FINANCE AND TRADE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5733, 31 October 1905, Page 7

FINANCE AND TRADE.

Tho Customs revenue received yesterday totalled £Ol2 17s 6d. Laery and Co., Ltd., Jorvois quay, report tho following wholesale prices ruling on tho Wellington produce market during tho past week;—Flour, £lO per ton; oatmeal, £ll 15s to £l2 per ton; rolled oats, 9s per dozen; prime oateushoaf chaff, 87s Gd to 955; feed oats, 2s 6d to 2s 8d per bushel; seed oats, 2s 8d to 3s per bushel; clun\ oats, 2s 9d per bushel: whole fowl wheat, 3s 5d to 3s 7d: split peas, 15s per cwt; pearl barley, 15s per cwt; feed barley, 3s to 3s 3d per bushel; Cairo barley, 3s 3d; pollard, £5 10s to £5 15s per ton; bran, £4, 10s to £5 per ton ; prime potatoes, £l3 10s to £l4 10s; onions, £lB to £l9 per ton; swedes, 2s Gd per cwt; pumpkins. 8s to 10s per sack; carrots, table, 3s per cwt; cabbages, 2a to Gs; ‘ cauliflowers, 8s to 10s, 1 inferior, 3s to 7s; mutton birds, in casks 4d; eggs, fresh lO.ld to lid per dozen; factory bacon, sides 7d, rolls 8d; poultry, turkeys, (hens), 7s to 8s per pair, gobblers 9s to 12s; hens, 3s Gd to 4s per pair; roosters, 4s to 5s per pair; ducks, Os Gd to Gs Gd per pair; butter, bulk 9d to lOd, medium 7d to 8d per lb ; cheese, best factory sfd to 6d per lb; fungus. 4d por lb; peanuts, 2d to 3d per lb; honey in bulk, 4d per lb; walnuts, Gd to Gid por lb; blue peas, 4s 3d per bushel; crushed malt, 7s per bushel; horse beaus, crushed, 3s Oil; rice pollard, 90s por ton; superphosphates, £4 15s; bonedust, £5.55.

COMMERCIAL CABLES. PRESS ASSOCIATION. LONDON, October 29. Silver, 2s 4Jd per oz. Lead, £l4 17s Gd to £ls per ton. The Near Zealand hemp market is firmer. An October-December shipment sold at £3l 10s. Wheat.—An Australian cargo sold at 31s 3d. Rabbits are scarce. Australian, largo, sold at 14s to *ss 6d; New Zealand, 17s to 17s Gd. Hares are in good demand; prices unchanged. Hides.—At the periodical sales tho demand was very strong. Sydney, salted first kips, OJd to Ogd; second, 5Jd ; basils advanced I’d to 2d: Wellington, first 15d to X7iid. seconds 13d to 14|d. Leather is a farthing dearer. Wellington, firsts, lid to llgd. Now Zealand frozen mutton—Canterbury, light, 3Jd: medium, 3|d; heavy, 3 9-16 d; Dunedin and Southland, 31d; North Island, 3ld to 3Jd. New Zealand lambs—Canterbury, light, 4ydheavy, 3 15-lGd; other sorts unquoted. Beef—Quotations unchanged. River Plato sheep, unchanged; beef, ox fores 2-jd, hindquarters unchanged.