COMMERCIAL. March 28.

Waikato Times, Volume III, Issue 148, 19 April 1873, Page 2

COMMERCIAL. March 28.

Money in easier, and discount is 4 per cent. New Zealand consolidated fires, 103} ; ditto sixes, 111. Largo witdrnwals of gold arc expected. The Oriental Bank ho* declared a dividend of 12 per cent. Tallow is steady. Coppor, steady. Hides, unaltered, full supply. Leather, prices hare declined one half-penny. New Zealand liemp, £23 to £26. Wheat, dull. Preserved meats dearer. Butter has been sold at 90s per curt. April 3. ■„, Kauri gum is dull, and easier ; fine transparent, £5 ; pale clear, £3 7s to £3 17s. Hemp quiet, decline of £1 per ton. Scarcely anj domaud. Woollen manufactures are busy. Stocks low. Total arrivals, upwards of 100,000 bales. Money in active demand. Discount 3J per cent. arc depressed owing to an apprehension that money will be clearer. New Zealand con3olidnterl fives. 104. A spirited advance lias taken pliu-c in colonial land share*. Australian u^riuultu.-al, 75 to 7U. <■ Peel River share*. 77 to >*2. Mutton, 31 to 42. I/mMipr tjuiol. v Hides inactive, 51s.

Farii, April 1. A most excited debate took place in the National Assembly on Prince Napoloon'i petition againit hia expulsion from Franc o. Dufaure, Minister "of Justice; refu»ed to receive the Committee's report, expressing the view 3 of the Conservatives, and oa»tin" implied censure on the Govo^nuieut. Dufaure then submitted a bill excluding the whole of the Bonaparte family, and aslccdthut it should be considered a simple order of tl c day, which was subsequently voted. April 2. It is rumoured that tho Khan of Khiva lias become alarmed, #nd that, he will send back the Russian prisoners us soon as thc'Ru'sians outer Khiva. Madrid, March 31. The Spanish provincial authorities oppose the levy en masse. April 1. i The internationalists are active at Barcelona. A Federal Republic has been proclaimed at Malaga. April 2. The inhabitants of Barcelona exasperatod the Uarlists, who attacked the churches. Ten thousand citizens govern Malago, and refuse to admit the troops-.