MONEY AND MARKETS.

Evening Star, Issue 11068, 21 October 1899, Page 2 (Supplement)

MONEY AND MARKETS.

Pr«w Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON. October 20. Ths Bank of England returns show the stock of gold, coin, and bullion to be £31,168,000; reserve, £21,520,000; the proportio i of reserve to liabilities being .41.46. The notes in circulation total £28,185,000; public deposits, £7,655,000; other deposits, £44,064,000; Government securities, £15,G86,000 ; other securities, £32,427,000. Three months' bills are discounted at 4f per cent. Consols, £lO3 15s. Quotations for Colonial Government stocks are subjoined, compared with those ruling at the close of last week : Oct. 13. Oct. 20. New South Wales 4'< 116 116 i New South Wales 3£'s IC4 -104 New South Wales 3'a ... ... 99 99A "Victorians 110 1101 Victoria 3i'a 104 A IC4I South Australia 3*'s 108 107±South Australia 3's 95 95j Queensland 4'a 110 i 110 Queensland 3**B 104 J 104 i i New Zealand 4's 109 109 i New Z-aland 3A'a 106 106* New Zealand 3 f s 96£ 96i Westralia 3A'b 104 103} Tasmania 3£'s ... 103 i 104 Copper is steady. Spot, £75 7s 6d ; three months, £75 15s. Tin is firm. Spot, £144 10a; three months, £145 15s. Lead, £l6 2s 6d. Iron, 70s.' Sugar: Flat. German, 9s; Java, lis SJ. The Bradford wool is tending downward. Common sixties, 28d ; super, 29d. The wheat markets are dull, and also tending downwards. An Australian June cargo is offering at 31s 6d; a parcel (ex sailer, due), 29s 3d. Butter is flat. A few choicest lots colonial, 108 ato 112s. A fair trade in I secondaries at 100s to 106s, Danish is weak, and nominally at 120s. Silver is quoted at 2s 2fd per oz.