COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2170, 26 September 1895, Page 12

COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS.

London. September 18. Tlip total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the Unit-d Kingdom ib 2,160,000 quarters, and for the (JuntiiK nt 770,000 quarters. The American visible supply of wheat is 49,500 000 bushels. Now Zealand Shipping Company's shares, £4 ; Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's, £'3. September 20. The weekly returns of the Bank of England, published to-day, show the total reserve to be £33,485,000, and the proportion of reserve to liabilities is GO 24. Tlnee mouths' bills are discounted at f per cent. Cousols, 107 J. The following are the quotations for colonial stocks ;—

New Z"iil unl long-bet ried wheat U quiet at 203 (H ; South Anstmluu do, fliiu at2o's Cd ; Victorian do, fii nier at 26V o'd. Nii\v /eil.iud frozen mutton: First quality, 3Jd per lb ; .second do, 3{d ; lamb, 4Jd. New Zo.ila'ul )jo:up market : F.tir quality from Wellington was bought in at prices tvotu £14 10s to i'lf) 10s par ton. T> n cusci of dark New Zealand honey realised 27s G.I. Sugar : German beet, 10s ; Java (quiet), 12s. No. 1 be^t Scotch pig iron, f.o.b. in the (Jlyde, 475. The wool Fabs at Bi afford are quiet, pending the opniir.tf of the London series It is expected that 230,000 bal«s will be available at ths latter sales, and a probable advance in pi ices from 10 to 15 p:r cent, is expected in croabbied3 and combing merinos. DtiiHh buttsris unchanged. September 22 Tallow : Medium mutton, XI 2s 9d ; beef, £1 Is 3d. Hides: Queensland light ox, 4Jd ; New South "Wales bnavy 5 1-lCd, li^ht 4 5 0.1. A shipment of 2(i3 orates (,f New Z< aland cheese (coloured; w?a sold at £1 7a o'd to £1 14 a. The Gore Agricultural and Pastoral Afsociaticn made a profit of £99 10s 011 the annual show last 3 tar. The Ministc-r for Lands has iuformed South Canterbury ruuheldf-rs there ia do chance whatever ot a vcie of £10,000 tor rabbit-proof Fences. The profits on the last Melbourne aunuil ogiicuilarul show amount d to £,21? A. T) fsiow ti s n^w iiiC'ted 1 11 ILO io,- <;,- 1 w]-, in ilu; back coin try (?&)& (he Kcrth Ot^o ' Tim.*), and eoj,c istimate of the Us to i,ustaiufcd can be formed. Oa a: nv; stations the loss from the si ow will be less than was estimated, lut what it will be by the young grass cannot, of e^U'ie, be told. Oa other stations the 10-h will be revere. In Home places that were MaccusiHu during the time the snow was on the ground, sheep were fou< d alive, but what they subsisted ou it would be difficult to say. I