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Evening Star, Issue 15074, 4 January 1913, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

The insurances in connection with the Orystal Palace firo at Sydney were :—Contents, £36,000; buildings, £27,000. MONEY AND MARKETS. Press Associat-ion-By Telegraph-Copyright. tit, , * LONDON, January 3. the Bank of England returns show the ™ °* goM coin and bullion to be £00,377,000; reserve, £20,550,000; proportion of reserves to liabilities, 30.65 per fnn'n Jhe " otes in circulation total £29,200,000 ; public deposits,' £14,165 000 • other deposits, £52,955,000; Government fil4 * 835 ' 000! - other smirifcies ' The bank rate of discount is 5 per cent. Short-dated loans are discounted at 4 per cent., and three months' bills as follows : London, 4§ per cent. ;• Paris, i>i per cent,; Berlin, 5| per cent. Consols are quoted at £75 7s 6d. The following are the quotations for colonial Government stocks, compared with those ruling a week previously: v c .. ,„ , . Dec. 27. Jan. 3. -Sow South Wales 4s ... .;. 101 101 New South Wales 3£'s 98 93 New South Wales sJ's 90 *o(\ New South Wales 3's 84 84 Victorian 4's , ... «... 100 mo Victorian 3i's -(-94 94 Victorian Si's. g5 o.gj Victorian 3's ... '" 73 73 Queensland 4's ... ... .'.'.' .'" inn i OO Queensland -Ji's 94 qj Queensland 3 f s ..', 79 ijg .South Australian Sis '. 93 9-5 • South Australian 3's 76 7(5 New Zealand 4's 101 101 New Zealand 3i's ' 91 gi New Zealand 3's '." 80 80 -lasmaiuan s gj gi Tasmanian 3's ... " Rs st. west Australian West Australian 3's 84 84 * Repayable 1930-1950. t Repayable 1929-1949. on ( o° PP f?!' : Spot ' £77 12s 6d : electrolytic, £9f The supplies total 42.777 lots." the deliveries 42,817, the stocks 32,159, afloat 4..400, and visible 43,241. Tin: SP ot , £229 15s; three months, hleß 7s 6d. The stocks total 11,861 lots spot 2,285, afloat 4*526, deliveries 3,034 ' Pig iron, 67s 10^d. Lead, £l7 17s 6d. Spelter, £26.55. Sugar: - German, 9s 5d ; first marks, lis 6d At the Bradford wool market merinos are firm, but crossbreds are dull. Quotations: 64's, 29d; super, 23d; common f'o-s, 273 d; 56's, 22|d; 50-s, 2Hd; 46's, 17d ; 40's, 16d. Tallow.—There are 3.467 casks in stock. The imports total 2,494 casks, and the deliveries 2,252 casks. Wheat.—The market is quiet, with an easier tendency. There is a disposition to sell River Plate shipments. Flour.—Australian (ex store), 28s. Oats.—The market is quiet. "A" Gartons rule at from 25s 9d to 26s 3d; Sparrowbills from 24s 3d to 24s 9d ; La Plata (December-January shipments) 15s 3d. B-sans.—There is a, fair trade at from 39s 6d to 40s (ex store). Peas.—The market is nominally unchanged. , Butter.—The market is dull, buyers being inactive, and it is difficult to . clear the large supplies that accumulated during the holidays. Danish, 123s to 130s for choicest; Australian, 112s to 114s for choicest and "106s to 110s for secondary; New Zealand, 118s to 120s; Argentine, 110s to 112s. Cheese.—The market is quiet. New Zealand: White, 60s 6d to 61s; colored, 61s to 625. NAPIER WOOL SALES. At the Napier wool saies yesterday there was a large and representative attendance of buyers, and 0. record number of hales was submitted—26,7sl, as compared with 21,055 in Jar.uarv of last year." wools \vs:z keenly sought for, and realised satuEictor» prices, out the American buyers were not operating fieely, a*.<l (he wools suitable for that, market showed a decline of {A to 2|d per lb. Lamb's wool sold extremely well, and the bellies and pieces caused good competition. The appended figures show the range of prices, the figures for the corresponding sale of last year being given in parentheses: Best half-bred, 12J,d to (Hid to 13d); medium, 10id to 12d HOid to ll|d) • fine cross-bred, lid to 12|rl (10|d to Hid); medium, 9|d to IOJd (9d to 103.1) ; conrse, 9d to 10d (7id to 83d); inferior. BJd to 9d (7d to 7Ad) ; pieces, 7d to 93d (6d to 9id); bellies. 6?d to 8d (sid to 7id); locks. 5d to oid (3Jd to 4-Adl; lambs, B|d to 12id (6 l-12d to lid); dead, 7irl to 9|d (7d to 10£ d). Fourteen bales of scoured pieces realised 15 2 d per lb.