FINANCE AND TRADE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4807, 10 November 1902, Page 2

FINANCE AND TRADE.

The Customs revenue and beer duty collected last week totalled £12,062 17s 9d, and £330 7s 9d respectively. Laery and Co.. Limited. Jervois quay, report the following wholesale selling prices on the Wellington produce market:—Wheat (fowls’) 4s, broken wheat, 3s 9<l per bushel; feed oats, 3s to 3s 3d; discoloured, 2s lOd; Tartarian seed, 3s sd; dun oats, 3s 2d_; black oats, 3s 3d; barley, 3s 6d per bushel; maize, 4s &1 per bushel; flour, £ll per ton, pollard, £7 os per ton; bran, £7 per ten ; oatmeal, £ls per ton; oatshcaf chaff, £6 per ton: straw-chaff, £3 10s per ton; hay, £4 10s per ton; horso beans, 4s 3d per bushel ; seed Derwents, 90s; Derwcnts, £5 10s; onions, American, £l2 per ton; cheese, 5Jd, factory; bacon. 93, best factory; hams, 9d; rolls, 9d; prime butter, 9d per lb; pastry butter, Sd to 9d per lb; fowls, 4s to 4s 6d per pair; ducks, os to 5s 6d per pair; turkeys, liens 7a to 8s pm- pair, gobblers i).s to 11s per pair; geese, 5s (id per pair; fresli eggs, 10!d per dozen; cabbages, 3s to 5s per sack; cauliflowers, Os to 14s per sack for choice; cooking apples, 9s to 11s per 401 b case ; dessert apples, 9s to 17s per 401 b case; rod carrots, 80s; swedes, 60s per ton; parsnips, 12s to 14s per sack; mutton birds, 4ijd; rhubarb, 3s to 7s'per dozen, WELLINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE, SATURDAY’S QUOTATIONS. Banks—National of New . Zealand, buyers £4 Is, sellers £4 3s; New Zealand, buyers £3 ss, seller's £3 6s. Financial—Metropolitan Building Society (£10), buyers £l2; National Mortgage, Ltd., sellers £1 18s Gd; New Zealand and River Plato Land (old issue), buyers £1 3s, sellers £1 4s; ditto (now issue), buyer's £1 35.6 d. Gas—Christchurch (£5), sellers £9 15s; Gisborne, sellers £1 17s 6d; Lyttelton, buyers £6 7s 6d; Palmerston. North, buyers £4 7s 6d, sellers £4 12s 6d ; Port Chalmers, buyers £1 8s; Wellington (£5), buyers £9 15s. Insurance—National of New Zealand, buyer's £1 Is 6d, sellers £1 2s; South British of New Zealand, buyers £4 14s; Standard of New Zealand, buyers 18s 9d, sellers 19s. Meat Preserving—Christchurch Meat Company, sellers £9 2s 6d; Wellington Meat Export (£5), sellers £7 ss; ditto (£4), sellers £5 16s; ditto (£2 12s 6d), sellers £3 12s. Railways and Shipping—Wellington and Mahawatu Rail, buyers £1 9s 6d, sellers £1 11s; New Zealand Shipping, sellers £6 17s Gd; Union Steamship, buyers £l2; Northern Steam (second issue), sellers 7s 9d. Woollen Manufacturing.—Kaiapoi, sellers £6 ss; Mosgiel,, buyers £3 sellers £3 18s 6d; Wellington (£4). sales £5 ss. Coal.—Westport, buyers £5 13s, sol. lers, £6. Miscellaneous.—Loyland and O’Brien Timber, buyers £1 17s 6d;'Haririoevillo Lime Company, prem., buyers 2s 6d, sellers 10s; New Zealand Drug Company (£2), buyers £2 10s, sellers £2 12s ; Sharland and Co., Ltd., (ordinary), buy : ers £1 2s, sellers £1 3s; Ward and Co., Ltd., sellers £5,12s 6d; Whitoombe and Tombs, Ltd., Buyers £4 12s. COMMERCIAL CABLES. . PRESS ASSOCIATION. LONDON, November 7. BANK OF ENGLAND RETURN. The Bank of England return issued for tho week ending Wednesday, the ; sth, inst., is as (under. Issue Department. Note issue.. £43,498,000 Gov. debt.. £11,015,000 Other securities .. 7,160,000 Gold,. .. 81,328,000 £49.498.000 £49,498,00* Barbies Departmist. Proprietors' Got, securloaoltul .. £14,663.000 lies .. £18,416,000 Public da- Other aeposits .. 8,449,000 onrltlos .. 27 806,000 Other da- Nolei .. 20,071,000 posits .. 40,024,000 Coin .. .. 2,162,030 Hast, 7-dajr and other bills .. 8,436,000 ' £58,455,000 £66,455,000 The leading items of tho Bank _of England return afford the following comparison:— This week. Hast week. Hast rear £ £ .« Bullion .. 31,623.000 31.782,000 82,833.000 Reserve .. .. 22,238,000 23,087.000 28 100,000 Note circulation.. 29.427,0'10 29.179,000 29.868.000 Deposits 48,465,050 49, ! 410,000 49,674,000 Proportion reserve '/-‘I, A,, toll abilities.. 46'71 46'69 46 41 GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Tha following are the latest quota- ’ tions for Government securities and a comnarison with thoso ruling last week:

• Interest payable In May and November. + Interest payable in Ja r " ' " il; j Interest pay&b l © in 4 - Ml IM, OCwOWf* MONEY MARKET. The market rate of discount for best three months’ tills is i lower at 3| per cent. The Bank of England rate is 4 per cent., as against 3J per cent, on the 6th February. - COLONIAL AND. OTHER PRODUCE, Wheat—The English and Continental markets are steady. The American visible supply of 63,480,000 bushels, showing "an increase of 4,665,000 on last week, is depressing the American markets There is little.,business doing m careroes. Californian, off coast, is quoted “at 30s 9d per quarter. No sellers of shipments to Australia, and the domand has raised prices at San Francisco above the English level. ■ ■ Sugar—German beet, 88deg., Id lower at 7s 5d per cwt; .first mark, granulated, f.o.h Hamburg,’ Id lower, at 8s 7d per cwt. .. . Bradford Tops— The market is weaker. Common 60’s, 23d peril); |"P er s ; 24s per lh; common 40’s, 8d per lb, supers, at Hid per lb. THE PRICES OF METALS, Copper.—Spot, Is 3d lower, at £53 is 3d per ton ; three months’, 6s 3d lower, at £52 7s 6d per ton. Ti n _Spot, unchanged, at £l2O 7s 6d per ton i three months’, unchanged, at £ll9 os per ton. at ■» Pig-iron.—Glasgow warrants, No. T cash. Id lower, at 57s 3d per ton, f.o.b. “Sds 3d lower, at £lO 13s 9d pep ton. _

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