MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.
LONDON, June 24. The. Bank of England returns published to-day show:—Coin, £35,989----000; reserve, £27,950,000; proportion oi reserve to liabilities, '19.25; circulation, £27,331,000; public deposits, £l2,0o5,000; other deposits, '£44,596,----000; Government securities, £13.476---000; other securities, £33,063,000. Three months bills are discounted at 1§ per cent. Consols, 111}. New South Wales 4 per cents, 117----3 i per cents, 1061; 3 per cents, 100. Victorian 4 per cents, 1121; 31 per cents, 105. South Australian 31 per cents, 100; 3 per cents, 100. Queensland 4 per cents, 1091; 31 per cents. 104 i New Zealand 4 per cents, 114J; sj p ei cents, 106; 3 per cents, 99. Tasmania 3| per cents, 10S.}. Western Australian 31 per cents, 1051. The English wheat market is quiet and inclined to weakness, the Continental is steady and the American changing a little for the better. Russian cargoes, 36/ London quotation for hard Duluth, 39/. Sugar, quiet. Java, 12/6; German 9/7;}. No. 1 best Scotch pig iron, f.o.b. in Clyde, 45/9. Silver, 2/31 per ounce. Rabbits are. dull of sale at B.} each.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 148, 25 June 1898, Page 2
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