FINANCE AND COMMERCE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIL, Issue 7397, 27 July 1895, Page 3

FINANCE AND COMMERCE.

: . . London, July 26. .:, The Bank of England returns, published to-day, show the total reserve in notes 1 and bullion to be £28,516,000, the proportion of reserve to liabilities being 5904. Three months' bills are discounted at § per There has been a general fall in stock. ?■* r^r. — : ~~" '. Variation as ■ ' __. compared ' CtoTemment Seourities. Price. W ith lastweek.

Hfew Zealand long-berried wheat ex warehouse is 26s 6d nominal; South Australian V^itto, firmer, 27a; Victorian ditto, weaker, i ;■. Quotations for New Zealand frozen mutton and hemp are unchanged. - for Australian wheat cargo on the passage seller* aak 265, and buyera offer 6d lew. Jfor ■off-coMt cargoes 25s 6d w asked and , : German beet 9a 10id; Java 11b ' ' 1 best Scotch pig iron, f .o.b. in Clyde, At the wool sales a good selection of New Zmland wool was offered, and prices obtained were the highest of the series. Eldershe : bought 9d, Waikakatu Is 2d, WJarepape 10d There is nioro demand from Bradford. ..r <?rossbreda are slightly firmer, but merinos -' begins on September 24th and 26ch and November 28fch. The first .series in 1896 is fixed for January 14th, and tfche second for March 3rd. A syndicate is being formed for tne tKttnose of, investing a sum of £200,000 in njjning property in Victoria. : ""— ' „ Auckland, to-day. »m.« are the latest share market nn«b?tinM •' -llburnia, sellers 5s ; Hazel&Ser^%e>^3d; McQueen 8s •9dto 8s 6d, buyers Brf8 r ff R ra . **** Moanatairi, buyers 6s 6d, Wart* Silverton, sellers 395 ; WoodstoJ* d * s \., u ££ S ! 30s, sellers 325; Waitekauri, bu>5 s ..^!'l sellers 60s ; Talisman 12s 6d, buyers 12s . U| j sellers 13s ; Try Fluke 9s 2d, sellers 9a; 2d j Hanraki, sellers 22s 6d ; Bunker's Hill 4s 8d to 4s 9d» buyers 4s 6d, sailers 4s 9d ; KapaiVermont 4s 9d to 4s 6d, buyers 4s 6d, sellers 1 4a lOd ; Bonanza, buyers 3s Id, sellers 3a 3d ; Grace Darling 2s 2d to 2s 3d, sellers 2s 3d ; Portsea Is 6d, buyers Is 5d ; City of Dunedin l&8d to Is lOd, buyers Is 9d, sellers Is lOd ; :•>'/ Norfolk 2a 3d to 2s lOd, buyers 3s Id, sellers «!.,-. 3s6d. :■ " ■ ■■■■•:-■ "■ . After being in existence for something like over, a quarter of a century, the old Tham.es . Gold Mining Company has been, wound up, and the. liquidator has declared a dividend of Is per 'snare. ->„ At the half-yearly meeting of the Taupiri 'Extended Coal Mining Company, a dividend v ". of la per share waa declared. ■ . - Dunjsdin, to-day. " ' The Roslyn Tramway Company declare a dividend of 7i per cent. \ - At? the annual meeting of the Chamber of ''■' ■ Commerce Mr Begg, President, alluding to the frozen meat trade, expressed himself as : sure that if the trade were amalgamated " ' ' under one management, with a Government ■■ guarantee for the money necessary to carry it out, the company thus floated would speedily., and' surely come to grief. He looked with considerable apprehension on the attempts of firms already in the trade to secure a practical monopoly of the business, 1 arid said if these attempts were successful a fatal blow would be struck not only at the interests of growers, but at the general ' prosperity of the colony.

{The east end of Glasgow has been the scene of disturbances arising out of what, to the maeeuline mind, seems a ludicrously small matter. It is the cußtomin that region for the mill girls to wear no hats, but shawls over their heads. The girk employed in certain lace curtain mills, however adopted h&ts instead of shawls, which greatly incensed the girls in other mills, who mobbed them on two successive evenings as they left their work. On the second occasion the rioters numbered about 1000, and many of them were so violent that the police had to take them into custody. Three of them were afterwards fined 10s 6d each, with the alternative of a week's imprisonment. The obnoxious bat remains mistress of the situation. ' '■' ••■•'■■■.■••. ': ' ' . ;.

'•.■••■•■•': " £ B. a. 257 Imperial Conaola... 107 0 0 10 a lower ■ .JtfijSW 114 15 045 slower 3&NSW. .« ...106 5 0 35a lower ... .- 106 15 030 a lower 3% Victorian ... ... 99 5 045 a ower 4V South Australian ... 110 5 0 35s lower '^m&Soutfc Australian... 104 0 030 sower SFweab Australia ... .118 10 0 10 sower 4^Que«nßland... ...HO 5 0 30a lower 3i%<frieenßland ... 103 10 0 20a lower •iKew Zealand ...110 15 0 35a lower • & New Zealand ...104 0 030 a low* 3\f Taamanian ...104 0 0 20s lower