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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 21, 1864
Page
4
Special notice shows the Publishing Office of the Weekly Chronicle and Register moved to 282 Strand WC with communications to be sent there. Subscribers leaving the city on Saturdays may have the Weekly Chronicle sent to their private address if they apply.
Account under Act 7 8 Vict cap 3 ends May 18 1864. Issued May 12 1864 from ISSUE DEPARTMENT with totals for Government Debt Other Securities Gold Coin and Bullion Silver Bullion and notes.
Friday afternoon market dull with slight drops in Consols and Turkish stock. Bank rate trimmed to 8 percent, bullion up to £13.27 million, note reserves up £1.48 million. Mexican bonds group forms a creditors committee. Chilean bonds and Cuban rail links noted in market wrap.
Seventy bonds of the Sardinian loan are due June 1. Messrs Hambro announce interest on that date. West India silver fell to 5s 0 1d per ounce and Mexican dollars on the Florida to China sold at 5s 13d. Bank of France bullion rises to £10.2 million. Bank of England quotes India bills bids for £300,000 with allocations by city. Gold ships from Melbourne and Otago valued at £314,000 with £53,000 due.
HypraAvutic Tune DrawInG AND Stee, Ordnance Company aims to commercialize new metal drawing patents enabling tubes from needle thickness to large ordnance scales. London and Paris tests reported gun barrel proofs. factory licenses and machinery supply planned. capital £150,000.
Notices include Malta and Mediterranean Gas Company calling a 50th meeting to declare a dividend and to alter annual meeting dates, Inns of Court Notes Company appointing W H Miles as chair, and South African Mortgage and Investment Company announcing its annual meeting with a dividend. Also London transfer book closing and Great Barrier Land Harbour and Mining Company meeting notices and a Credit and Finance Company closing from the 20th.
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