COMMERCIAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1276, 3 November 1911, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

INVESTMENT SHARES,. A sale .of New Zealand Shipping shares at. £10 16s. was tne only transaction recorded in investment sham yesterday. Tho buying and selling quotations were aa under— Buyers. Sellers. £ k. d. £ s. d. Well. Investment 0 11 9 — Well. Trust and Loan ... 710 0 — Auckland lias 3 o U Christchurch Gas — 9 14 0 Feilding Gas — 12 3 Gisborne Gas — 3 16 Napier Has 12 5 0 — Well. Gas (£10) 18 7 6 18 12 6 Well. Gas (new) 2 15 0 3 0 0 South British insurance 311 U — Christchurch Meat — 15 0 0 Well. Woollen (pref.) — 3 0 0 liiKurangi Coal — 10 0 Wostport Coal — 19 0 Manning and Co 3 15 0 4 0 0 N.Z. Con. Dontal — 13 0 N.Z. Paper Mills 10 0 - Sharlann's ordinary — 1 4 13 Taranaki Petroleum — 018 0 Ward and Co — 5 0 0 Whitcombe and Tombs ... — 6 15 0

COMPANIES REGISTERED. In the list of companies registered a.nd published by tho ••Mercantile Gazette" there appear the following:— Metallic Sign u-nd Platiug Co., Ltd., registered as a private company on October 27. Oti'ice, 111 Customhouse Quay, Wellington. Capital, £2000 in 2CCO shares of £1 each. Subscribers: P. Heyes, 200; N. lllingworui, 2-JU; A. R. V. Loudor, ICO; J. M'Cluggage, 200; J. W. Brodie, 2CO; J. Thain and Co., Ltd., ICC; C. T. Natusoh, 2CO; P. Heyes, 1C0; A. S. Mitchell, 1C0; J. J. Craig, 2CU; F. Jagger, 1C0; Te ileuheu Taokino, 1C0; J. Er. Gear, 2CO. Objects: To acquire as a going concern the business of kelson Illingworth, at Wellington, for the manufacture of advertising plates, metallic signs, etc.

ildward Collie, Ltd. Registered as a private company on October 27. Office, 167 Riddiford Street, Newtown. Capital, £15,C00 divided into 15,000 sharce of £1 each. Sub* scribers: E. Collie, SCCfI fully paid up, and 3500 contributing; H. Norman. 1; Edith R. Collie, 15C0 cont.; Alico M. Collie, ICCO cont.; Wenzel B. Collie, 999 cont. Objects: To acquire as a going concern the business now carried on by Edward Collie and to carry on as wholesale and retail furniture manufacturers, , liousc furnishers, warehousemen, etc.

A. D. Willis, Ltd. Registered as a private company on October 30. Office, 10 Victoria Avenue, Wanganui. Capital, £20.655, divided into 4131 shares of £5 oach. Subscribers: F. Willis, W. N. Willis, E. R. Willis, G. M. Cheers, E. A. Willie. A. A. Willis, B. W. Willis, V. B. Willis, all 486 shares each, aud M. M. Meek 243. Objects? To acquire a 6 a going concern tho business oi A. D. Willis, and to Garry on the business of wholesale and retail stationers, manufacturing stationers, printers, etc.

Customs duties oollected at the jx>rt of Wellington yesterday amounted to £8079 Bs. 7d.

LONDON MARKETS. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, have received the following cablegram from their London house, under date November 1 Wheat.—Wc have sold an Australian careo at 365. 3d., c.i.f. not. There is very little demand, owing to favourable crop reports in the Argentine. The outlook is discouraging. We quote per o.uarter, c.i.f., New Zealand wheat, long-berried, 335. 3d.; short-berried, 325. 9(1. Wool.—Market is Gteady and quotations are unchanged for merino and fine cropsbred. Previous prices are barely maintained for medium and coarse crossbred. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKETS. By Telesraph-Press Association—Copyright (Roc. Nov. 3, 0.5 a.m.) Sydney, November 2. Wheat, 3s. 7fcd. to 3s. Bd. Flour, city brands, JS3 153.; country brands, £7 17s. 6d. Oats, Algerian feeding, 2s. 6d. to 2s. Bd.; milling, 2s. Bd. to 2s. 10d.: Tasmanians, 25. lCd. to 3s. lOd. Barley, Cape feeding, 35.; English malting, <s. 6d. to ss. Maize, 3s. lid. to 4s. Id. Bran and pollard, fib. Potatoes, local. £4 to £5. Onions-Owing; to the strike, supplies are limited and priccs are nominal. Butter, selected brands, 116 a.; prime, 104s. CUcose, 7d. Melbourne, November 2. Wheat, 3s. Sid. Flour, £3 10s. Oats, Algerian feeding, 2s. 3Jd.; milling, 2e. 5Jd. Barley, 3s. 3d. to 3s. 6d. Bran and pollard, £5 ss. Chaif is firmer, and in moderate supply: Oaten, dumped, £4 to £4 55.; compressed, uncovered, £4 5a.; covcrcd,. £4 IDs. Jiaize, 3s. 4Jd. Onions. £2 10s. l'ot li-£3,-to £4 ss. Onions, £2 10s., . . Adelaide, November 2. Wheat, 3s. 6d. Flour, £3 Es. to £8 10s. MELBOURNE HIDES MARKET. (Rcc. November 3, 0.5 a.m.) Melbourne, November 2. Hides are in average supply, with a, good demand, and priecs are firm. NATIONAL BANK. HALF-I'EAPiLY MEETING. By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyrlght Melbourne, November 2. At the half-yearly meeting of the Nar tional Bank of Australasia, the report showed a profit of £67,564. . A dividend of six per centum was recommended, £15,K0 was placed to the reserve fund, and £8037 carried forward.