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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 102, 16 September 1912, Page 2

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i BANK OF ENGLAND RETURNS. I3y Cable—Press Association —Copyright. : ' London, September Li. ' The Bank of England returns for the week ending Wednesday last are as follows: — Gold coin, £-10,84-0.000. 1 Reserve, £31,000.000. I Note circulation £2S,!I5!),000. Public deposits. £1.>,013,000. I Other deposits. £47.355,000. \ Government securities, £13,308,000. I Other securities.. £30.088,000. ( Proportion of reserve to liabilities. 50.34. • ~ THE MO NICY MARKET. J Bank rate, -I per cent.; short loans, 12 per cent.: three months' bills, 3 9-10 per cent.; Paris, 2% per cent.; Berlin, 4% per cent. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. The following are the latest quotations for Government securities: 2 1 /. per cent. Consols, £74 2s Od; fall of 7s (id. ; 4 per cent. New South Wales, £lO3 10s; rise of 10s. 3 1 /. per cent. New South Wales, £O7; unchanged. 3 per cent. New South Wales, £S4 J 10s; unchanged. } 4 per cent, Victoria, £IOO 10s; unchanged. 'A 1 /., per cent. Victoria, £OS; unchanged. "3 percent. Victoria, £B2; unchanged. 3Va per cent. South Australia, £O4; 3 per cent. South Australia, £79; unchanged. 4 per cent. Queensland, £101; unchanged. 3 1 / a per cent. Queensland, £94 10s: unchanged. 3 per cent. Queensland, £B2; . unchanged. 4 per cent. New Zealand, £lO3 10s: unchanged. 3'/> per cent. New Zealand, £94: unchanged. 3 per cent. New Zealand, £B2 10s: unchanged. „ ;>,</., per'cent. Tasmania, £92 10s; un- , changed. 3 per cent. Tasmania. £B4: unchanged. 3</> per cent. West Australia,, £94 10s, : 3 per cent., West Australia, £80; un- , changed. [ LONDON MARKETS. . London. September 13. • Copper, forward. £7O Is 3d .to £79 (is 3d; electrah'Lie. £Bl V2< (id. Tin £''22 l-"« down to £2lO 10s. ' la ad. £J3 :•; L> £■::'• His. ! Iron. (iss lid. SrdlJv. £2O 17= fid. Sugar. -German 12- ho. first marks 13s (id. Bradford Wool. ■T'"i-m: 50's 19d,. 40's 14i/,d. 4(;\s 1.V.;,d. Wheal,- S',:i; ; 'oe., a:': if.iiet and steady. For South A -''d rnlian 'Miv and New South Wale-; April shipment 40s 0(1 is being ashed. Liverpool futures: October 112. December 88 : '.'. Australian spot: There i-. .-> -mall sr-pplv, nominally 42s to 42s lid: goo ! N'en-' Zealand 40s. ' Flour. Tiiere is a sma:] demand for spol : 2(is 3ii , e.i.l. i,- being paid for September-) e lola r shimunils at Liverpool, Oats, Sieadv -"ml :-' ,f,| L Carious. S[int »{U (id: La. I'ial:'..'Sept,Oct.. 18s lid. There is voioe - a.'■cul.il ive demand. Teas. Y,>y. ,■: :".'■,!'. .-'let. shipment 38s !, "l^7' l i'i.'"r: ■'- -v >alnn ( ] 38s 3d ex store. Bull civ V' y (';'.!'('■!; nominally liuohaugeiL Baeoii. -La'!''. Til arc is :;ood enquiry f,,v \u?.i.!'a!'an (.'umberlauds at (ids 4d: Wiltshires, (12. to'fife. Silver,- 2S%d per oz. «