COMMERCIAL CABLEGRAMS.
LOXDOX, May 5. Lead, £12 Is KHd. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,155,0*)0 quarters, and for the Continent 2,135,000. Atlantic shipments are 217,000 quarters. Sto-iks and Shares. — Bank of Australasia, £20; Union, £'3G; New Zealand, £39 10s; New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agei;cy Company, £82. Muy 7. At the tallow auctions 1086 cask? were offered ar.d 618 sold. Mutton- fine 31s 3d, medium 2 J.i Cd ; b.'ef — fine 33s 9d, medium 29s 6d. Copper: Spot, £61 ss; Hire"- months, £C1 2s Gd Tin: Spot ar.d three months, £136 15s. L<vd, .€l2 2s Cd. Tlio Amcric-in visible wheat supply is estimated at 52 553.000 bushels. LONDON, Muy 7. Copper: Spot. £61 17s 6d ; three months. £G1 153. Tin: Spot, £13G s^; three months; £130 7s 6d. Lead, £12 3s Od. Silver, 2o Ojd per ounce. May 8. The Bank of England returns show the stock of gold coin and bullion to be £33,201,000. The reserve is £2-1,368,000, the percentage of the reserve to liabilities being 52.17. The notes in circulation total £29,065,000; public deposits, £7,689,000; other deposits £39,076,000; Government securities, £13,523,000; and other securities, £25,610,000.
Three months' bills are discounted at 3| per j cent. ConsoJa are quoted at £92 7s 6d. Quotations for colonial Government stocks are subjoined, compared with those ruling last ! weeU ■ — . May 1. May 8. New South- Wales 4'a ■.-. 109 110 i New South TTale3 3J'a 100 101 New South. Wales 3's .. .. 90 91 Victoria 4's .. 107 107 Victoria 3i's .., .. 100 101 Victoria 3's 90i • 91 South Australia 3£'» 101 103 South Australia 3's 90 92 Queensland. 4's .. 103 103 Queensland 3A's 99 ?.01 Westralia 3J's" 98 100 Tasmania 3i's . 103 104 New Zealand 4's 108 108 New Zealand 3i's 103 103 New Zealand 3's .. .. .. .. 92 92J San Francisco wheat, £1 3s 7id ; Manitoban, 3s 7d. Maize (June shipment), 2s 3d; freight, ISs. Copper.— Spot, £62 10s; three months, £C 2 7s 6d. Tin.— Spot and three months, £137 2s 6d. Pig irou, 525. Leal . £19. Sugar.— First marks, 9s lOd ; German Ss 4d. The Bradford Wool Market.— Comman sixties, 2-Ud ; supers, 26d ; common forties, lOd ; supers, 13d. Butter, dull. New Zealand, 9Ss to 100s; Danish. 103 a. New Zealand cheese, Cos to 675. May 10. Copper, £62 os. Hides. — At the periodical sales the supply was meagre, and prices were 7.omii ally un- j changed. Frozen Meat. — Mutton : Canterbury — Light 4£d, medium 4d, heavy 3Jd ; Dunedin and Southland, 3 13-16 d; North Island, 3 11-lGd. j Lambs: Canterbury, light and heavy, 4Jd ; Dunedin and Southland, 4gd ; North Island, 4^d. New Zealand beef, 1801b to 22011}, fair average quality — ox fores .'Hd, hinds rJ}d. River Plate: Sheep, unchanged; lambs, 4Jd; beeffores 3id. hinds, 4Jd.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2565, 13 May 1903, Page 18
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457COMMERCIAL CABLEGRAMS. Otago Witness, Issue 2565, 13 May 1903, Page 18
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