Commercial and Shipping.

Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 139, 11 December 1888, Page 2

Commercial and Shipping.

4 [UNITED PEESB ASSOCIATION. | London, 9th Beoember. New Consols axe quoted at 96, and New Zealand 4 per cent, inscribed stock at 98}. Business is now aotive. Australian wheat, ex warehouse, 43s 6d ; New Zealand long-berried wheat rules at the same prioe, but the market is weaker. Sugar— German beet, 14s ; Java, 17s. Best No. 1 Scotch pig iron, f.0.b., Clyde, 41s 9d ; inquiry active. Australian flour, 28a fid; Now Zealand, 26s 6d. Wool is hardening. The advance in prices ranges from Id to lid. Up to date 104,200 bales have been catalogued, of which 100,000 were Bold. Money is advancing, owing to insufficient supplies. In the open market three months' bills are quoted at 4} per cent. Tallow— Best mutton, 34s 3d ; best beef, 33s 3d. The English wheat market is unchanged, and the Continental market steady. American, however, has now an upward tendenoy. For Australian wheat, new orop on passage, sellers ask 40s 6d ; New Zealand wheat, on passage, is quoted at an average of 40s. Albant, 10th December. Arrived — P. and O. Co.'s a.s. Massillia. Passengers for New Zealand — Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer. Melbourne, 10th December. Arrived — Glaucus, from New Zealand. . Dunedin, 10th December. At the grain sale to-day, oats were dull, and as only 3s 7d was offered, lota submitted were withdrawn. Best milling wheat brought 4s 9d. (Received December 11, 12.30 p.m.) Sydney, This Dat. Sailed— Fifeshire, a. a., for Oamarn.