COMMERCIAL CABLEGRAMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2509, 16 April 1902, Page 18

COMMERCIAL CABLEGRAMS.

1 LONDON, Ami! 8. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat lor the United Kingdom is 4,215,000 quarters, and for the Continent, 1,655,000 , Stocks and Shares New Zealand Loan and Meicantile Agency Company, i'Sl, Union •Bank. £33 10s, New South. Wales, £42 10s. All others unchanged. April 9. Copper, £'53 2b 6d. Tin Spot, £125 15s; thiee months, £124 2s 6d. , Lead, £11 10«. ' Tallow 155'J oask^ offeied. and 300 sold Fine mutton, 37s Gd , medium. 32s Fine beef, 83s 6d , medium. 30s. April 10 Copper Spot, £53 ss. thico months, £53 7b 6i. The Amei.can visible wheai supply 13 estimated at 73,576,000 bushels. April 11 The Bank of England returns bhow the reserve to be £23,b37,000. The jrtoek of coin and bullion is £32,871,000. pThe percentage of reserve to liabilities ds 47.75. The total of the notes in circulation i> £29,382,000; public deposits, £9,405,000 , other deposit^, '■£39,911,000, Government .securities, £14,774,000 . and other >-ecuiities, «£28,808,000. Three mouthY bill-, are discounted at 2J per cent. Consols £9^Quotation^ for colonial Government stocks are subjoined, compared with those nilina; at the clo^e of last week: — .

The English wheat market i> firm, owing to rumours of the imposition of a duty. Heavy arrival*, are depressing the Continental markets. There i-, a better inquiry for carooe=. A Sydney steamer shipment (February) realised 29-> l(Hd. Tin: Spot, £125; three months £123. Pig iron, 53« sd. Sugar i^ dull. German, Gs od : fir-t marks, 8-. The Bradford wool market is animated. Common Mxtie-, 'JOd : supers, 21. ', d. Rabbit- (dull), 7M to Bd. April 13. Copper. Spot and three month? both £53 12s 6d. Silver, 2s 0 11-16 d per oz. Lead: The imports last month wre 18.42G lons, including 4906 Australian, and the ?\poris 2665. Consols, £91 17s Gd. Wheat: Two Sydney cargoes sold at 29s and 29s 3d respectively. Hemp steady. Fair ■Wellington, April and May shipment, JE34 las. Hides, leather, and basils unchangcl. Frozen Meat ■ Mutton (crossbred wethers and maiden ewes), Canterbury, 3 13-16 d, Eunedm And Southland, 3gd , North Island, 3id. Lamb. Prime Canterbury, sgd ; fair average, unchanged, Eiver Plate* uadianged. Zea-

land beef is scarce. Prices nominally are Fores, 4Jd , hinds, 5Jd. Xo Australian beef is offering. (These puces arc the official quotations huiush'xl by the Fiozen Meat Trade Association. 'Lhe basis oi quotations is sa'e» of lines ol not less than 100 carcases of rnutto»i or lamb or 25 quarters of beef. All quotations for mutton aie for fair aveiage quality. Quotations for Xew Zealand lamb cio i,ot include "^ales of small lines or heaviest or inferior quaht\ .)

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