FINANCE AND TRADE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5732, 30 October 1905, Page 6

FINANCE AND TRADE.

The Customs revenue and beer duty for tho week totalled respectively £8203 7s Id and £IOB 0s Cd. Saturday’s Customs return amounted to £lOOl 12s 4d. Thompson Bros., Limited, Harris street, report prices ruling on tho Wellington market last week as follows:—Derwent potatoes, from £l4 to £l4 10s per ton, according to condition, Americans £10; onions. 18s to 19s per case; oatensheaf chaff, 80s to 90s ex wharf, 90s to 90s ex store; feed oats, 2s (id to 2s 7d per bushel: maize, 4s 2d per bushel ; whole fowl wheat, 3s 7d to 3s 8d ; barley, 3s 3d per bushel ; pollard, £5 10s per ton: bran, £4 15s to £5 per ton ; eggs, IGUI to lid per dozen; cheese, Od to G*d per lb; butter, pats to ld]d, pastry Sd to B]d per lb; poultry, roosters, 3s Od to 4s Od; hens, 3s to 3s Od; ducks, us to 5s Cd ; turkey gobblers, 11s to 12s Od, hens 6s Gd to 7s Od per pair; factory bacon (Moropork and Swan brands), nides 7d. rolls Bd, Rams to 8d per lb; cooking apples, Cs Cd to 7s 6d, dessert 8s to 10s 6cl; oranges, 8s Cd to 9s Cd; mandarins, 0s Gd to 7s Cd; • lemons, Gs Gs to 9s; fungus, 4d per lb. Dalgcty and Co., Ltd., report having held the following clearing sales recently:—On account of Mr F. Hook, Tawa •Flat, who has sold his farm, dairy cattle, horses, traps, furniture, etc., all at satisfactory prices. On account, of the executors of the late J. Judd, at Upper Hutt saleyards, his dairy herd of 78 head, also horses, brake, etc. At this sale good milkers realised from £G to £G 15s; empty dry cows, £3 to £'3 12s Gd; bulls £2 10s; yearlings £2 Is. WELLINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE. SATURDAY’S QUOTATIONS.

COMMERCIAL CABLES. PRESS ASSOCIATION. LONDON, October 28. The Bank of Englahd return issued for the week ending Wednesday, October 25th, is as under: —

GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. The following are the latest quotations for Government securities with a comparison of those ruling last week:—

THE MONEY MARKET. Tho market rate of discount for best three months bills is unchanged at 4 per cent. The Bank of England rate is 4 per cent., as against 3 per cent, on September 28th. ' COLONIAL AND OTHER PRODUCE. Wheat. —The markets are firm. Russian offers are decidedly higher. Tho elevators are stopped at Nicolaieff. Cargoes are Held for higher prices. South Australian, November-December shipment, 32s 9d; New Zealand, longberried, spot 30s Gd to 31s, short-ber-ried, 29s Cd to 30e. Flour is very firm at 23s 6d to 245; Glasgow, 255. Sugar is steady. German beet, 88deg, Id lower, at 8s 3d; first mark granulated, f.o.h. Hamburg, 3d lower, at 10s Id per cwt. Butter is firm. The continuance of tho Russian strike is threatening to curtail Siberian supplies. Colonial choicest, unchanged; secondaries are slightly weaker at 102 s to 103 s. Bradford Tops.—There is poor inquiry. The values of merinos ale fairly maintained; corssbreds are neglected. Common CD’s, id lower at 251 d; super

GO’s. id lower at 2G.UI; 4G’s, ISd ; 40’s, at IGicl per lb. THE M ETA L MAR KETS. Copper—Spot, £7l 10s; throe months, £7O 12s Cd per ton. Tin—Spot. £l4B 15s; throe months, £147 2s Cd per ton. Pig-iron, 7d lower at 53s 4d per ton. Load, unchanged, at £l4 17s Cd per ton.

