COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 104, 20 May 1901, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

(PElt PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Eeeeived 18. 1.22 a.m. London, M;iy 18, Bank of Kr.gl.ind returns for the week:— Stock of gold com and bullion, £33/J44,000; reserve, £23,270,009; proportion of reserve to liabilities, 43G9 per cent.; notes in circulation, £29,Gl> 1,000; public deposits, £«,C05.000; other deposits, £40,463,000; Government securities, £13,758,000; other securities, £33,'.171,000.

[ 'i'liiee months' bills are discounted at 3 13-1(1 per cent ' Consols are quoted at 9-IJ-. The following are tj,io quotations for Colonial Government securities: —Victorian 4 per cents., Ill; 3 ; } per cents., 101. NewSouth Wales, 4 per cents.. 115; 3£ per cents, )03; 3 per ecu's, 99. South Australian, :-!.', per cents , lOti; S per cents, 94. Queensland 4 per cents., 107f; 3J per cents., IU3 New Zealand i per cents., 113; per cents, 10''J-; 3 per cents., 07. Tasmanian 3} per cents., 103. Weslralian, 3J percents., 100.

'lhe wheat market ar<* dull and tending downwards; cargoes quiet; New South l Wales cagoes quiet, an April shipment realised 29s 6d ; South Australian January shipment February 29a 9d ; New Zealand cargoes on" coas' 29s (id csked. iSusjmi- is quiet. German, 9s Gd; first mark', lis.

Coprer is quiet, fpot, G9£; three months, 80|, Tin is (km. Spot-, 123|-t; three months, 119 J Pig iron. 54s 4£d. Lead, 12 5-16. S-pcller, 17.| Silver, 2s 3Jd. At Bradford wool sales were firm ; CBUimon six'.ies. 18jd ; super, 19jd. I At the London wool sales competition is I spirited, and all classes are firm 'J'enakoe and Abundance clips realised Brancepeth, 6d.

VICKERS k STEVENS' AUCTION fiKPOU'f. Messrs Vwkeks & Stevens report a small entry of cattle in their Inglesvood yards on Wednesday, Good elves, LI 17s 6d ; yeaning*, 18 months mixed, L 3 1s; store cows, L2 10s to Lit ss; forward cows, cows, L 3 1!U. Inglewood stock sales will be held eveiy fo tnight during the winter months. Next *ale Wednesday, May2!)lh.