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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 218, 3 February 1913, Page 7

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BANK OF ENGLAND KETI/UXS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, January 31. The Bank of England returns for the week ending Wednesday last are as follow: —■ Gold coin, £35.307.000. Reserve, £27.075,000. Note circulation. £27,777,000. Public deposits. £10..483.000. Other deposits. £-10.585,000. (lovernment securities, £13,035.000. Other securities. £35,040.000. Proportion of reserve to liabilities. 47.43. THE MONEY MARKET. Bank rati'. 5 per cent.: short loans. 414 per cent.: three months' bills, 4% per cent.; Paris, 3% per cent..; Berlin, 4'-'/, per cent. COVEKNMEXT SECTRITIES'. The following are the latest quotations for .(iovernment securities: 2'/< per cent. Consols. £75: fall of 2s fid. 4 per cent. New South Wales. £101: unchanged. 3 1 /;, per cent. New South Wales, £OB 10s; unchanged. 3 per cent. New South Wales. £B4; unchanged. 4 per cent. Victoria. £103; unchanged. Vf 2 per cent. Victoria. £O3 2s Od; unchanged. 3 per cent. Victoria, £7B: unchanged. V/, per cent. South Australia. £O3: unchanged. 3 per cent. South Australia. £7(1: unchanged. 4 per cent .Queensland. £101: unchanged. V/j per cent. Queensland. £O4: unchanged. 3 per cent. Queensland, £7O; unchanged. 4 per. cent. New Zealand. £101; unchanged. '. 3VL' p o '' c rn t- Zealand. £01; unchanged.' 3 per oent. New Zealand, £80; unchanged. 3% per cent. Tasmania, £o]; unchanged. ~ ' 3 per cent. Tasmania. £B3: unchanged. 3'/, per cent. West Australia. £01: unchanged. .3 .per c.ent. West Australia, £B4; unchanged.

XF.W ZEALAXT) LOAX AND 'MEP.CAXTTLE. Wellington. January 30. The Xew Zealand Loan and Mercantile AS'' n O' Cf? B ]P? nv - TJmited. and Rwlneed. have received 1 lio followiii'.' cablegram .from their .London house under date 29th instant Tallow.—We quote present spot values for the following descriptions:— (Jood mutton, 3!)s (id per cwt: good beef, 35s 3d. ppr owt; mixed, 33s lid. ' The market is active. Wheat —We hare sold at :17s T'A>(! net an Australian ( cargo. The market is quiet. but steady,,.owing' to increased supplies, and the oiitlqok. for Argentina market prospects, is unccrtain. Oats.--We : quote Oartons 255. The market k fair. LOXI)t)X WOOL SALES. Wellington, January 30. The Xew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, and Reduced, have received the following .cablegram from theif tondon house, under date 20th instant: The sales closed strong, with good competition 130.000 bales of wool were sold, of which 43.000 hales were taken for the Continent, arid 0000 for America; 5000 hales were held over. As compared with la-t sales v eloking rates prices are higher hy about'par to five per cent for crossbred lambs; ■ scbured merino super and medium greVi sy crossbred: higher by ahout "> per cent, for merino inferior, creasy merino super, scoured merino medium and line greasy crossbred: higher hy about r>-'pei;'cent to 7\L per cent for greasy merino, medium and lambs. Trices are about the same for crossbred scoured. coarse .greasy crossbred and crossbred slipes.