... IIT the City. TtI!F SPECULATION IN SOUTH AFRICAN GOLD MINES. Considerable alarm was shown by the speculators in South African gold mines yesterday, and home realizations as well as sales from the Continent led in some cases to a heavy drop in prices, while in others shares were unsaleable. Eulirig orders from the Cape and favourable crushing reports gave some strength to the market, and the ...

... THIS DAY'S MONEV NIARPKJEt' fla!/.-5o.,l 0/1( HOME RAILWAYS AND FOREIGN STOCKS WEAK. -AMERICAN'S AND TRUNKS IRREGULAR. There is little feature of interest on the Stock Exchange. Businezs in all departments is quiet, and the movement of prices slight3L Consols are again but little dealt in, and prices in the Home Governmnent department are practically unaltered. In the Eng.lisli Railway market ...

... THIS DAY'S MONE.Y MARKERlT. Cure1 o'rr'c'k- HOME RAILWAYS DULL.-FOREIGN STOCK1-S W!EAK.-AMEY1RICAeN BETTER. There is a quiet demand for money in the open market this morning, and advances until Monday are obtainable at as low asi per cent. Next week the recuirements in connection with the Stock Exchangle settlement will have to 1)e provided for, and a slight hardening of the market 1 is looked ...

... _ Hralf-Mt. OiMq HOME RAILWAYS DULL.-FOREIGN STOCKS DEPRESSED. - AMERICANS IRREGULAR. Rates in the open market have opened much the same as they closed ow Saturday. There is still a fairly good demand for accommodation in the shape of short loans, but the quotation is rather easier at 4$V to 5 per cent. The number of bills offering for discount is small, and the ratc for three months' bank ...

... ZVILL THE SALT TRUST SUCCEED ? DIFFICULTIES IN THEI WAY. THE prospect of parliamentary interference with great trade combinations may disturb the confidence of those who have embarked in such an under- 4aking as the Salt Trust, but apart from any difficulty from that quarter there are grounds for believing that this enterprise has ahead of it many difficulties, some of which may prove ...

... There is no particular charigc to report in the condition of the Nlone7 MIarket. Dealers in bills do not svork at all fre, ly, owing to the uncertain outlook, but it is found impossible to raise the discount rate to any appreciable extent while the amount of money seeking employment in the open market is so large. There seems to be little doubt that the Bank of Enlanod is at last taking steps ...

... HOME RAILWAYS NVEAK.-'-FORETGNSTCSQ[ .- lkCA i DEPRESSED, In the Money Market this monn hr sagainza slightly easier tendienc, v owing to the expectation that no gold will ?? fromi the Ba:tk.ttf England for South America this week, and the probability that mnucii oi the inquiry for that quarter will be met on the Continent. Should this turli Mir to be the case, however, the position here is not ...

... - Rd/'fl -teast Otto. HOME RAILWAYS AND FOREIGN STOCKS STEADY.-A.MERICANS FIRM. There is only a very smtall inquiry for accommodation in the Money Market this morning, either in the shape of short loans or discounts. Loanable capital is in plentiful supply, and not more than 3 per cent. is obtain- able for day-to-day loans, while for advances till the end of the week, the charge is no more ...

... 7'iJ( GAIE TY COMPANY A7 THE ANTIPODES. \%1: ?? thie following from the .5Qotdh Ats l';ijo Adverlisc; a represen- ! ktive of whi(+h laper I-oarded the 4.Jzura early one morning at Adelaide. He ..und Mlr. Fred Lcrlie in bed, but woke him up Keith the following result AN INrERVIEWv wrin FRED LESLIF. I have becr ten years cng aged in this work, said the burlesque 'or, ' and Co:mnince d my ...

... THIS DAY'S MONEY MARIKET. Hahf-Azs oire. MARKETS INACTIVE.-DOWNWARD TENDENCY IN VALUES. There is less inquiry for short loans in the open market this morning, and borrowers have little difficulty in getting their requirements satisfied at I 34 to 2 per cent. The Stock Exchange settlement commences on Tuesday next, and it is not expected that operators in Stock Exchange securities will be able ...

... RHf-Oast ?? At their meeting to-day the directors of the Bank of England made nI chan-e in their rate of discount, which consequently remnains at ?? p)er cent. The demand for money is still very quiet despite the fact that a h .vy instalment falls due to be paid on the last Brazilian loan. Day-to day money is only worth '4 per cent., while loans over to-morrow-settling day- cannot command much ...

... THIS DAY'S MONEY MARKET, fia/-pt,7tl O0.- HOME RAILWAYS AND FOREIGN STOCKS BETTER.--AMELNICAN3 NVEA K. There is a strong demand for accommoclation in the ?? iniiket ih;'7 morning, in the shape of short loans, owing to the requiremeneits in cofltc~tio'i with the end of the half-year. The quotation for advances for the day is i to I Vs~ per cent., while for loans until the beginniing of ncxt ...