COMMERCIAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 964, 3 November 1910, Page 10

COMMERCIAL ITEMS.

INVESTMENT SHARES. The investment sha-remarket was very dull yoster.day, and no transactions wore recorded. Tliere wero a lair number of quotations, and no change in values. liuyers. Sellers. £ b. d. £ s. d. National Bank — 516 0 Equitable Building 3 12 6 • - Well. Trust and Loan 7 10 0 - Well. Deposit — 0 8 6 Well. Has (£10) 1817 6 • 19 2 6 Ohristchurch -Meat 14 7 6 - Goal-Meat (£4) 12 10 0 Moat Export (£4) — 5 0 0 Meat Export (525. 6d.) ... — 3 3 6 Well. Woollen (ord.) 3 14 0 3 16 0 Well.' Woollen (pref.) ... 216 0 - Taupiri Coal 0 19 3 - Wcstport Coal 6 7 6 — Manning and Co 3 19 0 4 10 N.Z. Con. Dental 1 16 12 3 M.Z. Paper Mills 13 6' 14 0 Taranaki Petroleum — 010 0 Taringumutu Totura 2 3 0 2 4 0 Ward and Co - 5 4 0 COLONIAL SUGAR COMPANY. The Colonial Sugar Refining' Company, Limited, shows an increase in profits for the six months ended September 30, 1910, Alter providing for interest and all other charges the profit 3 earned in Australia for the period were £126,714, and in Fiji and Now Zealand £70,000. or a total of £196,714. This compares with £175,589 for the March half-year, and £168,880 for the corresponding term in 19G9. Adding £115,971 brought forward, the sum available is £312,685: The dividend at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum takes £142,500, leaving £170,185 to the credit of profit and loss. • Customs revenue colleoted at the port of Wellington yesteTday-amounted to £4491 7s. 3d. . • '■,'■ :.'■:.- TALLOW. - ' By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopjrright. I (Rec. November.2, 10.25 p.m.) 'v' ' . London, November 2. Tallow in stock (the , figures being subject to revision) .amounts "to 2989 casks; imports,'; 1826 caske; deliveries. 3216 casks. THE METAL MARKETS. ' ' (R-ec. November 2,' 10.25 p.m.) ■" ". ' London,. November 2. ■Copper:—On spot, £57 75. , 6d. per ton; three mon'.hs, £58 ' 7s. 6d.; electrolytic, £69.53. ''".-.'■" ■ Tin—On spot, £166 17e. 6d.; threomonths, i 167 2s. 6d. '. ■ ;'• ' DEBENTURES.' By Telegraph-rPress.Association—Copyright. .... London, November 1. Stock Exchange ■ quotations include :- Bank o.f Now Zealand, £100 sa. (ex intafest); New Zealand Loan • and Mercantile, C 96; Melbourne Trains, £113; Melbourne. Board , of Works, £100. ' ■' ■■ GRAIN. ■ : (By. Tolograph.-Press Association.! '■ .-.- . . • .- : Dun.edln,. November 2. The demand for oats is still good, but no Quantity is coming. in. from the country. " Shippers are. ■ the principal buyers, but millers are. picking u , " any lines of Suthcrlands offering. Prime milling, 25.; ■ jod to best feed, Is. lOd. to Is. Hid.; inferior and damaged. Is. 7d.-to.le. 9d. .. : The wheat market is very quiet, millors buying only at a reduction on late rates, Fowl wheat is more plentiful, but there is no reduction in price. Prime velvet. 3s. ,d. to 4s:; milling velvet,.ear and tuscan, 3s. 6d. to 3s. 7d.; best whole fowl feed, 3s. 2d. to 3s. 4d. .

, PROPERTY SALES. Messrs. J. H. Bethune and 00. report having recently effected the undermentioned sales of city and suburban properties :■- City.—Porcivul Street, section having a frontage of <0 feet by a. depth of 82 feet, with residence of seven rooms T thereon, £950. Bumell Avenue, residential site, having a frontage of 4<l feet by a depth of- 65ft. 9in., £528. Kelburne, Grove Road, freehold land, havini; a, frontage of 31 feet by a depth of I*o feet, together with five-roomed dwelling, price withheld. Manners Street, business block, having a frontago of 19 feot by a long dopth, price withheld., Tinakori Road, 2 residential sites, each having a- frontage of 44 feet by a depth of 85ft. 9in., £ICj. Hill Street, freehold land, having a frontage of 40 feet by a depth of 115 feet, together with the 10-roomod roEideuce thercoa, £1250. Wright Street, locality, section having a frontage of. 48 feot by a depth of-62 feet, with six-roomed dwelling, £440. Kelburne, South Terrace, two five-roomed dwellings I

on 40ft. sections, £495 each. Suburban.—Ngaio, Trelissick Estate, section litivincf nil ilvgCj of over licilf-jicrc, £2£o; also a section in same locality containing nearly half-acre, £125. Seatouu, corner block, having frontages to three streets of about 300 feet, £«5. Plimmerton, seaside section, having an area of quarter-acre, £50. Plimmerton Extension, two sections, having a total frontage of 100 feet by a depth of 120 feet, J3ICO. Ngaio, Colway Estate, tivo sections, having arras of 34.4 perches, and o.uartcr-r.ere respectively, £205; also another section in Eame having an area of 1 rood 4 perches, :iffl. Karori, Duthio Street, building site, Staving a frontage of 66 feet by a depth of ICO feet, £198. Jlornington, The Eidgwav, freehold land, having a frontage of 41ft. 9in. bv a depth of 149 feet together with fivc-robmed dwelling thereon, £300. Island Bay, three-tiuarter-acrc, having narrow frontages to three streets. £650.

ISLAND BAT PROPERTY SOLD. Messrs. Barraud, York, and Co., Ltd.. 'auctioneers, instructed by the Registrar of tho Supremo Court, offered for sale ■by auction yesterday afternoon all that parcel of land, situate at Island Bay, containing 7 acres 32.5 perches, being allotments 11, 12, 16, to 22 inclusive, 24, £6, to 28 inclusive, and 35 to 37. Tho property was knocked down to JLr. Jackson, of the firm of Messrs. Gray and Jackson, as agents for Mr. Flcckton, for £676.