FINANCE AND TRADE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4732, 14 August 1902, Page 6

FINANCE AND TRADE.

The Customs duties collected yesterday totalled £3305 15s Id. Laery and Co., Ltd., Jorvois quay, report tho following wholesale selling prices on the Wellington produce niarr ket:—Wheat (fowls’), 3s Gd to 3s 8d per bushel; feed oats, 3s to 3s Id; Tartarian seed, 3s sd; dun oats, 3s; barley, 3s 3d per bushel; rye-com, 4s per bushel; maize, 3s lOd per bushel; flour, £ll per ton; pollard, 135 s per ton; bran, 125 s per ton; oatmeal. £l4 per ton; oatsheaf chaff, £5 to £5 10s per ton; hay, £4 10s per ton; partridge peas, 4s 3d; horse beans, 4s 3d per bushel; cocksfoot seed, dressed 4Jd to 4Jd, fanners’ parcels 3d to 3}d per lb; seed potatoes, Beauty of Hebron —o 10s. Fluke Kidney £6, Early Hose £7, Peach Blossom, Victory, Breeze’s Prolific 100 s, White Star 100 s, Magnum Bonum 100 s, Dorwents 755; onions, £5 10s, £6 per ton; pastry butter, Old per lb; cneeso, old, factory; bacon, 7d, best factory; hams, 7Jd; rolls. I\ d ; fowls, 3s 3d to 4s per pair; ducks, 4s Od to 5s per pair; turkeys, hens 7s to 8s per pair; gobblers 9s to 11s per pair; geese, os Gd per pair; fresh eggs, weak at Is 5d per dozen; cabbages. 4s to 7s per sack; cauliflowers. 8s to 11s per sack for choice; pumpkins, £3 per ton; marrows, 4s to 6s per sack: cooking apples, 4s to 6s per 401 b case; dessert apples, os to 8s per 401 b case; red carrots. 50s; swedes, 40s per ton; parsnips, os to 6s per sack. COMMERCI AL CABLES. PRESS ASSOCIATION'. LONDON. August 12. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for tho United Kingdom is 2,105,.'

I 000 quarters, and for the Continent 975,000 quarters. Shares. —Bank of New South Wales, £39; Union Bank, £3(3. Others unchanged. Now Zealand Land and Mercantile 4 per cent, prior lien debentures 80. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARRE'xo. SYDNEY. August 13. Wheat, 4s 8d to 4s 9d ; chick, nominal, '4.s Od. Flour, £10; Manitoban, £l2 10s. Oats, local Algerian, prime, 3s Gd; medium, 3s 4d; prime white feeding,, 3s Gd. Maize, local, 5s 6d to os Od. Barley, Cape, 4s; English feeding, 3s lid to 4s. Peas, Prussian blue, 7s. Bran and pollard, Is Bd. Potatoes, Tasmanian, £5 15. s to £6; iSow Zealand Derwents, £4'lss to a. Onions, Victorian, £6 10s to £7; Now Zealand rough, £4; prime._£4 10s to £5 os. Barter, Is 8d ; New Zealand best, to ls-7d. Cheese, local, 8d to 10Jd; Now Zealand Targe, BJ-d; medium, Bjd to 91d; prime loaf, 9d to 9)d. Bacon, 9RI to 9jd. MELBOURNE, August 13. Wheat, firm, 4s 5d to 4s Gd. Oats, Algerian, milling, 3s 4d to 3s sd. Barley, 3s 9d to 4s Gd. Maize, 4s 8d to 4s 9d. Bran and pollard, Is 6d. Potatoes, £4 5s to £4 10s. Onions, £5 15s to £G for prime. ADELAIDE, August 13. Wheat, 4s sd. Flour, £9 ss. Oats, Algerian, 3s 3d ; white, 3s 3d to 3s od. Bran and pollard, Is 7d. SOUTHERN STOCK SALES. CHRISTCHURCH, August to. At Addington to-day there wore fair entries, including a number of exhibition lines of fat sbeep ana a few prune cattle, principally from tbo North Island. I The attendance was large, including breeders from the North Island, Otago and North Canterbury. Fat cattle.—l 32, mostly light weights, excepting a few lines of prime bullocks and cows. Competition was keen for really good sorts, and showed a distinct advance, the best beef ruling at 2Gs to 30s per 1001 b, and more in exceptional cases; other sorts, 20s to 20s. Best bullocks, £l2 to £lO 10s; good steers, £9 to £ll 10s; others, £6 to £8 10s; heifers, £5 5s to £9 2s Gd; extra good cows. £9 to £lO 17s Gd; others, £5 to £3 10s. Fat sheep.—About 700, including several exhibition consignments, which took prizes at the Canterbury and Dunedin Winter Shows. There was a keen demand for extra prime, botli by local butchers and exporters to Sydney, and freezers also operated freely. xrices for the exhibition consignment ranged from 27s to 41s; prime heavy wethers for Sydney, 19s Gd to 335; prime freezers, 18s to 21s; lighter, 14s 9d to 17s Gd; prime heavy owes. IGs lOd to 19s; medium, 14s to IGs Gd; others. 11s Gd to 15s Gd; prime merino wethers, 18s 3d to 19s sd; others, 12s to 13s Gd. Fat lambs. —250. Spring lambs, ll s Gd to 15s; hoggets, lls to 14s Id. Store sheep.—3774, mostly hoggets. All classes sold well, and nearly tiie whole entry changed hands. Forward wethers, los: others, 13s 4d to 13s 9tl; good young half-bred ewes, 15s 3d; fair, 10s 8d to 12s Sd: inferior, 5s to 9s; hoggets, 7s. 7d to 10s 7d. Pigs.—About 350. Fats wore scarce, and commanded higher prices. A buyer for Sydney was unable to purchase, values being above his limit. Baconers, 40s to 57s Gd. equal to 4Ju to 4id per lb; porkers, 25s to 3-ss, equal to 4i|d to od uer lb; big stores, 17s 6d to 255; smaller, 10s to los ; suckers and wcaners, os to 9s. DUNEDIN, August 13. At the Burnside market to-day 206 fat cattle wore yarded. Tlie demand, 'except for the primest, was slack, and

a reduction of 10s to 15s per head had to be submitted to. especially m unfinished. .Best bullocks. £lO 10s to £l2; medir.im. £8 15s to £10; best cows and heifers, £7 to £8 os; medium. £5 10s to £’i 15s. Sheep.—ls 34 were penned, prices nilinn: about: Is lower. Freezing buyers operated freely. Best wethers, 18s to 20s Od; medium.’lss Od to lis 0d; lest ewes, los to IGs 9d: medium, 13s to 14s Od. Lambs.—3o4 were yarded, prices ruling about the same as last. week. Best, 11s to 13s: medium, 0s to 10s Od. Pins. —10U uere penned, prices lor all sorts ruling firm. Suckers, 10s to 12s ()d; slips 14s to IGs ; stores, 18s to 23s • porkers, 29s to 335; baconcrs, 40s to 535; heavy pigs, up to GSs.