FINANCE AND TRADE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 5024, 23 July 1903, Page 6

FINANCE AND TRADE.

Tiio Customs revenue received yesterday totalled £5920 12s 4d. Messrs Laery and Co., Ltd.. Jervois quay, report uie following wholesale sellnig prices on tlio 1\ ellingtoa produce maruec heat (fowls*), 3s lOd to 4s; smutty 1' I )!?r bushel; feed oats. Is lid jo “S 4(i per bushel; barley. Ss 2d per bushel; flour, New Zealand, .£lO 10s; pollard, £5 lUs por ton; bran, £4 10s; oatmeal, £lO 15s per ton; liny, £1 por tun; onions, New Zealand, £3 to .£5 per ton, according to sample; cheese, factory, 6d l je n best factory Bld, hams 9d, rolls 9-ld ; pastry butter, 8d to 9d perlb; factory rolls, 10kl; fowls, 3s to 3s 3d; roosters. os Gd; ducks os to 5s 6d por pair; airkeys, hens 7s per pair, gobblers 11s to Jos; fresh eggs, is 6d pqr dozen, iuned Is 4d per cozen; cabbages, Is to 2s per sack; cauliflowers, 6s to 9s per sack; table notatoos, 70s to 80s; curly seed potatoes, ■£ v 10s; undressed cocksfoot. 3d to 3ld per lb: machine-dressed cocksfoot, 4£d; ryegrass, 4s to 5s 3d per bushel; part-r-G Peas. 4s 9d per bushel; oaten sheaf chafl, 90s per ton; straw chuff, 60s; Cape barley, 3s 8d; Prussian blue peas, 7s per busncl; wild ducks. 4s to 4s 6d; pukckos. Is to Is 6d: hares 8s; teal. 2s 6d to 3s per brace; quail Is 6d; carrots. 40s; parsnips, 4s to 5s per sack; pumpkins, os to 5s 6d per sack; marrows, 4s to 5s per sack; cooking apples 5s to 6s, dessert apples Gs to 9s; mutton birds, 51d; horse beans, 4s 4d per bushel; maize, 3s 9d per busncl. WELLINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE. WEDNESDAY’S QUOTATIONS. Banks.—National cf New Zealand, buyers £4 12s 6d, sellers £4 13s 6d; New Zeaiand, buyers .I*4 5s 6d, sellers .£4 6s Gd, sales £4 ss, .£4 6s and £4 6s Gd; Union of Australia, buyers £39. ! innneiul. Metropolitan Permanent (£l9). buyers £l2; Wellington Trust Loan, sellers .£7 15s. Gas.y-Eeilding, buyers 19s 9d; Palmerston North, buyers .£4 15s; \\ cllinglou (£10), buyers £l9, sales £l9 10s. Insurance.—National of Now Zealand, buyers £1 0s 3d. sales ,£1 0s 9d; New Zealand, buyers .£4 3s, sellers £4 ss; South British of New Zealand, buyers .£4 19s. Meat Preserving.—Wellington Meal. Export (.£5), buyers £7 8s cum div; New Zealand .Refrigerating Company, sellers .£1 18s. Transport.—Wellington and Manawatu Pad), buyers £1 Ss, sales £1 8s 3d. Woollen Manufacturing.—Mosrnel, buyers £4 Is: Wellington (£4), buyers £5 Bs. Coal.—Westport, buyers <£7. Miscellaneous.—Miramar Limited, sellers 11s Gd; Milbura Lime and Cement Company (second issue), buyers 14s; New Zealand Candle Company, sellers £10; New Zealand Drug Company (£2), buyers £2 6s 6d, sellers £z 7s 6d; Sharland and Co. (ordinary), buyers .£1 2s 9d, sellers £1 Ss. S. C. Leary, Chairman. C. D. Morpeth, Secretary. COMMERCIAL CABLES. PRESS ASSOCIATION. LONDON, July 21. The total quantity of wheat jyid flour afloat for tho United Kingdom is 2,500,000 quarters, and for the Continent 1,205,000 quarters. The shipments from American Atlantic ports amount to 199,000 quarters. Shares are unchanged. Tiff, on tho spot, £124 5s per ton, £1 higher; three months, .£122, a rise of .£1 10s. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKETS. SYDNEY, July 22, Wheat, chick, New Zealand, 4s i?ci to 4s lOd; milling, Argentine, 4s Sd; Californian, ss. ITonr, £l2 5s to .£l2 10s. Oats, feeding, Now Zealand and Tasmanian, 2s 7d to 2s S.'.vi ; milling, 2s lOd to 2s lid. Barley, 3s lOd. Maize, 1 3s 5d to 3s 6d. Peas, Prussian Blue, 7s to 7s 3d, Bran, 9*d to lOd. Pollard, XOKI to lid. Potatoes, Circular Deads, <£2 10s to £3; New Zealand early rose, £5 10s to £6. Onions, to £3 10s. Butter, host. Is 2d. Cheese, Gd to Bd. Bacon, 74d to Hams, Now Zealand, Is to Is Id. MELBOURNE, July 22.

