COMMERCIAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1098, 10 April 1911, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS.

Sale 3of investment shares recorded on Saturday were: Wellington Investment at 11s. 6d., and Gear Meat, £1 paid, at 70s. Tho buying and selling quotations were as under:— Uuvors Keller* £ 3. d, £ s. d National Bank — 6 16 Equitable Building 9 15 0 — Wellington Investment ... 0 11 3 — Well. Trust and Loan 7 13 0 — ■ Christchurcli Gas 9 15 0 9 16 0 Ohristchnrch Meat — IS 5 0 Gear Meat (£1) - 3 10 0 TJmon SteMn 2 0 0 - Kaiapoi Woollen 5 5 0 — Well. Woollen (pref.) 3 0 5 — Taupiri Coal 11-6 - Leyland-O'Brien 16 0 — Manning and Co 4 11 0 — Miramar. Ltd — 0 2 6 N.Z. Con. Dental 12 6 13 6 K.Z. Prug 2 8 3 — N.Z. Paper Mills 13 6 14 0 Sharland's, ordinary 14 0 — Sbnrland's preference ...140 — Taranalti Petroleum — 014 0 Taringamutu Totara 2 8 3 2 8 9 Ward and Co 5 0 0 — Whitcombe and Tombs ... 6 6 0 — EXPORTS OF PRODUCE. The values of the principal products exported from New Zealand last month, compered with the figures for tho corresponding month of 1910, show as under :-

March 1911. March 1910. £ £ Butter 149,587 230.337 Cheese 195,616 221,477 Dccf 59,039 54.292 Mutton 226,091 1<5.952 Legs and pieces 7,652 9,923 Lamb 415.325 250.573 Wheat 12/51 4,694 Oats 1/21 6.«8 Potatoes 41.5 522 Hemp 12,826 39,164 Rabbits .'.....' „ 1 — Tow 2,779 . 2,413 Kauri gum 47,433 54,205 Grain and pulso ;..... ;■ 14,240 4,552 Hops 297 5C5 Hides ;.....;.. 17,651 13,963 Ski.ns 79,335 86,423 Tallow 81,291 74.296 Timber 24.457 54,057 Wool 975,926 1,293,483 Geld 168/52 142,911 £2,492,318 £2,659,221 CUSTOMS. The Customs .revenue collected at tho port of Wellington on Saturday totalled £2C60 3s. Ed., the amount for the week being £23,K4 IBs. 7d. Compared with the corresponding periods of last year, tho receipts for tho past eight weeks show as under:— 1911. 1910. ■ £ £ February 18, 21,006 9,335 February 25 27,001 10,939 March 4 12,614 11968 March 11 13.225 ■ 18,3<6 March 18 18,890 " 10,130 March 25 21,124 13,16 i April 1 •. 10,558 12/25 April 8 23,145 17,314 £147,563 £103,851 The beer duty for the week totalled £226 105., as compared with £252 2s. Bd. for the corresponding week of last year. LONDON MARKETS. " By Telegraph-Press Association-CopyriEht (Bee. April 9, 5.5 p.m.) London, April 8. Copra is in good demand. South Sea, in bags, March-April shipment, £20 12s. 6d. to £20 17s. 6d. per ton; May-Juno shipment, £20 10s. per ton. Hcnjp is slow of sale, and quotations are unchanged. Kauri Gum.—Tho stock consists of 309 tons. Cotton.—The Liverpool quotation for middling Upland American cotton is 7.555 d. per Ib. Rubber.—Fine, hard Para, rubber is quoted at ss. ICJd. to 63. per lb. Wheat—An Australian cargo sold at 32s IOJd. per quarter.

(Bee. April 9, 5.5 p.m.) CoTjper.-On spot, £56 ss. per ton; three months', £54 lfa. 3d. The stocks of American copper total 62,008 COOlb. Tin.-On spot, £134 per ton; three months', £189 ss. Silver.—Bar silver is quoted at 241 d. per ounce standard. KOBTH OTAGO OEAIN MARKET. (By Tclegrapli.-Press Association.) • Oamaru, April. 8. The week has been an unusually quiet one for all markets, neither buyers nor sellers being keen to do business. Most, of the farmers have now disposed o£ their wheat, and those holding are men of independent means who can well afford to wait for better prices. Nominally wheat is worth 3s. Id. (on trucks, less commission) for Velvet, while the- same value holds good for Tuscan. Transactions in localiy-growu oats are very few, merchants purchasin" from outside to fill local requirements Sothing is doing in potatoes, owing to tho ravages of the potato moth.

