TRADE AND FINANCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 206, 3 September 1904, Page 2

TRADE AND FINANCE.

LONDON COMMERCIAL CABLE. (Received September 2, 9.82 p,m.) LONDON, September 2. Hank of England returns: Gold coin, etc., £84,809,000 ; reserve, £29,501,000 ; proportion of reserve to liabilities, 53.18 ; notes in circulation, £28,703,000 ; public deposits, £0,245,000; other deposits, £43,454,000. Government securities, £14,234,000 ; other securities, £27,317,000. Three months bills are discounted at 2 13-16.

Imperial Consols are quoted at 88f, New South Wales 4 per cent, stock at 109, 3j per cents. 96, 3 per cents. 86J ; Victorian 4 per cents. 103, 8J per cents. 96, 3 per cents. 87 ; Queensland 3 per. cents. 86 ; New Zealand 4 per cents. 106J ; Tasmanian 3J per cents. 9SJ ; West Australian 8$ per cents. 96i. Other stocks are unchanged. Flour.—Minneapolis sdol 30cents. Wheat.—San Francisco, Idol 47$ cents.

The American visible supply ol wheat Is 20,027,000 bushels.

The wheat markets ore steady, prices remaining unchanged. There is little activity in cargoes of butter, trade being quiet and prices unchanged.

I Tallow.—Stocks are 12,837 casks, imports 5646, and deliveries 7610.

Copper.-Spot, £57 3s 9d per ton, throe months £57 ss. Supplies amounted to 2986 tons, deliveries 29,347, stocks 13,415, and advised

Tin.-Spot, £124 10s per ton • three months £125. Stocks are 14,659 tons, on spot 3382, and afloat 3945.

I'ig iron, £42 lis per ton. Lead, £ll 13s 9d, and spelter £2215s Silver is quoted at 2s 3 5-16 d par oz. r

Sugor.-Market quiot,. First mark granulated, f.o.b. Hamburg, 12s 7d per cwt, German beet 88deg„ 10s 9d.

Bradford teps.-There is good inquiry for finer sorts. "Forty-sixes" lsd, others unchanged.