COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 92, 16 October 1915, Page 4

COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL

BANK OF ENGLAND RETURN (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyrigfit.) LONDON, 14th October. The Bank of England return issued for the week ending Wednesday.. 13th October, is as follows, last week's figures being: given in parentheses: — Coin. £59,978,000 (£61,067,000); resei-ve, £45,845,000 (£46,823,000); note circulation, £32.560,000 (£32,877,000) ; public deposits, £70,860,000 (£81,375,000) i other deposits, £97,907,000 (£98,302,000) ; Government securities, £25,960,000 (£31,286,000) ; other securities, £114,707,000 (£119,266,000) ; proportion of reserve to liabilities, 27.16 (26.05). Short loans are quoted at 4i per cent. (41 per cent.), three months' bills 41 per cent. (42 per cent.). Imperial Consols, £65 (£65 Is 3d). Australian Stock — Victorian 4 p.c, £95 5s (£95 7s 6d). Queensland 4 p.c, £95 2s 6d (£95 10s). New South Wales 3i p.c, £95 10s (£95 15s); 3 p.c, £78 2s 6d (£7B) New Zealand 3 p.c., £76 5s (£76). Tasmania^. 3£ p.c, £85 5s (£BS 7s 6d). Sharernarket — Broken Hill South, 120 a (buyers), 125s (sellers), ex; Mount Elliott, 50s, 555; Waihi, 33s 9d, 36s 3d. LONDON MARKETS Chee&e — Market firm. New Zealand, 78s. Svgar — Market firm. American granulated', none offering Copper— On the spot, £72 10s, to £72 15s; three months, £72 7s 6d to £73 2s 6d. Tin— On the spot, £150 to £150 10s; threo months, £151 15s to £152 ss. Lead — Soft foreign, spot, £24 7s 6d ; forward, £23 ss. Pig-iron — Middlesbro' No. 3, 65s l^d per ton. Wheat — Market firm. Fe*w offers. Flour — Prices advancing Supplies short. Oats — Firm. Government is buying resumed La Platas October-November shipment, at 27a 4£d. Beans and Peas^ — Market hardening. BRADFORD MARKET At the Bradford wool market there vr&s rather more enqurry. Sixty-fours, spot, 38d ; futures, 36d ; super 60's, 37d and 35d ; ordinary, 36d and 34d ; 56' s, 31£ d; 5Cs, 28d; 46's, 24£ d; 40's 22^d. CHRISTCHURCH MARKETS. (BY TELEGRAPH.— PRBSS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, 15th October. It is reported that there is enquiry for wheat on the part of southern millers, and offers of 4s 8d have been made. Except in one case, howeyer, this price has been refused. The fact that southern buyers are in the market has also stimulated some local enquiry. Owing to the rise in potatoes in Melbourne and Sydney the local mafket is firmer, and prices now range from £7 5s to £7 10s at country stations. No business of any consequence is passing in other lines of produce. Tho price of hams and Bacon has advanced s'd per lb. For new season' 6 factory cheese, Bid, and for new dairy cheese, 73d to Bd, is being given for local consumption.