BANK OF ENGLAND RETURN.

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 48, 24 February 1917, Page 3

BANK OF ENGLAND RETURN.

: LONDON, 22nd February The Bank of England return issued for the week ended Wednesday, 21st February, Is as under:— Coin, £54,122,000 (£55,603,000); reserve £35,602,000 (£36,141,000); note . circnlation, £38,566,000 (£3S,«l,000); public deposits, £48,836,000 (£51,923,000); other deposits, £146,828,000- (£145,157,000);: Government securities, £84.032,000 (£134,959,000); other securities, £93,215,000 (£35,580,0 M); proportion of reserve to liabilities, 18.19 (18.33). Bank rate, b$ per cent. (5J per cent.). Short loans, 5 per cent. (4J- per cent.). Three months' bills, 5 3-16 per cent. (5J per cent.) GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. ;■ The following are ■ the latest quotations for Government securities in comparison with those ruling last week:— . 2J percent. Imperial Consols, £52 (£51'10a); ii per cent. Imperial War Loan, £89 17s ,6d (£99 15s);'3f per cent. Imperial War Loan, ,£B4 7s Cd (£B4 10s); 4 per cent. New Zealand, £82 (£6l 15s); 3! per cent. New Zealand, £69 15s (£69 15s); 3 per cent. JJew Zealand, £61 12s 6d (£6l ss); 4 per cent. New Sonth Wales, £7.0 2s 6d (£79); 31 per cent. New Sooth Wales, £98 (£95 10s); S\ per cent. New South Wales, £60 15s (£66 17s 6d); 3 per cent. New South Wales, £67 15s (£67 12s Gd); 4 per cent. Victoria, £92 12s 6d (£O2 10s); 3J per cent. Victoria; £80 17s 6d (£81); SJ -per cent. Victoria,----£67 17s 6d .(£67 15s); 3 per cent. Victoria, 1 £60 l"s fid (£GO 15s); ,"4 per cent. South Australia, £70 (£7O ss); 3 per cent. South Australia, £58 5s (£56); 4 per cent. Queensland, £66 2s 6d (£86); 3J per cent. Queensland, ■ £83 15s (£B3 15s); 3 per cent. Queensland, £60 15s (£6O 15s); 3} per cent. West Australia, £75 (£74 15s); 3 per cent. West Australia, £70 2a 6d (£7O os); 31 per cent. Tasmania, £69 10s (£69 10s); 3 per. cent. Tasmania, £63 (£62 10s).