LATEST MARKETS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 9685, 29 April 1893, Page 4

LATEST MARKETS.

[BY T«LEGBAPH.J LONDON— A*biI 27. Money Seotjbities. — 3 per cent. Consols now at 99£, steady. 2J per ceat. Oonßols 97 New Zealand securities are qaoted as follows: — 5 por cent. 10 40 loan, 105£ d; 4 per ceut. 1879-1904 loaD, 106 ; 3£d por ceni inscribed stock, 97£, Markut rate of discount is 15 per ceat. j and b»nk rate of discount is now 4 pet cent. Total reserve in the Bank of England in notes and bullion is now £16,720,000 being on increase of £106,000 on previous week. Proportion of reserve to liabilities is 48*! 4 per cent, being an increase on last week of 0 12 per cent. BbeADSTOFFS. — Wheat market: Australian store, 33s to 33s 4d per 4960) (quiet) ; N.Z. lonir berried wheat ex warehouse; 30s per 4961 b. Tallow. — Tallow there is little demand. Best, best, 26s CJ; medium mutton, 28s 6d. Leather. — Best (idea Australian leather Bid per lb.; hides nre realising from Bdto3|l. FLAX.— lhera is nothing doing ia hemp. ~ BOXTER. — Thera are no quotations for foreign butter this week. Frozen Meat. — Last quotations are : New Zealand frozen mutton. Canterbury! $ I and Wellington, Id ; frozen beef, hia-l quarters. 4£d d foro quarters, 3ijJ per lb. Umb, B;, 1 1. Frozen mutton ex T- Kia i n-i Arawaia good demand. Wo'-iii. — At the wool sales prices reiinin firm. Competition for medium sot s is k°o or. MELBOURNE-YEaTEHD&y BBEADBTDFFB. — Owing to tho ieee >1 Bank failure* DU6ines3 is in an uuso'tled state. La'cst quotations (ire : — Wheat 3sOJ(i. Flour: Stone mn'le, £7 f»s; :ol!<?r i 7 15 Oats: A!i crinn Is 8d to Is 9d; Dun sh Is 9Jd; s'out, 1% Hid. Pran, BJd; Maizo, 3» 91; pst.s, 2b 2a" to 2* 2J . Potatoes" £3 onions, £3 10s. ; fhx : g)od prime, £20 to £2!; inferior, £.6 to £19. Prodcob.— Messrs Wood, Dunn and Co L'mi'eil, report. — teller : Tho supplies th's week aie khor f , upon continned dry woatl.er, prime fae'ory nukes i i bulk selling at Is to Is Id: jib r -11s Is 'o Is 21; best dairies, in piints !<ud roll 3 10 1 to fs; m^diuu to good, B}d 1o 9Jd ; hfc i»r lower. Potto i butter (uld) : Goj.i to pr'mo, 9d to 1110 1 ; pafcfn 6i to BJ'I. Cheese : A goo \ demawi cxis'.s for prims m kea at ssd to 6.} ; medium to good 4J"I to 6d. Bnco : Best factory sides selliDg freely at 7d ; middUsB i to BJd, anM waate ; tSlli short 6^d to 6 1, an-1 in i!ura n.i ; hams, biggtd 8d totsj 1 ; naked 71 to Bd. SYDNEY (N.&W.V-YKsra day. Breads tuffs. — Quot-iiioaa are as follows: —Wheat : Milling, new, Hs 51 to 3s 6.1 ; chick wheat, 2s 10.1 to 3< per bushel. Flour : Ckw Z alan.l stone maJe £7 10a to £8 thj ton; tollar, £7 10a to £8. Oats : Feeding 2i U to 2i s£d ; seed, 2s 7d to 2s 9.1; Ms.zo, ie» 3s 10 i to 4a3J;ol ', 4a 6J;bran, BJd; pJlard, 9dj poss, bluo t'russiar, 4s 3 I to 4s iJ. fBODttOB, — U thi whitf thi Wowing wore tin wholesals qu/itatiois : — But er ; dairy ma-le, 6I to 8 1 ; factory, 8d to 9 1; po'ntoes : New Zealand, £3 10s j Ci oula' Heads, £3 15s; onions £4 5s a to.; bncon machine-cured 51 to 6J ; han'-'-urci, 6 1 to 7d; Now Zealand bicon (prime q"ali y) 8J i ; hams (N.Z) nominal lid to Is, cheeae, local, 4d to 4J-I. All tho abovi are duly paid. ADELAIDE— Ykst -BDAY. BbeadjTUFF3 —Wheat: Dnll at 3s Id to 3s 3d, Flour, stonomide, fc7 15s a ton; roller made, £8 to £8 5s a ton. Oa'i, 3s Id to 9s 2d ; malting barley, 4s 6d to ss; bran, 0J to 101 ; pollard, lOid to Hid. THLEGBAPHBD BY SPECIAL COBBESPOf - DENTS TO TABANAKI HEBALD.] AUCKLAND— Yestebday. Pboducb. — Prices remsin much about the same. Good quality of butter is somewhat scarce, but there is do change in pliee. Qjotations are at follows: Fresh butter :firsts, 8d per lb; seconds 7d; thirds, 6d per. lb; prime salt butter 7d to 7£d ; seconds 6J to 7d; cheese, local, 4^d to 6d; factory, 6Jd to7d; eggs Is6d; bacon fin cloth; 7^d to 7J-3; hama (in cloth) 9d to 9Ji ; roller flour, £9 10s; stono do, £8 10s ; maize, 3s lOd; oats, fesd, 7s 3d to 2s sd ; seed, 2s fid to 2s 9J ; milling 2s 61 to 2s 8d ; wheat (new rot quoted) ; potato ,-b, £3 per ton ; onions, 3^l to h$ i per lb. Grain, Foddeb, &c— At