FINANCE AND TRADE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 4981, 3 June 1903, Page 6

FINANCE AND TRADE.

The Customs revenue received yesterday totalled £2887 3s 6d. . . Messrs Laory and Co., Ltd., Jervois qu'ny, report the following wholesale selling prices on the Wellington produce market;—Wheat (fowls’), 4s-M to -Is 7d per bushel; feed oats, 2s'2d’to 2s 6d per bushel; barley, 3s 2d per bushel; maize. 5s per bushel; flour, New Zealand, Atlas brand, £lO 10s; pollard. £6 los to £7 per ton; bran, £5 10s per ton; oatmeal, £ll os per ton; onions, New Zealand, inferior £2 to £3 per ton, choice £6 to £7 10s'per ton; cheese, factory, 6d per lb ; bacon, best factory B}d, hams 91d, rolls 9id; pastry butter, Sd to 9d per lb; fowls. 3s per pair; roosters, 3s 6d; ducks, 4s to 6s per pair; turkeys, hens 7s per pair, gobblers 11s to 13s per pair; fresh eggs, 2s per dozen, limed Is, 6d; cabbages. Is 6d to 2s per sack; cauliflowers, 3s to 6s; potatoes, 65s to 755; linseed cake, £9 10s; undressed cocksfoot, 3d to 31d per lb, machine dressed 5d ; ryegrass, 4s to os 3d per bushel; partridge peas, 4s 9d per bushel; oaten sheaf chaff, 90s per ton; Capo barley, 3s 6d; Prussian blue peas, 6s; carrots, 40s; wild ducks, 4s to 'ss per pair; teal_ 2s 6d per pair; pukekos, Is to Is 4d per pair; hares, 3s per pair; quail, Is 6d; parsnips, 3s to 4s per sack; pumpkins, 4s to 5s per sack; marrows, 5s to 6s per sack._ WELLINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE. . TUESDAY’S. QUOTATIONS. Banks —National of New Zealand, buyers £4 9s 6d, sellers £4 12s, sales £4 lOs: Union of Australia, buyers £37 ss. Financial—National Mortgage, sellers £2 3* Od ; New Zealand and lliver Plate Land (old issue), sellers £1 Gs 6d; Wellington Trust and Loan buyers £7 12s. Gas. —Christchurch (£5), buyers £9 12s od; Palmerston North, buyers £4 los; Port ChalTuers, sellers £1.125; Welling-

toil (£10). buyers £lB 10s; do (£5), buyers £0 5s Insurance.—National of New Zealand, sellers £1 Is 9d; New Zealand, sellers £-1 8s _ • Heat Preserving.—Christchurch Meat, sellers £lO 2s (id ; Hear Meat (£4), buyers £0 ss; do (£1), buyers £1 12s (id; Now Zealand Refrigerating, sellers £2. Transport.—Wellington and Manavratu Railway, sellers £1 Ss, sales £1 Ss. -Woollen.—Mosgiel, sellers £4; Wellington (£4), sellers £5 7s (xl; do (£3 ss), buyers £4 Sis. Miscellaneous.—Westport Coal Company, buyers £0 4s; iUamiing and Co., sellers £4 15s; McLeod Hi os., buyers £l4, sellers £l4 17s (id; Mitcheisou Timber Co., buyers 12s (id, sellers 15s: Now Zealand Drug Co. uln), sellers £2 7s; Sharland and Co. (ordinal y), sellers £1 S. C. Leary, Chairman. C. IX Morpeth, Secretary.