ENGLAND.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 10059, 29 July 1895, Page 2

ENGLAND.

LONDON, July 26. Government securities :— 2£ per cent Imperial oonaols, £107; 4 New South Wale?, £114 16s ; 3J New South Walet, £106 ss ; 4 Victorian, £106 16s ; 3J Vlfltorlan, £99 5] • 4 Sooth Australian, £110 63 ;3 J Santa Australian, £104 ; 4 Queens, land, £110 ss ; 3J Queensland, £103 10s ; 3J Tasmania, £104 ; 4 West Australian, 4 New Zealand, £110 16a ; 3J New Zaaland, £104. The weekly returns of the Bank of England, published to-day, show tha total reserve to be £28,516,000, and the proportion of reserve to liabilities 6904, Three months' bills are discounted at § per cent. New Zealand long-berried wheat ex warehouse, 26a 6d, nominal ; Sooth Aus« trallon ditto, firmer, 275 ; Victorian ditto, weaker, 27«. ■ ■ ' Qaotatlons for New Zealand Irozea ! mutton and hemp are ancbaaged. For an Australian wheat cargo on the passaee sellers ask 25j, layers offer 6d. less, for off-coast oargoes 25s 6d is asked, and 25sofferel. Mnßor, German beet, 9a lOJd ; Java, 11s 10id. No. 1 best Scotoh pig irOD, f.o.b. la Clyde, 45=1 lid. At the wool sales a .good selection of Now Zealand wool was offered, and tbo ' ptlcea obtained were the hlgheat of the serlep. The "Blderelle" brooght Bd, " Wftikak&tn " Is 2J, and " Wharepapa " lOd. Thero is more demand from Brad. ford. Crosebreds are slightly firmer. Merinoa are nnobaDged. The fifth seriea begin on September 24 tb, and the »hth on November 26 bh. The first) series In 1896 is fixed for January 14th, and the second for March 3rd. A syndicate is being formed for the purpose of Investing a sum of £200,000 In mining property in Victoria,