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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 140, 8 July 1901, Page 2

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LONDON MARKETS. (By Eleotric Telegraph.— l^opyright.) (PER PRESS ASBOOHTIOK ) Londow, July 5. Bank ef England returns for the week:— Stock of gold com and bullion, £8',*35,000! reserve, £24,186,000; proportion of reserve to liabilities, 42-96 per cent.; notes in circulation, £29,080,000; publio deposits, £10,052,000; other deposits, £4*.654,000; Government securities, £14,802,000; other securities, £35,4 7 000. Three months' billi are discounted at 27-Bpercent Consols are quoted at !)3|. The following arc the quotations for Colonial Government securities:—Victorian 4 per cents., 110J; 3J per centa., 104. New South Wales, 4 per oents., 118; 3} per cents, 103; 3 per cents, 99. South Australian, 8J per cents, 101; 3 per cents, 93. Queensland 4 per cents., 106J; 3J per cents., 101. New Zealand 4 per cent*., 113} 3} per cents, 108J; 3 per cents., 99. Tasmanian 3j per cents., 103. Westralian, 3i per cents., 102. Wheat—Unfavourable crops reports are hardening the Frenoh markets, ethers are dull in sympathy with America where bfa s nre pressing sales in anticipation of a bumper crop. Cargoes quiet; Victorian Msrch-April shipments, 28s 9d. Copper, quiet Fpet, 1.87 10a; three months, L6B 10s. Tin: Dull Spot,Ll39ss. Fig iron. 50s IOJd. Lead, LI 2 7s 6d. buK«r, dull. German, 9s 3d; flr«t marks, lis. Wool, clips Waikankau, 4Jd. Bradford, quiet and unchanged LOXDON WO JL BALBS. Keceivei 6, 8 86 p m. I • London, July 6. | [At the wool salet oroasbndi remained on. altered, Then was atreag oompetlUea. and' full prion wore obtainedfer Merinoi,