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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 13946, 1 January 1906, Page 9

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SHIPPING. ' United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 29. Arrived—Kumara and Indradevi, from New Zealand. ' The, weekly returns of the Bank of England show the stock of gold coin, etc., to amount to £27,198,000, reserve £17,629,000, proportion. of reserve to liabilities 33.81, notes in circulation£29,3sl,ooo, public deposits £7,817,000, other deposits £44,221,000, Government securities £12,799,000, other securities .£39,535,000. Three months’ bills are discounted at 4 per cent. Console are quoted at 89J. Colonial Securities.—Victorian 3 per cent 87. Other stocks are unchanged. Wheat.—A holiday tone pervades the market, but prices are firm. -Cargoes are quiet; Australian January-Febni-ary shipment are held for 32s per quarter; Victorian, loading, at 32s 9d per quarter; New Zealand, spot, 31s to 31s 6d per quarter. The American visible supply is 64,467,000 bushels. In , flour nothing is doing, and in freights there is little business; a few South Australian • have been fixed at 22s and Victorian. at 235. Butter. —The market is very firm; Danish 124 sto 126 s per cwt. For colonial there is a good demand at full late rates. Owing to the holidays and fog no consignments were landed till Thursday afternoon, when four shipments, including the Kumara’s, were delivered simultaneously. Cheese.—Prices are unchanged. Copper.—On spot £79 10s per ton, three months’ £79 2s 6d per ton. Tin. —On spot £l6l 17s 6d per ton, three months’ £l6l 5s per ton. Lead.—£l7 13s 9d per ton. Iron.—£2 14s per ton. Spelter-—£29 16s per ton. Silver.—2s 6d per oz. Sugar.—Granulated firet 'marks 10s, German 8s 2d. Wool.—At the Bradford wool market business ia improving; forties 15jd, forty-sixes 17d, common sixties 24$d, vuper 25Jd.