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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12797, 2 October 1905, Page 3

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United Press Association^-Per Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 29. The Bank of England returns show the stock of gold, coin, etc., to be £32,889.000 • nwjree £23,800,000; proportion of reserve 40.03; notes in circulation, £29,270,000: public deposits, £14,203,000; othw deposits, £45,169,000; Government securi : t^w^^ei8 > 66 7, 0 OQ; other securities, £35,Three mbntha' bills, 71 per cent. Con. SOS, 89J. . New South Wales 3 per' cents., 864 South Australian per cents., 993. New Zealand 4 per cents., 109$. Western Australian 3J per cents., 97. _The wheat market is quiet, but steady. The French market was rather easier on the publication of the preliminary official estimate of the crop at 119,000,000 hectolitres. Cargoes are -firm; Adelaide, off w?™*? 33s Jg to «* so. Fl6ur is slow of side. Quotations are nominally unchanged. Copper, spot, * £7l 5s per ton; three months, £7O 6s; tin, spot, £147; three' months, £145 17s 6d. Lead, £l4 per ton. Sugar is nominal; first marks, lis lOd per cwt; German, 8s 9d. The Bradford wool market is firm; prices are unchanged, but there is improved enquiry.:. ■ At the sheepskin auctions 4050 bales were offered and all sold. There was an average attendance, with good competition. Prices for clothing are unchanged; combings are £d lower. The butter market is firm; prices are unchanged; secondaries are neglected.

THE CHRISTCHURCH MARKETS. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, September 30. At TattersaH'fe to-day an entry of 52 horses met with a -somewhat dnll sale. Oily Medium sorts changed hands; light and aged draughts, made £lB to £22, sadd.'e and harness horses .£lO 10s to £l9. There was a very large entry of pigs at the Saturday market, and a much keener demand than at Addington on Wednesday. Stores sold at lis to 22s 6d, and suckers and weaners 5s 6d to 10s 6d. There were moderate entries of poultry, and a very keen demand, especially.for fat mature birds.