COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 248, 29 March 1915, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

BANK OF .ENGLAND RETURNS,

' London, March 2G. ' The Bank <of England returns for the week ended Wednesday last are as follow: Gold coin £55,003,000. Reserve £41,533,000. Note circulation ,01,165,000. Public deposits £ 92,049,000. Other deposits £93,081,000. Government securities £35,351,000. Other securities £120,599,000. Proportion of reserve to liabilities 22.43.

Short loans 1%. per cent., three months' bills 2'/ 2 per cent. London, March 26. Butter—Danish 140s to 1435. London, March 26. Copper.—Electrolytic £76 to £76 10s. Tin.—Cash £165 10s to £l6O, three months £164 to £164 10s. Pig-iron 655. Silver 23% d.

Good wools are animated; faulty rather slow. Ara clip, top price 19d, average 18y 2 d; Burling, 19d and 18d; Hikorangi, 17y a d and i7%d.

GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. The following are the latest quotations for Government securities:—

2% per cent. Consols £66 10s; fall of £2.

4 per cent. New South Wales £95 10s; fail of 755. 3% per cent. 3Jew*3crath (Wales £97 ss; rise of 2s Cd. 3 per cent. New South Wales £BO 15s; unchanged.

4 per cent. Victoria £99; unchanged. 3% per cent. Victoria £94; unchanged. 3 per cent. Victoria £76; fall of £3. 3% per cent. South Australia £B6; fall of £3.

3 per cent. South Australia £7O ss; fall of 555.

4 per cent. Queensland £96; fall of 655.

3 J / a per cent. Queensland £92 10s; fall of 32 8 6d.

3 per cent. Queensland £7B; unchanged. 4 per cent. New Zealand £96 12s Cd; fall of 15s.

3 1 /. per cent. New Zealand £B3 12s 6d; fall -of 708.

3 per cent. New Zealand £76 ss; fall of 30s.

3y> per cent. Tasmania £B3 ss; fall of 755.

3 per cent. Tasmania £76; fall of 1555.

3 l / 2 per cent. West Australia £B7 12s 6d; fall of 37s Cd.

3 per cent. West Australia £B2; fall of 355.