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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 20, 15 October 1900, Page 3

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|PBB Plan ASSOCIATION.J (Reoeived 13, 8.30 a,m.) London, October 12. Bank of England returns for the weeksStock of gold coin and billion, £32,011,000,; 'reserre, £21,260,000; proportion of raßerTe to liabilities, 13.22 per cent.; notes in circulation, £33,158,000; public deposits, £7,402,000; other deposits, £11,527,000; Government securities, £19,491,000; other securities, £26,080,000. Consuls are quoted at 98§.

Three mouth:' bilU are discounted at 11-16 per cent., The following are the quotations for Colonial Government securities Victorian 4 per tents., 109J; 3£ per cents., 103. New South Wales, 1 per cents., 116; 3£ per | cents, 103£; 3 per cents, 99. Bouth Aus- ! tralian, 3£ per cents., 106£; 3 per cents, 91J. Queensland 4 pet bents., 109; 3| per cents., 103. Mew Zealand 1 per cents., Ill; per cents., 105J; 3 per cents., 95. Tasmanian 3| per cents., 103; Westralian,3£ per cents., 10ii. The wheat nHUrkets'are tending downwards, and cargoes ar4 slow of sale. Australian, aS»at, 325; September shipments, 32s 3d; steam parcels, 325. At Bradford, Wool is tending upward. Common sixties, 18d; snpers. 19d. At the London sties all classes of wool are very firm, and Continental competition has improved. The batter market is brisk, colonial selling well at 106s to 108s; Danish, 112s to Ills. Reoeired 13, 8.47 p.m. London, October 12. At the wool sales there was spirited com-' petition for all elaaies, and there is a better tone in the market.