MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL
[United Press Association.] London, June 12. The weekly returns of the Bank of England show tbe total reserve to be £38.588,000, and tbe proportion of reserve of liabilities ls 59*60 percent. The Bank of England discount rate for three months bills is Jths p.o. Stock quotations are as follows *,— Consols, ex interest, 113 N.5.W.,3p.0.,102_. N, S. Wales 4 p.o. loan, 121 i. N. S. Wales 3i p.c. loan, 110. Victorian 4 p.c. loan, 116J Ditto 3. p.c. loan, 109. South Australian 4 p.o. loan, 115|. Ditto 3_ p.c. loan, 112. Ditto 3 p.c, loan, 102}. Queensland 4 p.c. loan, 116. Ditto 3. P.o. loan, 109 J. Tasmanian 3i p.o. loan, 111 J. West Australian 3_ p.o loan, 112 New Zealand 3 p.c. loan, 103. New Zealand 3-J p.c. loan, 10& New Zealand 4 p.o. loan, 1171. Hpmn is dull, and 40 bales of New Zealand have been withdrawn. Seven hundred crates of cheese were sold by auction at 32s to 355. New Zealand frozen meat is unchanged. The Eoglish wheat market shows a decline of 6d per quarter, The Continental market is declining and weak. The American market is also deolining. Sugar s Best German beet is at 10a 9d per owt ; Java, 13s 3d. Colonial oats : Fine quality are at 24s Cd; common, 21s (jd. Beanß are at 27s 3d, No.' 1 best Scotch pig iron, f.0.b., in Clyde, 46s 9,d. * The Bradford wool market is restricted. The Antwerp wool sales closed at prices 6 centimes below . thß February rates. A considerable quantity was withdrawn. Tallow : Fino mutton ia at 20a 8d ; medium, 19a ; beef, 18s 6d ; medium! 17s 6d. , ' .' * ■•-■
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXX, Issue 139, 13 June 1896, Page 2
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