COMMERCIAL.

Evening Star, Issue 16661, 18 February 1918, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

COMPANY REGISTERED.

Notification of the registration of the following private company is contained in the ' Mercantile Gazette ' :—Southern Investment Company. Capital: £I,OOO into 1,000 sharos of £1 each. Subscribers: ,™ Myers 100 ' J - Brown 10 °. C, Speight ,XX' I' H- Hancock 100, C. Macandrew 100, J. L. Miller 100, E. A. Ewing 100, W. E. C. Reid 100, T. Chalmer 50, W. TV Monkman 50, A. H. Tonkinson 100. Objects : To carry on business of financiers, etc. • ' MONEY AND MARKETS. LONDON, February 15. Bank of England returns : Gold coin and bullion in hand, £57,825,000; reserve, £21,332,000; proportion of reserve to lia- ' bilities, 18.96 per cent. ; • notes in circular tion, £46,061,000; Government deposits '£39,011,000; other deposits, £126,265,000 • Government securities, £56,340,000; other securities, £95,667,000. Discount on short loans, 34 per cent.; three months bills, 3| per cent. War loans : 34 per cent £BS 10b ; 4 per cent., £93 10s. , Quotations for colonial stocks, as compared with those for the previous week : Feb. 7. Feb. 14 Victorian 4's 96£ 96£ Victorian 34's ... 85| 854 Victorian 34's * 70 70| Victorian 3's 62 634 New South Wales 4's ... 82£ 824 New South Wales Si's ... 99£ 99£ New South Wales 34'sf ... 69J 691 New South Wales 3's ... 70| 70| Queensland 4's 9IJ 91 Queensland 34's ... 88J 88| Queensland 3's 62 ' 624 New Zealand 4's 86| 86| New Zealand 34's 724 72$ New Zealand 3's 62J 62| South Australian 34's ... 72£ 724 South Australian 3's ... 563 561 Tasmanian 34's 714 714 Tasmanian 3's 65 65 West Australian 34's ... 74 74| West Australian 3's 69 694 *1921-6 currency. t1920-30 currency. There are no offerings of wheat and flour, either spot or on .passage. The small supplv of English sells rapidly. Oats.—Firm, little offering. Peas and Beans.—Strong. Sugar.—Unchanged. The Food Controller will distribute on Saturday one-eighth of the trade's February applications for butter. There is no news of any distribution of cheese. The Food Controller has fixed the maximum importers' prices for tinned beef and mutton on the basis of 108s per case of 721b for the first grade, and 100s for second grade; retail prices, 23d and 21d per lb respectively. Hemp and jute in fair demand at Government rates. Rubber.—Para, 2s 6d; plantation, 2s 3|d; smoker, 2s 3^d. BRITISH TRADE. LONDON, February 16. British imports for January increased by £8,465,757. exports decreased by £5,194,607, and re-exports decreased by £5,240,635, as compared with the previous January.