... NOTES FROM THE EXCHANGE. All is not Gold that Glitters. Dear Sir, Capel Court, April C, 1895. Silver again began tbe week well, but has dropped back, carrying with it the stocks which depend for their value on this metal. With the distribution of something like six million in Government and other dividends yesterday, the market will be swamped with available loan capital, but there is 110 ...

... NOTES FKOM THE EXCHANGE. All it not Gold that Glitters. Dear Sir,' Capel Court, July 13, 1895. The Stock Exchange settlement has gone off without the smallest trouble, while the Bank return shows only the natural expansion of internal circulation which might be expected at the time of a General Election. Again a very large business has been done in gilt-edged securities and African mines, ...

... NOTES EROM THE EXCHANGE. All is not Gold that Glitters. Dear Sir, Capel Court, Sept. 21, 1895. The fact that, according to Jewish cosmogony, the world has entered on its 5656th year, is not of as much interest to the Parthians and Mcdes and Elamites and dwellers in Mesopotamia frequenting this Court and the adjacent thoroughfares, as the fact that Tishri 1, the first day of the Hebrew new ...

... My dear Sin, I send you two ideas to be used in illustration. I. A room after a drinking-bout. Empty bottles and empty glasses are very conspicuous. The drinkers have disappeared, but they have left these tokens of their industry-- empty glasses and emply bottles. This picture is to be headed Shipping Intelligence, and under lined Vessels entered inwards. II. Ladies, after a dinner, are ...

... A NSW F. IIS TO CORRESPONDENTS. I'iiide-Elect.-- (1) Embroidered cambric medallions appear inmost of the new nrliclcs of lingerie and have a very pretty effect. All should be edged with laec, line real Torchon or Valenciennes. The smartest nightgowns arc gored and trained with an embarrassment of fluffy laec and ribbon trimmings. This latter is generally drawn through or under lace entre-dcux, ...

... NOTES EROM THE EXCHANGE. All is not Gold that Glitters. Dear Sir, Capel Court, June 10, 1893. The continued influx of gold, backed by a 1 per cent. reduction in the bank rate, has caused a still weaker tendency in the discount markets, and, however unhealthy these sudden fluctuations in the value of money may be, we cannot conceal from ourselves that during the last fortnight the drop has ...

... NOTES FKOM THE EXCHANGE. All is not Gold that Glitters. Dear Sir, Capel Court, May 5, 1894. With its accumulated resources and a reserve equal to 63 pqr cent, of its liabilities, the Bank must soon, we should imagine, change some of its cash for securities, and the future of the money market promises to be one of great ease for a considerable time to come. Ihe past week has produced only the ...

... . All is not Gold that Glitters Deae Sie, Capel Court, Doc. 30, 1893. For tlie last time in this most disastrous year we have to write to you, and we sincerely hope, dear Sir, that neither you nor ourselves will ever have to pass through so severe a time of depression again. The year, as you will remember, opened with general hopes of improvement, which continued until the early weeks of April ...

... NOTES FROM THE EXCHANGE. All is not Gold that Glitters. Dear Sir, Cape! Court, July 15, 1893. The rumours to which we alluded last week came to a head in less time than we expected when we last wrote to you by the suspension of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company this week but the air is no clearer, and, if possible, more stories and rumours are passing from mouth to mouth than ...

... NOTES EEOM THE EXCHANGE. All is not Gold that Glitters. Dear Sir, Capel Court, Aug. 31, 1895. In spite of the adjustment of a very heavy account in Miscellaneous securities, and the commencement of the Consols settlement, the markets have been wondrous brisk, and general buoyancy prevails. Money continues very abundant, trade is improving, and confidence reviving. The increased production of ...

... NOTES FROM THE EXCHANGE. All is not Gold that Glitters. Dear Sir, Capel Court, Feb. 2. 1805. Discounts nave been firmer and short money has commanded about per cent., but a good bit of the stiffening in rates has been caused by the banks preparing for the usual monthly returns and the proposed American bond issue. At the Bank of England gold is still flowing back from the provinces, and in ...

... NOTES FROM THE EXCHANGE. All is not Gold that Glitters. Dear Sir, Capel Court, Sept. 1, 1894. The glut of money continues, and the Bank return again presents record figures both in bullion and reserve. The Stock Exchange payments had little effect on the market, and six months' hills continue to be discounted under 1 per cent, in many cases, which shows that financial houses expect the ...