FINANCE AND TRADE.
Tho Customs returns for yesterday amounted to £905 10s 2d.
Tho Department of Agriculture has received tho following cable from the Agent-General, dated Loudon 21st instant; —The mutton market is depressed. The average price to-day for Canterbury mutton is 3£d; Dunedin, Southland and VV.M.K. Co mutton, 3i}d; other North Island mutton, 3jd; River Plate mutton, 3'd. The Jamb market is weak. Stocks of lamb on hand arc heavy, and arc widely distributed amongst agents, who are pushing sales. The average price to-day for Now Zealand lamb, Canterbury brand, is from -lid to 4Jd. River Plato lamb. 4Jd. The beef market is dull. New Zealand hinds, 4id ; fores, 3! t d. Tho hemp market is dull and speculative. New Zealand hemp, “good fair Wellington” grade on spot to-day, is £3O nominal. July-Soptombcr shipments, £27 10s. There has been no alteration in the cocksfoot seed market since last week.
Laory and Co., Ltd., Jorvois quay, report tho following whole.-.- > selling prices on tho Wellington produce market:—Whoa'; (fowls’). 3s 8d to 3s Jd per bushel; feed on s 3s Id to 3s 2d; dun oats, 3s Id; barley, 3s 3d to 3s Gd per bushel; ryc-coru 4s per bushelmaize, 4s per bushel • flour, £ll per ton; pollard, 130 s per ton; bran, lids per ton; oatmeal, £l4 10s per ton; oatshcaf chaff £5 to £5 5s per ton; Canterbury hay, £4 10s per ton; partridge poas,4s 3d; horse beans, 4s 3d per bushel; cocksfoot seed, dressed 4jd to 4jd, farmers’ parcels 3d to 3(4 per lb • seed potatoes, Beauty of Hebron, Early Rose £G, prime Derwents 90s, Up-to-date, Peach Blossom, Victor:', Vermonts, all at 100 s; onions, £G 10s to £7 por ton; dairy butter, lOd por lb; cheese, s.pi, factory; bacon, 6}d, best factory; hams. 7Jd; rolls, 7fcl; fowls, 2s 9d to 3s 3d por pair; ducks, 4s to 4s 6d per pair; turkeys, hens 8s per pair, gobblers 9s to 11s per pair; goose, 6s por pair; fresh eggs Is Bd, limed eggs Is 3d to Is 4d per dozen; cabbages 2s to 4s per sack; cauliflowers, 6s to 9s 6d sack ; pumpkins, £2 10s per ton; marrows, 3s to 4s per sack; cooking apnles, 3s to 5s por 401 b case; dessert apples, 5s to 9s per 401 b case; carrots, 40s; swedes, 40s per ton; wild clucks, 4s to 4s Gel per pair; quail, Is Gel per brace; pigeons, 2s Gd por pair; pheasaaxts, 8s per brace; bares, Is Gd each. COMMERCIAL CABLES. PRESS ASSOCIATION. LONDON, June 22. Tho hemp market is dull. Fair Wellington, due to arrive, is quoted at £29 5s per ton. Frozen Meat.—Mutton—Crossbred wethers and maiden owes, Canterbury, 4d per lb; Dunedin and Southland, 3 13-16 d; North Island, unchanged. Lamb—Prime Canterbury, 4jd per lb; fair average, including Dunedin, Southland, Wellington and secondary Canterbury, 4 5-16 d: River Plato—Heavy, 3 9-16 d per lb; light, 3 11-16 cl; New Zealand beef, 1801 b to 2201 b, fair average quality ox fores, 3,jd per lb; ox hinds unchanged. Wheat.—Three Australian cargoes have been sold at 29s Gd por quarter. Copper.—Spot, £53 15s per ton; three months, £54. Tin.—Spot, £l2B per ton; three months, £124. Silver, 2s 0 7-16 d per oz.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4688, 24 June 1902, Page 7
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