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Taranaki Daily News, 12 March 1917, Page 2

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BANK OF ENGLAND RETURNS. Auttralian-N.Z. Cable Association. London, March 9. Coin, £5-2,531,000. Reserve, £34,113,000. 'Proportion of reserve to liabilities, 14.02. , Circulation, £38,237,000. Government deposit-* £120;8S9,000. Other deposits, £123,105,000. Government deposits, £31,966,000. Other securities, £196,029,000. • Short loans, £4-l7s 6d per cent.; three months' bills, £4 15s. Consols, £s'2 17s Gd; war loans, '£B3 10s and £92. New Zealand 4 per cent., £S2 ISs; 3% percent., £O9 17s Gd; 3 per cent., £SO. LONDON MARKETS, London, March 8. Bradford wool has a strong tone; crossbreds are nominal; merinos are hardening. ■ | Copper—Spot £137 15s, three months £136 ss. Lead—Spot £3O 10s, three montlis£29 10a. Spelter—Spot £55 10s, tnree months £sl 10s. Tin-^-Spot. $2Ol 12s Gd, three months £2Ol 2s Gd. Silver, 37y s d per oz. Wheat—Nominal; firm and unchanged. Flour—There is a strong demand, but supplies are short; Australian patents, 64s to 05s. Oats—Firm.. Beans—Tending upwards. Peas—Quiet and unchanged. Sugar—Unchanged. salted, colonial is firm at late rates; unsalted is slow in demand and is about 4s less. Secondary sorts are slow. There, is much uncertainty regarding Danish shipments, none of which have as yet arrived. Cheese—Scarce; Canadian, nominally 1.74 a.