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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 93, 5 August 1895, Page 2

COMMERCIAL,

London, August 1. The weekly returns of the Bank of England published to-day show the total reserve to be 428,102,900, and the proportion of reserve to liabilities 57.56 per cent. The following are the latest quotations for Government securities Variation as comp-.red Price. . with last week, £ b d Imperial Console, 2| p o 107 0 0 Unchanged N.S.W, 4 percent . 115 10 0 15/ - higher NS W. 3A per cent ... 107 5 0 20/- higher Victorian 4 p.c. . 105 0 0 35/- lower Victorian 3i p.o. . 100 10 0 So/- higher South Australian 4 p.c. 110 5 0 Unchanged South Australian 3£ p c 105 0 0 20/- higher Queensland 4p o. . 110 0 0 5/ -lower Queensland 3J p.c. .. 104 10 0 15/- higher West Australian 4 p.o, 120 0 0 30/- higher Tasmania 3J p.o. . 104 15 0 15/- higoer New Zealand 4 p.0. ... 11l IB 0 2' /-higher New Zealand 3fc p.o. .. 105 0 0 20/ h'gher New Zealand long-berried wheat, ex warehouse, quiet 26s 6d; Victorian ditto, 275; South Australian ditto, flat, 275. The New Zealand hemp market is quiet and prices are unchanged. New Zealand frozen mutton—First quality, 3£d per lb; second quality, 3£d. Lamb, 4£d. THE WOOL MARKET. London, August 1. At the wool sales at Bradford prices are very firm, with an upward tendency.