COMMERCIAL & SHIPPING.

Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 25, 29 July 1893, Page 2

COMMERCIAL & SHIPPING .

♦ I UNITED PKE6B ASSOCIATION.) Brisbane, 28th July. Sailed (from Townsvillo) yosterday — Duke of Sutherland, for Now Zealand. (Received Jnly 29, 11 a.m.) London. 28th July. The weekly returns of tho Bank of England published to-day show the total resorvo to be i 619,195,000. Tho proportion of reserve to liabilities is 4831. Consols, 98?. Three months' bills are discounted at If per cent., market firmer. New Zealand & per nent. inscribed stock, 105 ; 3J per cent, ditto, 94}. New Zealand loug-berriod wheat, ox warehouse, flat, 295; South Australian wheat, ex warehouse, restriotod, 31s 6d ; Victorian wheat, ex warehouse, weaker, 30s Gd. Frozen mutton, first quality, 3gd ; second quality, 3Jd. Lamb, firot quality, 4Jd. Beef, forequartera, 3 7-16 d ; hindquarters, SidNew Zealand hemp, quiet. All Now Zealand consignments have been withdrawn from sale. Sugar, German beet, flat, 15s 9d; Java, also flat, 19a. No. 1 best Sootoh pig iron, f.o.b. in the Clyde, steady at 425. At the wool sales, prices are firm, but the Bradford market has a downward tendency. (Received July 29, 11.30 a m.) London, 27th July. Arrived — Sam' Mendel, barque, from Wellington (April 3) ; Duke of Westminster, s.s., from Wellington (June 6) ; Willowbank, barquo, from Lyttelton (March 20) ; Woodvillo, barque, from Lyttolton (April 15); Star of Victoria, a. a., from Bluff (June 8); Auriga, barque, from Oainarn (April 11); Araby Maid, barque, from Timaru (March 14) ; Highland Forest, barque, from Timaru (April 13.)

i Home, Sweet Home.— The sweetest i houses in New Zealand ore those whore i Hudson's Extract of Soap is in daily t use. Leaves No Smell. Removes obstinate i dirt. Hakes grease fly. Sold only in paoketa 4 by all wholesale and retail grocers in Wei- t lington.— A»rr. 6 (