... LONDON STOCK EXCHLANGE. I .I A Totalreserve ?? 20.673,328 Inc. 344,029 Notesinreserve ?? , 18536435 Inc. ?? 312.965 Monday ?? , ?? , , ,, ?? 25 063.Q00 Tuesday ?? ?? ?? 23,G15,000 ?? ?? 2z334.000 A:147,451.000 Correspond jng lveek 1898.., ?? :12g,9S9,000 LATEST PRICEB, IXCLI-DIXG TRtS-SsCT10XS MOB BUSINESS Z0 BROWSE .4DiD COLONIAL GOVERNMENT l ield SBCURllEES. per ?? Clos' Cent. ?? Priczise ...

... ! SPECIAL NOTES. &O. The annual general meeting of the London and Lancashire Fire Insurance, Company will bu held at twevle o'clock noon or Thursday, April 27, at the Law Association Rooms, Cook-street, Liver- pool. The British and Continental Timber and Stave Company. Limited, whose registered office is at 2, Strand -street, have purchased the businesses carried on fur many years by Messrs. ...

... - BI:UILDING TRADE DISPUTES. I It was officially announced on Saturday that the standing committee of the National Master Builders' Federati.'n will, at their meeting in Derby next Wednesday, decide whether or not a general lockout shall be declared in the building trade, with a view to bringing the plasterers' dispute to a speedy conclusion. The Lanca- shire, Cheshire, and Yorkshire Master ...

... WAGES IN THE COTTON TRADE THE WEAVERS' AGITANTON. Among 'he cotton manufacturers of North-east Inoanahire there has been a general and free exchange of opinion on the result of the opera- tive weavers' ballot, and the action ?? on it by the council of the Northern Counties Weavers' Association. As a, result of this un- official interchange of views, says the Manchester Evening News, it ...

... - - I ,Mautfer Telegram.1 NEW YORK, T0EsOA-T. TThere has been an increased disposition to bby to-day, with quite a general advance in which industrials and specialties participated freely. Standards were all very strong, with pronounced advances in GrangerG. Union PPcificsc Northern Pacific Common, NeNw York Ceentrrl, Anthracites, Southern Preferred, and sissouri Pacific were also notably ...

... t SIGNALLr ED OFF TEES L SIZARD. Apvril 2.-Passed East: Steamer 1a Bretagne, from New York for Havre. Passed West: Onoe ~ of Rlanskm, Gilmouir's steamers; one of Rea! steamers, of Cardiff. April 3.-Passed East: Q.GL.W.. German barque; steamers Tuskar, of Glasgow; lRallus, of Cork' PansY, of Liverpool; Copenhagen, of Glasgow, from Baltimore for Hamburg; Ostend trawler No. 43; Sheildrake, of ...

... [lIoyd's Telegrams.J Wed esday': Rtoutenburn, ship, put back San Francieco loM. foretopsailyard. Inchulva.-Bernuda cables: Entered Wingsland,, towing Inchnsva with loss propeller. Kennctt--Barbados cables: British steamer Kennett, before reported with loss of' screw. was passed in 2I N. 45 W. HRiddekol-Hamburg telegraphs: British barque.- Hiddekal, ?? in tow, grounded at lon- water in entering ...

... COMBINE IN THE TINxPLATE-TRADE. LIbANELLY AND CWMBWRLA WORKS TAKEN OVER. A COMIPANNY TO CONTROL 43 v tantI.', G A\n 'impo.rfailt. aiaaig-iililttiOO of W~elsh tin- d plato iiterests has takell place this week, which is likely to exercise a very material influence upon the future of tin-plate making in the Prin- LI cipality.' The well-knowli South Wales Works a] at rtauelly are carried oln by ...

... ?? I LONDON, METAL MARIET. k LONDON,' Monday. d copper opened strong at Friday's closing Y 1,1ice, o qash, and under the inflnence-of col- E l ected, bnyisg for the rise at onetime showed B a gn 'of '63 3d per ten, losing, ;however, li slightly of'the best. Sales, i,600 tons-for cash ti .;it at77 to£77 l6s 3d, back to £77 AOs and:up I1 to:£77 15s, May dates £78 to,£77 7s 6d, up to s . £77 ...

... SHIPPING lNTELLlG&NcO. ~~~~~-.I ABERDEEN. Arrived.-April 22-Cleadon, Mohrkes, Su- derland, coals; Clunie, Thain, Bo'ness, do. 23- Prinoess Sophia, Kerr, Liverpool, goods; Lian o' Doe, Mmlne, Hamburg, do.; Cargan, Ross, Leith, do.; St Giles, Tait, Lerwick, do.; Norwood, hiehie, Hull, der Countess, Kennedy, Blyth, coals; Sea Fisher, Bee, Amble, do.; Spray, Law- rence, Sunderland, do. Sailed. ...

... j j ABERDEEN SADDLERS AND THEIR WAGES. THE MASTERS MAKE A CONCESSION. Last night the operative saddlers in Aberdeen met in the I rades Hall Buildings for the purpose of further considering the wages question. The fmea had asked that the minimum rate of wages should he fixed at 2e peri X wiek a nd that one shilling of an ad- 'ance should be given to alt onsploy es at present in receipt of 20s ...

... LADIES' . .COLUM.N GOI XIRTRTS C£HINA TRADE.. Among the latest wails over the athbltib craze among women is one. from the dealers in fine china and exquisite table settings. Girls who love golf do' not care for 'masterpieces on English platteis, cr the value 'of a soup tureen 11Roussseau plates of marvellous beauty at $100 a set go for naught with the girl who finds delight in sailing a boat ...