FINANCE AND TRADE.
The Customs revenue received yes terday totalled £6707 Is 3d.
Laery and Co., Ltd., Jervnis quay, report the following wholesale prices ruling on the Wellington produce market during the past week; —Flour, £lO per ton: oatmeal, £ll 15s to £l2 per ton; rolled oats, 9s per dozen ; prime oatensheaf olxalf, 90s to 100 s; feed oats, 2s 7d to 2s 9d per bushel; seed oats. 2s 8d to 3s per bushel; dun oats, 2s 9d per bushel; whole fowl wheat, 3s 5d to 3s 7d; split peas, los per cwt; pearl barley, los por cwt; feed barley, 3s to 3s 3d per bushel; Capo barley, 3s 3d; pollard. £5 10s to £5 15s per ton; bran, £4 los to £5 per ton; prime potatoes, £l3 10s to £l4 10s; onions, £lB to £l9 per ton; swedes, 2s Cd per owt; pumpkins, 8s to 10s per sack; carrots, table, 3s per cwt; cabbages, 2s to 6s; cauliflowers, 4s to 8s; mutton birds, in casks 4d; oggs, fresh IOJd to lid per dozen; factory bacon, sides 7d, rolls 8d; poultry, turkeys (hens) 7s to 8s per pair, gobblers 9s to 12s; hens, 3s 6d to 4s per pair; roosters, 4s to 5s per pair; ducks. 5s 6d to 6s Cd per pair; butter, bulk 9d to 10s, medium 7d to 8d per lb; cheese, best factory s}d to 6d per lb; fungus, 4d per lb; peanuts, 2d to 3d per lb; honey in bulk, 4d per lb; walnuts, 6d to 6jd per lb; blue peas, 4s 3d per bushel; crushed malt, 7s per bushel; horso beans, crushed, 3s 9d; rice pollard, 90s per ton; superphosphates, £4 15s; bonedust, £5 ss.
THE LONDON MARKET. Dalgety and Company, Ltd., Wellington, have received the following cablegrams from their London office, dated 2nd instant: —“Frozen mutton ' and lamb.—Since our last telegram prices are at par to Jd per lb lower. Frozen beof—Prices are nominally unchanged. Frozen meat—Believe prices have touched bottom. _ “Tallow in general—ls per cwt higher. Since our last telegram, spot, near shipment, re-sellers' are offering to sell mixed and beef tallow, good coloured. 43 to 43ideg., at 26s 6d per cnvt, at a reduction of 3d per unit, if shipment Novemher-Deoember per steam. “Butter—The tone of tho market is rather worse. Copenhagen official quotation is unchanged. We expect lower prices. Total imports of butter into tho United Kingdom for week ending 2Sth ultimo amounted to 65,000 owt, as compared with 62,000 for tho corresponding period of last year.” COMMERCIAL CABLES. I PRESS ASSOCIATION. LONDON, November 2. The American visible supply of wheat is 47,841,000 bushels. Tallow.—ln stock. 656 casks; imports, 5391 casks; deliveries, 7962 casks. Tin—ln stock, 12,495 tons; on the snot. 4497 tons: afloat, 3572 tons; deliveries, 2379 tons. Lead, £l4 17s 6d to £ls per ton. THE PRODUCE MARKET. CHRISTCHURCH, November 3. There is good inquiry on the part of local millers for prime wheat. The market is firm. Sales of extra prime have taken place at 3s Id at country stations. A large lino, principally
Hunters, has been sold at 3s at Rakaia. From Oamant it is reported that the wheat market is much more active than for some time past, largely, in consequence of inquiries from the North Island for prime milling. Alcrchants seem disposed to give more than local millers, and sales have taken place of velvet up to 3s 4d, and up to 3s 5d for Tuscans, f.o.b. Oamaru. Oats aro meeting with some inquiry in Christchurch, but business is restricted, owing to scarcity of offerings. Tho export of potatoes has practically ceased, as stocks remaining will not bo more than aro required for local consumption.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5737, 4 November 1905, Page 9
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