COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 150, 26 June 1915, Page 6

COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL

BANK OF ENGLAND RETURN. 1 (By ■Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON. 24th June. The Bank of England return issued for the week ended Wednesday, 23rd Jtrne, is as under : — IBSOI DIfARTMBNT. Note issue, £71,468,000 Govt. debt ... £11.015.000 Other securities 7434,000 Gold ... ... 6i019.000 £71,468,000 £71,468,000 BANKttW DBPAKTUIRI. Proprietors' Gov.- seenricapital £14.653,000 ties ... -SSl.Ott.OeO Public de- Other securiposits ... 99,578.000 ties 136,393.008 Other de- Notes ._J 3&33«,000 posits ...109,503,000 Coin 1,140,609 Rest, 7-day and other bills ... 3,220,000 £236,911000 £226314,000 The leading items of the Bank of England return afford the following comparisons: —

CONSOLS AND AUSTRALASIAN STOCKS. Current quotations for Consols and Australasian Government stocks, compared with those of last week, arc: —

♦Interest payable in May and November, tlaterest payahle in January and July. payable is April aad October. THE MONEY MARKET. This Last Last; week. tveek. yeax. per cent. ' per cant, per cont, Bank mte ... 5 , 5 3 Short loans ... 11 1| 2J Three months' bills . 4i 2£ 27-16 CHRISTCHURCH MARKETS. (IT TEUMRArH— FBESS ASSOCIATION.) CHBISTCrTURCK, 25th June. Tire wheat market keeps firm, and there is a fair enquiry. There have been few more offers of wheat by growers, but the prices asked are generally' much about market level. There is nothing -fresh to report in. oats, as th© local suppLy is too short to allow of any outside business of any extent being done. There has been a good demand for seed purposes. Oa.tsh.eaf chaff is firm and scarce, and cannot be purchased under £7 at country stations. Tho potato market is in an unsettled state at present, owing to export to Australia being prohibited, unless by permission of the Minister of Customs. In the meantime merchants are applying for permits to enablo them to fill contracts they have made with Australian buyers. North Island buyers aro all holding off the market in the hope that tho prohibition of export will result in lower prices. Xt is difficult to say what is the market value, tho nominal quotation, being £5 10s -at •country stations. SKIN AND HIDE SALEDalgety*s, Levin's, Murray, Roberts, United Farmers, W and GL Turnbull, Abraham, Williams, and the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Co. held their usual fortnightly skin and hide sales yesterdayPrices were as follow: — Sheepskins: ■fine crossbred, lljd to ll|d ; medium to coarse crossbred, lid to ll£d ; short to halfwools, 6id to lOd ; dead and damaged crossbred, 84d to lOd ; inferior and badly damaged, 4gd to 7gd ; lambs, lOd to ll£d ; damp, salted, and green, 53 8d to 10s lOd ; pelts, 3d to 4|d ; lambs, 7s Bd. Hides: Ox, heavy, 501b up, 10|d to lid; ox, medium, 501b to 591b, 10id to lOfd; ox, light, 491b and under, 8d to lOjtd ; cow, heavy, 551b and over, 9d to 9fd; cow, medium, 421b to 541b, Bld to 9|d; cow, light, .under 421b, 9d to 9|d; cut, slippy, and inferior, 8d to 9d ; bull, stag, s|d to 9d; yearlings, 161b to 241b, 7^d to 9§d ; calf, superior, U p to 161b, lOd to 10£ d; calf, medium to good, 9jd to lOd; calf, damaged, 4d to B|d. Tallow: In casks, 21s 3d . to 24s 3d; in _ tins, 203 6d to 235. Sundries : Rabbitskins, Is to 2s 3d ; horsehair, Is 3d to 1b 6d; .cowtails, Is 6d; pieces, 3d; opossum skins, Is to 2s 3d. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, Company, Limited, has received tho following cablegram from its London hpuse under date 23rd instant: — "Tallow — We quote present spot values for the following descriptions: Fine mutton, 34s 9d per cwt; good beef, 32a 9d per cwt^ mixed, 29a ger cwt. There is a good de--inand."

Thierweek. Last week. £ £ Sullion ... 53,019,000 - 5^3684)00 leserve ... 39,478,000 42,033,000 lote aircfl'tion 33J30.000 32,947.000 )eposits ... 209,141.000 214,892,000 'roportion reberve to lia<loUities ... 18.87 »£« £ 38^03^)00 29,675.000 38.703.008 02.990,098 47.10

Stack. Thin ■week. Last week. !i% Imperial Consols I % New Zealand* !J% New Zealandt ! % New Zealand! I % New South Wales ... 14% New South Wales ... )i% N.S.W.. 1930-50 ! % New South Wales ... 1 % Victorian ... ... !J% Victorian \i% Victorian, 1929-49 .« I % Victorian \h% South Australian ... i % South Australian ... t % Queensland ... ilj% Queensland ... 1 % Queensland ... !l% W. Australia ) % W, Australia .... ii% Tasmania, ! ! % Tasmania ... £ 8. d. 65 0 7J 05 2 6 83 5 0 76 2 6 85 2 6 98 5 0 83 10 0 78 0 0 95 15 0 91 7 6 83 5 0 76 0 0 85 0 0 70 0 0 95 5 0 01 10 0 74 10 0 87 10 0 82 0 0 85 5 0 76 2 6 £ a. d. 6611 3 86 10 0 83 5 0 76 2 6 95 5 0 97 10 0 83 10 0 78 12 6 86 10 0 01 B 0 83 10 0 76 2 6 85 0 6 70 0 0 95 5 0 9110 0 76 5 0 87 10 0 82 0 0 85 5 0 76 10 0