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Thames Star, Volume XXX, Issue 9027, 26 March 1898, Page 2

Press Association—Electric Telegraph—Copyright. London, March 25. Issue of the Department of Stock o Gold coin: —Bullion, £30,872,000 reserve £23,515,000. Proportion o reserve to liabilities, 42*97. In circula tion, £26,675,000 ; public de posits, £19,618,000; other deposits £35,002,000. Government securi ties, £14,209,000; other securities £35,367,000. Consols, 11 If; New South ■ Walei fours, 118J; three and ahalfs, 107-| threes, 98£; Victorian fours, 111£: three and a-halfs, 104; South Australian three and a-half, 109; threes, 99; Queensland fours, 109f; thret and a-halfs, 104; N.Z. fours, 114£: three, and a-halfs, 107 ; threes, 99|; Tasmanian three and a-halfs, 106: Westralian three and a-halfs, 108. The English wheat market is firm, with an upward tendency, the Continental firm, and the American changing a little for the better. Californiac No: 1 milling 35s 9d, Russian cargoes 37s 3d. London quotations, hard Duluth 425. Victorian Peas, 27b. Sugar t Steady; Java 11s 3d, German 9s. Iron, 4s. Bradford wool market: Merinos, firm; crossbreds, weak; prices in buyers' favor. Butter, dragging sale ; Australian, 100 ato 101s, supply practically inished; Danish, 100s 6d. Mr R Valentine, lecturing before ;he Society of Arts, predicted a great "uture for the Queensland and New South Wales meat extracts, which ?ere the finest in Australia, and assessed a finer flavor than South Australian. The lecturer complained ifa deterioration in some recent shipDents of wool. Very firm medium to inferior merinos irere lower, but cross-breds are tending tpwards.