MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.
THE NEW TREATIES. [Special to Press Association.) [Received Dec. 21. at 10.5 a.m.] LONDON, Dae, 20. Tallow —Medium mutton 25s 9d, ditto beef 24s 6d.
The English wheat market is dull, the Continental inacrive, and the American declining. Forward business in Australasian wheat is inactive, tbe arrivals of foreign grain being large. Antimony-—£ss to £56. BRUSSELS, Deo. 20. A Syndicate Union, hostile to the new commercial coalition, has been formed in Belgium.
VIENNA, Deo. 20. The Reicbsrath, by a large majority, approved tbe commercial treaties. Bath the Emperor of Austria and the Emperor of Germany are sending representatives to Madrid to urge Spain to join the League. BERLIN, Dec. 20.
General von Caprivi, in an interview, said there were persons who professed to be able to discern political motives in the M‘Kinley Tariff or tbe PanAmerican policy. He declined to discuss foreign politics. [Received Dec. 22, at 1 a.m..] LONDON. Dec. 21. Tbe Financial Times says that the Australian Banks are being conducted with marked prudence and success, and points out that no group of securities yielding the same return show such a dean record. The Brindisi mail contract has been renewed for a year. SHIPPING. Tbe National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand has received a cable message stating that the R.M.S. lonic left Capetown on tbe evening of Dec. 18. [Received Deo. 21. at 10.25 a.m.] HOBART, Deo. 21. The Legislative Coumil has passed a resolution affirming the desirableness of establishing Freetrade between the Colonies. ■
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 9603, 22 December 1891, Page 5
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251MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 9603, 22 December 1891, Page 5
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