FINANCE AND TRADE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 5288, 28 May 1904, Page 6

FINANCE AND TRADE.

Tho Customs revenue received yesterday uinuimU'il le £2s(i(i 2s 9(1. Messrs Oeorwe Thomas and Co., Harris street, Wellington, report tho following wliolesale prices ruling in (.hoir market;-—Flour, ill) 5s to it) 10s per ton; wheat, 3s to 3s 2d per bushel; bran, ill 5s per ton; pollard, £5 5s In £5 10 s; wheal meal, 10s (id per 1091 b ; maize 2s IDd to Os per bushel; oats,short 2s to 2s 3d, long oats Is lOd to 2s; oaton-.shcaf chaff, 80s to 00s per ton; baled straw, £'2 10s to £3; baled hay, £5 15s por ton; McGill's oatmeal, £lO 10s; crushed beans, 3d; Iced barley, 2s Od; partridge peas, 4s; Prussian blue peas,-Is to is Lid ; split peas, 15s cwt.; pearl barley, 15s ewt.; Cape barley 2s Od por bushel; Derwent potatoes, 45s in 555; omous, 90s to 110 s; factory cheese, old por lb; bacon, 7d; bams, 7;d; fungus, dfd; swedes, 3s per cwt; ripe tomatoes,ls (id to 5s ; parsnips, lis to 8s per sack; cabbages, 3s to 4s; cauliflowers, 5s to 0s; lettuce, 5s to 8s case; butter. 7dtoßdlb; walnuts, 31 tl to

4!d per lb; cooking apples, 4s (id to ss, dessert 5s to JOs; pears, 4s to 12s; pie melons, 4s per sack; pumpkins, 4s per sack; marrows, 3s per sack; grapes, Is to Is (id per lb; -Messina lemons. 10s; fowls, 2s Ud to 3s per pair; ducks, 4s per pair; turkeys, 7s to 12s; almond nuts, Hd per lb; .Barcelona nuts, (id per lb.

Laery and Co., Limited, report tho following wholesale selling , prices on the Wellington market:—Wheat, fowls’ 3s to 3.s 2d, broken 2s 5d to 2s 7d: feed oats Is lOd to 2s 2d, discoloured Is 4(1 to Is 8d : barley, 2s Gd to 2s 9d ; pollard, £5 5s to £5 10s por ton ; flour, £9_ us to £9 10-i; Manitoban, £9 10s; Washington, £8 10s; bran, £3 to £3 10s; oatmeal, £lO 5s to £lO 10s; rolled oats (s's), 9s Gd, sacks ditto £l2; oatshoaf chaff, 80s to 90s per ton; Capo barley, 2s 9d por bushel; maize., 2s 10(1 to 3s; fungus, 4,',d por lb; potatoes. Dorwonts, £2 5s to £2 15s; onions, 4s Gd to 6s; swedes, £2 to £3; tomatoes, Is Gd to ss; parsnips, 4s Od to Gs per sack; cabbages, 2s to 4s Gd; cauliflowers Gs to 11s Gd ; lettuce, 3s to Gs case ; cheese, factory 5d to s‘d, loaf size 51 d : butter, 7d to 8d for pastry, inferior 5d to Cd; bacon, host factory 7d. roils Bd, hams 8d per lb; walnuts, 3d to 4Jd; split peas, 15s; pearl barley, 15s; cooking apples, 3s to 5s a ease, dessert 5s to 13s; pears, dessert 5s to 10s per case; pm melons, 3s to 3s Gd per cwt.; pumpkins, 2s to 3s jior sack; marrow's, 2s Gd to 3s fc‘d; grapes, Is to Is Gd; Mossina lemons--10s; hens, 2s to 3s; roosters, heavy, 3s 1o 3s Gd; ducks. 4s to ss; turkoys, hens B.s to 9s, gobblers 11s to 13s, all at per pair; fresh eggs Is 9d to 2s, limed Is 3d to Is 4d; ryegrass, 35,9 d to 4s Gd per bushel; cocksfoot,machine-dressed, od per lb; undressed cocksfoot, 31 dto 4d; linseed, 12s; linseed cake, Gs Gd ; Prussian blue peas, 4s to 4s 6d per bushel; partridge peas. 4s per bushel; wild ducks, 4s to 4s Gd; teal, 2s Gd to 3s per brace; hares 2s: OOM7\CERCIZL cables. PRESS ASSOCIATION 1 . (Received May 27, 9.32 p.m.) London, May 27. BANK OF ENGLAND RETURN. The Bank of England return, issued for the week ending Wednesday, May 25th, is as under: —

