MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4670, 14 June 1893, Page 3

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

[Special to Pjbkss Association.] ATHENS, June 13. A 5 per cent loan of four millions sterling baa teen authorised, arid special duties will be assigned as security. LONDON, Jtjnb 13. A wheat cargo, ex JGthelbert, from Lyttelton, sold at 22s 3d. Two Australian cargoes sold at 29s 6d and 29s 7d. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 3,900,000 quarters. Three months' bills are discounted i st 1J per cent. SYDNEY, Jtjne 14,. Wheat, chick 3s 3d, milling 3a 6d j flour, New Zealand £8 ; oats, 23 81 to 2a B£d ; seed, 23 7d to 2s^d ; peas, 4s 3d ; maize, 3b 9d; barley, 3s Id; bran, BJd; pollard, Bfd ; potatoes, local £S 10?, Circular Heads £i; onions, JBS; butter, best dairy 9d to 103, beat factory la j cheese, 4d; bacon, 5d to 7£d j hams, Colonial, scarce, 8d to 9d.gj i MELBOURNE, June 14. Wheat 2s lOd to 2a 11 id ; oats, Algerian Is lOd to Is lid j stout 23 to 2s 2£d; New I Zealand, in bond, 2a Id to 2s 2d ; potatoes j (prime) JB3 ss; maize 3s 6d; barley, Cape 2s 3d ; malting 4a 6d to 4s 9d ; flour, stone ( makes, £6 123 6d to £7; roller, £1 2s 6d to £1 15s j butter, factory lOJd; cheese B& to s}dj New Zealand hemp £17 to £I9pei ' ton. ADELAIDE, June 14. • Wheat,,3a2i; flour, roller brands, £% j

oatß 3s to 3s 2dj barley, Cape, 2a tid to 3b| bran 10d; pollard lid to Hid. ! The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, has received the following cable message, dated LONDON, Juh» 13. ; Wheat —Market steadier. Quotations unchanged since last telegram. (Last quotations, long-berried 31i per i 4961 b; Bpot, c.i.f., 27s per 4801 b.)