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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 192, 27 August 1901, Page 3

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LONDON MARKETB. PBR PBESS ASSOCIATION. London, August 23. Bank of England returns for the week : Stock of gold coin and bullion, £37,001,000; reserve, £27,157,000; proportion of reserve to liabilities, 51-97 per cent.; notes in circulation, £29,789,000; public deposits, £9,662.000; other deposits, £42 267,000; Government securities, £16,382,000; other securities, £26,717,000. Thiee months' bills are discounted at t\ per cent Consols are quoted at £95 4s Bd. The following are the quotations for Colonial Government securities:—Victorian 4 per cents., Ill; Z\ per cents., 105 J. New South Wales, 4 per cents., 113 ; 3| per cents, 102; 3 per cents, 99. South Australian, 3 per cents , 10>; 3 per cents, 93, Queensland 4 per cents., 107J ; 3 per cents., 102 New Zealand 4 per cents., 115; 3$ per cents, 108; 3 per cents., 99. Tasmanian 3| per cents., 104. WestralHn, 3i per cents., 100 J. The wheat ma-ket« inactive. Continental and American a shade easier; cargoes steady; Vio.torian and South Aust-alian SeptemberOctober shipments, 29s 6d; Vew South Wales parcels afloat, 27s 3d; South Australian cargo soH at 28s 3d; Victorian cargo, 29a; price of Victorian cargo was quoted this morning at 28s 6d. linear, quiet. German, 8s 4id; first mark?, 10s 7Jd. Caprer, nominal. Fpor, L 67 7s 6d; three months, L 66155. Tin, nominal. Bpot, £l2l 2s 6d; three months £ll6 7? 6d. Pig iron. 53s 9d. Lead, LI 1 12s 6d. Spelter, £l7 Is 3d. At Bradford wool is improving; common sixties. 18} d ; super, 19Jd At the kauri auctions 1578 cases were . offered, and 500 sold, prices practically unchanged. Th'eeqnarters scraped, 107s to 120s. Silver; 2s 215-163 per ounce, London, August 25. Mo'ton: Dtwe'lin and Southland, 3|d; North Isl°nd, 3|d ; other sorts an- 1 lsrub unchanged. River Plate, heavy and light, 3Jd. New Zealand beef, 180 to 2201b5, fair average quality, ox feres, 2sd; ox hinds, unchanged. Silver, ?s 2|d per oz. PER PBESS ASSOCIATION, i Wellington, August 26. The Agent-General, in his weekly advice the Agricultural Department, says:—The market is firm. Averages trices for muttnn !o day wrre:—Canterbury, 3gd ; Tlnnedin and 8 utbland, 31-1; North Island, 3gd; River Plate, 3fd The lamb market is depressed—under 361bs, ?d fo s|; over 441bs, 3|d to 4Jd. The hoef 'market is steady. Price' of v ew Zealand beef are: Hind quarters. 3|d ; fores. 2Jd. The hemp nwrVet is firm ; for Welling'in, fpo*.. £26; November-Ttecembt i shipments, £24 10s.