HOME AND FOREIGN.

Evening Star, Issue 9581, 29 December 1894, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

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LONDON, December- 28.

(RHCeivHd December 29, 1894, at 10.30 a.m.) The weekl v return of the Bank of England published to-day shows the total reserve* in notes and bullion to be £23,670,000, the proportion of reserve to liabilities being 63.60. Consols, 103f. Three months' bills are discounted at | per cent. New South Wales" 4 per cent, inscribed stock, 107|; 3$ do, 100. Victorian 4 per cent, inscribed stock, 101; 3£ do, 93|. South Australian 4 per cents., 106 ; 3$ do, 100. Queensland 4 per cents., 106; 3$ do, 96f. Tasmanian 3£ per cents., 99. Western Australian 4 per cents., I'll. New Zealand 4 per cents., 105|; 3i do, 100.

New Zealand long-berried wheat (ex warehouse), 25s 3d (market quiet and business restricted) j South Australian do, 25s 3d (nominal); Victorian do, 255. A Bradstreet circular states that the' stocks of wheat in America, Canada, and East Rockies outside farmers' hands amount to 113,000,000 bushels, which has never hitherto been equalled. Frozen mutton : First quality, 3&d; second quality, 3|d. Lamb, first quality, 4|d. Hemp is unchanged'. , Sugar: Best German beet, 8s 9d; Java, 1 Is 9d. No. 1 best Scotch pig iron (f.o.b. in the Clyde), 41s 10£ d. Silver, 2s 3|d. Turkeys, when sent Home, ought to have their necks wrung, and not their throats cut, as the blood spoils the appearance of the heads. They ought to be wrapped in absorbent paper. Salesmen recommend that shipments of ducks, fowls, goslings, and turkeys'should be timed to arrive Home between the middle of March and the end of April. The geese by the Austral brought 6d per lb. The condition of Lord Randolph Churchill is unchanged. CAIRO, December 28. News has been received that the dervishes are approaching Kassala.