LATE COMMERCIAL

Evening Star, Issue 19763, 13 January 1928, Page 4

LATE COMMERCIAL

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS,

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

SYDNEY, January 12. Wheat: At country stations, 4s Pfd to 4s lOdj ex truck, 5s 5Jd. .Flour; Local, £l3 ss; export, £l2, Lo.b. Bran, £6. Bollard, £7. Oats: Tasmanian Algerian, os 3d; white, 4s 9d. Maize: Yellow, 4s 3d and 4s 4d. Potatoes: Tasmanian, new, £7 to £8: old, £0; local, £5 to £7. Onions; Victorian, £B. ADELAIDE, January 12. Wheat: Growers’ lots, ns 2d to 5s 3d. Flour: Bakers’ lots, £l3 IDs. Bran, £6 10s. Bollard, £7 2s Gd.

Oats, 3,s 7d to 3s 9d. At the hides market lights and kips were Id to IJd dearer, and heavies and mediums Jci. MELBOURNE, January 12. (Deceived January 13, at 10.35 am.) Wheat is quiet and steady, with buyers at 6s 4 Id. Flour, £l2 10s to £l3 10s. Bran, £6 10s, Pollard, £7 ]os. Oats: Milling, 4s 4d to 4s Gd; feed, 4s Id to 4s ml. Barley: English, 5s 4d to 5s sd; Cape, 4s Gd to 4s 7d. Potatoes, £6. Onions, £4 15s to £5. BANK OF ENGLAND RETURN. Prods Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 12. (Received January 13, at 12.30 p.ra.) The following is the Bank of England return

Th* proportion of revtrves to linhilitics is 31.0 por fpnt. Short loans, arp quoted at 3$ P Pr fpnt *» and three-month bills at 4 5-16 per cent.

SALES ON ’CHANGE: THIS DAY

Christchurch Commercial Bank of Sydney, £26 12s 6d; Dalgety and Co., £l3 6s; New Zealand Refrigerating Company (10s paid), 9s 2d (two parcels). 9s Is, 94 (five parcels; British Tobacco, 39s 6d; Burns, Philp, 39s 3d. Reported: Bank of New South Wales, £46 2s 6d; Mount Ida, 265, , Auckland.—Sales: Bank of Australasia, £l4 14s; Commercial < Bank, 29s 3d; New Zealand Refrigerating, 8s lOd. Reported: New Zealand Breweries (debentures), 235.

ISSUE DEPARTMENT Note circulation Note* in reserve £135,931,000 37,980,000 £173,914,900 Government debts .. Other securities N}old coin and bullion £11,015,000 8,735,000 154,101,000 £173,914,000 BANKING DEPARTMENT. Proprietors’ capital Rost Public deposits Other deposits _ Seven-day and other bills ... .. £14,553,000 3,480,000 14,854,009 110,061,000 3,000 £142,951,000 Government securities other securities jCotes in reserve Gold and silver coin £39,629,000 64.504.000 37.980.000 838,000 £142,951,000