Buyer Skllei 1. £ s. d. Banks — National Of N.Z. Ltd 5 12 0 5 23 0 K 12 (G IS fi 0 New Zealand 6 15 0 G 13 0 1« W U 17 0 0 Financial— Equitable Building (jo. Ltd •• 0 .Metropolitan Peru r» manent.XlO .. National Mortgage 2 IS Ltd N.Z.&U. Plate. Let, 1 9 G Wellington Rid., L*d Jf 10=3 pd. .. Wellington Trust 0 & Loan, Ltd. ,. 7 10 0 — Gas— Chri-tchurch.XS.. 9 in 0 Feiltliae i a Hokitika .. 4 0 0 T-'almerston N. 5 n 0 Wellington, XIO .. 18 7 Xu 9 3 9 9 10 0 — Insurance— National of N.Z. .. 1 2 3 New Zealand 4 17 0 5 0 0 Standardot N.Z. .. 0 IT 3 ■ — — Meat Pheservino _ Wellington Meat Export X2 12a Gd a 2 6 — 8 3 0 Railways and Shipping — W.&«. Railway ... 1 U 9 Wellington Steam Ferry 0 17 G 0 19 0 — Woollen Manufacturing Wellington a is 0 — Coal— Taupiri 0 19 3 — Mcsfenort.. 0 12 6 Miscellaneous— ManriccTille Limo fVi 1 6 6 Mitcbelson Timber Co 0 s 0 Mountain ll f mu Timber Co. .. 0 19 0 N.Z. Drug Co., Ltd. £2 2 6 0 N.Z. Paper Mills (cum dir)— 1 5 0 — Ward* Co.,Ltd, 4 7 G 4 12 G Wellington Fresh Food and Ice, XI pd. — 0 10 — L, H, B Wi sov. Chairman. <J. D. Mr rpeth, Secretary.

Isrttr Department. Note Issue.£48,610.000 Gov. debt.. £11,015,000 Other scourities 7,434.000 Gold 80,161,000 £48,610,000 £48,610,000 Banking Department. Proprietors* Gov. aecuricapital .. £14,553,000 lies .. £16,048.000 Public deOther scposits 11,331-000 curilios .. 33.0^0,000 Otter de* Notes .. 19.722,000 posits .. 41,072,000 Coin .. 1,763,000 Pest, 7-day «md ether bills S,C57.000 £70.013,000 £70.613,000 The leading items of the Bank of England return afford the following comparison This week. Last week. Last year £ £ £ .. 30.101000 80,3(16.090 84,536.000 Reserve .. 21.485 500 21.673,0 '0 27,073 000 Noteclrcnlation .. 28888.000 28 940.000 97,907.000 Deposits ., .. 62,403,003 50,0 43,00 J 50.U5.000 Proportion reserve toll-abilities 40*17 43-21 53 68

Price. Variation. 2i % Imperial Consols £ n. d. 8S .10 0 2/6 lower Unchanged 4 % Now South Wales IDS' il 0 3%%NewSonth Wales 08 0 0 Unchanged 8 % New South Wales 8:> 0 0 5/- lower 4 % Victorian 105 0 0 Unchange I 34% Victorian OB 0 0 Unchanged 8 % Victorian 86 0 0 Unchanged 34% South Australian 90 15 0 Unchanged 8 % South Australian ■88 0 0 Unchanged 4 % Queensland .. 106 0 0 Unchanged 8$% Queensland .. 03 0 0 Unchanged S % Queensland .. 80 10 0 10/- lower 4 % Now Zealand* 100 0 0 20/- lower 34% New Zealandt 90 5 0 Unchanged 8 % Ncvr Zealand! 80 0 0 Unchanged 34% West Australian 05 0 0 Unchanged 3 % VVest Australian 86 0 0 Unchanged 84% Tasmanian .. 93 0 0 2 V- lower 3 % Tasmanian .. 89 10 0 Unchanged • Interest payable in May and November ■f Interest payable ir January and July. J Interest payable ir April and Octobe-.