COMMERCIAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 791, 14 April 1910, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS.

1 INVESTMENT SHAPES. Sales of Wellington Gas..£6 15s. paid, at £13 10s., and new issue at £2 ss. premium, were recorded yesterday. National Bank, buyers £5 10s. ; Bank of New Zealand, buyers £9 Ms.; National Mortgage, buyers £3; Wellington Trust and Loan, buyers £7 2s. 6d„ sellers £7 is. 6d. : Napier Gas. £10 paid, sellers £24; Wellington Gas, £6 15s. paid, buyers £13 ss. t sellers £13 10s.; G»nr Meat, £1 paid, buyers £2 135.; N.Z. Shipping, buyers £7 155.: Wellington Woollen, ordinary, buyers £3 25.: preference, sellers £2 10s.; Westport.Coal, buyers £6 Is.. sellers £6 65.; Leyland-O'Brien Timber, sellers £1 4s. 6d., or. dividend; Taranaki Petroleum, buyers Bs., sellers 9s. 3d.; Ward and Co., sellers £5. WOOL EXPORTS. The following is a statement, of Australasian wool exports for the nine months from July Ito March.3l, as "compiled by Dalgoty and Co., Ltd. :— 1939-10. 1900-9. Bales. Bales. Victoria. 407,420 433,8'S •N.S. Waleß 810,183 860,161 Quonsland 185,348 150,485 S. Australia, 159.062 158,678 \.W. Australia 60,500 54,706 . Tasmania 17,169 ' 18,895 New Zealand 447,168 414,273 ■' ■ 2,166,870 2,096,042' These figures show an increase of 70,828 bales, and it is very probable that before the statistical year closes on June 30, the increase will, amount to 100,000 bales. So far, tho exports of wool from New Zealand show an increase of 32,895 bales.

The customs revenue collected at the port yesterday amounted to £1655 3s. lid. WELLINGTON MARKET REPORT. . - Messrs. Laery and Co.. Ltd.. Wellington, report wholesale prices ruling on the market:—Wheat. fowl, 4s. to 4u. Id.; feed oats, 2s. sd. to 2s. 7d.; dun oats. 2s. 6d. to 2s. Bd.; eeod oats. 2s. .7d. to 2s. 9d.: Algerian oats, 2s. 7d. to 2s. 9d.; maize.3s. 9d. to 45.; crushed malt, 75.; fowl barley, 2s. 9d.; Cape barley seed, 35.; Hour, New Zealand £10 15s. to £11 55., Australian £11 10s.;. peas, Prussian blue, ss. 6d.; split, 19s. 6d.; bonedusti £5 155.; superphosphates; £5 to £5 55.; pollard, £5 53. to £5 155.; bran, £4 to £4 10s.; pearl barley, 155.; basic slag, £4 10s. to £5; chaff (oatcnshe'af), £4 10s. to £5; oatmeal, £11 to £11 10s.: potatoes,' table, £3 t0..£6 ton; onions, 3s. Gil. to 4s. (id. cwt.; . molasses fodder, £5; bacon (factory), sides CJd., hams 9d., rolls 7Jd.: butter, prime bulk, 9d. . Poultry.': .Uens. 35.; dusks,'3s. Sd. .to 4s. 6d. per pair; tur-. keys, gobblers. 18s. to 205., hens lCs. to 145.; fresh eggs, Is. Ed. to Is. 9d.; preserved' egg 3,' Is: 4d. to Is. sd. dozen; choose, 53d. per,, lb.; loaf,' 6id.; Akaro.i, machine-dressed] cocksfoot, 6d. to 7d. per lb.; farmers • dressed cocksfoot, 4d. to sd. per lb.; ryegrass, 3s. 6(1. to 4s. 6d. : per bushel; Italian' ryegrass,3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. per bushel: white clover, 70s. to 755. per cwt.

CHRISTCHURCH PRODUCE . MARKET. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.! ' Chrlstcluiroh, April 13. A fairly large amount, of .wheat is now being placed on the market, but' tho greater part is of indifferent quality, owing to having'been exposed to-the weather during tho harvest.!' Merchants are very chary.' about' purchasing with a 1 view to shipment, .as in many instances the' quality of the grain is such as' to make filiipment risky.. As has been the case for some weeks, there is .a wide ranee of prices. Very be6t ouality milling wheat, of. which the amount on offer is vary scanty, is selling up to 3s. 9d./at convenient country stations, while fowl and badly damaged linos have changed hands as low as - 2s. ■ 9d. The • bulk' of the wheat sold during the week has been on the b'aEis 'of 3s. 4d. to 3s.' 7d. on trucks at country stations. The oat , market is slightly weaker, but prices are unchanged. Increased supplies of potatoes are now being placed on the market, ;tho quality all round being satisfactory, while the yields are reported to bo quite up to expectations. The dauiaso ; done by the blight, varies considerably; 'according to the locality in which thc : potatoes are grown, but all round the harm done'has not materially affected most of the crops. Business is quiet, owing < principally to northern provinces drawing supplies from 'Oamaru and Bluff, where the season has been very, favourable for potato crops. GRAIN MARKET. (By Telegraph—Press Association.! Dunodln, April 13. There is good inquiry for all sorts of oats, A grade sparrowbiils and gartons being most'in demand. Seed'lines aro also -inquired for. Shippers' limits aro very much . below growers' ideas • of value, and very little business is being done. Prime milling, Is. lOd. to Is. 10Jd.; good, to best feed. Is. 9d. to Is. 10d.; inferior to medium, Is. 6d. to Is. Bd> Whcat' prices aro very firm at last week's quotations. There is not much offering. Velvet is in most 'demand. l?rimo milling, 3s: lOd. to 3s.' lid.; choice velvet and seed lots, to 45.; medium i to good, 3s. 7d. to 3s. Jld.; best whole fowl wheat, 3s. 3d. to 3s. 6d.; medium, to 3s. 3d.; broken and damaged, 2s. 3d. lo 25..9 d. . METAL MARKETS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Onoyrlent. (Rcc. April 13, 9.45 p.m.) London, April 13. Copper—On tho spot, £57 55.; three months, £58 ss. per ton. American stocks' of copper, 123;8Z5,000 pounds. ' Tin-On the spot,' £148 17s. 6d.; three months, £150 17s. 6d. per ton. WHEAT. (Roc. April 13, 9.45 p.m.) London, April 13. Wheat—l4,ooo ■ quarters of Australian January-February shipment sold at 395. 6d.

SILVER. London, April 12. Bar. silver is quoted at 24 7-16 d. per ounce standard.