—A good demand for all descriptions. Prime samples sought after by millers, and medium is more saleable than of late. Fowl feed is very scarce. Prime velvet and Tuscan, 2s Bjd to 2s lOd; medium, 2s 6}d to 2s 8d;fowl feed, whole 2s 5d to 2s 6;d, broken 2s 2d to 2s 4ld (bags in). Oats.—The demand continues brisk, and prices have hardened. Prime milling and_ bright feed are readily sold, but medium grades are harder to movh. heed, 2s 2d to 2s 3d; prime milling, 2s Ijd to 2s 2d; good to best feed, 2s to 2s Id; inferior to medium, Is 9d to Is lid (bags extra). Barley.—There is really no business doing, and quotations arq purely nomL nal, with exception of feed. I’rime, 3s to 3s 6d; malting, 2s 3d to 2s 9d; milling. Is 9d to 2s; feed. Is 6d to Is Bd.