COMMERCIAL CABLEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17038, 23 June 1917, Page 9

COMMERCIAL CABLEGRAMS.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.

. LONDON, June 2L (Received June 22, at 7.25 p.m.) Bank of England, returns : Gold coin and stock > £54,183,000; reserve, jbcib^b.OGO; proportion of reserve to liabilities, 21.40 per cent. ; notes in circulation, £38,840,000; Government deposits, £■30.143,000; othev deposits, £119,45/,000Government securities, £45,230,000; other securities, £105,888,000. Discount on short loans, 4| per cent. • three months' bills, 4§ per cent ' Consols £54 15s. War loans': U per cent., £86 15s; 4 per cent. £94 7s 6d, Following are the quotations for colonial stocks, as compared with those for the previous week;—

Butter : Steady and quiet. The maTrirna, will probably not be altered. Danish, 189s to 2025. Australian, choicest salted 186s to 184s, unsalted 186s to 188s. New Zealand, salted 190s to 1945, unsalted 196s to 1935. It is rnderstood that the Government has requisitioned a cargo of 40,000cwt of Australian. Cheese: Nothing doing, pending tihe Government's distribution, which is expected to be early in July. (Received June 23, at 0.5 a.m.) Copper : Spot, £130 ss; three months, £129 10s; electrolytic, £149. Lead : Spot, £30 10s; three months, £29 10s. Spelter : Spot, £54; three months, £50. Tin : Spot, £248 17s 6d; three months, £246 17s 6d. . Silver, 39§d per oz. Wheat : None offering. Sugar : Unchanged. Flour: Quiet. Australian patents, £3 19s. Oats : Slow. Tasmanian. 38s 6d per 3041b. * Beans and peas : Dull. New Zealand, none offering.

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