Montagu &_Co. state The Bank of England. gold reserve against its note issue on the Ist. instant was £125,811,595, as compared with £125,808,795 on the previous Wednesday.
Indian bazaar inquiry being still upon a small scale, most of the moderate amount of gold on offer this week probably will be taken for the United States of America. Gold valued at $2,624,- 000 has been received in New York from London and 20,000,000 gold marks from Germany.
Sir William Joynson-Hicks announced last week that gold to the value of £3,817,293 had been salved from the wreck of the Laurentic, and that operations were being continued.
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