LONDON QUOTATIONS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 59, 10 March 1906, Page 3

LONDON QUOTATIONS.

(Received March 9, 11.17 p.m.) LONDON, March 9. The Bank of England returns are:— , Coin : £35,896,000: reserve £27,822,----000; proportion or reserve to liabilities 46.98; circulation £28,992,000; public deposits £17,404,000; other deposits £41,738,000; Government securities £16,381,000; other securities £33,255,000. Three months' bills 31 ; Consols 90*; New South Wales, Victorian, and New Zealand three per cents, all 89J; Queensland 88£; Tasmania and Perth 89; other stocks unchanged. Wheat—Markets weak; cargoes neglected; Australian afloat offering 30s 9d to 31s; New South Wales March-April shipment 30s 3d. Flour—Lifeless, unchanged jfreights quiet. Butter—Dull; little demand; heavy supplies; four steamers discharged together ; much Australian unsatisfactory owing to heat; Danish unchanged; Australian 98s to 100s, occasionally 102s; unsalted, scarce, 108s to 110s; New Zealand, excellent quality 104s to 105s. Cheese—Firm ;■ New Zealand 63s to 645. Copper—Spot 79f, three months 78. Tin—Spot 164 1, three months 164 J. Lead—ls*. l ■ Silver-i29 11-16. Iron—4Bs 3d. Spelter 24£. Sugar—Dull; German 8s 3d, First Marks 10s 2d. Bradford wool—Animated, extreme quotations limiting business; 40's 17d, 4.6'js 19d, common6o's 26d, super 26|d. ].. the. Bank of Australasia declared a dividend of 12 per cent.; added £30,----000 to the reserve, £11,000 to the premises account, and carried forward £i 65 3 000. •'■•,."..•.: