COMMERCIAL CABLE GRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13889, 29 April 1907, Page 5

COMMERCIAL CABLE GRAMS.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON, .April 26. The Bank of England returns show the Block of gold coin and bullion to be £35,019,000; reserve, £25,906,000; proportion of reserve to liabilities, 45.32. The notes • iit circulation total £29,737,030 ; public deposits, £8,913,000; other deposits, £48,150,000; .Government securities, £15,321,000; and other securities, £0<5,732,000.

Three months' bills are discounted at 1-16 per cent.

Consols are quoted at £85 15s. 'lho following are the quotations for colonial Government stocks, ' compared with those ruling a week previous: —

April 19. April 08. ivcw South Wales -t's .. 103 10S Kow South Wales SJ's ' ..93 98 New South Wales 3's .. .. S7 87 Victorian -J's 102J • 103 Victorian 3Vs ........ too 99 Victorian 3's &S 83 South Australian 3l's .. .. 100 100 Souih Australian 3's S7 S7 Queensland -l's ... .. ~ 105 103 Queensland 3J's 9Si 98 Queshilanrt 3's 87 87 New Zealand I's .. ~ ..'lO5 101J New Zealand B.Vs' lo:) gjf New Zealand 3's .. ~ 'S7 BGS Tasmanian 3J's 99 ' 9:)" Tasmanian 3's ...... 88 SS West Australian .IVs ' 95} 951 Weft Australian 3's .. .. 85 . ' 85~ Wheat : Despite (lie lieavv shipments from Jwiropo tho markets- are' firm, owing to the damage to crojis in America and Germany and a strong Continental demand. The sales of about- a dozen cargoes and several large parcels of Australian are reported lit afts 9d to 31s 9d. Australian spot is in better request at 32s 6d to 3os. No New Zealand is offering. Flour is slightly firmer, -but there is little selling in London 'at 21s 4d to 22s Gd.

Uutter is very dull. Prices nominally are unchanged.

Copper; Spot, £100 10s; three months, £100 15s.

'lin: Spot, £191 15s; three months, £189. '

I-ead, £19 12s fid. Spelter, £25 17s 6d.* I'ig iron, 57s Bd. Sugar is quiet. German, 9s sd; first marks, lis Id.

The Bradford wool market is dull, waiting the opening - of the London sales. Forties, 17d ; forty-sixes, 17fjd; common sixties, 26Jd; super., 27jd. The Antwerp sales closed with prices unchanged. Crossbivds were neglccted. Six thousand five hundred and seventy-nine bales were ofi'eret], and 1835 sold.