COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS.
The total quantity, of wh?»t and flour afloat for the United Kiuedom is 1,560,0 0 quarter.', and for the Contineut 670.00U quarters. The Americau visible supply of wheat is 58,400,nf)u bushels. A istralian and New Zealand fllortgage Agency Company's 4J per cent, debentures are -at 104. Shates in the Komata mine, New Zealand, have been allotted. August 6. The weekly returns of the Bank of England show the total re«erve to be £36,132,000, and the proportion of reserve to labilities 58"54. Three months' bills are discounted at 11-16ths per cent. ' Colonial stocks are thus quoted :— »
New Zealand frozen meat and hemp quotations unchanged. The English wheat market is quiet, but there 13 steady business while the Continental is dull, and the American is advancing continuously. The adverse crop report in the States has caused a haidening tendency. • Sugar (steady) : Best German beet, 93 lOJd ; Java. 12s. ,'j'ailow. unchanged. Oats : Fine quality, 24s 6d ; common, 21s 61 Beans, 275. In th» Bradford wool market business is restricted. No. 1 best Scotch pig iron, f.o.b. in the Clyde, 45i»d.# Silver, 2j 7 5-16J per oz.
\ 0 Price. Variations comparedwith last week. 4 % N.S.W. - r 3* % N.S.W. Z% N.S.W 4 /. Victorian 3i % Victorian 4 X riouth Australian 3J % Sauiih Australian 3% South Australian 4 /. Queensland 34 % Queenslaud ... 3} X Tumanian ... 3i % West Australian 3 X West Australian 4 X New Zealand ... 3i % New Zealand ... 3 X New Zealand ... .J & s. d 121 15 0 103 10 0 103 « 0 114 10 0 10610 0 115 ]5 0 111 10 0 101 15 0 116 0 0 109 10 0 111 5 0 112- 0 0 100 17 6 117 0 0 109 0 0 103 0 0 unchanged 30a lower unchanged unchanged unchanged 5s lower. 53 lower 5s lower unchanged 5s higher unchanged unchanged unchanged 5s higher
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Otago Witness, Issue 2215, 13 August 1896, Page 14
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306COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS. Otago Witness, Issue 2215, 13 August 1896, Page 14
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