THE MARKETS.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10264, 6 February 1899, Page 5

THE MARKETS.

United Prtaa Association—By. fclattrio Telegraph—Copyrigut. LONDON, February 3. The Bank of England reserve is £26,969,00; gold coin and bullion, £30,836,000; percentage of reserve to liabilities, 45.40; circulation, £26,806,000; public deposits, £9,700,000 ; other deposits, £40,713,000; Government securities, £13,387,000; other securities, £32,208,000. Three months' bills, 2 per cent. Consols, 111. New South Wales 4 per cent*., 119*; 3* per cents., 105$; 3 per cents., 99. Victorian 4 per cents., 112£; 3& per cents., 1054. South Australian 3£ per cents., 107; 3 per cents., 95. Queensland 4 per cents., 112; 3£ per cents., 106*. New Zealand 4 per cento., 115£ ; 3£ per cent*., 107}; 3 per cents., Taamanian 3± per cent*., 106. Weatralian 3± per cento., 105.

Wheat it dull; Victorian FebruaryMarch shipments by sailer, 28s 3d ; parcels, 27s 3d Sugar is firm. Java, 11s 7£d; German, 9s 9d. Iron, 45s 4^d. Tin, spot, 114; three months, 113$. Copper, spot, 71$; three months, 71±. Lead, soft foreign, 15; spelter, 265. Silver, 2s 3|d. The Bradford wool market is quiet; common sixties, 20£; super, 21£. Butter is steady. There is a quiet trade in colonial at 100 to 102, and for a few choice lots 104s; Danish, 109s. Cheese, New-Zealand, ia firm at 50s. Babbits are hardening, Victorian, 9£d to New Zealand a farthing less.