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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7755, 6 March 1905, Page 3

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TUADE AND FINANCE. (Received Murch 5, 7.50 p.m.) LONDON, Murch 3. Gold .coin, £37,074,000; reserve, £29,852,000 ; percentage reserve to liabilities, 53-51 ; circulation, £27,593,000 ; public deposits, £l-5,191,• 000; other deposits, £41,558,000 ; Government securities, £15,589,000 ; ft other securities, £29,629,000. Consols, 91 ; New South Wales threes, 88J ; Victorian threes, 89 ; New Zealand threes, 88 ; rest unchanged. Wheat. —European markets arc inactive, American irregular, ami cargoes afloat are slow of sale. Australian afloat, February-March shipments, ore offering at 32s 9d to 33s 3d. Flour, qiiier and unchanged. rirjpijer. Spot 68 5-1(5, three nipnthsfcS 11-M&U Tin.—Spot 132 J, three months 131 id. Iron, 49s 9d. Lead, 12}. Sugar.—Finn. Firstmarks 16s lid, German 15s sd. Wool.—At Bradford wool was weaker, forty-sixes 15Jd, forties 14d. At the Antwerp wool sales there were numerous buyers and fair animation. There was a fall of five centimes on last auction ; 832 bales of La Plata were sold. Uutter is firmer. Danish unchanged. There is good inquiry for I ' colonial arrivals, which are well > . cleared. New Zealand 103s to 104s, \ZaJ: New South Wales and Victorian WBf* 102» to 103s, occasional 104s, and lip.-" Queensland 100 to 101s.