MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2735, 8 November 1894, Page 4

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

London, November 3. Tallow, medium mutton, 23s 9d; medium beef,.23s. The English wheat market has a strong tone, and: prices, are unchanged. The Continental market is changing a little for the better, and the American market has an upward tendency. A cargo of South Australian wheat by the ship Orion has been sold out at 23s 6d. Nine thousand quarters of Victorian wheat, October shipment, have been sold at 245. Owing to the mild weather, there are plentiful supplies of all kinds of butter, but the committee have not altered the prices. ; Silver, 2s 5 3/16d. November 6. The London Bank of Australia shows a net profit for the half-year ended June 30th (including the amount . brought forward) of £9OOO. A dividend of s }, per cent on preference shares has been declared and £4OOO carried forward. Melbourne, November 6. A conference of pastoralists and agriculturists has decided to form a frozen meat trust, and it is proposed to levy a rate to prod-ice interest on a loan of £145,000 nee" sary to carry out the works. It ia intend; i to ask the Government to guarantee tii ir debentures. Sydney, November 6. TheM).:u.-)U)t' ,-f Agriculture has requested the chairmen of the various stock boards to nominate stock breeders to attend a conference to discuss the question of live stock exportation. Several ocean steamship companion offer special terms to convey first class cattle to London, provided a constant suply is kept up. During the past nine months 44,8540zs of gold have been received from New Zealand for coinage in the Sydney mint.