FINANCE AND TRADE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4740, 23 August 1902, Page 6

FINANCE AND TRADE.

The Customs returns for yesterday amounted to £1405 14s (id. George Thomas and Co., Harris street, report the following wholesale selling prices on the Wellington produce market:—Wheat (fowls’)) 3s 7d to 3s 8d per 'bushel; feed oats, 3s Id to 3s 3d; Tartarian seed, 3s sd; dun oats, 3s 3d; barley, 3s 3d per bushel; maize, 4s 3(1 per bushel; flour, £ll per ton; pollard, 140 s per ton; bran, 135 s per ton; oatmeal, £l4 10s to £ls per ton; oatshoaf chaff. £5 6s to To 10s per ton; hay, £4 10s to £5 per ton; partridge peas, 4s 3d per'bushel; split peas, 14s per cwt: pearl barley, 14s per cwt; iiorso beans, 4s 3d per bushel; cocksfoot seed, dressed 4) d to -I'd, fanners’ parcels 3d to 3Jd per 11); Derwent. potatoes, 90s per ton; onions, £5 10s to £0 per ton; pastry butter, 9jd per lb - milled, 10(1; cheese, 5Jd to s Jcl, factory; bacon, 7d, best factory; hams, 7Jd; rolls, 71d; fowls, 3s Od to 4s per pair; ducks, 5s per pair: turkeys, hens, 7s to 8s per pair, gobblers 9s to 12s per pair: goose, 5s Gd per pair; fresh eggs, lOd per dozen; cabbages, 4s to 5s Gd per sack; cauliflowers, 3s to 12s per sack for choice: pumpkins, £3 to £3 10s j)or ton; marrows, 5s to 6s per sack; cooking apples, Gs to 7s par 401 b case; dessert apples, 8s to 10s per 401 b case; carrots, 40s to 50s : swedes, 40s per ton; parsnips, 5s to Cs per sack; mutton birds, 5d to s}d each. YESTERDAY'S WOOL AND SKIN .SALES. Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, Limited, reports as follows: —Wo offered about 35 bales of wool and 1200 sheepskins. There- was a good attendance of buyers and keen competition, and.wo cleared our catalogue at prices slightly in advance of those realised at the previous sale. Wo quote:— Wool-—Medium lino crossbred, 4d to 4Jd; coarso crossbred, 3d to 3Jd; crutchings, l;J-d to 2)d; skins, merino, from 4d to ujd; merino pelts, from Gd to 8d eacli: crossbred, good, from 3jd to 4d; medium and coarso crossbred, 2Jd to 3d; lambskins, 3d to 3jd. Murray, Roberts and Co., Limited, report:—Wo offered a few bales of crutchings and about 2000 skins. Prices for wool wore unaltered. Bidding for skins was very brisk, prices advancing Id per lb for any good lines of crossbreds. Quotations —Halfbrods, 41d to old per lb; medium to fine crossbreds, 4d to 4Jd per lb; coarse to medium crossbreds, 31d to 4 : ',d per lb; crossbreds, half to three-quarter woolled 3d to 3\'d per lb ; damaged and inferior pelted, 2Jd to 3fd per lb; lambs. I'd to 4Jd per lb; hoggets, 2Jd to 3Jd per lb.

The next sale is on tbo sth September.

Levin _ and Co., Limited, report:—Wo offered 15 bales of wool and 1200 skins. There is no change in prices to record, everything being sold at. recent quotations. Prices—Good crutchings, "2d to 21d ; medium erntebings, Ifd to 2d; merino skins, od to "’’d; fine crossbreds, - 4d to sd; good crossbreds, 3’,d to -id; medium crossbreds, 3d to 3RI : dead skins, 2d to 3d.