MONETARY & COMMERCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 13 June 1908, Page 3

MONETARY & COMMERCIAL.

v '< THE LONDON MARKETS. '.. Q?ebbß Association.— Copiriqhi.) ' ■ (Received June 15, 7.:.'' a.m) LONDON, Friday. 'The Bank of England returns show: Stock of- gold coin, £36,449,000; reserve, £27.124.000; proportion of reserve to liabilities; 50.65-; notes in circulation, • £29,020;000; public. deposits £9,760,000; other v deposits, £44,v29,000.- Government M-cnrities, £15,008,000; other securities, £29j4?9.000'; di-eount >n three months, bills- IA; on" short- loans | percent; Transit pSr cent; Berlin 3| per cent. . > Cosols are at.B7*J ; New South Wales 4 per cent, "stock 107; the rest are unchanged. ' w , Tho, hot weather has weakened all the wheat market® and . buyers are iverff scarce: Ah Australian, cargo sold at 36s 3d; steamer oareels May-June are pffering at'36o-::3d"; Australian on spot '38s to 39s 6"d""- Flour is dull and weak. Australian pressed ,fcf sale at Glasgow 275, with no buyers. . Copper on soot is at £129 7s 6d, and at three months. £130 2s 6d. Lead £12 . 12s j6d a ton" Lead -imports are 17,957 , tch^Aiistraliah, 4151' tons,, imports 6631 vtone.- Clwn'is at 51e 3d. ■ ' ,;-:Sngar; .is quiet — German lis sd ; first ■ marks'ii3s.3d- ■'■'... ,-•-.* V , * ■ Oii'the- Bradford\wool market there »■-. iunited business and prices are unchanged.;" ■; \ , „ -r. • v ■i- Butter /is .quiet bat firmer. Danish jti2s to" li4s'; choicest New South Wales anH Queensland 102s: to 104s ; New Zealand 110s r'fe ll2s. '■>'■■ At ihe. kauri sales. 67s cases were otiered,, and; \lso were. sold. Prices wero unchanged. "-.. . " |