Trade and Finance.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7730, 4 February 1905, Page 2

Trade and Finance.

• —— LATEST LONDON* QUOTATIONS. (livcvived Feb. a, 6.30 p.m.') LONDON, Feb. a. The Bank of England return shows: £26,403,000; percentage of re--Gold coin, £33,730,000; reserve reserve to liabilities, 52.0,T> ; circiir lation, £27,558,000 ; public deposits, £4.2,641,000 ; Government securities, £10,308,000 ; other securities, £2"(.171,000. The rate of discount for three months bills is 2 J per cent. Consols are 88J ; New South Wales thiw a-hulte, *>7i ; Victoriun fours, 104J ■ three and a-halfs, U7 ; threes, 80i ;' South Australian three and a-halfs JBj ; threes', 85 j ; Queensland fours, 106; three and a-halfs, 07; throe*, fi-H. New ifcaluud stocks are unchanged!. Taauiuniuii three ami u halfs, 9i>j ; Westralian (hrees 86 The English wheat markets „,.,. <l"'<.-t ; Continental have a tendency downward, and American are linti Jen thousand quarters of January shipment at 33} off coast is held for 3s Gd. Flour lvmains unchanged. 130?' Sl>ot '' la °- ' W>m! ,uonth!iiron, 47s Ud. Lead), 12} d. Sugrar, easier ; first marksi, 17s 7d At UnuHord wool was lirm, but ''!',• , c °"»»<>u Sixties, 23J ; supers, -4} ; forty-sixes, 15 >d To 16.' Chwse, steady a „d unchanged, m ivuls being wc m ck . nlxX K aud prices generally uncuotiged DTJNEDXN WOOL SALES. (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Feb. 3. At the wool snles to-day 6430 teles were offered. There was a drop in crossbreds estimated at <rom £ to lid. Top prices «, f«r «>o :-Mcr;no ll»d, halfbred lljd crossbred' 10Jd Hi, ' '