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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7422, 7 June 1902, Page 5

f United Press Association— By Eletftrio ■ '*- Telegraph— Copyright. LONDOiN, June 6. The Bank of England returns show the stock of gold coin and' bullion to be £34,161,000, tihe reserve £24,804,000, 'the proportion of r«ej?ve to liabilities 50.08 per 1 cent, -notes in circulation" £29,5^2,000, public deposits £B,BS>3,QPQ, other deposits £40,447,000, Goyenwiient securities £14,293,000, other securities £28,130,000. Three montha' bills are discounted at 2| per cent. ] Consols are quoted at 96g. New Wales 4 per cent inscribed stock is quoted at 114, 3i per cent 104, 3 pec cent 96. (The Vicfcprian 6to<?k quotations wdre mutilated in transmission.) South Australian 3i per. cent 105, 3 per cent 96i ; Queensland' 4 per cent 106, 3| per cent 103; New Zealand 4 per cent 113, 3± p-er seat 108, 3 per cent 96± j Tasmanian 3^ per cent 104 ; ' Western Australian 3£ per cent IQ2. -•• W'heat-^-The markets are quiet, and display a lower tendency owing to favourable reports of the crops on the Continent and in America. Cargoes are dull. Vipboidan and South Australian February and March shipments 29s 9d per quarter, and a Sydney cargo sold at 29s 6d per quarter. The. American visible supply is estimated at 37,676,000 'bushels. Copper as steady. On spot £54 per ton, three months' £54 2s 6d per ton. . , Tin— On spot £133 5s per ton. \ lid) 54s 3d* per ton. , —^ ' Lead £11 7s 6d per ton. " ' '' Sugar is quiet. German 6s Ifd pw cwt* First "Marks granulated 7s 6d per cwfc. At Bradford wool is very firminon sixties 2ip, superfine 22id. -* \