LATE COMMERCIAL

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 42, 17 August 1918, Page 8

LATE COMMERCIAL

BANK OS ENGLAND RETURN.

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(AUSTRALIAN-NKW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 15tb August. The leading items of the Bank of England return afford the following comparisons with those of last week in parentheses:— Bullion, £07,554,000 (£67,389,000); reserve, £29,993,000 (£29,064,000); note circulation, £50,691,000 (£50,778,000); public deposits, £84,076,000 (£39,878,000); other • deposits, £137,726,000 (£103,194,000); proportion of reserves to liabilities, 17.45 (17.16).

THE MONEY MARKET. There are no changes in the following discount rates during the week:—Bank rate, 5 per cent.; short loans, 3$ per cent.; three months' bills 3J per cent. GOVERNMENT SECUHITIES. The following are the latest quotations for Consols and Colonial Government securities in comparison with those ruling last -week, in parentheses:— 2J per cent. Imperial Consols, £56 17s Cd (£SO 15s); 5 jer cent. War Loan, £94 15s (£94 10s); 3i per cent. War Loan, £88 7s Bd (£BB 2s Cd); 5J per cent. Australian Commonwealth, £99 Ss; oi per cent. Australian Commonwealth, £101 2s 6d; 4 per cent. New South Wales, 1D33, January-July, £86 2s 6d (£BS ss); 31 per" cent. New South Wales, 1930-50, MarchSeptember, £99 15s (£99 10s); 3i per cent. New South Wales, early currency, £70 12s 6d (£7O 12s 6d); 3 per cent. New South Wales, 1925, April-October, £73 5s (£73 15s); 4 per cent. Victoria., 1920, January-July, £97 17s 6d (£98); 3-J per cent. Victoria, 1921-6, JanuaryJuly, £88 15s (£BB-ss); 3\ per cent. Victoria, 1920-1049, £72 (£72); 3 per cent. Victoria, 1929-49, January-July, £64 5s (£63 17s 6d); 3i per cent. South Australia, 1916, JanuaryJuly, £75 (£74 12a 6d); 3 per cent. South Australia, 1916, January-July, £58 10s. (£57); i per cent. Queensland, 1916-24, January-July, £92 17s 6d (£93); 3J per cent. Queensland, 1922-47, January-July, £91 5s (£91); 3 per cent. Queensland, 1922-47, January-July, £64 15s (£64 7s 6d); 4 per cent. New Zealand, 1929, MayNovember, £89 17s 6d (£B9 6s); 3} per cent. New Zealand, 1912-40, January-July, £75 (£74 15s); 3 per cent. New Zealand, 1920, AprilOctober, £65 10s (£65 10s); 3J per cent. West Australia, 1315-35, May-November, £78 (£77); 3 per cent. West Australia, 1915-35, May-Nov-ember, £78 5s (£73 ss); 3J per cent. Tasmania, 1920, January-July, £74 7s 6d (£74 ss) ; 3 per cent. Tasmania, 1920-40, January-July, £66 (£66). THE 1 MARKETS. LONDON, 15th August. Butter supplies are diminishing somewhat, but there is ample for the new scale of rations, two ounces of butter and four ounces of margarine weekly, commencing on the 20th August. Wheat is quiet. Flour is quiet and unchanged. Peas, beans, and oats are unchanged. Tin.—Straits for cash, £385 10s per ton. Other metals.—Prices unchanged. HIDE AND TAXLOW SALES. Local brokers ■ held their hide and tallow sales ■ yesterday. The prices -realised were as follow:—

Hides.—Ox, heavy, ■ 601b up. lljd to 13« d per 1b; medium, 501b to 591b, IOJd to llfd; light, 401b and under, IOJd to 10|d; cow, heavy, 551b and over, IOJd to lOfd; medium, 421b to 541b, lOd to lOJd; light, under 421b, lOd to 10jd; out, slippy, and inferior, 7Jd to ll}d; bull, stag. 7sd to 9£d; yearlings, 161b to 241b, lOd to llJd; calf, superior, up to Mlb, 14d to 17Jd; medium to good, 15|d to 16|d; damaged, 6d to 14d. Tallow. —In caska, 33s to S7s; in tins, etc., 25s Cd to 335.