MONEY AND MARKETS

Evening Star, Issue 11666, 28 September 1901, Page 6

MONEY AND MARKETS

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright,

LONDON, September 27.

(Received September 27, at 10.44 p.m.)

The Bank of England returns show the stock of gold coin and bullion to be £37,495.000, reserve. £28,011,000; proportion of reserve to liabilities, 54.07 per cent. The notes in circulation total £29,402,000; public deposits, £10.884,000; other deposits £40.758,000; Government securities, £16,683,000; other securities, £25,458,000. Three, months' bills are discounted at 2,( per cent. Consols are quoted at £93 2s 6d.

Quotations for colonial Government stocks are subjoined, compared with those ruling at tho close of last week:

The wheat markets are. quiet but steady. South Australian and Victorian cargoes, September and October shipments, sold at 28s 9d. and a Victorian steamer parcel afloat sold at 26s 3d. The official estimate of the French crop is 37A million quarters. Tin, dull. Spot, £ll3 7s 6d; three months, £lll 10s.

Pig iron, 55s IOJd. Lead. £l2 2s 6d. Sugar, dull. German, 7s 6d : first marks, as 7id. Wool.—The Bradford market is restricted. Common sixties,- 20d ; super, 20Jrd. (Received September 28, at 9.19 a.m.)

Copper: Spot, £6l 15s; three months, £62 2s 6d.

At the wool sales the Takaka clip realised 6§d ami the Taradale 16id.

Sep. 20. Sep. 27. New South Wales 4 - s . 113A 113i New South Wales 3£'s . 102.V 102-1 New South Wales 3's . 95 94' Victoria 4's 112 112 Victoria 3J's , .. ... 106 106 Victoria 3's 96* 96A South Australia 3i's ... . 105 4 105 South Australia 3~s ... . 95 93 Queensland 4"s 107} 107J Queensland 3A's 102 102 New Zealand 4's 115 115 New Zealand 3Vs ... . 108 107A New Zealand 3's 9? 97" Tasmanian 104 103 Westralia 3A's 103 103