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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10651, 11 May 1895, Page 5

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[Special to Press Association.! LONDON, Mat 9. Victorian wheat, new crop, ia quoted at 24s 3d. Tho Shaw, Snvill and Albion Company has informed Mr Reynolds that it is impossible to reduce the freights on dairy produce from New Zealand to London. The New Zealand Shipping Company has referred the question to the colonial Board. Mat 10. The weekly returns of the Bank of England published to-day show the total reserve to be ,£27,514,000, and the proportion of reserve to liabilities 63’26 ' per cant. Consols 106}. Three months’ bills are disootmtatfc at f per cent. New South Wales 4 per cents 11B|, 31- par cents 105; Victorian $ per cents 106, 3} per cents 101; South Australian 4 per cants 109, 3} per cants 104; Queensland 4 per cents 110, 3} per cents 102}; Now Zealand 4 par cents 111}, 3} par cants 104}; Tasmanian 3} per cents 103}; West Australian 4 poc cents 117. New Zealand long-berried wheat ex warehouse is firm at 36s 6d; South Australian wheat ex warehouse ia firm at 26a 9d; Victorian wheat ex warehouse is steady at 26s 33. New Zealand frozen mutton, first quality 3}d per lb, second do 2}d. Lsmb averages,! 3}d. New Zealand hemp unchanged. Sugar firm. Gorman 10a, Java 12a. No. 1 bast Scotch pig iron, f.o.b. ia j the Clyde, 44?. At the wool calcs the Continental buy--! ers are the chief operators. i Rabbits are soiling steadily at B}d to9d each. Mr Valentine reports that the Hawkesbury cheese ex Thermopylss overages 49a. j ner ewt.

CAPETOWN, May 10. | The Government proposes to include i frozen meat in the category of preserved | meats, thus raising the duty 2d par lb, I provided other parties concent. Farmers | are alarmed at the imports from tils s Australian colonice. ADELAIDE, May 10. I The Government has decided to pay no I further bonus on exported butter, S *— fr