COMMERCIAL.
LONDON CABLE.
(By Cable,—Press Association,— (Copyright.)
LONDON, April 6,
The Bank of England returns published to-day show the reserves to be £23,945,000; coin "and bullion. £32,996.000; percentage of reserve to liabilities, 41.69; circulation, £29,110,000; public deposits, £15,125,000; other deposits, £42,142,000; Government securities, £15,274,000; other securities, £36.554.000.
Three months' bills are discounted at 2!j per cent. Consols are unchanged, with the exception of New Zealand fours,£llo; and West Australian 3J, £100.
The wheat market is. quiet. The English market is steady, and the Continental easier. The American market is hardening. Cargoes are firmly held. Victorian and South Australian February shipments 29/6; parcels afloat, 28/9.
Butter is Quiet. New Zealand, 105/ to 106/; Danish, (inn, 114/.
Cheese is unchanged.
Sugar is dull. German, 6/6; first marks, 8/.
Tin is unchanged. Pig iron. 53A- Lead, £11 9/41. Spelter, 17 11-16. Silver, 2/OJ-. The Bradford wool market is firm and unchanged.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 82, 8 April 1902, Page 4
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