COMMERCIAL.
BANK OF ENGLAND RETURNS,
LONDON, December 23
Wheat market very quiet. Victorian early parcels, 27/G; South Australian, 28/. Sugar dull. Java, W; German, 9/9. Iron, 49/3. Copper very firm: Spot. 56 ; three months, 5Gj: Tin very firm: Spot, 633; three months, 84. Lead: Soft foreign, 13J; spelter, 23§. . Bradford wool: Business restricted; common sixties, 19; super, 20j. Babbits, dull, 7d to Sd;, hares, 1/9 to 2/. Butter: Market slow and dragging. Sales, Australian. 100/ to 104/. ■ A few choice lots 10G/. Danish (irregular), about 112/. Bank of England returns: Gold com and bullion; £30,590,000; reserve, £19,070,000; proportion of reserve to liabilities, 45.03; in , circulation, ■£27,420.000: public deposits, £7,090,----000; other deposits, £34,379.000; Government securities, £11,299,000; other securities, £27,051,000. Three months bills discounted at 3g per cent. Consols, 110-}; New South Wales fours, 117^; three-half s. 105; threes, 09§; Victorian fours. 111; three-half's, lO^i; South Australian three-half s, 107;
threes,: 98;" Queensland fours, 111; three-half s, 105; New Zealand fours, 113J; three-halfs, 10S: threes, 99; Tasmanian three-halfs, 105; West Australian three-halfs, 104.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 304, 24 December 1898, Page 5
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