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MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL

\[Bi Elbctbio Tblegbaph.—Oopybight.] jPeb i?BB68 Association,] LONDON, JANPABY 8. The Bank of England returns for the week show the total reserve in notes and bullion to be Li 3,050,000. The proportion of reserve to liabilities is 32.02 per cent. Consols, 95J. New Zealand 4 per cent, itucnbed stock, 102 ; 3J per oent. do, 93J. New Zealand long-berried wheat, 45s (quiet). Canterbury mutton, 4d. Beef, forequarters, 3Jd; hindquarters, 3Jd. There is a moderate demand for hemp, *nd prices show a slight advance. Fair quality is quoted at L2O. , South Australian wheat, 45s 6d (quiet)-; 1 Victorian, 453 (flat). Forward business .is inactive, and foreign arrivals large. There are no Australasian cargoes off the coast or in ports of call. Sugar: German beet, 14s 9d (quiet); Java, 16s 6d. No. 1 best Scotch pig iron (f.o.b. in the Clyde), 47s (flat). Antimony, L 52 10a. The returns for the month of December show a decrease of L 1,500,000 m the exports and an increase of L 3.800.000 in the imports. ■

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Evening Star, Issue 8718, 9 January 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)

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MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL Evening Star, Issue 8718, 9 January 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL Evening Star, Issue 8718, 9 January 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)