* Interest payable in May and November, + Interest payable in January and July. I Interest payable in April and October. MONEY MARKET. The market rate of discount for best three months’ trade bills is Jth higher, at 2 l-16th per cent. The Bank of England rate is 3 per cent., as against 31 per cent, on April 21st, and 4 per cent, on April 14th. COLONIAL AND OTHER PRODUCE. "Wheat—Cargoes are quiet; 29s 6<3 to 29s 9d per quarter is asked for those afloat. Victorian April shipments, 11,000 quartern, have sold at 29s The American tfisiblo supply east of tho Rookies is estimated at 36,445,000 bushels. Flour—Minneapolis, 4dol 20oents. Butter—Quiet, but a shade firmer. Now Zealand, 86s to BSs per cwt. torian. 84s to 86s; Now South "Wales, S3s: Queensland, 78s. The demand is confined to choicest. Cheese —Pinner; Now Zealand being quoted at 42s to 435. Rabbits—Poor demand at about 6Jd. Many Australian, ex Warrigal, were condemned. Sugar—Quiet. First mark granulated, f.o.b. Hamburg, 2d higher, at 11s 4d per cwt.; German*beet, 88dog., Id lower, at 9s 5d per cwt. Bradford Tops—The market is firm and good. Prices are unchanged. THE METAL MARKETS. Copper—Spot, 15s lower, at £56 2s 6d per ton; three months’, 10s lower, at £56 7s 6d. Tin—Spot, 25s lower, at- £124 15s per ton; three months’, 20s lower, at £124 per ton. Pig iron—Middlesborongh No. 1 cash, at 43s Od per ton. > Spelter—Gs 3d lower, at £22 per ton.

Issue Department. Note Issue.. £49.035,000 Oov. debt. £11,015.000 Other Bccurlties . 7,494.000 Gold , 80,630,000 £-19,035,000 £49,033.000 Banking Department. Proprietors’ Gov. sccur / o<pital .. £14,553,000 ties . £17,230,000 Public deOther se posits . 7.401,000 curhies . . 25,337.000 (Ulxur de* Sotes . , 20,690,000 posits . . 39,704,000 joi n . 2,068,000 Hoefc, 7-day uml other bills .. 3,694.000 £05.325 000 £65,325,000 The leading items of the Bank of England return afford the following comparison This week. Last week. Last year £ £ £ Bullion .. .. 30.686,000 30,945.000 33,688.000 ftaaorro .. .. 22,758.000 23,027,000 24,846 000 Note circulation . • 28 372,000 28.315,000 29.179.000 Deposits . 47,168.000 47,721,000 43.849,000 Proportion reserve to liabilities .. 48*10 49*09 50*74 GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. The following are the latest quotations for Government securities, with a comparison of those ruling last week: — Price. Variation. £ s', d. % Imperial Consols 00 6 0 2/6 lower 4 % New Booth Wales 109 0 0 20/- higher Si % Naw South Wales 06 15 0 Unchanged 3 % New Sooth Wales 87 0 0 Unchanged 4 % Victorian .. 106 0 0 Unchanged Si % Victorian .« 98 10 0 10/- higher 3 % Victorian ., 83 0 0 Unchanged Si % Sooth Australian 100 0 0 Unchanged 3 % South Australian 87 0 0 Unchanged 4 % Queensland 106 0 0 Unchanged 34 % Queensland 97 0 0 5/- higher 3 % Queensland 87 0 0 Unchanged 4 % New Zealand* 107 0 0 Unchanged Si % New Zealand 1.. 101 0 0 Unchanged 3 % Now Zealand t .. 83 0 0 Unchanged 3J % West Australian 96 0 0 Unchanged 3 % West Australian 86 0 0 Unchanged 3i% Tasmanian 103 0 0 Unchanged 3 % Tasmanian 88 0 0 Un-hnnged