BANK OF ENGLAND RETURNS.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 1254, 6 August 1910, Page 2

BANK OF ENGLAND RETURNS.

(Received August 6, 8.15 a.m.)

London, August 5. The Bank of England returns for the week are as follows: Gold coin, £37.886,000; .reserve, £25,408_',000; proportion of reserve to liabilities, 49.98; notes in circulation, £29,----058,000; public deposits, £15,20(5,000; other deposits, £41,000,000; Government securities, £17,372,000; other securities, £29,089.000; bank rate of interest, 3 ]jer cent. Short-dated loans, li per cent; three months bills, 2 3-16; Paris, 2J ; Berlin, 3Jd. Consols, £81 10s. NewSouth Wales ;.U'.s. £88; Victorian 4 per cents, £102 -Is; Ta&manian 3.l's, £99; "Western Australian 3 per cents. £88. Other stocks are unchanged.

PRODUCE PRICES. 'J'Jie wheat luarkots arc very quiet. Buyers arc reserved, despite holders' concessions. Two Australian cargoes sold at 375. Chicago September wheat, 10.1 and 102-J cents. Unfavourable crop reports come from Russia and the harvest is expected to yield 25 per cent, less than that of last year. Flour is dull. Australian patents in London, 27s 0d ; Glasgow 28s. Oats are dull. La Plata SeptemberOctober shipent, 13s. Butter is quiet. Danish, His to 113s. METALS. Copper, on spot £55, three months i'w Is 3d. Tin, spot £150 ]os. three months £150 ss. Spelter, £22 ]£s 6d. Iron, 49s 2d. SUGAR. German sugar, 14s lid; first marks, 16s lid. WOOL. At Bradford, wool i.s firm and unchanged. AUSTRALIAX WHEAT. There is a moderate enquiry for Australian wheat on the spot at 30s.