Shipping and Commercial.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5094, 30 August 1884, Page 4

Shipping and Commercial.

[Eeuter's Telegrams.] LONDON, August 28. Consols remain at 100??. Bank reserve, .£13,400,000; proportion to liabilities, 45 per cent. The Bank rate of discount remains at 2 ; market rate, 1^ per cent. New Zealand securities remain at yesterday's quotation. Colonial Breadstuff's — Adelaide wheat, ex store, 38s; New Zealand, 34s to 38s ; Adelaide flour, ex store, 275. Australian Tallow — Average quality beef and mutton, 35s 6d. Wool— At to-day's auction, 10,400 bales were catalogued. A firm tone again prevailed. Good qualities of wool have advanced by a halfpenny. The quantity of wool withdrawn from sale since the opening of the series is 10,250 bales, out of a total of 161,200 bales catalogued. Hides — At to-day's auction a fair demand was experienced.

[Reuter's Telegrams.] SYDNEY, August 29. All the small-pox patients are progressing favourably, and no further cases have occurred. . New Zealand wheat, per bushel, 3s 3d ; New Zealand oats, 2s sd ; maize, 4s 7d ; Sugar Company's No. 1 pieces, per ton, dB3l. Arrived— P.M. S. City of Sydney, from San Francisco, via Auckland.

ADELAIDE, August 29. Wheat, per ■ buabfcl, 3s 7d-, flora, town brands,. ,£8 17s 6d ; country do, £7 17s 6d; market dull; freight to London, steam, 30s ; do sailing, 255 ; freight market weak.

MELBOURNE, August 29. Arrived — Te Anau, s.s., from the Bluff.

[Pek Pbesß Association.] THE " ROUGH ON RATS" CASE. AUCKLAND, August 29. Complaints are made that the provisions of the Act for the protection of fish and fisheries are systematically violated by fishermen, fish being taken under the size prohibited by the Act. The appointment of an Inspector is suggested. None of the Insurance Companies tendered for the insurance of the Corporation property, save the National. A handsomely-illuminated address was presented to Mr G. von der Hyde on his retirement from the Presidency of the Auckland Deutsche Verein. Michael Haydon, the subject of the ?' rough on rats" attempted poisoning case, was discharged to-day, as owing to Judge Gillies' previous utterances on the subject of attempted suicide, Haydon's committal for trial would only have put the country to useless expense.