MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.
[Special to* Pbess Association.!
LONDON, Jan. 10.
Ihe Union Bank of Australia has deolared a dividend of 6 per cent, and carried forward £14,000.
The 'American visible supply of wheat ia 13,100,000 bushels.
LONDON. Jan. 11.
The weekly returns o£ the Bank of England, published to-day, shows the total reserve to be J825,160,000, and the proportion of reserve to liabilities 55'66. Consols, loi}.'
Three xaontha* bills are discounted at £per cant.
New Zealand 4 per cent inscribed stock, 106 j 3* per cent, 100}.
New South Wales 4 per cent, 108; 3$ per cent, 100J.
Victorian 4 per cent, 101} ; 3i per cent,
. South Australian 4 per cent, I06J; 3J percent, 10O£. Queensland 4 per cent, 105| j 3i pot cent, Qi%.
Tasmanian 3-J pec cent, 981.
Western Australian 4 per cent, 111.
New Zealand long-berried wheat, oz warehouse, firm, 255 ; South Australian do 265 ; Victorian do 259 63.
New Zealand frozen meat, first quality, 4d ; second do, 3£-d; lamb, 4£cL
The Euahine'o frozen meat, and also her consignment of butter, arrived ia excellent condition.
At tho New Zealand hemp ealeß there was no bidding, and all the bales were bought in. '
Sugar, German beet, 83 TJd; Java, 11s 9d.
Silver, 2o 8d and 5-16ths per oz. No. 1 best Scotch pig iron, f.o.b. in the Clyde, 41b 7R
SYDNEY, Jan. 11.
A trial shipment of hay, walnuts, and wine lias reaobed here direct from Valparaiso.
SYDNEY, 12. Jan.
The area under English barley is greatly in excess of last yoar'a area, and the estimated yield is 975,000 bushelo, the average being 15 bt&heTa'to the acre. In regard to feed barley, nearly the whole of which ia of the Cape variety, ifc is anticipated the yield will .amount to a quarter of a million bushels, or an average of 24 buehels to the acre.
MELBOURNE, Jan. 12.
The Leader, ia reviewing the oat and hay crops, says the oat crop ia a fairly good one in most' districts, end really fine oifrpffhave baen harvested in portions of the northern diatriots. The oat crop ia estimated at 6,000,000 bushels or 25 busbela to the acre. The hay yield will be-about 625,000 tons, or 1J tons par acre. Complaint?, however, are mad« o£ tho dirty character generally of the cropa this year, which will prejudice the market value of
gram.
Mid Oninptboyrlrtmitedhave received the following cable:advic3 :— The Matatua arrived at London on Thursday morning, with meat in good condition..
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5154, 12 January 1895, Page 6
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