Wheat, Californian, 5s Id; Indian, 4s IQd; Argentine, 4s lid. Flour, All 10s to .£ll 15s. Oats, Algerian, 2s to 2s I'd; New Zealand, stout, 2s ’ld to 2s Bd. Maize, 2s lid to 3s. Bran and pollard, lOd to 10?,d. Potatoes, to J:2 12s 6d. Onions, A 3 to A 3 ss. ADELAIDE, July 22. Wheat, nominal, 5s 4d. Flour, .£l2 ss. Bran, Is to Is Old. Pollard, Is 2jd. OTAGO GRAIN MARKET. 1)u.\l;IIIN, July 22, Wheat—Millers’ purchases are confined to small lines of choice Northern. Prices asked are ahead of buyers’ ideas. Fowl wheat is in fair demand, and as stocks are gradually reduced the market is becoming firm. Prime milling, 4s to 4s 2d; whole fowl wheat, 3s to 3s 2d; broken and damaged, 2s Cd to 2s lid. sacks extra. Oats—The market is quiet, and little business is doing. There is moderate inquiry for seed and milling lines. Good seed lines, Is lid to 2s 3d; prime milling. Is Sid to Is lOd; good to best feed. Is 7d to Is 8d; inferior to medium. Is to Is Gd, sacks extra. SOUTHERN STOCK SALES. CHRISTCHURCH, July 22. There was a fair attendance at the Addington market to-day. Pat cattle—lß3 head came forward, and met spirited competition. Prices showed a marked rise, and l>eef was valued at.from 29s to 32s 6d per lOOlbs Steers, A 7 10s to Al 4 ss: heifers ,£G to Jill ss; cows, A 5 15s to .£l3 ss. Eat sheep—There was a largo yarding including a good proportion of prime wethers and young ewes. For these competition was very brisk, and the h ; gh prices ruling recently were exceeded Freezing buyers bought very few ewes’ but competed keenly for wethers. Even unfinished ewes were eagerly snapned up by butclirs at from 13s to 16s, ‘whilst for prime quality auctioneers had no difficulty in getting over 2Gs. The range of prices was—Prime crossbred wethers 21s to 27s 3d; lighter, 17s 3d to 20s; prime merino wethers, 17s 6d to 22s 3d; lighter, 15s: prime wethers and ewes! 18s 9d to 23s 9d; unfinished, 16s to 17s 6d; prime ewes. 20s to 24s 3d; medium, 17s 3d to 10s Dd; light, 13s to 16s. Fat lambs—The yarding of about SSO comprised very mixed quality, and there were not many really prime pens. Prices were on a par with last week’s. Tegs. 17s Gd to 21s; freezers. 13s 3d to 17s" botchers’. ]2s Gd to IBs Dd. , . “ Pigs—The yarding was small, and all good sorts sold readily at last week’s rates, host porkers showing a slight rise Choppers, to M JSs; baconcrs,' 45s ‘to 60s, equal to 5d per Ih; porkers, 33s to ids, equal to Gd Per lb. DUNEDIN. July 22 At the Burnside market to-dav there was a good attendance, and the sale on tr" whole was c nti. c r?aotcry. Fat cat.tle-MGS head were yarded- a fair proportion being good to prime. Although prices were scarcely up to last week’s, the sale was satisfactory. Bc»t bnilrwA.-c. Jill 13s 6d; medium. A 9 10s to -CIO 7s 6d ; others. XJ 15s to ,£8 7 S ed: best cows. .£9 10s; medium .£7 in- go 10s; Others. £R 10s to £6 17s Gd. ' . Eat sheen—2oo9 were penned, with an improvement in nun.b'ty. The sale opened dull, but imnroved towards the dose ■Prices on the nveraee were Is Gd to 2s below last week's. Best wefhers, on to 2Gs 3d; good. 22s !H to ?3s: medium 17s fid to 10= od; ethers. Ifis to 17s- best ewes, up to 92s 9d; medium, 18s 9d to ?fi*: 16s to 17*. lAWihs—9s". varrled. B-’st„ un to 15s 31; me-lirri. 13= to. 14s Gd: others, 11s Cd + o 13= 3d. p;ns —fij. yarded. Ruckers. 14s to Ifisslins. 18= to 9!fc- norVeys. 35s to 4f,s; baronnrs. 48= to 60s- hy pigs, 70s to 89s. No stores were yarded.