COMMERCIAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1290, 20 November 1911, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS.

investment; share market. There -were no transactions in investment shares on Saturday. The buying and selling quotations were as under:— • Bnyers. Sellers £ s. d. £ s. d Equitable Building- 1 15 0 — Well. Investment 0 11 9 — Well. Gas (new) — 3 0 0 Chris tchurch Meat 14 7 6 — Meat Export (£4) — 5 0 0 Meat Export li2s. 6d.) ... — 30 0 Manning and Ca — 4 0 .1) N.H. Con. Dental' — 13 0 Taringamutu Totara ... — SlO 0 Ward and Co. .: 4 16 0 — Whitcombe and .Tombs — 613 6 CUSTOMS. " Customs rovenue collected at the port or Wellington on Saturday amounted lo £963. the total for tho week being £21,392 6s. Sd. Tho .returns for eaeh of the past eight weeks, as .compared with the figures for the corresponding periods of last your, show as under;—, 1911. 1910. September ' 30' 7.593 11 171 October 7 ;... 15.117 21,313' October 14 • 9.9T3 lD.'Ol October 21 - 20 CO' October 23' 21.737 ' 9^647 November 4 ...; 27.552 22.534 November 11 ' '15,689 8.581 November 18 21,392 17,570 The beer duty .collected faring the Dasl, 'to £185 55.. as against year in co ™sPonding week of last LONDON MARKETS. By Telegraph—Press Asso-intion-Cioryrieht (Rcc. November 19, • 5:15 p.m.l „ . London, November 18. Hemp is steady. November-December shipments, £20 per ton. Jute.—November-December shipments. £20 2s. Cd. per ton. Rubber—Fine hard Para. 4s. 2d. nor lb t ii?J,ton.—November-December . shipments 4.9/jd. per lb. Copra.—The market is irregular. South n' L" ,:t 6 s ' -# 2 5 7s. 6d. per ton. Kaobits are Klightlv easier; best Svdneys' are quoted at 15s. 3d SILVER. By Telejraph—Press Association—Copyright (Bee. November 19, 5.15 p.m.) London, November 18. Bar- silver is quoted at 25Jd. per ounce standard. LONDON BUTTER MARKET. Messrs. A. H. Turnbull and Co., Chrisrchurch, have received the following cable message from Messrs. W. Weddel and Co Ltd., under date November 18:—"Now Zealand butter, first grade, salted, 1515.; unsalted, 1325.; Danish, 1385."

LONDON CHEESE MARKET. Messrs. A. H. Turnbull and Co., Christcauroh, received the following cable message from Messrs. Weddel and Co., Ltd., under date November 17:—New Zealand first grade, white, 68s. fid.: coloured, 68s. 6d. There is a good demand. , •.

LONDON MARKETS. Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, adviso hiving received the follows cooled information from their London office, under date November 16, ae \ follows:—Frozen meat: Beef—Demand i-. limited, but prices arc firm. We quotePrime ox fores. 23d.: hinds, 3}d. LambDemand is limited, and prices are wenls Quotations Canterbury, heavy, ijd.light, 5f,d.; North Island, heavy, 43d.': light, 4Jd. Mutton—Demand limited artti prices are firm. Quotations:—Canterbury heavy,. 3|<l.; light, 4Jd.j North Island, heavy, 3Jd.; light, 4d. AUCKLAND WOOL SALE. . (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Auckland, November 19. Less wool is available than usual for the opening sale on Wednesday. The bulk of it is lighter than usual. In face of tho drop at the London wool sales and the similar decline at. Chiistchureh. it is expected that prices here will open at a proportionately lower rate. DALGETT AND CO., LTD. ANNUAL MEETING. Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, ■Wellington, report having received advice by cable from their London ofilce that the annual meeting of the company t-ook pla-ce there on November 16, anil was in every way most satisfactory. The message states the firm has declared a dividend of 4'. per share., being at the rate of 8 per ccnt. per annum; anil making, with interim dividend already declared and paid, 8 per cent, for the twelv. months ended .Tune 30. Tile management h.is written off from profits £60X09 to credit of the reserve fund, which now stands at £440,M0. also from profits Xlo.PiO to staff benevolent fund, which now stands at -E4I.CCO. A sum of X4O.CCO has been written off freehold premises. The balance carried forward, after making due allowance for possible contingenci". i' £81,717. "