Monetary and Commercial.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4771, 24 January 1887, Page 2

Monetary and Commercial.

London, Jan. 22. Consols are at 100J$. New Zealand 5 por cent. 10-40 loan is at 102 ; New Zealand 4i per cent. 5-30 loan, 99J ; New Zealand 4 per cent, inscribed stock, £1 lower, 941. The total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,070,000 quarters, being 10,000 more than last week. Adelaide wheat is 6d lower — 38s ; Adelaide flour is (3d lower— 27a ; New Zealand wheat is unohanged ; lower qualities are selling at 345, and boat qualities at 38s. New Zealand mutton is selling at from 4id to 4j'd. Adelaide, to-day. Wheat is at 3s lOd to 33 lid. Town flour is from £10 to £10 oa ; country (lour, £9 to £9 ss. Mauritius advices to January G state: —Ireland, Fraser, and Co. report of the sugar market that the total amount of au<<ar turned out during the present season has been 95,0U0 tons. The crops in most cases aro already harve-ted 52,000 tons h. s been shipped. The stockin han lis 45,000 tons. The effects of the drought have not disappeared, and it is expected it will injure next year's crop. Tlie fol'nv,iii2 aro the month's engagemerits : Dunedin 250 tons, Chriatchurch 400 tons. The clearances for Dunedin for tho month were 300 tons. The total oxprrts ftr the season to New Zealand are 1753 tons.