FINANCE AND TRADE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 4880, 4 February 1903, Page 5

FINANCE AND TRADE.

Tho Customs revenue received yesterday totalled £1261 10s Id.

Messrs George Thomas and Co., the Harris street markets, report tho following prices ruling on tho 'Wellington produce market: —■ Wheat, 4s 9d to 5s per bushel; horse beaus. 4s 3d; oats, 2s 9d to 3s; duns, 2s Od; barley, 3s lOd; maize, 4s lOd; flour, £l3 jrar ton; Adelaide, £l3; oatmeal, £ls; bran, £7 os; pollard, £7 los; onions, prime, £8 10s: cheese, Gel per lb: bacon. 9d for sides, Old for rolls; bams, 10d; butter, 7d to 8d; fowls, 3s to 3s Gd per pair; ducks, 4s Gd per pair; turkeys, hens 8s to 9s, gobblers i3s to 15s: eggs. Is Gd per dozen ; cabbages, Is Gd to 2s Gd per sack; cauliflowers, 2s Gd to 3s Gd; rhubarb, 2s Gd to 3s per dozen; new potatoes, £4 to £5.

Messrs Freeman E-. Jackson and Co. (in conjunction with,Abraham and Williams, Ltd.) report on their Johnsonvillo sale as follows:—Wo bad an average yarding of prime bullocks, for which bidding was keen, beef making 2Gs to 27s per 1001 b. Wo quote—Prime heavy weight, £ll 17s Gd to £l2: others, £lO 17s Gd;-smaller sorts, £9 10s to £lO 15s. A small yarding of sheep sold freely. Light wethers, 12s 3d to iSs 2d: good owes, 11s 9d to 13s 9ch others, 9a 9d to 10s lOd. A line of good lambs was passed in; others made Ss to 9s Id. No pigs were yarded.

Dalgety and Co., Limited, have received tho following cable message from London, dated 2nd iust.; —The wool sales have closed with a fairly maintained tone, but lately reported rates are hardly maintained, particularly for medium and coarse crossbred wools. As compared with closing rates of last series, greasy merino wools are unchanged, with the exception of broken fleece, pieces, bellies and locks, for which prices are, on tho average, 5 per cent higher;, heavy and earthy wools are lower by 5 per cent.; scoured merino wools in general are at par to 2.V per cent, higher; fine, light, free descriptions of greasy crossbred are unchanged; medium and coarse greasy crossbred and scoured crossbred wools are 5 per cent, higher; lambs’ wool is also 5 per cent, higher. The total colonial wool available, including old stocks, was 141,000 bales, out of which some Go,000 bales have boon sold for home consumption, 58,000 bales for tho Continent., and 4000 bales for America, leaving 14.000 bales to be carried forward to tho next series.

Messrs George Thomas and Co. held a very successful clearing sale of dairy cattlo at Mr George Bell’s farm,_ Karori, yesterday. The greater portion of the largo herd was disposed cf. There •was a largo and representative attendance of farmers. Milch cows easily realised £7 up to £8 10s each; dry cattlo, from £4 to £5; young stock, £2 5s to E 3 per head. LONDON WOOL SALES. nress ASSOCIATION. (Received February 3, 3.40 p.m.) LONDON, February 5k Th© wool sales have _ closed dull. There have been largo withdrawals. INVERCARGILL, February 3. At the 'second wool sales of the season prices showed a decline. Compared with last sale, coarse crossbred longwool and pieces declined from Id to Id, and merinos and hnlfbreds Id; bright, fine crossbreds 'remain at par.