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Show NEW YORK FINANCIERS NOT GREATLY SURPRISED NEW YORK. March 17. Leading financiers here manifested little surprise at the Increase of the London bank rate to 4 per cent. Intimations to that effect having been quite general yesterday. In some quarters there was a disposition to accept the advanced rate as a warning to the speculative Interests responsible for the recent scnsallonnl rise In rubber shares In the London market. The best authorities arc, agreed that large proportions of the bonds and notes recently offered by our bankers have been placed abroad. This Includes such issues as tho Chicago Great Western 4 per cent gold bonds, total issues $18,000.-000- Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railway I per cent gold bonds total. $15,-000.000; $15,-000.000; Kansas City Terminal railway first mortgage I per cent bonds, total. $12 500.000; Rock Island, Arkansas ,c Louisiana railway 44 per cent bonds, total, 511,000.000; St. Louis & San Francisco Fran-cisco railroad, ?8.000.000. 3 per cent three-year three-year notes, and the 812.500,000 of Cincinnati. Cin-cinnati. Hamilton & Dayton roads. 4 per cent notes guaranteed by tho Baltimore Sz Ohio Railroad company. In addition to these particular Issues, it Is declared that large amounts or tho better known bond Issues regularly dealt in on the stock exchange have been taken bv European Investors In exchange for stocks purchased In tills market during tho period of lower prices in January and February and which have since been sold back to this market with profit to European Eu-ropean purchasers. Direct sales of bonds by our bankers to Europe within the last two months vary wldclv but a conservative estimate places 'total well above $100,000. That foreign gold will come In ex-chance ex-chance for these purchases Is scouted In banking circles, where 11 Is pointed out that Europe's absorpltion of our securities securi-ties to date Is but a small off-set to our debit balance nbioad. International bankers will figure ex-ti'iislvelv ex-ti'iislvelv In the forthcoming Issue of N'ew York City, 850.000.000 41 per cent bonds bids for which will be opened next we "l" It Is not. all unlikely that fully 40 to ,0 per conl of this Issue will be taken by "London nnd Paris bankers. Evaporatod Fruits. NEW YORK. March 17. Evaporated apples firm; spot fancy. lOJfijJllc: choice, iiffftljc; prime, 0BiTp74c; common to fair. RPrunes steady; Callfornlas up lo 30-40s. 8if(i9c; Oregon's, 0fi0e. . nrlcots steady; choice. lOlftllo: extra 'holee lllf!'12c: fancy. 12013c. " peaches steady, choice, 04G3c: extra choice 63101710, fancy. ilffiMc. Raisins about steady; loose Muscatel. .oftJir.'Jc: choice to fancy seeded. 5tf(t3c: scedlesA, 3itiMSe; London layers, $1.15(0. 1.20. . |