COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 119, 15 November 1902, Page 4

COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL.

fFBESS .ASSOCIATION. 1 (Received November 15, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Uth November. BANK OF EN6-LAND RETURN. The Bank of England return issued for the week ending Wednesday, 12th November, is as under :—: — Issue Dev-autmekt. Note issue £40,349,009 Gov. debt £11,015,000 Other securities ... 7,100,000 Gold ... 31,164,000 £19,330,000 £49,339,000 Uaxkino Dr.i'UtTMENT. Pf'priot'rs" Got. securicnpital .. £11,553,003 tios ... IG,-U6,000 Public do- Other sepohits ... 8,633,000 curities... 26,891,000 Other do- Notes ... 20,278,000 posits ... 39,2Gi,000 Com ... 2,18i,000 Eest, 7-day and other bills ... 0,314,000 £65,769,000 £65,769,000 The leading items of the Bank of England return afford the following comparison :—: — This week. Last week. Last year. £ -£ Jj Bullion ... 31.1G4.000 31,323,000 32,655,000 Reserve... 22,102,000 22,233,000 23,276,000 Note cit'n 29,061 ,000 . 29.427,000 29,423,000 Deposits ..47,902,000 48^166 ,0U0 50,541,q00 Proportion reserve to liabilities 40.75 45.71 45.91 GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. The following are the latesb quotations for Government securities : —

'Interest payable in May and November. tlnterest payable in January and July. Jlnterest pajubledn April and October. MONifiY MABKIiT. The market rat 9of discount for best three months' bills is unchanged at 3£ per cent. The JEiank of Idugland rate is 4 per cent., as against 3£ per cent, on the 6th February. COLONIAL AND OTHER PRODUCE. Wheat.— Tb:e markets aye quiet but steady, tho Continent is slightly firmer; cargoes are neglected, Californian Novem-ber-December shipment 30s 3d per quarter, c.i.f. Sugar. — Germaa beet, 88deg., Id higher, at 7s 6d per cwt; first mark granulated, f.o.b. Hamburg, unchanged, at 8s 7d per cwt. Bradford Tops. — The market is active; forty-sixes are quotec l at ll^d per lb. THE PRICES m METALS. Copper. — Spot, 11s 3d lower, at £51 10s per ton ; three months'', 23s 9d lower, at £51 3s 9d per ton. Tin.— Spot, 67s 6d kwer, at £117 per ton : three months', 70s lower, at £115 per ton. Pigiron. — Glasgow warrants, No. 1 cash, 9d lower, at sbs 6d per ton, f.o.b. in Clyde. Lead, Is 3d higher, at £10 15s per ton. The imports for the past month totalled 21,498 tons, including 4514 tons Australian; tho exports amounted to 4491 tons. Spelter, £19 11s 3d per ton. Silver, Is lOJd per oun«oe.

Price. Variation as compared with lost week. i\% Imperial Consols i % New South "Wales 3i% New South Wales 3 % KtwSonth Wales 4 % Victorian 3\% Vieloiian 3 % Victorian 3\% South Australian 3 % South Australian 4 % Queenslajid ... 3i% Ijyeeoslaiid ... H% Queeuslanil 1 % New Zealand* ... 'oi% New Zenlaudf ... i % .New Zealand} ... 34% West Australian 3£% Tasiuauiau £ s. d. 93 5 0 111 0 0 103 0 0 9J 5 0 10S 0 0 102 0 0 95 (1 0 16J 0 0 U3 10 0 10S 0 0 101 0 0 <J1 15 0 LlO 0 0 105 0 0 95 10 0 101 0 0 loi ' 0 0 2/6 lower .iO/- lower 20/- higher 15/- higher Unchanged 10/- higher Unchanged Unchanged 10/- higher •Sij- higher 10/- higher (Jnclmuged 5/- higher 10/- lower 10/- higher 20/- higher Unchanged