MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.
London, November 13. The Bank of England returns, published to-day, show the total reserve to be <£25,718,000 (£278,000 more than last week), the proportion of reserve to liabilities being 52*40 per cent. (0*44 more than last week). Three months’ bills are discounted at 35-ths per cent., a rise of 1-lGth per cent. The following are the latest quotations for Government securities :
Interest payable in May and November i Interest payable in January and July.
Frozen meat is unchanged. Hemp is firm—good Wellington at .£l6 ss. The English wheat market is firm with an upward tendency; Continental and American show a general advance; red winter is quoted at 92 cents. Colonial oats of fine quality average 26s ; common, 21s. Beans, 335. Sugar is steady—Germany beet, 9s 7ld ; Java, 11s. No. 1 best Scotch pig iron, f.o.b. in Clyde, 48s 3d. Butter is dull at 9Ss to 104 s; Banish unchanged.
Price. Variation as compared with last week. 2 '}% Imperial Consols .. £ 110 s. cl. 0 0 15/- higher. 4% N.S.W 118 10 0 10/. higher. 3.4% N.S.W 107 15 0 35/- higher. 3% N.S.W 101 0 0 5/- higher. 4% Victorian 112 0 0 10/- higher. 34% Victorian 105 10 0 5,'- higher. 4% South Australian 111 15 0 25/- higher. 34% South Australian . . 3% South Australian 110 0 0 20/- higher. 99 0 0 — 4% Queensland 113 0 0 45/- higher. 34% Queensland .. 100 10 0 25/- higher. 4% New Zealand* 111 10 0 5/- higher. 34% New Zealand! 100 10 0 25/- higher. 3% New Zealand .. 100 0 0 10/- higher. 34% West Australian 3% West Australian 34% Tasmania 109 5 0 20/- higher. 100 0 0 107 0 0 1 (V- lowov,
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1290, 19 November 1896, Page 36
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