Monetary and Commercial.
Press Aaiociatiou Electric Telegraph—Copyright,
London, June 29.
The weekly returns of the Bank of England published to-day show coin and bullion £36,159,000; reserve, 4827,071,000; proportion of reserve to liabilities, 49*69; in circulation, £28,263,000;; public deposits, £10, 080,000 ; other deposits, £45,405,000; Government securities, £13,497,000; other securities, £32,782,000.
Consols, 111.
Three months' bills discounted at
1 3-16 per ceut. New South Wales 4 per cent. 117J, 3£ ditto, 106$, 3 ditto 9S|. Victorian 4 ditto 112£, 3& ditt 105}, South Australian 3} ditto 108J, 3 ditto 100 Queensland 4 ditto 110, 3£ ditto 105.
New Zealand 4 ditto 114£, 3^ ditto 106 i, 3 ditto 99*. Tasmanian 3£ ditto 10*8 West Australia 3} ditto 105. The English wheat market is quite and incliued to weakuess. Th*> Con tinental is depressed, and the American is declining and weak. New York quotation : No. 2 red winter, 76 cents ; Russian cargoes, 34a 6<i London quotation: Hard duluth, 38. | The sugar market is quiet. Java 11s 10£ d. German 9s 3d. j No. 1 best Scotch pig iron f.o.b. in Clyde, 465. * | The Bradford wool market is restricted. At the wool sales there was an animated competition with a hardening ! tendency. ■ ) Colonial barley is unquotable. j Victorian dun peas Sf7g Gd ; fine oate 29j ; ordinary 26s 6d; beans 33s 6d.
The rabbits market is Hat. Many of those from New Zealand arrived in bad condition*
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Thames Star, Volume XXX, Issue 9110, 2 July 1898, Page 3
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232Monetary and Commercial. Thames Star, Volume XXX, Issue 9110, 2 July 1898, Page 3
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