FINANCE AND TRADE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4496, 25 October 1901, Page 6

FINANCE AND TRADE.

The Customs returns for yesterday amounted to £1390 8s 4d. George Thomas and Co. report the following wholesale selling prices on tbs AVollington produce marks::—Wheat, 3s Id per bushel; oats, 2s Bd' to 2s lOd per bushel; seed, 2s lOd p*ar bushel; barley, 2s 3d per bushel; maize, 3s Id per bushel; pollard, £4 15s; bran, £4 10s per ton: chaff, £3 10s per ton;hay, £4 10s per ton; partridge peas, 4s 3d per bushel; Prussian blue, 5s 3d per bushel; potatoes, £4 15s to £5 per ton; seed potatoes, £4- 10s to £5 per ton; onions, American, £lB per ton: butter, choice Bjd per lb, medium 8d per lb; bacon, per lb; hams, -7fd per lb; fowls', 4s to 4s <3d per pair; ducks, 5s to 6s per pair; turkeys, 7s to 12s per pair; goose, 6s -6d per pair; fresh eggs, 9d to 10d; swedes. 30s per ton; carrots, 40s per ton; cabbages. Is 6d to 4s 6d per sack; cauliflowers, Is 6d to 5s per sack; lettuce, Is to Is 6d per dozen; celery, Is to 2s per dozen; parsnips. 2s to 3s per sack; rhubarb, 2s 6d to 7s per dozen. The sources from which John Bull’s table is supplied with britter are shown by the compilers of butb’er statistics to be very widely spread stout the world nowadays, says “The Grocer.” Of the total 260,000 tons John is supposed to have consumed, used, or* disposed of in some way last year, rather over 140,000 tons came from “furria parts,” 32,000 ton,; from his owii colonies,* and 85,000 tcn s or thereabouts w;« made at home in the British Isles. The main contribu_ tors’ in order of quantify are Denmark, Australia, France, Holland, Russia. Sweden, New Zealand, Canada, United Slates, Belgium, Germany, Norway and .Argentina- As 15,000 tons is the mean figure in several case®, we may take that as a unit for comparison, and wo find that Australia, Fiance and Holland are pretty much on a level as contributing about one unit each; Russia sends a short unit: Sweden and the United Slates furnish a unit between them, and Now Zealand and Canada supply another. Tho other contributors -are of much smaller account. with the great exception of Denmark, which sends no less than 75,000 tons, or as much as five of our units put together. Denmark is one of the smallest of lands, but, as most people know, is mighty in butter-making. Why should not Ireland, which iis so spiritedly coming to the front, do as well as Denmark? And if Australia carir; beat all in the hst except ■ Denmark, why should hot some other of our colonies’ make equally satisfactory progress?- Let them go the right way about it, and not bo above learning, and we shall see what wo shall see. COMMERCIAL CABLES. PRESS ASSOCIATION. LONDON, October 23. Copper on the spot is £63 2s 6d per ton; three mouths:, £6l 17s 6d., A New Zealand rheat cargo ox Gladys has been sold at 28s per quarter. At the tallo w auctions 1327 casks were offered and 38 sold) at a nominal decline of 6d per cwt. At tho Antwerp gales 2353 bales of La Plata wool wero offered and 1221 bales sold. The few merinos offering were' strongly competed for. Fine crossbred were 10 centimes and fine lambs 6 centimes above the places at the June sales. Coarse crossbreds wero neglected, and prices unchanged. CHEISTCBUJRCH, October 24. Tho Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company has received the following cable message from London: “Frozen meat market—Prices unchanged; market very weak.”