MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2877, 5 October 1895, Page 3

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

London, October 1. The New Zealand Shipping Company carries forward the sum of £4449. October 2. Bidding continues spirited at the wool sales, especially for good combings. The series closes on the 12th. The Board of Agriculture decline to permit the BuUshire’s sheep to leave the port of landing. The prospectus is issued of the Kathleen Goldmiuiug Company, Hauraki, with a capital of £75,000. Experts have informed Sir Saul Samuel that passion fruit, apples, oranges, and lemons treated with the solution invented by Mr Parker, of Sydney, arrived in excellent condition without special packing. As, however, the gluey substance on the skins affects the sales, the experiment cannot b© considered sufficiently tried. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,120,000 quarters, and for the Continent 910,000 quarters. The American visible supply of wheat is 55,000,000 bushels. Shares in Robert Campbell & Co. are quoted at £1 10s. Good competition is maintained at the wool sales ; prices are unchanged. The shares in the Maori Goldmiuiug Company have been allotted. The capital is £20,000. The owners of the Southern Cross have decided to have the vessel insulated, with a view of carrying 70,000 carcases of mutton between Australia and England.