FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 27 April 1901, Page 3

FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.

[by electric telegraph—COPYßlGHT.)

(per peess association.)

London, April 2G. Bank of England Eeserve .. £24,494,000 Coin and Bullion .. .. 31,009,000 Percentage of Eeserve to Liabilities 47.21 In circulation 29,154,000 Public deposits 8,271,000 Other deposits 43,427,000 Government Securities .. 13,817,000 Other Securities 31,309,000 Three Months Bills '.. .. 3 9-16% GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.

The wheat markets' are firm. It is reported that the droughts damaged the Californian crop. Cargoes are hardening. Victorian January and February shipments 30/-, New South Wales'March shipment 29/3. New Zealand oats 24/(3. Barley 24/6 to 27/Beans 33/6. Butter is quiet, Colonial unchanged, Danish 104/Cheese is hardening slightly. Sugar is quiet.. German 9/- First marks 10/7£ Topper is firmer, spot 70%, three months 71. Tin is steady, spot 119, three months 116*. Pig Iron 53/7*d. Lead, 12 7-16. Spelter, 16,\. The Bradford wool market is quiet. Common Sixties 18. j, super 19J-. Eeceived this day at 9 30 a.m. Melbourne, April 26. Victoria last year exported 2,205,000 pounds of bacon and hams, or a million pounds the previous year. The chief increases were with South Africa and eastern ports of Asia.

I Variation ] Name «f Security t,_.„ 1 as com- I Prlce - |pared with | | last week. 2J% Imperial Consols £ 94 s. d-| 5 0 27/- lower 4 % N. S. Wales 115 0 O'Unchanged 3J% N. S. Wales 102 5 OtUnchanged 3~% N. S. Wales , 98 5 0 15/- lower 4 % Victorian 108 10 OUnchanged 3J% Victorian 103 0, 3 % Victorian 95 0 lower 3J% South Australian 106 5 OjUnchanged 3 % South Australian 94 0 0J80/- lower 4 % Queensland 107 0 OjUnchanged 3|% Queensland 103 0 OUnchanged 4 % New Zealand 114 10 OjUnchanged 8j% New Zealand 109 5 0|25/- higher 3 % New Zealand 90 0 O'Unchanged 3j% Tasmania 103 0 0 ; Unchanged 34% West Australian 103 15 OjUnchanged 4 % West Australian) — I —