COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL.
[PRESS ASSOCIATION. | (Received July 24, 10 a.m.) London, 23rd July. The Bank of England returns published to-day show the total reserve tobe;B2s,722,ooo (^8237,000 more than k.st week) ? the proportion of reserve to liabilities being 5059 per cent. Threo months' bills are discounted at 1 3-16tbs per cent. — a rise of 5-16 th per cent. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
'Interest payable in May and November, tlnterest payable in January and July. payable in April and October. The English wheat market shows a general advance of 6d; the Continental is tending upwards, and. the American is advancing. Calif ornian No. 1 milling, for early shipment, 338 ; Russian cargoes (Ghirka), 29s 3u c.i.f. per 4921b ; London Quotation for No. 1 hard Duluth, 82s 6d per 4801b. Colonial oats, fine, 27a ; beans, 30s 6d. The tone of the London wool market is firm. Throughout yesterday competition was strong and general. In the Bradford market business is abtive. The sugar market is flat. German beet, 88deg, Bsi 3d per cwt ; Java cane, No. 15, D.S., 103 4£d per owt. Pig iron, Glasgow warrants, No. 1, 44s per ton f.o.b. in Clyde. Evening Post Office, Saturday Afternoon. The Customs duties collected at the Port of Wellington for the week ending to-day amounted to .£670-1 18s Bd. Beer, .£4l 0s Id.
Price. Variation as compared with lost week. '.{% Imperial Consols I % New South Wales i\% New South Wales I % New South. Wales I % Victorian l|% Victorian I % South Australian !£% South Australian i % South Australian I % Queensland ... i\% Queensland ... I % New Ze»land* ... \\% New Zealandt ... I % New Zealand*... ls% Wost Australian I % West Australian i\% Tasmania £ s. d. 112 15 0 121 15 0 108 10 0 103 0 0 113 10 0 108 0 0 114 0 0 111 0 0 Unchanged. 15/- Uigher. Unchanged. 5/- higher. 5/- higher. Unchanged. 10/- higher. Unchanged. 113 0 0 108 0 0 116 0 0 108 0 0 100 5 0 108 15 0 Unchanged. 10/- higher. 20/- higher. 5/- higher. 5/- higher. 10/- lower. 1109 0 0 115/- higher.
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Evening Post, Volume LIV, Issue 21, 24 July 1897, Page 4
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339COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL. Evening Post, Volume LIV, Issue 21, 24 July 1897, Page 4
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