COMMERCIAL CABLEGRAM. LONDON, August 12.
The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2.105,000 quarters, ar.d for the Continent 975,000 quart 3ra. Shares.— Bank ci New South Wales, £39, Union Bank, £30, others uncharged Xew Zealand Loan and Mercantile 3 per cent, pnor heu debenturc-j are quoted at £SO. August 13. At the tallow sales 1775 casks were offered, and 700 sold. Mutton Fine, 36s 6d , medium, 31a 6d. Beef Fine, 355 , medium, 31a. Silver, '2s Oid per ounce. August 14. Load Imports, 19,G13 tons, Australian, 4098 ton=. Exports, .Y2O! tons. An Australia** wheat cargo sold at 28s 9d Copper Spot, £52, three months, £'52 3s 9d Tin Spot, £125 12s 6d , three mout'j = , £123 Au£TJ<.t 15. The Bank of England returns show the stock of gold coin and bullion to be £34,.574,000. The reserve is £1U.507,000. The proportion of reserve to liabilities is 50.32. The notes in circulation amount to £30,109, -jOO ; public depo.-it 1 -, £9,603,000 ; other depo-ks, £38,954,000 . Government securitie , £10, 982,000, other securities £2(3,238,009. Three months' bill, are di-counted at 2| per cent. Consols, £9j 3«. Quotations for colonial Government stocks are .subjoined, compared vrith those ruling last we^k . — A'ip 8 An? 15 New South Wales 43 .. .. 113 il3 New South Wales :i\ s .. 101 101 New South Wales 3's .. .. 05 05 V.ttona 4's l'fl 100 Victoria 3i's 103 10.5 Victoria 3S .... 03 95 S< uth. Australia J\\ .. .. I«i4 101 South Ajctr-.M..i 3'^> .... Ot 'J4 Queen«'Aiid 4's 106 W gucenf'.and U'^i I" 1 -? I^l I N< v. /^a' and 4 s 1L.5 1U Xn- Zea'aiid V s .. .. H>C hfi N.w ZcaJ.u.d V, 961 Otr_ '] l^raar.a j -, 10J I'M V'efe-.ralia ?1 i 101 101 "Whoat. — T'ki'o !■- .i "-liizlir reaction in thp Amo-K-'n irinrkrt-. owing to lll* 1 « <J f.^vourablp Euc'i-h is firmer, Continr'i'-.il dii!! Pio-prrts indicate an nbucdiit crcp ii Funtc C' nr^or-in r^or-i are ,-tPAclily hpM A"V Ktcri-iii M.-rtli niLnt ■-oil i J 2'c- '„'■]. ..i-J jii Ai.-trjlian cr;a at 29-.
C o;>pc-r.— Spot, £-3i Us Gd ; ihrc& XilyUti^ £<?1 ITg 6dft
Tin.— Spot, £125 os; three months, £123 ss. Pig iron, 56s 3d. Sugar. — German, 6s Id ; Crst marks, 7s 6d.
The Bradford wool market is unchanged. There is better inquiry for crossbreds.
August 17. Ccpper: Spot, Xsl IGs 3d, thiee months, £B2 2s Gd.
Tin- Spot, £1-23 , ttiiee months, £125
Frozen Xeat. — Mutton New Zealand, all eorta, unchanged. Lamb Prime Canterbury, Sd; fair average, including Dunedia, Southlaud, Wellington, and secondary Canterbury, 4gct, River PUte, heavy and li~M, both 3 7-16 d. New Zealand beef, 1801b to 220!b, fair average quality, nominal , ox fores, 4Jd, hinds, s^d.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2527, 20 August 1902, Page 17
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434COMMERCIAL CABLEGRAM. LONDON, August 12. Otago Witness, Issue 2527, 20 August 1902, Page 17
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