LONDON QUOTATIONS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12388, 8 December 1909, Page 8

LONDON QUOTATIONS.

LONDON, December 6. Bank of England returns:— Gold coin, £3,535.000 Reserve, £25,776,000. Proportion of reserve to liabilities 25.9,9. Circulation, £2P,%5,000. • Public deposit!, £5,323,000. Other deposits, £40,086,000. Government securities, £14,413,000. Other securities, £23,503,000. CONSOLS. Consols, 82^ NeAv South Wales (4 n.c), 106 7-8. New South Wales <3-& p.c), 93f. New South Wales (3"n.c), 86. Victorian (4 p.c.) 102. Victorian (3£ p.c), 98 7-8. Victorian (3 p.c.), Blf. Queensland (4 p.c), 102^. Queensland (3^ p.c), 96 7-8. Queensland <3 p\c> 84|. New Zealand (4 p.c.) 105 J. New Zealand (3* '>.c.) 97£. New- Zealand (3 p.c). 86. New Zealand (3 p.m.), ex dividend, 84*. Tasmaiiian (3i n.c.) §6£. Westrnlian (3£ n..c, 98g. Westralian (3 p.c), 88." BUTTER. Butter is easier, owing to largo arriA'als and prospective heavy supplies, but there is a. stoadv demand, choicest colonial clearing well. Australian salted 112s imsalted 114s ; secondaries 104s to 108s. Choicest New Zealand 116s. : Danish, 24s to 1265. All the stored Australian and New. Zealand is practically cleared. METALS. Iron. 50s 3d. Spelter, 235. SUGAR. Sugar is firm. German 12s 9d, first marks 14s Bd. WOOL. The Bradford wool market is dull, with prices unchanged. LOANS. Tho bank rate is 5 per cent.^ short loam 4 per cent., three months' bills, ■ London. 3 per cent., Paris 2J per cent., Berlin 44 per cent. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN STOCKS. South Australian Government stocks are unchanged. WHEAT. The wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2.070.000 quarters, for. the Continent 1,505,000 quarters. Atlantic :, shipments total 246,000' quarters. Pacific 75,000. Tli Q £otal shipments to Europe for the week amount to 1,250,000 quarters, including 13,000 from the Argentina. SILVER. Silver. 23 11-16 d.