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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXI, Issue 6505, 14 March 1896, Page 2

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(•>Y ELECTRIC Telbokaph—COPykioht.) (PER "NITED press association.) Received March 14, at 11.15 a.m. London, March 13. The Bank of England returns published to-day show the total reserve in notes ana bullion to be L 41,636,000, the proportion of reserves to liabilities being 62'46. Three months bills are discounted at 5 per cent. Consols, ex interest. „ New South Wales 4 per cent, inscribed stock, 121; 3b do, 109. Victorian 4~ per cent, inscribed stock, 113 ; 3h do, 107. South Australian 4 per cent., 113, & interest; 3& do, 110. _ Queensland 4 per cent., 115 ; 3£ 108. Tasmanian 3b per cent, 107. Western Australian 4 per cent., 125. N.Z. 4 per cent, inscribed stock, ll®' 3£- do, 107. "N.Z. long-berried wheat, merely now l ' nal quotations , Ht-mp. slow of sale. New ZealaC fair, Lls 10s. New Zealand mutton —First qua"'?' 3§d per lb ; second quality, 3Jd. Lamb, 5Jd. . Butter steady. Colonial unchanged Danish 106s. South Australian wheat, ex warchous 29s 3d. Victorian wheat, 29s 3d. ~ Sugar—Best German beet, 12s 1{ Java, 14s. •. No. 1 best Scotch pig iron, f.o> Clyde, 47s 4id. Silver, 2s 7d and 9-19ths of a Id* , Kauri gum—2s32 cases were off# • and 950 sold. They were mostly held an advance. Half scraped, 635. are 1218 cases in stock. . Sydney, March i» The Warrnambool's rabbits have rived in excellent condition, and bringing IOAd. The old stock hausted.