MONEY AND MARKETS.
Presj Association—Ey Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 11. The Bank of England returns show the stock of gold coin, etc., to be £28,825.000, and the reserve £20.992.000. The proportion of reserve to liabilities is 45.07. The notes in circulation total £28.265.000: pubIk deposits. £7,597.000; other securities, £SB,Sb2,GCO: Government securities £19,007.000; and other securities, £54,274.000. Three months' bills are discounted at 5 15-16 per cent. Consols are quoted at £BS 12s 6d (?) Quotations for colonial Goi eminent stocks are subjoined, compared with those ruling a week since:
Wheat : 'Frisco, 140 cents; Australian parcels. December and January shipments, 295. 'The freight situation is unaltered. Butter is rather tinner; prices unchanged. Choicest. New Zealand is occasionally 104s, Copper: Spot. £57; three months, £56 12e 6d. Tin: Spot, £124 7s 6d; three months, £125 12s 6d. Pig iron : Middlesborough No. o, 41s 7d. Lead, £ll Is 9^d. Silver, 2s 1 3-16 d per ounce. Spelter, £2l 2s 6d. Sugar : Slow. First marks, 10s Id ; German. 8s 4d. The Bradford wool market is slack. Forties, lid; forty-sixes, 12^d; common sisties, 22^1; super, 23£ d.
Dec 4. Dec 11. Now Som'i Wales 4's .., . ... 107 107 New South Wales 3j's .. . ... 97 97 N T ew South Wales 3's . ... 85 86 Victoria 4's , .„ 104 104 Victoria 3J,-"s „ . ... 94? 94? Victoria 3's _ . ._ 85 85' South Australia 3A's „ . ™ 101 101 South Australia 3's ... ._ . ... 87 87 Queensland 4's „. . ... 105 105 Queensland Sfs ... ... . ._ 92 92 Queensland 3's „ . ... 87 87 New Zealand 1 4's . .„ 107 107 New Zealand 3Vs . ._ 100i 101 New Zealand 3's . ... 85 86 Tasmania 3j's . _. 97 97 Tasmania 3's _. . :.. 87 87 Wostraiia 3Vs . ... 36 96 Westralia 3's . ... 86 86
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Evening Star, Issue 12067, 12 December 1903, Page 5
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270MONEY AND MARKETS. Evening Star, Issue 12067, 12 December 1903, Page 5
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