FINANCE AND COMMERCE.
Electtio Telegraph-Copyright-United Press Association LONDON, March 16. The Bank of England returns show the reserve to be £25,730,000, the amount of gold coin and bullion £34,856,000, proportion of reserve to liabilities 5088 per cent., notes m circulation £28,465,000, public deposits £12,275,000, other deposits £38,092,000, Government securities £12,305,000, other securities £30,---851,000. . , . Three months' bills are discounted at 74 per cent. Consols are at 964- New South Wales 34 per cent, stock, 102* , South Australian*^, 106*5 New Zealand 34, 108i;i Queensland 34, 103, Tasmanian 34, l° 3 i- Tlit wheat markets are quiet generally, but steady. Victorian February-March shipments* are at 29s 9d; sailer parcels are ai 28s 6d. _ . Butier is very dull of sale. Choicest colonial is at 103; Danish, which is recovering m price, is at 112. The cheese market is flat. New Zealand is at 49s to 50s. Ihe Bradford wool market is quiet. Common sixties are at 18s; super at 18Js. At the London sales there is good competition, but prices are unchanged.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9099, 18 March 1901, Page 4
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