COMMERCIAL NEWS.
Formosan Oil-Fields.
In the Budget for 1918-9, just passed by the Japanese Diet, ir an item of T.320,000 for the ex- ploitation of oilfields in Formosa by the Navy Department which own some oilfielda in the Ako district in Formosa, and thate arn to be extracted fo the Nippon and the Badap petroleum companies for tris working, for which pripose Y,300,000 is to be given to the two companies,
Tadian Treasury Bills. The India Office annnoncea that down to December 16 Indian Treasury Bills had been sold to the following smounts-Six months' bille, face valde, Rs. 13,83,25,000; uine montba' bills, face value B+,3,94,80,000; 12 month bills, face valus, B 63,65,000; making the total Rs. 18,41 50,000, equal at Is. 5d. per rupes to $13,044," 000. The total salne down to December 8, as already annoɑco». sd, amounted to Rv: 16,64,01,000 (equal at 16. 51. per rupee to $11,788,700).
Japanese Goods via America.
The Japaness Chargs d" & fairs Washington has been in
tion with the American ties in order" (says the
PTĒMĀÄMISTICan - port withe)
Katkerorals of the negoti. atlong it has now been desiled, scoceding to, a dispatch to the Foreign Office, that as to-goode from or between Japan, Britain, Fance, and Italy, expert liondes
shall be given against copies of minifests: The manis is the case with banded goods' passing over. fask through the United States.
American Cotton."
Spot cotton hea jumped another. ~75 points in New York; according `to's mourage received on March 25 by Mr. A. B. Rosenfeld of Bbang- The quotations follow :--
Spot May Taly
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36.05 vants.
32. 39 cents.
32. 17 cents.
The strengh of the market is denoted in the high values of die wat montbe, Liverpool spot has zów "reached 24.55d., the differ- edoo being due, of course, to the costs of trans-Atlantic carriage. Cotton has yet to soar consider ably before Civil War prices are resched, but it would seem not altogether unlikely that such, prices may be touched, so long as there is do Government price- fting. In 1864, when there was rioting in Lancashire and an un- pleasantuese fesalted belween Britain and the American Feder- "al Government, ootton was 31d. it Liverpool. The American Canape Bureau report of the 1917 18 crop gives the fotal su
bales, 11,251.000
including liarere, which is sbout half a million short of the estimate. The final Ginners' Association report shows 11,221,000 bales) gloord.
Royal Bank of Canada,
The annast statement of the
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to be sented by an increase in the conception of matured benda re material 18 stated
deemable in " the United cleaner and lighter then, wool. tral gold reserves of $9 500 000, this now standing at $16,000,000. Kingdom and ecupons falling due Delivery is made in bales of 30 United kilos (66 pounds), the packing The bank'e holdings of Dominion for payment in the
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