MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 19, 24 January 1903, Page 3

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

LONDON, yesterday. The weefely returni of the Bank of England show gold coin £31,491,000 ; ; peiC9nfcage of re:tejftjj§tioj|abiUtieMjß.<os; notes in circulation; je28,35^d00T; .! tpnblie deposits, #1^403,000 ; other dep^Bife/^4OiOBB,QOO ; Government securities, jei7,636,ooo;'other g'epnrities, .■ *'■'.*■ ■•-. . r The discount 6n fch?ee mbjithy'b2l* is :3| per cent. ' i r r - '"■•"/--•'-'-;. -' : ■ $v. Consols are at 93£ /Jfio^ft- Australian tbn*e per cent stbbtjv 9|J ;o Q'tteenßland -fchree and half, 101 ; other;, etoaks" are unchanged. •■ ''"■'■■ ' .'yl- r •" The wheat market are strong tvitt a general hardening, tendency. Cargoes ■are; firm - Califorcian September-October shipment, 225 ; January, 31s 6d. Batter is dull'-rColomal, Win to 104s ; occasional lots,; 1063; Danish is unchanged. • ■ Cheese is firm— New Zealand, 62s <o 635 ; Canadian, 645. Copper on spot is at £53 ,12s 6d, and at three months £54 its Gd a ton Tin on spot : s at £129 2s 6d a ton. li on iB at 533 6d a ton. feilver is Is 9 11-16 d an ounce. Sugar— Firvt marks, 9s 4d ; German, Bs. • f The Bradford wool market is quiet but [firm, ani unchanged. At the London sales the following were amongst the Clips sold : -Tekaoiu, BJd ; Abbotsford, Sid ; Ponkawa, Bgd. At tho wool sales croasbrcds and good merinos were firm and faulties sold in buyers' favour ; some lots were withdrawn. The Imperial Food Supplies Associa tion is iscuing 2:0,000 sharbs by public subscription. 1 ' Messrs Goldsbrough, Mort aad Co., Ltd' Melbourne, report to their Nelson agents (Messrs Bisley Bros, and Co.). under date 14ih January, as follows :— Wool: We resumed selling to-day, submitting 3978 bales, and including private sales since 17th December ; dispoeed of 3854 bales. There was. a large attendance of buyers, augmented by 86V * eral oparators from. Sydney. The catalogue included conic nice clips from the Sodtb-east district and Tasmania ; olber localities represented being Western New South Wale 3, East Ritrerina, Qaeenslaad, and Gippsland. We quolti : Meriooes in most cases 5 per cent, bettor ; some lines, however, shoeing no advance on Decem* ber cloning rates. All descriptions crossbred 7>J per oent aivance. Lambs' wool— both merino and crossbred in sellers' favour.C^S