FINANCE AND TRADE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4826, 2 December 1902, Page 5

FINANCE AND TRADE.

Tho Customs revenue received yoster day totalled £2Oll 5s (id.

Dalgcty and Co., XAd., Christchurch, have received tiio following cable message from London, dated 28th ult.; — “.Since our las'- telegram prices of leather are higher by id per ib, and basils bv id to Id. Tho tallow market is weaker.” hinder date 29cb nit., the firm has received the following:—“The v, 00l sales continue with increasing spirit, and prices have gained further ground.”

Leery and Co., Limited, Jorvois quay, report the following wholesale selling prices on,the Wellington produce market:—AVheat (fowls), Is 3d to -Is fid p>er bushel; feed oats, 3s to .Is 3d; discoloured, 2s lOd ; Tartarian seed, 3s Id ; dun oats, 3s 2d; black oats. 3s 3d ; barley, 3s 7d per bushel; maize, 4s lOd per bushel; flour, £l3 per ten; pollard, £8 5s per ton; bran, £8 per ton; oatmeal, £l4 10s per ton; oatsheaf chaff, £l3 10s per ton; straw chaff, £3 10s per ton ; hay, £4 15s per ton; horse beans, 4s 3d per bushel; Dorwoate, £9; onions, Victorian £ll pier ton; cheese, 53d, factory; bacon, od, best factory; bams, lOd; rolls, Old; pastry butter, 8d to dd per lb; fowls, 4s to 4s Gd per pair; ducks, os to 5s Gd per pair; turkeys, lions 7s to 8s per pair, gobblers 0s to Us per pair; goeso, os Gd per pair; fresh eggs, Is per dozen; cabbages, 2s to 3s Gd per sack; cauliflowers, 9s to 14s per sack for choice; cooking apples, 9s per 401 b case; dessert apples, 9s to 17s per 401 b case; mutton birds, 43c1; rhubarb, 3s to 7s per dozen; new round potatoes, 12s to 13s ; kidneys, 15s to 17s per owt.; Hutt flukes, 17s Gd; gooseberries, halfcase, 5s to 7s. ■WOOL SALES. PIIRSU ASSOCIATION. LONDON, November 30. Tho wool market is very excited, and prices arc exceedingly firm. Tho Waipahi clip brought 81,d per lb Longburn, Gild; Greenfield, 7RI. Tho total quantity catalogued to date is 47,740 bales, of 'which 46,224 bales have been sold. COMMERCIAL CABLES. LONDON, November 30. Copper, on tho spot, £49 17s 6d per ton. Tin—Spot, £ll3 per ton; three months, £ll2 2s Gd. Tho Frozen Meat Trade Association’s Smithficld market quotations for tho undermentioned classes of frozen meat aro based on actual sales of not less than 100 carcases of mfitton or lamb, or 25 carcases beef of fair average quality. Quotations aro not for selected linos, but for parcels fairly representative of bulk shipments now on tho market:— Sheep—Canterbury, 5d per lb; Dun. edin and Southland, unchanged; North Island, 4 13-l Gd. Lamb —Canterbury, Dunedin jynd Southland, unchanged; North Island; none offering. Beef, unchanged. River Plate sheep, heavy, 4 7-lGd per lb; light, unchanged. Beef, unchanged. Hides, good demand. Now South Wales -heavy ox, 43d per Ib; light, 4ldcow. 4i!d. Leather, unchanged; prices firm. Now Zealand basils, is 2d.