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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 90, 6 May 1901, Page 3

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By Electric Telegraph.—Copibight. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received 4, 1.6 a.m. Lovdon, May 3. Bank of England returns for the week:— Stock of gold coin and bullion, £33,482,000; reserve, £23,468,000; proportion of reserve to liabilities, 45(!8 per cent.; notes in circulation, £23,747,000; public deposits, £3,836,000; other deposits, £40,258,000; Government securities, £13,757,000; other Securities, £30,769,000.' Three months' bills are discounted at 3j per cent Consols are quoted at 94J. The -following are the quotations for Colonial Government securities Victorian 4 per cents., 11l ; 3 A per cents., 101. New South Wales, 4 per cents., 115; 3| per cents, 103; 3 per cen's, 99. South Australian, 3i per cents , 106 ; 3 per cents, 94. Queensland 4 per cents., 107f; 3| per cents., 103 New Zealand 4 per cents., 113; per cents , 109-j; 3 per cents., !)6§. Tasmanian 3§ per cents., 103 J. Westralian, 3i per cents., 100.

The wheat markets are generally strady, but at London prices are barely maintaina-i. Cargoes firm : Victorian unchanged; South Au tralian January shipment, 30s 3d; sailer parcels afloat., 295.

Butter is slow of pale. Co'orhl, 100s J Danish, flat 101s. , Sueur is quiet. German, 9s J|d; first marks, 10s 91.

Copper is steady. Fpot, 695; three months, 70J, Tin is steady. Spot, 118! 1; three months, "5* Pig iron. 54s 3d. Lead, 12 7-16. Spelter, 17.

Bradford tops are quiet and unchango 1. At the London wool sales bidding was animated, I outinental buyers operating fn.ely. The sales included Aiatnla, Bd.

EGMONT FARMERS, UNION, LTD. Hawera, May 2. At Hawera, on the 25th ultimo, only a fair yarJing of stock came forward. Ther>! was a large attendance, and a fair am unfc of business was done —Fa cows, L 4 to L 4 12s 6d ; 3-year steers, L 4 15s to L 5 2s; empty cows, L3ssto L 3 17s ; springers L 3 15s to L 4 10s ; 18-month t-> 2-year steers, L 3 to L 3 10s; yearlings, LI lis t> 1.1 14s; weiners md calves, I3s Gd to LI ss. Sheep: Cull lambs, 4s Bd. We submittal a good entry of herses at ou r horse fair on tha 27th ult. Bidding was not so teen as of late, although «e mana/ed lodispos i of a laj'ge number of ho:scs before leaving the yards. Draught ho-ses, Ll6 10s to 1-23; lightdrauahts, LI 1 to LIS; backs, L 3 10s to Ll3 10s; unbroken horses, LI 15s to L 9 12? Gd. Buggies and traps LI2 toL2O. At Manaia, on the Ist inst., we had a yood yardiny of stock. There was not a very large attendance of buyers, but we succee 'ed in placing most of the stock before leaving tho yards. Fat cows, 1.1 to L 4 lCs ; sto ecows, L3Bsto L 3 lis; heifers an 1 calves, L2l9s to L3Bs 6d ; heifeis in calf, L.'i 2s fi 1 toL3 12s (3d; 8-months steers, I 3 t"> L 3 7s; wetners, 14s to LI 3s. Sheep: Lambs, 5s lOd.