MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 77, 3 April 1897, Page 5

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

London, April 2. The Bank of England reserve amounts to pS,-86,000, the proportion of reserve to Ability being 52-66. Three months' bills. 1.; Consols 11 If. New South Wales four percent's, 121J ; "oebalfs, 107^; threes, 101£. Victorian °« _ 113; three balls, 106^. South Australian fours,, 111;}; three halfe, 113. wiooland fours, 114; three balfs, 100. *«raanian three halfs. 108_r. Western Australian three halfs, 111. ..New Zealand fours, 115 ; khreo halfs, ™j ■!■ threes, 99|. 'Hemp: Unchanged. ''Mutton: First quality, 3d ; second, 2fd ; Lamb, sd. ,

khseae from New Zealand, 55s to 565. gutter: Good steady consumption. A«Hralion, 834 to 94s ; Danish, 85 kroner. Australian, rabbits: Fair demand, 9d ; blJKliih scarce. The' English wheat market shows a jjjjneral decline of 3d, the Continental is '"anqing for the worse and tho American " declining and weak. Californian No. 1 °ullln *-. 325: Russian, ~o._ 9d ; London WtationforNo. 1 Hard Duluth, 345; New *°r« No. 2 Red Winter wheab, 81 cents ; tie orian Dun poas, 26i. lua Bradford wool markot is firmer and ore business is doing owing to American Pnr.hages. The London market is firmer, Africans a^aiu operating freely. ■War, quiet, German, 9a; Java, 11a. *f«, 44s 6d. B'lver 2s 4d 7-16 th.