ENGLISH MARKETS.
U'or Press Association) London, April 30. The Bank of England returns published today show the total reserve to be £'26,094,000 (£292,000 more 'than last week) the proportion of reserves to liabilities being 51-92 per cent. Hemp is unchanged. The meat market is dull and un> changed. Complaints are made at the Smithfield and Central Meat Markets that mutton and lamb have been shipped from Dunedin labelled "prime Canterbury." Butter is quiet. The market is bare of colonial wheat. English shows a general decline of 6d, and Continental a general decline. American is declining and weak. Cali-. fornian No 1 milling 30s 6d ; London quotation for No 1 hard Duluth, 33s 9d ; New York quotation No 2 red winter, 82 cents. Colonial oats, fine quality, 25s 6d ; common, 225; colonial beans, 325; Victorian dun peas, 26a. Tallow- Prices are easier all round. Mutton : Fine, 19s 6d ; medium, 18a. Beef: Fine, 18s 3d ; medium, 17a. The Bradford wool market is slack.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 255, 3 May 1897, Page 2
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161ENGLISH MARKETS. Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 255, 3 May 1897, Page 2
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