COMMERCIAL. The Waikato Times Office, Monday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2255, 21 December 1886, Page 2

COMMERCIAL. The Waikato Times Office, Monday.

[HKUTKUV TKLKOIIAMS ] LONDON MAKKMV. London, lX'-tMnbur 18.—The wheat market miows a >itrung using tendency in .ill iM-ition*. Au-tiali.in shipments on the spot me quoted sit 3^, but there is only a Hunted demand. A thousand qu irtev- «>f J.mu try a-id Febuury shipments have been sold it 3'U !)d. [I'KU N 7, I- VM) M.A. CO. LIMITED.] London, December 11). — Wool: The sal.'-, closed at an average decline of f ill\ lid per lb on lu-.t sale.s' piice^, e\eept in tlie t,i->o of l.nnb-.', \vhkh i> unchanged. Tin' pnncipil decline has been in scoured and medium, and mfeiior Rie.isy soit*. Woi.U of th) new clip hive declined Id pei lb. \Vo ils, of n fault > eharacliM- are neglected. The total quantity sold during pa->t sales i> 100,000 bales and 32.000 bales have been held ovor for futuie disposal ; 49,000 bales h:i\e been taken foi the Continent, nnd 1000 for America. The first seiies «^f_ bales foi 18^7 will eo'iiinenee on January 2.i. The Bink of England rate of discount is .*> cent.

per [KKUI'KU'K L'KLKr,B\>IS.| London, Docember 17.—The total quantity of whe it afloat for the United Kingdom is l,.")<) 0,000 quarters, an increase of 70,000 qinrteru for the week. Colonial breadstufls leinain unchanged at previous quotations. Australian beef tallow has fallen Is mutton tallow being quoted at 2!)s and beef tallow at 2f«s Od. Consols remain atlOO^; New Zealand 4 per cent inscribed stock is ', lower, being 0( > ; New Zealand 4.V per centT)-30 loan, 9<)^ ; New Zealand 5 per cent, 102. By mails per Messagenes-Mari-time* Company's steamers at Sydney and Melbourne, dated November Oth, delivered to-day, New Zealand mutton shows a rise of from id to £d, and us now selling from 4kl to 4W per lb at Smithfield market.