the Haymarket Messrs Buckland & Sons report that dm ing the past week meadow bay brought 2a 9J, oaten flieaves 2s 9d and 3s the cwt; itraw Is9dtke cwt; chaC £2 5s to £1 10 a thet h e ton; bar'ey 2b 2 J and 2a 3d; wheat, 2s 2d to2s 3d; oats, Is lid to 2b 3d; cocksfoot, 5s 6J; ryegrass, 3s to 3s 91 the b shel, FOBBE Stock. — Messrs Buckland & Bonn report that at ihe Haynmrkot horse stock were (oi Friday, Apil2l) ii usual supply. Useful workers were in reqnest, Fair horses ranged from £12 to £17 10s; light h.rnoss ±9 to £14; undersized horsjs almost unsaleable. Wool, Hides, Fkins, &c —Messrs Q. W. Binney & Son report that they offered and cleared an aveog; catalogue under brink competition. Prime stout ox 6£ I to 6^ I, heavy skat ox E^i to o^d, heavy s'out 4d to 4^d, medium ana steer 2J I to 3J?, heavy cow 2£ 1 to 2JJ, msdium If J tc 2i, kip ar.d yenrhng 2{ii to 3d, calfskins 3^d to 4 : } 1 per lb; skius and pelts Is 3d to 3s 2d, tku s Is Id toiiß Id, riiy and damnged 5d to 8d each; larabswool 61 to 6^, fleece 6 to G£ I, pieces 2jd to 4fd per lb j tullow, first cIi.ES 18s to 21s; seco.d 14 j to IGs per cwt.— Messrs. Buckland & Son report that at their hides and skin sale on Tuesday (April 25) hides and skins were in demand, an > sold freely. Ox hidor ranged from 2 jd to 4JI, cow hi3e» l^d to 2Jd, cafski.is 3 I to 4Jjd per lb Tallow 17s to 21s, Loncs is tho cwt. Sheepskins wcie bo'ier north, and ranged from 2i 2J to 3s 8"48 "4 each; rough fleece wool 5i 1 to G} 1 the lb. Cattle, sheep, &o— Mo«a s Buckla->d & Soi.sTGpoit thit at I'ukekobo catllo s'tlo on Monday (April 21) there wa» a full muster of cattle, paiticulitrly dairy cows, and ihcs3 were eagerly bid f rj piicsfor g od animils ranged from £G lCs to £9 15s 6d; yousg cat l l. 1 a'so weroin full numbers and better worth thau last month's market; prices for calves mostly ranged from 2-isto 34s each. — At Bcmnera en Thursday (April 27) dairy cattlo were in demand; heifeis wlthiaa f'.i* weeks of calving brought from £5 to £6 7s 6d; cows at prt lit £G )2i G.i to £10 10s each; etoro cattlo mere in moderate number, and fully kept ktoval c«; 8 month cilvei 31s; 18 months htifers H2 183 each ; fat calves were short of uqi'.itmo t, aad coll well. Fatcuttli t.c ein hai lhat usunl supply ; 5(0 fold at a vancc iv price, steers at 2Us cows 16s the KOiba ; fat sheep in ecort supply (860 s-j'd), nud weio at irregular values, but on the wLoloaivanci 1 iv p'icc. Woibeis w. ro^frcm Us Ud t^ Ilia; ewes 8a to Us each. he GOO 1 mb 3 tdvoriiso.l were in ih-iir wool, and tanged fiom 4sGl to 6s ca.-h, P.gs wcru in mo 't rita i-umbur, i<url kept tluir values. — Mußirs Hunt r tc Nulau repot t as f>!low*: (JattK 1 : A goo lin my 9'oro and dairy co« share brio . brought lorw.ird, anil change I han s vsmliou. aluriioi in v lao, Ihe Ncamirket yar 's wisio fniily filloil on hi 8 dny, tho ranjo. i y being storus, of which a 1 ryu pruponiiii weio will bic) sto rj in frciti condi.i.u, which although rlisposcl v', did not rcuj'i the txp eta i n if \e.do s. We qu;t«: U.lvm £1 2s to £1 16*,yeailiugs £2 to £2 10->, 2-ycnr oil bteoira A 2 15s to £3 15j, o-j ear-old btcers £3 15a 'o £4 53, grown steers £i IBs to sis, dry cowa and heifcra £2 to £2 15d, beef 18s to 'Ms ihe 1001 b. Uomu averages of fit steers were: £7 8* 9 1, £1 12s Gil, £6, £5 17s Gd, £5 7s 6 1; cows, £ti 7s 6d, £6 si, £5 sa. £1 15k, £1 10 ft. BLerp wro ie ii»e 1 in roo !tia(e numbers at Newnrtiket on 1 uc?day, ai d huto w.is i. slightly upwacd toniieucj in valio. Wetiors sold at fom 9s 6 1 to 153 3J, ow<s 6s to 9s 6d, lambs 6i Gl lo 9s 3d. Pig* were scaice ni dear, Porkers sold at from £1 6s to £1 15s, Shabb iIAi'KET. — Messrs Frator Bros,' tolcgroph'id to us yoßterday evening :— dales: Loans, 41s 6d to 43 ; Qas, £11 ; Natio.ii.l Mortgage 7s 2d; National iDguranc; 18s 3'l; Ni w ZoalatKl 708; South British, 83s 9d; Albumin, 4s Ma; Queen, 2s 3d; Moanatairi, 4s; Hazlebank, 2s 3d; Onmbrials id. Buye s : New Zealand, Insurance 70a; Acedein, 8n 6d ; Northern Steam, 4s 81. Kellers: BaLkif New Zealaul 98»; i olonial 37« ; CFiii ju Oil, Ms 3d; Northern Steim,63,

