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North Otago Times, 19 December 1904, Page 2

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HOME MARKETS, (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Per Press Association.)

Received Dec. IG, tit 9.1:1 p.m.-' London, Dec; l(i<

The Hank of England returns show the stock of gold, coin, etc., to lie £2'J,(iO-1,-(IOD, and the reserve .S22,(l(i;),0()(l. The proportion of reserve to liabilities is 45.37. The notes In circulation total £27,fi75,0n0 ; public deposits, £7,92(1,t'OO ; oilier deposits, £-1,453,000; Government securities, -C15,(11.0,000 ;', other securities, £2H,GJ 3,000. Three months' bills, 2} per cent. Consols. .CH7 15s. -Vow South Wales l's, lilii ; South Australian SJ's, !M ; Queensland 3J's, 95; New .Zealand l's, 105 J, Tlio rest arc altered.Wlieat markets ■dull, -pit prices fairly nmintained. Owing to conflicting reports oi Argentine's lighter shipment and the unfavorable report of the condition of winter wlieat in America cargoes aro (liiiel. New Australians rather lower. Twelve thousand and 13,003 quarters January-February shipments sold nt 33s 'ad. Australian spot practically exhausted, nominally ills.- New Zealand in small supply; Short berried, 3!ls Gd. Flour is llnl. London, 25s 3d ; Gins(row, 2(ls to 20s fill. The American visible supply of wheat and flour is estimated at 59,010,000 bushels. Sugar is quiet.' First marks, 15s 7d ; German, 13s Id. At the Bradford wool markets crossbrals are quiet; merinos more inquiry ; forty-sixes, 17(1. lhitter is dull. Danish, unchanged f choicest New Zealand, 101s ;.Victorian, lflOs.to. 102s; New South Wales, 98s to

102 a, both occasionally Mai. Recent Australian 'arrivals arc not completely satisfactory, apparently having boon carried at too high a tcinpcraturo. Tlabbits slow ; sale large, Is 3d. Better demand for hares at Is lOd to 2s, TATTERSALLS HOUSE SALE. The Now Zealand loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) report having held their usual fortnightly homo sale at tho auovo yards on Saturday, 17th hist. Thoro was a very fair attendance of farmers and others, but being so near tho Christmas holidays, they, wore not much in tho humor to buy horses, Howevor, out of an entry of 11 draughts and C hacks and light harness horses tho half changed hands at satisfactory prices, via.: Brown gelding, Sam, 5 years, Ml; brown gelding Jock, 5 years, £l6; buy mare, Ethel, G years, £ls 10s ; bay gelding, Kowdy, G years, £ls; bay gelding, Prince, 8 years, £l3; bay gelding, Duke, G years, £l2; a good upstanding cab horse, £3l; aged spring-carter, £l7; pony, gig and harness, £22105,