FINANCE AND TRADE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 4872, 26 January 1903, Page 6

FINANCE AND TRADE.

The 1 Dustoms revenue and beer duty fox t] 10 week totalled respectively £9610 . L7s lid and £IBO 6s 3d. Saturday’s C ,'ustoma return amounted • to £1235 i Os 7d. Goox go Thomas and Co., Harris street, report the following prices ruling on the Wellington produce market:— Wheati, 4s 9d to os per bushel; horse beans, crushed 4s 6d; oats, 3s to 3s 3d; tjarley, 3s lOd; maize, ,/4s lOd; flour, '£l3 per ton; Adelaide, £l3; oatmeal, £ls; bran, £7 to £7 ss; pollard, £7 Ids; oatshoaf chaff, new £4 10s to £5, <>ld £5 10s; straw chaff, £3 10s; onioi is, prime £8 10s; cheese, 6d per lb ; bacoii, 9d for sides, 9J-d for rolls; hams, lOd; butter, 7ad to 8d; fowls, 3s to 3s 6' d per pair; ducks, 4s to 4s 6d por pair ; turkeys, hens 8s to 9s, gobblers 13s to 15s; eggs, Is 2d to Is 3d per dozi in; cabbages, Is Cd to 2s 6d per sad;; cauliflowers, 2s 6d to 3s 6d; rhubar’o, 3s to 4s per dozen; new potatooii, £4 to £4 10s. Messrs Thompson Bros., Limited, report the following wholesale prices rolling on the Wellington produce market: —Wheat, 4s lOd to ss; oats, 3s to 3s 3d; beans, 4s Gd; barley, 3s lOd; m nizo, 4s lOd; flour, £l3; oatmeal, £ls; pullard, £7 10s to £7 15s bran, £7 to £7 ss; oatensheaf chaff, £4 10s to £5; s'maw draff, £3 10s; onions, £8 10s: cheese, 6d; bacon, sides 9d, rolls o’d pier lb; hams, lOd; butter, 7i-d to 8d: iiowls, 3s to 3s 6d per pair; ducks, 4s bo 4s 6d per pair; turkeys, hens 8s to 9s per pair, gobblers 13s to los; eggs, Is Id to Is 2d per dozen; cabbages, Is £d to 2s 6d per sack; rhubarb, 3s to -4s per dozen; new potatoes, £4 10s to £o. : WELLINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE. SATURDAY’S QUOTATIONS. Banks —National of New Zealand, buyers £4 4s; Now Zealand, sales £3 ss. Financial —Equitable Building Company, buyers £9 15s cum. ; Metropolitan Permanent Building Society (£10), buyers £l2 ; National Mortgage, buyers £2, sales £2 Os' 6d; National and River Plate Land (old issue), buyers £1 4s; ditto (new issue), buyers £1 6s; Wellington Trust Loan, buyers £7 7s Gd. Gae—Palmerston North, buyers £4 7s Cd. Insurance—National of New Zealand, sellers £1 Is; New Zealand, buyers £4. sellers £4 3s, sales £4 Is 6d; Standard of New Zealand, sellers 19s. Meat Preserving—Gear Meat Company (£1), buyers £1 10s; Wellington

Meat Export (£5), buyers £7, sellers £?. 7s Od; ditto (new issue), buyers Is promium. Railways and Shipping—Wellington and Manawatu Rail, sellers £1 11s; Ns"' Zealand Shipping Company, buyers £G 13s; Union Steam Ship Company, bnyors £l2. Woollen Manufacturing Mosgiol, buyers £3 17s Gu; Wellington (f}4), buyers £5 3s. Coal—West port. buyers £G Bs. Miscellaneous —Donaghy Rope aaid Twine Company, buyers £ll los; Leylaud and O’Brien Timber, buyers £2; New Zealand Drug Company (£2), sellers £2 10s; Wellington Fresh Food and Ico Company, buyers 9s Gs ex. : Wellington Opera House Company, buyers £-1. S. C. Leary, Chairman. 0. D. Mcrpeth, Secretary. COAL EXPORT PRESS ASSOCIATION. WESTPORT, January 25. Tho Westport Coal Company’s output last week was 11,572 tons 17cwt.