COMMERCIAL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 11921, 18 July 1906, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

BANK RSviTJItNS, STOCKS, AND MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Vreet Aa<?ocution.-Telegraph.— Copyright

Received July 17, 9.56 a.m. LONDON, July 16.

Bank of England returner — Coin i!33,9.J<3,000, reserve .£25,747,000, proportion of reserve to liabilities 48.45, in circulation 430,068,000. puDhc deposits .£7,17(i,1>C0, other deposits £ 15,902,000, Government securities £ 15,977,000, other seeuritkß £29,408,1)00, three months bills 3 l-Bth por cent. Con*)lfl 87J, South Australian three aad a halls 101 ; rest unchanged. Wheat markets ore quiet but steady. Cargoes are firmly hold; Victorian and New South Wales afloat is offered at 31s to 31=3 '3<l. ' Adelaide July-August shipment 'A'2s 6d. The Times estimates the condition of British crops at 9Q per cent of an a^\ erage. l'lour 13 flat, with a reduction of a chilling. American patent* are likely to further reoi.te the demand for Australian.

Sucar is quiet; German 8s , 4d, fir6t marks lOe - r >d.

Tfio Bradford wool markets shows a decidedly better inquiry. 37«si*no prices are barely maintained, but crossbreds are firm. Quotation* are unchanged. At the ' saleo. Gear -<v<>ol realised 12d, Caroossa lo^dl Butter is steady and unchanged. There is little demand for colonial, and the bulk of recent arrivals is stored. The principal busineß3 is in Siberian, which is arriving at the rate of thirty thousand boxes a wefk. Choc-** is quiet; New Zealand 60s to C4s.