WELLINGTON— Yestbbday.

Pboduoe.— Quotations aio ai follows j— Oatf, stoat feed, 2s 2d to 2b 3d ; new milling wheat, 33 3d; to 3b 4d ; floor roller £8 10s to £8 15s; stone, to £7 )5b to £8;fowlg wheat, 2s 3d to 2s 6d, maize 4s 6d; potatoes £3 5s ; machine-dressed tye-graat, 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; cocksfoot, 4d ; iyegrass teed, 3a to 3a 9d, honey, 4Jd ; peas 3d 6 J ; new cheese, 5d to 6Jd ; hams and bacin, 6£d ; -eggs Is 6d to Is 9d ; factory batter 7d toßd f miners,' batter, 5d to 6d and dull o£ sale; salt batter, 8d to Bid, onions, £1 per ton ; oatmeal £10 IDs to £11. Faogus enquired for at 3d.

OHBIBTOH D ROH— Y K3TBBD ATT.

I fcPKODUOK : — Wheat is quiet without any prospect of a rise ; oats are saleable at quotation prices ; grass seed continues in fair demand, Quotations me as fjllows :— Wtuat, Tuscan, 2s 61 to 2s 81; Pearl and Velvet, 2s 7£d ; Huntei 2s 6d; fowl* whear, Is 9d to 2s. Flour, stone made, £7 10s;roller £8 per tonjoatmeai, £8 10s a ton. Oats, stont short, Teed, Is 9 1 iris 10d; milling, Is 9d to Is lOd Barley, malting, 3s 6d to 4s 5 lowet gr-.ttes, 3a 3d to 3s 6d the bushel. Uheeie, 3.1 to 4Ji per lb; butter. §rime fresh 6d 1.0 8d ; eggs, )s 6d o.zen, Hams and bacon (in cloth) 61 per lb, Cocksfoot, 3d toSfi; ryegrns«, mot bine dreised, 4s to 4s 3d; farmers' parcels, 2s 6d to 2> 9d; Onions 6s per cwt.' Potatoes 32s 9d to 355. Peas, blue Prussian 3s to 3s 3d ; -feed dessrlption 2s to 2s 6).

DUNBUIN— Yestbuday

Produce,— The wheat market is decidedly firmer, th ugh with no quotable alteration •a value*. Oats aie firmj potatoes are in plentiful supply. Quotations ao : _ Wieat: Best milling, 2s 9 1 to 2-. Uii; meiiura 2s id to 2s 7d; fowls' wheat, 28 to 2s 2d ; floor, roller, £8; a'ono, M 7 per ton 5 oat-meal, £9 10s per ton ; potatoes (Djrweite) 1 £2 15s to £3 5 oats feed, Is9d tola l»)dj milling nnd seed, la lOd to is lid pai bushel; cheese, 4d to 6d ; bacon, rolle i 6 Jd; sides of bacon (grain fed), 6i t ; ham*. 7^i fac'ory butter, best quality 7|d to 8 I ; ordioaiy, CJ per lb j salt, bitter (vow;, 81 per lbj eggs, Is 6d per cozen; omon , £3 If Bto £5 per ton. Maize, 4s to 4s 3d 3. Ky. -grass, farmers' lots, 2s to 2a 6d best machine, 2s 9d to? 3i ; best co=ks foot, 2Ji to 4 .