COMMERCIAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1000, 15 December 1910, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS.

INVESTMENT £HAEES. There were no transactions in investment Bhares yesterday. There 'were plenty of buyers, but sellers were scamv The quotations were as under:—

■ Customs revenue collected at-the oort of"--Wellington yesterday amounted to £4362 9s. 10d. • ■

DTTTCEDp* G3IAIN MABKET. - (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) - • Dunedtn, December 14. •Very little business Ms being:. done in ■wheat,. millers being . practically out of the market at present except for choice •lines of velvet and velvet- ear. Tuscan l .is neglected. Fowl wheat is in medium sup--ply, and is .readily sold. Prime milling •velvet, • 3s. :10d.,i 45.; velvet ear. 3s. 8d: to "3s."BJd.; Tuscan, : 3s. - 7d. to••3s. Ba.; medium milling, -is. 6d. to 3s. 6Jd.;-best whole fowl •wheat, 3s. 4d. to 3s. sd. Oats: Owing to general rains throughout the South Island, shipping inquiries have ceased, and shippers are indisposed . to ' speculate. 'Prices".aro barely-maintained. Any lines coming forward are 6old/for local use. Prime milling. 2s. 4d.' to'2s.-5d.; good to best food, 2s. 2d. to 2s. 4d.; inferior to medium,. 2s.- to 2s. 2d. J (By 'Telegraph.—Press Association'.! t - Dunedln, December 14.. -'The'first wool sale' .of the season was held to-day, when 8072 bales were offered, 1 as against 12.248 bales'at. the opening sale of the season last. year. Speaking generally the-clip did not possess the character, condition, and soundness noticeable in the wool offered at' the first sale last year. The effect of the long period of dry weather: was very evident in many of tho-wools, and any falling oil in prices may be attributed to this fact, and not to any outride influences. Very fair numbers of buyers were present. Continental buyers operated very freely, but local mill proprietors secured all tho choicest lots of h'aifbreds, qnarterbrede, and merino breeds,.. Continental huyers getting medium qualities. Representatives of Yorkshire firms secured the. bulk of the crossbred 3 and long wools offered. American buyers, who have'been absent from the world's markets for the past nine, months owing : principally to the financial conditions in America, and to a less'extent, to the big-clip in America, were not present, consequently the wools that they are in tho habit'of buying, namely, those that are lightest-in condition, best grown, and most lustrous, showed a decrease in price. However; "in many respects, and all things considered,, the'sale • was a very satisfactory' one.*;. Prices ruled' as, follow—Finest halfbred,Vl2d. "to 13d.; medium halfbreds, 9d.,t0 ltd.; best crossbrcds, lCd. to lid.; ordinary crbssbreds;Bd. to 9*d.; best merino, lid. to .-Is.' lid.; ordinary- merino, 9d. to 10dL: inferior merino,. 7d.. to 8d«

SHAKES AND DEBENTUKES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrisht. London, December 13. ..Shares and debentures are quoted as follow:—Banks—Australasia. £114 to £115;, New South Wales, £43 10s. to £<4 10s.; "Union, £61 10s. to £62 ,10s.; National of Australasia, £5 ss. to £5 10s.; National of New Zealand, £5 12s. 6d. to £5 17s. 6d.; Melbourne . Harbour, £101 10a.

t Duyer3. . Sellers : £ 8. & £ s. d. National Bank 5 36 0 — Equitable Building,. 9 12 6 — . N.Z. Loan and 3Icrcan--zjtilo C 10 0 < . — . "Well. Trustrand Loan.... 7 10 0 7 I 4 ) 0 Well. Gas (£10) 19 0 0 - Well. Gas (£6 15s.) 13 12 6 - i National Insurance . — J 15 0 1 Standard Insuranco .. — 16 9 I Union . Steam ; 116 9 — I Kaiapoi Woollen (pref.) 5 0 0 — Well. Woollen (ord.) 315 0 ' — Well.. Woollen (pref.) ...... 215 0 — Tatipiri Coal 10 0 10 6 Wcetport-Stockton i... — .070 Leyland-O'Brien 16 6 . — Manning and Co 4 5 0' — Miramar, Ltd. — 0 2 3 N.Z. Con. Dental 12 6 l-3<6 N.Z. Drug - '2 10 0 N.Z. Paper . Mills 13 3 - Sharland's Ordinary 119 — Sharland's Preference ... 1 1 9 — Taranalti Petroleum 0 9 0 - 0 10 0 Totara .... 2 4 6 - Ward and Co 5 4 0 5 5 6 Whitcombe and Tombs... — -6 7 0