FINANCE AND TRADE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4824, 29 November 1902, Page 5

FINANCE AND TRADE.

The Customs revenue received yesterday totalled £1572 17s 7d.

Lacry and Co., Limited, Jervois quay, report the following wholesale selling prices on the Wellington produce mar-ket:—-Wheat (fowls’), 4s 3d to 4s Gd per bushel; feed oats, 3s to Ss 3d; discoloured, 2s lOd; Tartarian seed, 3s 4d; dun oats, 3s 2d; black oats, 3s 3d; barley, 3s 7d per bushel; maize, 4s lOd per bushel; flour, £l3 x>or ton; pollard, £S per ton ; bran, £S per ton; oatmeal, £l4 10s per ton; oatsheaf chaff, £0 10s per ton: straw chaff, £3 10s per ton; hay, £4 15s per ton; horso beans, 4s 3d per bushel; Derwents, £8; onions, Victorian £ll per Ion; cheese, factory; bacon, 9d, best factory; hams, lOd; rolls,.od; pastry butter, 8d to 9d per lb; fowls, 4s to 4s Gd per pair: ducks, 5s to 5s 6d per pair; turkeys, hens 7s to 8s per pair, gobblers 9s to 11s per pair; goose, 5s Gd per pair; fresh eggs. Is per dozen; cabbages, 2s to 3s Gd per sack; cauliflowers, 9s to 14s per sack for cboico; cooking apples, 9s per 401 b case; dessert apples, 9s to 17s per 401 b case; mutton birds, 4£d ; rhubarb, 4s to 8s per dozen; new round potatoes, 10s Gd to 11s Cd; kidneys, 14s to IGs per cwt.

Dalgcty and Co., Limited, have received the following cablo message from London,dated 27th inst.: —Frozen meat prices aro nominally unchanged, but the tendency is downwards, and tho demand limited. There is no demand for AustrarHan and Now Zealand first heavy hides. For other descriptions, any change in prices is in favour of sellers. The wool sales continue firm, with an upward tendency.

COiOnSRCXAL CABLES. TKR&9 ASSOCIATION. (Received November 28, 9.40 p.m.) • LONDON, November 23. The Bank of England return issued for the week ending Wednesday, the 26th November, is as under:— Note utsue,. je5,955.0?0 debt*ll,ols,ooo Other securities .. 7,160,000 Gold., 80,783,000 *18,953,000 £18,958,000 BANEZHO iJjtPABTJQHT, Prcrttetore* Gov, eoourlcapital .. £11,558,000 ties .. £17,412,000 Public d«* Other ropoaits .. 12,015,000 entities 80,879,000 Other de- Notes .. 20,180.000 posits .. 39,459,000 Coin Rest, 7-dey . and other - billl 3,263,080 ( £70,190,000 *79.190,000 The leading items of tho Bank of England return afford the following comparison:— This week. Last week. Lest year JB * fi Bullion _ 30,793.000 30.865,000 83.045.000 Reserve .. .. 22,899,000 22,490,000 23,867,000 Nolo circulation.. 23.731,000 28,747.000 29.285,000 Deposits .. .. 41,646,000 18,963,000 £0,689,010 Proportion reserve to liabilities.. 42*65 45*97 46*91 GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. The following are the latest quotations for Government securities and a comparison with those ruling last week:

* Interest payable in May and November, i Interest payable in January and July, j Interest payable in April and October. • MONET MARKET. T]io market rate of discount for best throe months’ hills is f higher at 4 per cent. The Bank of England rate is 4 per cent., as against 3)- per cent, on the 6th February. COLONIAL AND OTHER PRODUCE. Wheat—The English market is dull, the Continental and American firm, hut quiet. Cargoes are - slow.' Californian off coast, 30s 6d per quarter, o.i.f. Sugar—German beet, 88deg., Id higher, at 7s lid per cent.; first mark, granulated, f.o.b. Hamburg, lid higher, at 9s lid per owt. Bradford Tops—The market is firm; 40’s are quoted at 91 d and 46’s at Is OJd per lb. Common, sixties, la Hid, super. 2s Old. ■Wool At tbe , London sales the “Gear” clip sold at 6Jd; “S. Yule ” at Sid. METALS. Copper—Spot, 16s 3d lower, at £49 16s 3d per ton; throe months, 15s lower, at £SO 2s 6d. Tin—Spot, £lll 10s per, ton; three months, £llO 15s. Silver, Is 9 11-16 d per on.

Price. Variation. £ R. a. 23 Imperial Oonaols 92 16 0 2/6 lower %New Booth Wales .. 1U 0 <J 20/- lower 101 0 CJ 20/- lower % New South Wales 92 a u 6/- lower 11)8 0 <J Unchanged BJ lUi 0 « Unchanged 8 % Victorian • .. 95 0 0,Uncbanged 81 %Soutb Australian 108 0 OjUnchangcd % South Australian 98 u 0.10/* lower %QuoenBland 106 0 ©[Unchanged a* % Queensland .» .. 0 Unchanged 8 % Queensland «. 91 15 ©Unchanged 4 % Now Zealand* «. 110 0 0,Unchanged Si % Now Zealandf 105 0 ©{Unchanged ei> 0 O'lO/- lower 3J % West Australian •; 101 0 OiUncbanged Si % Tasmanian .. . 101 0 0 Unchanged