COMMERCIAL CABLEGRAMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2667, 26 April 1905, Page 22

COMMERCIAL CABLEGRAMS.

LOXDON, April 18. '. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat • for the United Kingdom is 3,840,000 quarters, and for the Continent 1,945,000 quarters. The ' Atlantic shipments are 24,000 quarters. ' Stocks and shares are unchanged. Copper: Spot, £67 7s 6d; three months, £67 Bs 9d/ Tin: Spot, £139 15s. Silver, 2s Ogd per oz. April 19. '' The Antwerp wool sales have been fixed for ' the 26th, 27th, and 23th inst., when 5530 bales 1 of Eiver Plate will be offered. 1 Copper : Spot, X 67 2s 6d ; three months, £67 - 6s 3d. ! Tin : Spot, £140 10s ; three months, £135 10s. Lead, £12 14s 2d. SilveT, 2s 2£d p&r ounce. At the tallow sales 1776 caslts were offered, i and 1035 sold. Mutton : Fine, 28s 9d ; medium, : 25s 6d. Beef: Fine, 25s 9d; medium, 245. i Apul 20. i The American visible wheat supply is esti- I Elated at 43,940,000 bushels. Two Australian : v;heat cargoes sold at 325. April 21. 1 . The Bank of England returns sliow the stock ; or gold coin and bullion to be £34,333,000; reserve, £25,822,000 : percentage of reserve to i liabilities, 51.67. The notes in circulation total ' £28,958,000 ; public deposits, £10,854,000; other ] deposits, £39,022,000; Government securities, '< £15,495,000; otlws- securities, £26,369.000. Three months' bills are discounted at 2 per ■ cent. Consols are quoted at £90 15s>. ; "Wheat- The European markets are steady. Sellers are holding for the full price. Ameri- i can are depressing on good crop reports. " Cargoes are quiet; 31s and 32s 3d is asked i for those afloat, according to position and quality. Australasian spot, 33s 6d. Flour? Dull, with 6d decline; London, 24s i Bd, Glasgow, 255, no buyers. II 11I 1 Butter; Quiet. Danish unchanged; IMewi'

Zealand choicest, 98s ; occasional lota, 100s ; Australian, 96s to 98s; secondaries, 90s to 925. Cheese: Steady. New Zealand, 56s to 58s. Rabbits: Steady; unchanged. The following are the quotations for colonial Government stocks compared with those ruling a week previous : —

Copper: Spot, £67 Is 3d; three months, £67 ss. Tin: Spot, £140 10s; three months, £135 2s 6d. Pig iron, 51s Id. Lead, £12 3s Ud. Spelter, £23 17s 6d. Sugar: Weak and irregular. First marks, 15s ; German, 13s. In Bradford wool there is little business. Forties, 13d; 46' s, 14Jd ; common 60's, 23Jd; super, 24Jd. Linseed oil, £20 15s. Frozen meat : River Plate beef — Fores, 2|d ; hinds. 3d; all others unchanged. Silver, 2s 2 5-16 d per oz. The report of the British Broken Hill Mining Company shows a profit of £29,380. A dividend of Is 6d was declared, and £6880 carried forward. April 23. Silver, 2s 27-16 d. Gahanised iron, £14 10s to £15 10s. Tin plates, 12s 7Jd to 13s s£d. Iron bars, £6 30s; angle steel, £5 12s 6d ; tram lails, £5 10s.

Cement, 4s lid to as lid. Wire netting, 56 per cent, off list.

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