COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 155, 29 December 1898, Page 4

COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL.

| PUESS ASSOCIATION. | London, 27th December. The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,245,000 quarters, as against 2,278,000 quarters last week, and for the Continent 1 .010,000 quarters aa compared with 1,0G0,00U quarters last week. Australasian securities are quoted as follows : — Bank of Australasia, 51 J ; Bank of New South Wales, 86£ ; Union Bank of Australia, 26i ; National Bank of New Zealand, 2£- ; Bank of New Zealand 4 per cent, guaranteed stock, 102 ; New Zealand Loan and Mercantile 4 per cent, prior lien debentures, 96. (Received December 29, 9.25 a.m.) Sydney, This Day. Wheat, chick, 2s 7d ; milling, 2s 9d. Flour, £8 to £8 ss. Oats— New Zealand feeding, 2s 2d to 2s 4d ; milling, 2s 5d ; local, 2h Id to 2s Bd. Barley, Cape, nominal, 2s 6d. Maize, 3s Bd. Peas, Prussian Blue, 4s 9d. Bran, 7*d. Pollard, 9£d. Potatoes, .89 10s to £10. Onions, .£4 to .£4 10a. Butter, dairy, 7*d to 8d; faotory, 9d to 9&d. Cheese, large, 4fd to 5d ; loaf, sid ; bacon, sid to 7d. „ Mblbottenb, This Dat. Wheat, 2s 7d to 2s 7£d. Oats, Algerian, Is 7d to 2s ; stout, 2s 4d. Barley, new, 3s 6d to ss. Maize, 3s 3d. Bran. Bd. Pollard, Bfdto9d. Potatoes, .£6 to ,£6 10s, Onions, 10s to Adblaidb, This Day. The holidays are interfering with business. There is little change in prices.