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NAMES OF STOCKS.—(1) Great Western Railway Four per Cent.
Debenture; (2) London and North-Western Railway Four per Cent.
Preference ; (3) London, Tilbury and Southend Four per Cent. Deben
ture ; (4) Southern Mahratta Four per Cent. Debenture ; (5) Birming
ham Corporation Three and a-Half per Cent. ; (6) India Three and a-Halí
per Cent. ; (7) British Local Loans Three per Cent. ; (8) Natal Three
and a-Half per Cent. ; (9) New Zealand Three and a-Half per Cent. ;
(10) Canada Three per Cent. Inscribed.
It will be observed that in compiling this
chart we have selected as widely distributed a
group of stocks as the Trustee Acts permit of.
The actual geographical position, however, of
the various securities depicted in no way frees
them from the influence of British Trade and
Finance which is the dominating influence
controlling all English stocks, and also con
trolling all stocks whose main investment centre
is England. In spite of the boom in Canadian
agriculture and the consequent rise in all
Canadian stocks which has taken place in