FINANCE AND TRADE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4820, 25 November 1902, Page 6

FINANCE AND TRADE.

The Customs revenue received yesterday totalled £l9lO 15s Id. Tho Department of Agriculturo lias received the following cubic message from the -Agent-General, dated London, tixo 22ud instant:—Tiio mutton market is steady. The quantity of mutton' going into consumption at present is very small. The average price to-day for Canterbury' mutton is -lid per lb; Dunedin, Southland and W.M.ii. Company, IJd; other North Island mutton, did. There is a dull sale for all lamb. Tho weather lately has been very unfavourable to the sale of lamb. Tho average price to-day for New Zealand Jamb, Canterbury brand, is s)d; lamb, other than Canterbury, sfid. There is a botter demand for beef. Stocks of Now Zealand beef on hand are light. Now Zealand hinds, sd; fores, did. Tho butter market is steady. There is a better demand for butter; choicest, libs. There lias been uo alteration in the cheese market since last week. There is a better demand for hemp. The price of New Zealand hemp, “good fair W ellington ” grade, on spot to-day, is £32 lUs per ton; Deceinber-February shipments, £3O. Daery and Co., Limited, Jorvois quay, report tho following wholesale selling prices on the 'Wellington produce market: —Wheat (fowls’), 4s 3d per bushel; feed oats, 3s to 3s 3d; discoloured, 2s lOd; Tartarian seed, 3s 4d; dun oats, 3s 2d; black oats, 3s 3d; barley, 3s Cd per bushel; maize, 4s 9d per bushel; flour, £ll per ton; pollard, £8 per ton; bran, £8 per ton; oatmeal, £l4 10s per ton; oatslicaf chaff, £6 IC-s per ton; straw chaff, £3 10s per ton; hay, £4 15s per ton; horse beans, 4s 3d ]JBr bushel; Derwcuts, £0; onions, Victorian £ll per ton; cheese, old, factory; bacon, 9d, best factory;, hams, 10d; rolls, 9d; pastry butter, 8d to 9d per lb; fowls, 4s to 5s (id per pair; ducks, 5s to 5s dd per pair; turkeys, hens 7s to 8s per pair, gobblers 9s to 11s per pair; goose, Ss 6d per pair; fresh eggs, lid to Is per dozen; cabbages, 3s to 5s per . sack; cauliflowers, 9s to X4s per sack for choice; cooking apples, 9s to 11s per 401 b case; dessert apples, 9s to 17s per 401 b case; mutton birds, 4Jd; rhubarb,. 4s to 8s per dozen. COMMERCIAL CABLES. FBE3S ASSOCIATION. LONDON, November 23. Copper, on tho spot, £SO 10s per ton; throe months, £SO 16s 3d. • Silver, Is 105 d pw ounce. At the periodical sales of rabbitskins there was a largo supply and a good demand. The average rates of last sales were maintained. Frozen Meat.—Sheep, North Island, 4 l-16d per lb. Lambs—Canterbury, s}d per lb—Jd lower; Dunedin and Southland and North Island, 5Jd —|d lower. Other sorts and beef unchanged. River Plato sheep, heavy, 4jid perlb; light and beef unchanged. ADELAIDE, November 24. The wheat market is excited, owing to tho high prices ruling in Sydney. Sales are reported as high as 5s 7d.