MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 305, 22 December 1894, Page 2

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

London, December 21

The fcobal amount' of reserve in the Bank of England is £24,838,000. The proportion of reserve to liabilities is 6368 per cent." Three months bills' are discounted ab g. Consols, 103. . ; New Zealand, 4 percent, inscribed stock, 105£ ; three and a-half ditto, 99*f. New Zealand long-berried wheat, 25s 3d, market quieb, business resbriobed. Adelaide wheat, 25s 3d, weaker ; Victorian, 25a. Mubbori : First quality, 3|d; second* 3|d. Lamb, first quality, 4fd. . New Zealand hemp unchanged. Sugar, German beet, 8s 7£d ; Java, lla 9d.

No. 1 best pig iron, 41s lOd.

f Antimony, £32 10s. - ■ - •.: - ■■•.■■; At the end of the year there will be three thousand tons of colonial butter on" the market and in. store. -The fowls-Bhipped, by the Tbngariro arrived in inferior condition, bub the ducks woro in an excellent state. They were all, however, unsuited for the markeb because they were trussed. .' : : : 1

The Argentine wool clip is estimated at a quarter million tons.

WOOL SALE

Dunedin, December 20.

The first wool sale of the'season was commenced to-day. There was about the usual attendance of Home and foreign buyers, but fche prices showed a considerable falling off compared with last season. The drop on fleece wool was about l^d per lb, bub pieces, bellies, and locks did nob suffer bo much. i .