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LATE QUOTATIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, Oct. 17. Tho Bank of England returns show tho > Block of gold and coin to bo £31,932,000 ; > reservo, £22.(314,000; proportion ot resorvo to liabilities, 45’77 ; in circulation, £29,650,000 ; public deposits, £7,291,000; ■ otbor deposits, £42,021,000 ; Government securities, £16.344,000 : other securities, £28,200,000. Consols are at 93J ; threo months’bills, 3] per cent.; Now South \Vjhles fours, 105 ; other stocks arc unchanged. /The wheat markets are firm, and rather higher prices are asked, despite liboral shipments checking demand. Copper, , spot, is at £52 10s; three months, £o2 18s 93. Tin, spot, £ll7 7s (3d ; three months, £ll6 7s 6d. Iron, 57s fld lead, £lO 13s 9d ; spelter, £l9 2s 6d. | Sugar is tinner. First marks, 8s 4d; German, 7s 2d. Bradford wool market pricos aro unchanged. Medium aud fino crossbreds aro active. Napier, last night-. Tbo Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company cables Frozen moat market quiet-. Canterbury mutton 4RI, Napier, Wellington and North Island 4 i3-Bd, first quality lamb 5Jd, second quality s;id.
THE LONDON MARKET. Last evening Messrs Dalgety .X Co. received the following cablegram from Lon i m : —" Tho market for frozen crossbred mutton and lamb is higher by a farthing to three-eighths. Frozen beef:—Thf nisrkcr is a shade easier, and the following quotations arc ruling : Hindquarters 4:Jd forequarters -Id. Sheepskins : Merinos am coarso crossbred aro higher by a farthing lino crossbreds aro higher by a half penny.” MESSRS COMMON, SHELTON, AN! CO.’S SALE. Messrs Common, Shelton and Co. r< port, ; 1_“ At our stock salo at Wacrengi a-hika on Thursday the entries comprise about 70 cattle and 300 sheep. Compare with last sale thcro was considerab slackening of domand, and several lo failed to. reach owners’ value. Daii cattle ran from £4 7s (id to £7. A nil lino of two-year-old heifers brought J 15s. Weaners (inferior) 33s 6d, light be cows £5 17s 6d, butchers’ ewes in we 12s sd, ditto shorn 10s 6d to 10s Bd, ew and lambs 10s 7d to 12s Id, cull hogg< 7s Bd. Our next salo will be held 'Jljursday, Nov, Kith,"
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 548, 18 October 1902, Page 3
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