COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS. London, September 26

Otago Witness, Issue 2171, 3 October 1895, Page 13

COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS. London, September 26

The weekly returns* of the Bahk of England published to-day show the total reserve to bo L 34 G44.000, raid the proportion of reserve to liabilities til 52. Three months' bills are dieoonnted at £ por cent. Consols, 101%. The following are the quotations for colonial stocks: — Variation as - Price. 1 compared with last week. " £ s. d. 4XN.S.W 117 5 0 5s higher 3J%NS.W 10610 0 10s higher 3} % Ta-niania '07 0 0 20s higher 4% Victorian 110 6 0 20^ higher 3} % Victorian 104 0 0 25s higher 4% South Australian ...112 10 0 lOshisrhcr 3i % S.uth Australian .. 108 0 0 2)& higher 4 % Queensland 112 15 0 5a higher 3i % Queensland 106 0 0 IBs higher 4 % West Australian ...122 0 0 £0s higher 4 % New Zealand 113 0 0 20s higher 2j % New Zealand 107 0 0 10a higher New Zealand long-berried wheat, ex warehouse (firm), 26j ; South Australian do (firm), 27b; Victorian do (firm), 26s 9d. New Zealand frozen meat and hemp markets unchanged. For an Australian off- const cargo sellers ask 265, buyers offer 6d less. Sugar: German beet (firm), 10s 6d ; Java (ala 6 firm). 12s 6d. No. 1 best Scotch pig iron, f.o.b. in Clyde, 47a 7d. , London, September 27. Gutter : Australian (nominal), 100s ; finest, 10!-,. Hemp is firmer. Good New Zealand, j£ls ; fine, £\o 15s. Kauri gum : £928 cases were offered, and 2000 sol'l at an advance. Scraped fetched 84) ; halfgcraped, 535 ; pickings, 33a. There are still 2055 cases in stock. Three hundred hogsheads of Australian wine tvere offered, and 100 gold at 2s 6d to 5s 61. September 29. Tallow : Medium mutton. 23s ; beef, 225. The English wheat market shows a general advance of Od. The Contloeatfti and American prices are advancing.

The cargo of Victorian wheat per ship William Mitchell was sold at 23s 9d.