COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 16, 19 January 1901, Page 4

COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL.

[I'RE33 ASSOCIATION.] (Received January 18, 11.10 p.m.) LONDON, 18th January. BANK OF ENGLAND RKTURN. Tho Bank of England return issued for tho week ending Wednesday, 16th January, ia a3 under:— Issue DBruvruENT. Note issuo £47,803,000 Gov. debt £11,015,000 Otlior iccuvities ... 6,760,000 Gold ... 29.53a.000 £17,308,000 £i 7,805,000 Bakkino Depautment. Pr'pnet'rs' Qov. lecuyicaiutal... £U. 553,000 ties ... £18,097,000 Public do- Other soposits ... 7,034,000 curities... 31,063,000 Other do- . Notes ... 18,189,000 posits ... 43,715,000 Coin ... 1,630,000 Rest, 7-clay and other bills ... 3,683,000 iCC5.985,000 £68,085,000 Tho loading items of tho Bank of England return afford the following comparison :—: — This week. Last-week. Last year £ £ J& Bullion ... 29,533,000 27,992,000 33,177,000 Resorvo... 19.825/100 17,881,000 23,113,000 Note cir'n 29.119,000 29,505,000 28,223,000 Deposits 50,749,000 52,592,000 54,102,000 Proportion reserve to liabilities 3S'9O 3391 4258 GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. The following aro tho latest quotations for Government securities :—: —

* Interest payable iv May and November, tlnterest payable in January and July. payable in April aud October. THE MONEI MARKET. The market rato of discount for three months' bills is 1-16 higher, at 4 3-16 per oent. The Bank of England rato is 5 per cent., as against 4 per cont. on tbo 2nd January, and 3 tier oent. on tbo 18th July. COLONIAL AND OTHER PRODUCE. Wheat- — Tho markets are dull, with a downward tendency. New South Wales, January-February shipments, 30s 3d por quarter; Victorian, . 3os 6d; sailer parcels, 29s 3d. Sugar is dull. German beet, SSdeg., l£d lower, at 9s 3d per cwt; first mark, granulated, f.o.b. Hamburg, unchanged at 12s 3d per owt. Butter— The market is quiet and a shade weaker. Choicest, 110 ato 112s. There is a good demand for secondary at 96s to 100s. Danish, 1255. Bradford Tops. — Tho market is quiet. Common sixties, unchanged at 18|d per lb ; super, sixties, unchanged at 10^d per lb. THE PRICES OF METALS. Copper.— Quotations aro nominal. Spot, 20s lower, at .£7l 7s 6d per ton; three months', 17s 6d lower, at £TZ is 6dper ton. Tin is steady. Spot, 30s higher, at -8120 10s por ton ; three months', 10s higher, at .£ll9 10s per ton. Pig-irou— Glasgow warrants, 3a 8d lower, at 52s 9d per ton f.o.b. in Clyde. . Lead, 5s lower, at .£l6 2s' Gd per ton. Bar silver is quoted at 2s 5 1-lGd por oz. YESTERDAY'S WOOL AND SKIN SALES. Messrs. Levin and Co., Limited, report oh yesterday's sales as follows: — We offered 20 bales wool and 1200 skins. Prices, Whilst firm, showed no advance on provioiis sale, as the coarse crossbreds of this district have, so far, shown no improvement in the London sales now current. For skins we quote — Good halfbreds, 4-£ d to 4|d pfer lb; go»d crossbreds, 33d to 4£d ; medium, do, 3£d to 3£d ; dead skins, 2d to 3d ; lambs, 3d to 3id. Messrs. Murray, Roberts and Co. report: — Wo offered 2200 sheepskins and a quantity of bag wool. Fine-woollel skins showed a slight advance from last sale, j while coarse and inferior pelted remained unchanged. We quote as follows : Skins — Merinos and fine crossbreds, 4£d to 4|d per lb; coarse erossbreds, 3|d to 4^d; dead and hoggets, 2|d to 3£d ; inferior a"nd i broken, 2d to 2£d; dry pelts (sound), 6d to 7d each Bag wool— Fleece, 3£d to 4£d; dead, 3d to 3|d ; locks and pieces, Id to 3d. The dato of the next skin sale is Ist February. Tho Customs duties collected at the Port ; of Wellington for the week ondin? to-day amountedto i-3010 ss3d.s 3d. Boer. .£314 19s !>d. Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report:— We cleared a catalogue of about 800 skins and a quantity of bag wool at prices equal to those ruling at previous sale. We quote — Sheepskins, good, full-woollod crossbred, 4cl to 4Jd ; 2£d to 3£d for dead skins and hoggets ; broken skins and half-woollod do, 3d to 3ijd. Wool in bags— Fleece, 3|d to 4Jkl ; dead, 3d to 3|d; locks and pieces, Id to 3d per lb.

Price/ con] paved with last week. 2}% Imperial Consols I % New South Wales 35% New South Wales 8 % New South \Vnle3 4 % Victorian 3h% Victorian 8 % Victorian 3\% South Australian 3 % South Australian i % Queou&land "1% Queensland 4 % Hew Zealand* ... Sk% New Zoalandf ... 3 % New Zealand} ... 3}* AVeat Australian 31% Tusman ion £ s. d. 97 0 0 113 10 0 103 0 0 100 0 0 109 0 0 102 10 0 3/- lower tO,'- hiuhev Unchanged Unchanged Unchanged Uncbangoil Unchanged Unchanged 10/- lower 5/- higher Unchanged 15/- higher Unchanged 5/- lower Unchnnged 10C 0 0 93 0 0 107 0 0 101 5 0 113 0 0 106 15 U 98 0 0 100 15 0 102 0 0