FINANCE AND TRADE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4825, 1 December 1902, Page 6

FINANCE AND TRADE.

Tho Customs revenue and beer duty collected during the past month totalled £40,549 Os -Id and £843 10s 3d respectively. The amounts for tho week are £10,205 13s 7d and £l6l 12s, Customs revenue and beer duty respectively. Saturday's return totalled £1371 13s.

Messrs Thompson llros., Ltd., Harris street, report the following prices ruling on the Wellington produce market during the past week:—Wheat. -Is -Id to 4s Od per bushel; oats, 3s 3d to 3s 4d per bushel ; maize, Is lOd per bushel; oatensheaf chaff. £0 10s per ton : pollard. £8 per ton ; bran, £8 per ton ; barley, 3s Od per bushel; oatmeal, £ls per ton; flour, £l3 per ton: horse beaus, -Is 3d per bushel; partridge peas, 5s per bushel; potatoes, £7 10s per ton ;onions. £l2 to £l3 per ton; butter, 8d to 9d per lb ; choose, sjd per lb ; bacon, sides OJd per lb, rolls Old per lb: hams, 10. pl to lid per lb; fowls, 4s 3d to 4s Gd per pair; turkeys, 9s to 11s per pair; ducks, os to Gs per pair; eggs, Is per dozen; cabbages, its Gd to 5s 6d per sack; cauliflowers, Bs Gd to 12s per sack; swedes, Ss to 10s per sack; cooking apples, its f o 12s petcase; parsnips, 12s to 13s od per sack: rhubarb, 3s to Cs per dozen ;peas. to Is per peck; gooseberries, 4s (id lo 5s Gd per half-case; new potatoes, round 10s 6d lo 11s per cwt. kidneys l'2s to 15s per cwt; fungus, 5d per lb. WELLINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE. SATURDAY’S QUOTATIONS. • Banks. —National of Now Zealand, buyers £-1 Is Od, sellers £4, 3s; New Zealand, buyers £3 -is. Financial. —National Mortgage, buyers £1 17s Od, sellers £2; Now Zealand and River Plate Land (old issue), buyers £1 3s 9d, sellers £1 4s-Gd; ditto (new issue), sellers £1 Ss. sales £1 4s Gd; Petono and Hutt Building Society, sellers £5 us. Gas.—Auckland (£5), buyers £l4 7s Gd; Christchurch (£5), sellers £9 15s; Gisborne, sellers £1 18s; Lyttelton, buyers £G 7s 6d; Napior (£1), buyers £2 10s; ditto (£10), sales £l9 12s Gd; Port Chalmers, buyers £1 7s 9d; Wellington (£10), buyers £l9 ss. Insurance.—National of New Zealand, sellers £1 2s ex; New Zealand, buyers £3 18s, sellers £4: South British of New Zealand, buyers £4 > 17s Gd ; Standard of New Zealand, sellers 19s. Moat Preserving—Christchurch Moat Company, sellers £9 2s Gd; Gear Meat Company (£4), sellers £G ss; ditto (£1), sellers £1 11s; AVelUngtou Meat Export Company (£5), sellers £7 ss, sales £7 3s Gd; ditto (£4), sellers £5 15s. and Shipping.—Wellington and Manawatu Rail, sellers £1 11s; Now Zealand Shipping, buyers £G 12s Gd. sellers £7; Union Steam Ship, buyers £l2; Northern Steam, sellers IGs. Woollen Manufacturing. Mosgiel, buyers £3 17s cum; Wellington (£4), sellers £5 6s. Coal. —AVcstport, buyers £5 15s. Miscellaneous.—Avondale Brick and Tile Company, sellers £1 0s 6d; Donagby Rope and Twine Company, sellers £ll 15s; Leyland and O’Brien Timber, buyers £1 18s; Manricevillo Lime Company, buyers 2s 6d prem.; Mitchelson Timber Company, buyers 17s 63. sellers 18s 6d; New Zealand Drug Company (£2), sellers £2 10s; Sharland and Co. (ordinary), sellers £1 3s; Wellington Opera House Company, buyers £4- Whitcombe and Tombs, Ltd., buyers £4 12s 6d. S. C. LEARY, Chairman. C. D. MORPETH, / Secretary. WOOL SALES. PHESS ASSOCIATION. LONDON, November 28. Yesterday’s wool sales were animated. Merinos showed a hardening ton-, dency; crossbreds were unchanged. Today competition is animated. Merinos are very firm and crossbreds are hardening.