COMMERCIAL CABLEGRAMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2604, 10 February 1904, Page 18

COMMERCIAL CABLEGRAMS.

LONDON, February 2. Wheat: 13,000 quarters of Victorian March shipments sold at 295.

Tallow : The stock is 10,552 casks ; imports, 4020 casks ; deliveries, 2822 casks. L-ead- £11 5s 7id.

Copper: The supplies ere 29,448 tons; deliveries, 25,991 tons; stock, 14,233 tons; advisud afloat, 4025 tons.

Tin Stock, 16,795 tons; spot, 4951 tons; afloat, 3454 tons ; deliveries, 1861 tons. The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,360,000 quarters; for the Continent, 915,000 quarters; Atlantic shipments, 140,000 quaiters; Pacific shipments, 15,000 quarters.

February 3,

Silver, 2s 1 5-Bcl per ounce Coppar: Spot, £56 12s 6d; three months, £56 ss.

Tin : Spot, £125 10s ; three months, £12S. Tallow 891 casks were offered, £>nd 294 sold. Pine mutton, 28s 6d ; medium, 26s ad. Beef fores, 23s 6d ; medium, 26s 6d.

February 5. The Bank of England returns showthat the stock of gold coin and bullion is £31,739,000, and the reserve £23,931,000. The percentage of reserve to liabilities is 48.02. The notes in circulation total £28,125,000; public deposits, £0,784,000; other deposits, £42,916,000; Government securities, illjlim': aud other se™ritiee ™ rities > Three months' bills are discounted ot 2g per cent. Quotations for colonial Government stocks are subjoined, compared with, those ruling a week since :

Wheat: South Australian, 18,000 quarters January shipment, 12,000 February and M.vrch shipment, and 14,000 January and February shipment

sold at 295. A Victorian cargo soldi at 28s l^d. The American visible supply is estimated at 62,013,000 bushels. Ten thousand quarters of Victorian prompt shipment and 8000 March and April shipment sold at 29s 3d; 13,000 January-February at 29s l£d; 14,000 New South Wales February-March shipment, 295. Copper : Spot, £56 ; three months, £55 12s 6d.

Tin: Snot, £123 10s; three months, £126. Iron, -12s sd. Lead, £11 9s 3£d. Sugar : First marks, 9s lid ; German, 7s lOd.

The Bradford -wool market is cheerful. Common sixties, 23£ d; supers, 24^ d; common forty-sixes, 12£ d; super fortysixes, 13^<i. Butter is steady but unchanged, with rather less business. Cheese : New Zealand, 50s to 51s. February 7.

Consols, £87 6s 3d. Copper: Spot, £56 ss; three months, £55 15s.

Tin: Spot, £126 12s 6d; three months,, £126 10s. Lead, £11 6s 10^d. Silver, 2s 1 11-16 d per oz. Wheat: 12.500 quarters Victorian, prompt delivery, sold at 29s 3d; 12,000 and 14,000 Australian, prompt, at 29s 6d; and a cargo at 29s lOJd.

Hides : Limited supply. Queensland, heavy ex, s|d; light, 5 5-16 d; cow, 5 3-16 d. Leather is firm. First sides, Is 2|d. Basils are cheaper. First Wellingtons, Is lid.

Frozen Meat: Mutton — Canterbury sheep, heavy, 4Jd ; Dunedin, 4Jd ; North Island", 4|d. liamb— Canterbury, sd; River Plate, 4fd. Beef — New Zealand fores, 2|d; River Plate, 2Jd.

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