MONEY AND MARKETS.

Evening Star, Issue 11168, 17 February 1900, Page 6

MONEY AND MARKETS.

Press Association— By Telegraph—Cop; right LONDON, February 16. Tho Bank of England returns show the reserves to be £24,345,000 ; tho stock of gold, coin, and bullion to bp £34,000,000 .; proportion of reserve to liabilities, 46.93. The notes in circulation total £28,198,000; public deposits, £14,037.000; other *deposits, £37,667,000 ; Government securities, £18,043,000 ; other ■ securities, £27,550,000. Three months’ bills are discounted at 3$ per cent. Consols are quoted at £lOl 15s (last week they were £IOO ss). Quotations for Colonial Government stocks aro subjoined, compared with those ruling at the close of last week : Feb. 9. Feb 16. New South Wales 4’« USA US Now South Wales 34’s 104)- 104 New South Wales 3’s ... ... lOOj 100 Victoria 4’s 110 HO Victoria 34’a 105 1(5 Victoria s’s ' outh Australia 3i’g IC6 106 South Aectalia 3’s 95j 95 Queensland 4’s 109 109 Queensland 3(’s 105 105 New Zealand 4’s 112 112 New Z aland 34's 1054 105 New Zealand 3’s 961, 954 Westralia 34’s 104) 1044 Tasmania s}’s5 } ’s 104 103j The wheat market is firm but quiet. Three thousand quarters of Victorian February shipment sold at 29s 7)d ; and parcels of January at 295. Copper; Steady at £74 15s; three months, £73. Tin : Spot, £l4O 10s ; three months, £136. The market is greatly excited. Lead, £l6 12s 6d. Iron, 695. Silver, 2s 3-ld. Sugar, quiet. German, 10s ; Java, 12s. Butter, quiet, and less demand ; prices are maintained. Cheese is hardening.