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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 238, 13 February 1911, Page 2

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BANK OF ENGLAND RETURNS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, February 10. The Bank of England returns t'or the week ending Wemie.sday last are an follow: Reserve, £28.491,000. Gold coin, £,'i(i,395,(100. Note circulation, £27.297,000. Public deposit*, £11,740,000. Other deposits, 1*41,9.) 1,000, Government securities, £ 14,905,000. Other securities, £28,219,000. Proportion of reserve to liabilities, THE MONEY MARKET. Three months bills, 3 per cent.; Paris, *2'/i per cent,; Berlin, V/. per cent. Bank rate, 4 per cent. Short loans, 2% per cent. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. The following are the latest quotati(in.s for Government securities: 1/, per cent. Consols, £BO. Rise of 4 per cent. New South Wales, £lO5. Unchanged. •I'/s pe'' cent. New South Wales, £9B. Unchanged. 3 per cent. New South Wales, £B7 10s. Unchanged. 4 per cent. Victoria, £lO3. Unchanged. IS'/a per cent. Victoria, £97 10s. Unchanged.

I! per cent. Victoria, £BS. Rise of Ids. ' V/, per cent. South Australia, £9O 10s. Unchanged. <1 per cent. South Australia, £B2. Rise of 10s.

4 per cent. Queensland, £lO3. Unchanged. %'/« per cent. Queensland, £9O 10s. Unchanged.

3 per cent. Queensland, £B4. Rise of 10s.

-1 per cent, ->ew Zealand, £lO5. Rise of 2s'fid.

314 per cent. New Zealand, £9O. Unchanged. 3 per cent. New Zealand, £BO. Rise of 10s.

3'/a per cent. Tasmania, £97 10s. Unchanged. 3 per cent. Tasmania, £SS. Unchanged. 3'/o per cent. West Australia, £97. Unchanged. 3 per cent. West Australia, £BO 10s. Unchanged. LONDON .MARKETS. London, February 10. Tin.—Dealings on a huge scale have; caused great excitement, rapid and successive breaks being due to heavy manipulations by big operators. Wheat.—Markets quiet, and buyers generally inactive. Two parcels' of 12,000 to 10,000 quarters of Australian February-March shipments were placed at 34s 3d to 34s fid. and 11,000 quarters at 34s (id. Holders are asking 30s for Victorian and South Australian October, and 35s 3d for parcels afloat. Quiet trade in Australian spot at 37s 3d to 37s 6d. Flour.—Dull: Australian patents 20a ex store, 25s 3d to arrive.

Oats.—Slow. La Plata March-April shipment, 13s I'/id. Butter.—Danish ] 18s to 120s. Heavy supplies of colonial depressed the' market, which has recovered slightly, closing steady. Choicest Australian salted 9Ss to 102s, unsaltcd lo4s to lOfis, secondaries ie» to 90s,' New Zealand salted 104s to 100s, unsaltcd scarce 108s, and occasionally 110s, secondaries OSs to 100s.

Cheese. Slightly easier, Canadian while <>os, colored (12s, New Zealand 57s and 00s, Australian 50s to 58s.

Copper. Spot £54 fis 3d, three months £55 Is .'id, electrolytic £57.

Tin.—Spot £172, three months £l7l 15s.

Load. £l3 3s !ld. Spelter, £23 7s Od. Iron, 48s 104. Sugar.—German. !ls 3d; first marks, lis 3d.

Bradford Wool. -- Quiet; forty-sixes forties others unchanged.