COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 22, 25 July 1914, Page 6

COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL

BANK OF ENGLAND RETURN. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) LONDON, 24th July. The Bank of England return, issued for the woek ended Wednesday, 22nd July, is as underi: — j issue Department. Note issue, £67,013,000 Govt. debt ... £11,915.660 Other securities... „.. 7.434.009 Gold 38,564.000 £57.013,000 £57,013,000 Banking Department. Proprietors' Gov. securicapital £14,553,000 ties £11,005,600 Public de- ' Other securiposits ... 13,735,000 ties 33.633,009 Other de- Notes 27,696.000 posits ... 42,185,000 Coin 1,601,000 Rest, 7-day and other bills ... 3,462,000 £73,935.000 £73,935.600 Th« leading items' of the Bank of England return afford tho following companion:— This week. Last week. Lastyeat £ £ £ Bullion ... 38,564,000 38.458,000 37,169,000 Reserve ... 29,297.000 29.189,000 27.717.000 Note circulation 29,317.000 29,315,000 29.460.000 Deposits ... 55,920,000 55,805,000 51,591,000 Proportion reserve to liabilities ... 62.40 52.28 53.69 • CONSOLS AND AUSTRALASIAN STOCKS. Following are the current quotation! -for Consols and, Australaiian Government stocks, as compared with those ef last week : —

THE MONEY MARKET. Thi« Laßfc V Last week. week. year, percent, percent, percent. Bank rate ..3 3 4£ Bank of France 3£ 3£ 4 Imperial Bank Germany . . 4 4 6 Short loans .11 lg 3 Threo months' bills— i London ... 2 9-16 25 4 Paris ... 24 2| 3| Berlin ... 2\ 2£ 41 GRAIN AND FLOUR. Wheat. — Tho market w firm. Australian on the spot, 37s 3d to 37s 6d, ■Flour.— The market is steady, but quiet. Twenty-live shillings and sixpence to 26b is quoted, Oats,,— The market y firm, A grade

Cartons, July shipment 21e, August 295; La Plata afloat 16s 6d. Peas and Beans. — Markets quiet and prices unchanged. COLONIAL AND OTHER PRODUCE. Butter. — The markot i 3 very firm. Danish, 130s to 1325. Colonial is in very small supply and prices aro nominally unchanged. Cheese. — Tho market is firm. New Zoaland, whito 65s to 665, coloured 63s 6d to 64s 6d. Sugar. — German beet sugar, 88 per cent, net titre, is quoted at 9s 3d per cwt; first marks granulated, 11s 6d per cwt f o.b. Hamburg. BRADFORD TOPS. The markot is quiet and urvchanged. Thero is a slightly better tone lor crossbreds. Sixty-foul's, 32d ; super sixties, 31d ; common sixties, 30£ d; tifty-sixes, 24id ; fifties, 21d ; forty-sixes, 17d ,- forties, 16d. THE METAL MARKET. Silver.— Bar silver is quoted at 24 15-16 d per ounce standard. Copper.— On tho spor, £59 18s 9d per ton; at throo months, £60 17s 6d ; electrolytic, £62 10s. Tin. — On tho spot, £143 per ton; ab threo months, £144 10s. Pig-iron. — Middlesbro' No. 3, 51s 5d por ton. , Lead. — Soft foreign, £19 por ton. Spolter.-^.8., £21 6s 3d por ton.

Price. Variation compared with last week, 2J% Imperial Consols ... 4 % New South Wales ... 34% New South Wales ... 34% N.S.W., 1830-50 3 % ,New South "Wales ... 4 % Victorian 34% Victorian 3J% Victorian, 192949 ... 3,% Victorian 35% South Australian ... 3 % South Australian ... 4 % Queensland 3i% Queensland 3 % Queensland 4 % New Zealand* 3i% New Zealandt 3 % New Zealandl 3J% Westralian 3 % Westralian 3i% Tasmanian 3 % Tasmanian £ 8. d. 75 5 0 101 0 0 100 0 0 88 0 0 83 0 0 100 0 0' 95 0 0 80 0 0 80 0 0 -90 0 0* 74 0 0 100 0 0 95 0 0 79 0 0 99 y 6 89 0 0 80 0 0 92 0 0 87 0 0 00 0 0 80 0 0 7/6 lower Unchanged Unchanged Unchanged Unchanged Unchanged Unchanged Unchanged Unchanged Unchanged Unchanged Unchanged Unchanged Unchanged Unchanged Unchanged Unchanged Unchanged Unchanged Unchanged Unchanged 'Interest payable in Mi tlntercst payable in Jan {Interest payable in Apr ly and Ni luary and il and Oct ovember. July. iober.