COMMERCIALL TELEGRAMS.
LONDON, August 19. The Bank of England returns show the stock of coin and bullion lo be £32,701,000 ; reserve, £23,773,000 ; proportion of reserve lo liabilities, 47.19 ; in circulation, £28,012,000; public deposits, £7,303,000; other deposits, £42,440,000 ; Government securities, £13,859,000 ; other securities, £30,774,000. Three months' bills are discounted at 1 7-16 per cent.. Consols, £110 10s. Four per cent. New South Wales stock, 117 i ; 34 do, 105 \ : 3 do, 101.
Four per cent. Victorian stock, 112^- ; l\ do, 106. Three and a-half per cent. South Australian slock, 108 ; 3 do, 100.
Four per cent. Queensland stock, 1104 ; 34 do, 105,}. Four per cent. New Zealand stock, 114 ; 34 do, 107 ; 3 do, 99]. Three and a-half per cent. Tasmanian stock, 1073 ; 3£ Wcstralian do, 106. The wheat markets are all quiet and Btaarlv. Oilifuralan No. 1 miUiwi. 295 ;
Russian cargoes, 28s 6d ; old Australian (on the spot) 345, new (ex ship) 35s 6d. The sugar market is slow. Java, 11s 7£d ; German, 9s 3d. Iron, 47s 6d. The Bradford wool market is quiet. Silver, 2s 3!d.
August 21
Frozen mutton : Crossbred wethers, maiden ewes — Canterbury. 3gd; Dunedin, Southland, and North Island xmehanged. Lamb is not qvoted. Eiver Plate crossbred or merino wethers, heavy and light, 2}d.
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Otago Witness, Volume 25, Issue 2321, 25 August 1898, Page 14
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207COMMERCIALL TELEGRAMS. Otago Witness, Volume 25, Issue 2321, 25 August 1898, Page 14
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