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Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1916, Page 2

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BASSE OF ENGLAND RETURNS. Australian-N.Z. Cable Association. London, Nov. 0. The following are the returns for the week ended on Wednesday last issued by the Bank of England:"—. Coin, £5+.58!>,000. , i Reserve, £37.773,000. ■"' • 'Proportion of reserve to liabilities, 23.20. Circulation, '£37,172,000. flevcrnment deposits, £51,597,000 Other deposits, £112,252.000. Government securities, £42,188,000. Other securities, £100,683000. Short loans 5 per cent., three months' bills, "t>/., per cent. War Loans, £B4 Ms and £9O; New Zealand 4 per cent., £B4. . . _ / I WOOL SALES. ' Adelaide, Nov. 11. At. the wool sales a new record was made for gicasy merinos, which realised 1» l!«a per lb. AUCKLAND MARIJET3 The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, Teport: On Friday, at Albert yards, heavy draughts made from £22 10s to £34, medium ditto £lB 10s to £27, light h-irness 'lufrscs £0 to £ls, nacks £7 to £L [ i 10s, ponies £4 to £S 10s. At Papakura on Monda> best dairy cows made £ll 10s to £l7 15s, others £8 to £lO 15s, aged and inferior eows £0 10s to £7 l'ss, best lairy heifers £ll to £ls ss, others £8 to £IC 10s, hulls 7gns to 15gns. At tlv> Westfiehl fat stock market prices ruled the same as last week. Best oxen sold to £2 10s per 1001b, others £2 0s to' £2 os, cow and heifer beef £2 2s to £2 8s per 1001b: steers sold at from £l3 17s Od to U2f. 15s, cows and heifers £9 to £lB. Calves: Runners from £8 5s to £ll. heavy suckers £5 2s lid to £7 15s. medium suckers £4 4s to '£s -2s fid, light suckers £2 2s 0i! to £3 7s 6d. small and fresh-dropped lfls to 38s fid. Sheep: Best woolly wethers £2 Is to £2 8s Cd, others £1 Us 9d to £2 Os 3d, shorn wethers £1 7« to £1 14s Od, best ewes in wool £1 15* M to £1 IDs 3d, others £1 10s to £1 14s !)d, shorn ewes £1 5s fid to £1 12s fid, huggets in wool £1 13s to £1 17s 3d, Jiovn lfls to £1 fe. Spring lambs: Rest £1 2s Od to £1 is Od. other's 10s Od to £1 Is 3d. Pigs: Heavy baeoners £! 5s to £'."> Is, medium ditto £3 !2s to £4 3s, light ditto £3 Is to £3 Üb; heavy porkers £2 14s to £3 sa, medium ditto £'? 2s to £2 12s, light rtitt. «£1 15s to. £2 Is.tdiua £1 2s to £1 9s, weanevs IPs to £1 2 S . The Farmers' Co-Operat'.ve Organisation Society of N.Z., Hawcr.i, have received the following cable from their London office, dated Btt inst.: Wool market advanced 5 per cent.