COMMERCIAL.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12282, 28 August 1905, Page 9

COMMERCIAL.

United Prete AesocUtion— By Electric • ■■"■ T*l«£x»pli—Copyright. ' > LONDON, August 25, The Bank of England returns show that the stock of; gold- coin, etc.,. is £35,055,000. Reserve, £26,171,000. Proportion of reserve to liabilities,. 46.71. Notes in circulation, £29,102,000. Public deposits, £12,153,000; other de-; posits, £43,786,000. Government securities, £18,676,000; other securities. £29,203,000. . Three months' bills, 1JConsols, 90 13-16 th. New South Wales , 3§ per cents. 99*; New Zealand 4 per cents. 109J, 3 J per cents. 99, 3 per cent*. 884; Tasmanian S per cents. 90; West Australian 3 per cents. 89. Other stocks are unchanged. Butter is firm, and unchanged; etrong market. Small supplies of colonial. Copper—On spot, £72 to £72 ss; three months, £71 12s 6d to £71 17s 6d. Tin—On spot, £152 5a to £152 15s: three months, £151 15s to £152 ss. Iron, 47s Bd. Lead, £14 Is 3d to £14 3s 9d. Spelter, £24 17s 6d to £25 2s 6d. .-. - . Silver, 2s 4 5-lGd. . Sugar—First marks, lls 8d; German. 9s 3d. At Bradford wool is animated, and there is better business; forties 16Jd, forty-sixes 18id, common sixties 25d, super 2Gd. The market has an upward tendency. . ■ ,' Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd.,'have received the following cable me&ago from their London office,. under, date 25th inst.:—" Since our last telegramprices of 'hides are unchanged. No leather' or baeHs have been offered."