COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2303, 21 April 1898, Page 14

COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS.

London, April 13, The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for tbe United Kingdom is 2,930,000 quarters, and for the Continent 1,850,000 quarters. Share quotations : National Bank of New Zealand, 1.2 ; Bank of New Zealand i percent guaranteed stock, 102^ ; New Zealand Loan 3&d aifrrciOG tile Agency Company 4 per cens prior IUjVI debentures, 91. Tbe American visible wheat supply W estimated afc 40,577,000 bushels. -April 14. The issue department of the Bank of England reports tbat the stock of gold, coin, and bullion for the week i5~L26,9;")0,000 and the reaerve L 18,434,000, the percentage o£ ; reserve to liabilities being: 28-40. There was' in circulation L 27.803.000. Tbe public deposits amounted to L 11.997,000, oth#? depoEifcs to 135.906,000, and Government; securities to L 34,088,000. Three months' bills are discounted "ac 8£ per cent. Consols, 110^. New South Wales 4 per cenfe. stock, 115|} 3£do, ]03|-; 3 do, 96 J. Victorian 4 per cent, itock, 110; 3£ do 102£. Sjath Australian 3i per cant, stock, 107j 3 do, 99. Queensland 4 psr csnt. stock, 107; 3£ do 103. Nsw Zealand 4 per cent, stock, 1H ; 3.J do, 105 ; 3 do, 98*. Taasaanian 3£ per cent, stock, 106 West AiistrftVian 3£ per c6nt. stock, 104 The English wheat market shows a g^'-'B ral advance of 6d. The Continental ladvancing and the American rising. Oaliforyu»n No. 1 milling wheat, 37.<; r a winter, 108 cents. Russian cargoes, 383 3J London quotation hard Daluth, 43i 9d. Sn£-%r. flit. Java, 113 31 ; German, 9s. Iron, 46*. TII3 Bradford wool market is lifeless. The combination of lamb importers hh fißcollapsed owing to defections from the ranks. April 17. Mutton. — Crossbred wethers and maiden ewes : Canterbury, 3 IJ-I6J per lb ; North Island, 3d. Lamb. ■-- Prime Canterbury, 4Jd. A fair average, including Danedin, Southland. Wellington, and tecosdary Oanterbmy, is selling at 4J.i. Rive? Plite crossbreds or merino wethera : Heavy, 2£d : l-'ght, 2Jd. Hide^.-Heavy ox, 4Jil to 51 i ; light, 4id to l^U •- cow, *Jjfd to 4| 1.