BANK OF ENGLAND RETURN

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 60, 4 December 1920, Page 9

BANK OF ENGLAND RETURN

Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. (Rec. December 3, 8.50 p.m.) London, December 2. The Bank of England return for tho week ended December 1, iB aB under:— IKKBK Depahtmknt. NoUS iiiuedil3o.Jß-2.000 Gov. debt- £11,015,000 Other securi- . Kotei in ties 7,431.000 renerr» 11.135.000 Gold ... ... 123,169,000 <.'ui.6i7.boo ' iHi.6i7.ooo' lUNKIKO DZPABIMEST. Proprietors' Gov. socuri. capital ...£14,553,000 ties ... £03,806.000 Public ile- Other securiposlts ... 2J.63-2.000 ties 75,353,000 Otlier de* posits ... 142.685,000 Notes in Bcßt.f-diy r«Mi-ve ... 11,135,000 and btlier ■ Coin in bills ... 3.318.000 reserve ... 1.621,000 £162.503,000 f182.C08.000 111ti leading Items of the Bank of England return afford the following comparison:— This week Last week Last year 1£• £ £ Bullion 103.165.000 122.323,000 90 302.000 Reserve . .... 12.05n.000 14.518.000 22.106.000 Note Circulation 130,«i?2.000,127.965.000 8H.134.000 Public Deposits 2:,tK2.C0 : l 17.959.00fl 20,701.000 Other Deposits 142.665 000 105.315.000 146,538.000 Proportion of reserves to liabilities 7.00 . 11.83 13.25 GOVERNMENT SECUIUTIEB. Following are latest Quotations for In» perial and Colonial Qovernmont securities.

''New Scrip., 259. discount. MONEY MARKET. Tlio Bank ot England discount rati*, which had stood at 5 uCr ccnt. since Aura S. 1917, oil which (lute It was reduced from Sj. vcr cont„ w.ib raised to 6 per cent. on November 6. 191?. and to 7 per ccnt. on April IS, 1930. OPEN MARKET KATES. flic on™ market, vale for three months' bills is 6S per ccnt.,' ns coin-pared with 68 per cent, last week, and 5j last year. Short loans aro quoted at 5k per ccnt. as against 5J per cent, last" week, and per ccnt. last year.

The death took place at Maidslone, England, recently, of Major-General Charles Edward Cumberland, 0.13., m his ninctv-lirsl year. The gallant officer took part-in - both the Crimean and Indian Mutiny campaigns. Mrs., Mary Coleman, of "The Hamlet," Hoyden, Ksscx, has reached the age of 103. _She has ten children, the oldest being 73, and she lives with her youngest daughter, who is 66. Sho gets about the houso and garden without any aesißtanco.

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