COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue LXVII, 30 January 1904, Page 4

COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL

/rUKHB ASSOCIATION. 1 (Received January 30, 9 n.m.) 1 .ONDOM. 20th January. BANK OF ENGLAND RKTURN. Tho Bunk of TCnirland return issued for tlio week omliiu? Wodnonday, 27th January, is^vs under : — Isaun Dkpaiitmbnt. Note issue £50.77t.000 Qov. debt £11,015.000 Other HoouriHe* ... 7.W-WOO Gold ... 32,3^,000 £50,774,000 £50,771,000 lIASKINf) DH'AUTURNT. Pr'pnot'rt.' Oov. «eouri* capital... jeH.653,000 tics ... JG10.233,000 Piililio do- Other seiiohiU ... 6,978,000 uurtllos... 2«.,2W.00() Othor do- Notos ... 2i,7-U,OOO posits ... 43,831,000 Com ... l,b'6<S,ooQ Kent, 7-day nnd oLlior blllti ... 3,711,000 1'6i>,074.000 £08.074,000 Tho lciiflinif items of tho Bank of England reburn Afford the following- comparison :—: — This wook. fjiistwook. Lust your. £ Ji Ji Unlllon ... 32,1)25 000 30,800,000 3d,29a,000 Itosorvo... 21,003.000 23,032,000 2U2ii,000 Notoolr'nßSoW,UoU 27.987,000 28,<iT2,0U0 Deposits 49,807.000 50.83J.000 50,7150,0U0 Proportion roaorvo to liabilities 49 20 45.01 47.38 GOVUIINMI'JNT SKOUUITLKS. The following tiru the latest ijuotatious for Government, scuiu'iUos with v comparison of tlioao rulmy last wuok :—: —

• lutuLCHt, ij»iable iv Bluy aiul NovoniUm. i Xiltoi'e«t jia^ublo in January ami July. llutoiodt ini,yiil)lu in April and Uotobur. MONEY MARKET, Tho markot rato of di6Count for boßt throo months' bills is 1 lower at 3 por cont. Tho Bank of England rato is 4'per cunt., as against 3 per cont. on 3rd September. COLONIAL AND OTIIER PRODUCE. Wheat.—Nino thousand fivo hundred quarters South Australian whoat, Fobruary. March shipment, Bold at 295, and 11,000 quarlers Victorian March-April uhipinonl at 28s 10id por quartet. Butter.—Tho doinand hns improved. Now Zealand, 96s to 97b, occasional lots making 98s; Australian, 9&> to 94«; Danish, 110s. Ohoono is dull and unchanged, Now Zealand boing quoted nt >52s por cwt. Sugar is dull. Gorman uoot, 88dog., 2d lower, at 7s lOd per owt: first mark granutatod, Id lower at 9s lid por owt. Bradford Topß.—Thero is loss onquiry, but prices aro unchaugod. Common 60 s, 23id; super 60'b, 24jd; common 46 s, 12^1; super 46'e, 14d. Wool salos.—At tho London ealos tho following clips were sold :—Marathon, Is lOd; Lovels, B|d; Motutria, Bid; roukawa, BJd. ' THE METAL MARKJ2TS. Qoppor—Spot, 20s lower at £56 12s 6d per ton; throo months, 12s 6d lower at £56 12s 6d por ton. Tin.—Spot, 60s lower nt £126 10s por ton ; threo months,. £3 2s 6d lowor at £127 per ton. l'ifr iron. —Middlesbrough, Eso. 3 cash, 8d highor nt 42s 5d por ton. Load, 4s 4id lower at £11 Us 3d per ton. Spoltor, £21 17s 6d por ton. Silver is quoted at 2s 19-16 d per oi.

LONDON WOOL SALES. (Received January 30, 10.38 a.m.) LONDON, 29th January. At tho wool sales tho prices generally At tho wool salo prices gonornlly woro mninlainod. Low orossbrods woro occasionally weak. Messrs. Murray, Roberts, and_oo. havo received tho following cablegram from London, datod 27th January: — " Compared with »poning rates, inforior merino advanced 5 per cent. Tho market is vory firm for other sorts."

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