■ WOOL, HIDE, AND TALLOW SALE. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report as follows:—At the sales on Friday average-sized catalogues were submitted to a fair attendance of buyers, representing local and outside operators. There was a good sale for wool and sheepskins, but hides were e!i"ht!y ower. Tallow is lower by 20s. per ton. wool: Half bred, to 9id. per ]b.: .crossbred stragglers and seedy, 7d. to 73c!.; lambs, ligat, but ecedy, 73d. to 8el.; lambs, ■■•c-'lv 33d. to fid.; pieces, 3Jd. to Sd.; crutching's! 3jd. to 5d.; dead wool, to 7Jd. SheepskinsQuarter to half-wools, <!Bd. to sd. per lb • lambs, 42(1. to 6Jd.; damaged pelts, shorn! lα. to 31d.; dean skins, S*cl. to SJd.- "reen and salted skins, 2s. Sd. to 3s. each; green and salted skins, lambs, 2s. 6d. to 2s lid each. Hides: Ox, medium, 6Jd. to 6jd. per Ib.-: cow and light ox. 53d. to 6d. : faultv hides, 4Jd. to 5d.; bull, 43d. to 'M -calf sound, 7Jd. to 8(1.: calf, damaged! 5k to 6(1.: cowtails, Iβ. (A. per do?,. Tallow Tn tins, 245. id. per cwt.; in casks, 28s. 3d per cwt.

Messrs. A. H. Atkinson and Co., Ltd., Foildtng, report that they had a henvv entry of poultry on Friday, over 6JO birds being penned. >or unfinished birds biddii:"was slack, :iud of these a largo parr, of Uic entry was composed. The pi* market v,"« lifeless, there beip.R little competition for anything except forward store'*. Produce and. iruit were in heavy supply, and we quitted some 200 lots in all. Potatoes are without alteration in price, and are wor.t'i £5 per ton and in hag lots, 9s. (o lfc. Onions are plentiful and of ?ood quality v very large quantity of useful and 'wellconditioned furniture was disposed of -it foodI values. They quote:-Wen ners, Zr. 3d ' 35.. 3s. 6d 45., to 4s. 3d.: culls, to 2s.' 6d '■' slips, to 6=.; stores Us., 175., to 205.: hacks', to £3 las.; (tig, £5 10s. Poultry (per pair)Hens 25.. 2s. 3d., 2s. hi. 35.: ~itllet" "J- ---«. Ml, to 45.: cockerels, Is. |it.,| f , m. , , j^ , Ji-ducN n^-?H, u, r k( r' is - ' f ° Iff*., UllGh.S, £,->, f)tl fa. $fi t fa) j 0 £~ . gnpsn is. 6d. to 4s. Produce: Onion?. K tc > Ss cwt.; potatoes, Ps. to 10s. sack: pearc, 2s! to 3s. 6d per case; bananas. 3=.; quinces 3d. per 11,.; oranßcs. 5;;.; tomatoes, to. fid. to 3a. 6d.; apples. 3s. to 3s. 6d. : pie melons id. It).; no alteration in graiu prior-; factory bacon. 7d., hams Sd.lb.

Canndas trade with the riniled Statfn has shown a wonderful development It prew from £19,600.000 of imports and P , ports in 189-1 to £38,000.000 in 1901, £55 700 nnn in 19C6, and X7O.WO.CCO in 1909-10. Of thi" last, figure the imports of merchandise contributed .-C46.6C0.GG0. .Canadian exports to I.lir Americans consisted of wood.-, wood pulp, coal, fish, fur, copper, colrl. silver iron and steel, asbestos, ninkel, paper' seeds, animals, and breadstuff3i