COMMERCIAL CABLEGRAMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14373, 17 November 1908, Page 7

COMMERCIAL CABLEGRAMS

PrC* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright "' LONDON,. November 13. The. Bank ..of .England, returns; show the' stock of gold..coin and bullion to be £34,080,000; reserve, £25,371,000; proportion of reserve io liabilities, 33.03. The notes 'in circulation total £28,799,000; puurio deposits, £6,069,000; other deposits, £41,737,000; Government securities, £14,731,0001" arid'''other securities, £25,417,000:' ■"•":'■

Short loan bills' are- discounted -at .1-| per Three months' ■bills, London, 2 3-16 per cent. . Consols are quoted at'JSß4l2s 6d. ' - The following are the quotations (or colonial Government; stocks, compared with those ruling a. Week previous:— .. „ „ / V Nov. 6. Nov. 13. acw.South Wales 4'a ..... 108 108J New South Wales 3s's ~.' „ S9 99 New South Wfflpa 3's .. .. S7 N 87 Victorian 4's '.. ,'. .. .. 104 104J Victorian Ss's „ .. ~ ~ 100 100J , Victorian 3's .. .. ..' ~ 89 89 South Australian 3J's .. ... 99i 100 South ■; Australian 3's .. ... ■ S6J 86J Queensland 4V ... .. ... 10GJ 107 Queensland. 3J's ~,„ „ 87$ 87 New Zealand ,4's .. .. ~ 107 107 Now Zealand Sl'a .. .. '.. 100 100 New Zealand 3's ... .. .. 87.J 87$ Tasmanian 35's ..... .» 83" 98 Tasmanian 3's .. .. .. .. 88 88' West Australian 3J's ~ ~ 97$ 971 West Australian 3'a .. .. 86-J 863 Wheat: The markets arc firm owing to continued reports of damage in the Argentine. There is a good inquiry for cargoes, .which are firmly held. Australian December and January shipment is quoted at 37s 6d. are asking 38s to 39s 3d. Cargoes afloat, 38b 6i'. Parcels have a firm market; Flour: 27s to 27s 6d, c.i.f., is asked for January and February shipment. Silver, 23 l-16d per oz. Copper: Spot, £63 15s; three months, £64 12s 6d; electrolytic, £67. Tin: Spot, £137-* three months, £137 10s. Lead, £13 12s 6d. Pig iron, 49s Id. Sugar; German, 10s 3d; first, marks, 12s Id. '•■" The Bradford wool market is buoyant. Common, sixties, 22^d; super., 23Jd. Butter is very dull. Danish, 124s to 1365. Lit ; tle demand for colonial. New Zealand choicest'. 120s to 1225; a few lote at 124(3.- '■.-■:'

—By a/ recent degree, women toreadors are prohibited' from taking part in bullfighfe jn Spain. Ohronic coughs arc best treated by Steams' Wine, which, by strengthening the 6ystom, enables it to throw them off. It does more good than cod liver oil, and tastes as good «6 fine old 'port.—Advt. — Acetylene g.is is now used on some French railways for illuminating carriages. — Nicaragua is the largest State of Central America. Its area is 51,660 sqxmo miles,