COMMERCIAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1349, 29 January 1912, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS.

INVESTMENT SHARDS. The sales recorded on Saturday were:— National Rank, at .€5 155.. and Auckland Gas. at £3 Es. Cd. The buying and Belling quotations were as under:— Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ s. d. National Bank - 515 6 Bank N.R. Walea 45 10 0 - Well. Investment 0 11 3 - Well. Trust and Loan 7 13 6 — Gisl'orne Gas — 2 19 6 Napier Gas (£10) — 24 10 0 Well. Gas (£10) 18 2 6 - Well. Gas <£S 55.) 11 10 0 - Well. Gas (pref.) 0 8 0 - Meat Export (525. 6d.) ... - 219 0 N. 7.. Shipping - 1G 0 0 Union Steam — 2 0 0 Well. Woollen (ord.) - 3 IS 0 Well. Woollen (pref.) 2 18 0 3 10 Hikurangi Coal 10 0 — Taupiri Coal 110 - Wjstport. Coal — 17 3 Leyland-O'Bricn 18 9 - Parker, Lamb Timber ... —. 19 0 Taringamutu Totara — 2 6 0 C. jr. Banks, Ltd. — 10 0 Donaghy Rope and Twine — 12 6 Golden Bay Cement 13 0 — Manning and Co — 4 12 0 N.Z. Con. Dental — 12 0 .Sharland's preference — 14 6 COMPANY REGISTERED. Amongst the companies recently registered, according to the list published in the "Mercantile Gazette" \r, the following:—Paro.oroa Sawmilling Company, Ltd.. registered as a private company on January 24. Capital £4CCO, divided into 4000 shares of £1 each. Subscribers: T. A. Harris, 1334; Agnes Rogers. 1333; A. 15. Harris, 700; H. XT. Harris, 653. Objects: To acquire, as a going concern, the sawmillins business now carried on by T. A Harris and Co., near linotihi. WOOL SUPPLIES. According to Messrs. Helmuth, Schwartz, and Co., the. supplies and deliveries of colonial wool, including transit wool and direct imports, totalled Z.798.0C0 bales in 1911, as against 2,733,000 hales in 1910, distributed as under:— 1911. 1910. Bali!?. Bains, nome consumption ... l,t£ij,tCO i.COO.QCO Continental 1,760,000 1,050.000 American 52,000 125,000 2.E93.C00 2.753.C00 Of the total, 903,000 hales were sold at the London pale? last year, as compared with 615,000 bales in 1910. The deliveries show an increase of 115.000 bales, of which 78,000 wer-3 absorbed by the English market. The Continent took 110.000 bales more Ulan last year, but the American purchases were less by 73,000 bales. The prospect of <in alteration in the tariff chocked American purchases, but America is now buying, and it is obvious that the leaders of the woollen industry in the United States have had subterranean assurances that the tariff will not be amended sufficiently to hurt the trade. CUSTOMS. The Customs revenue collected at the port of Wellington on Saturday amounted to X 2023 9s. Id., the total for the week beinir £25,468 12s. 3d. The returns for each of the past eight w;eks. compared with the figures for the corresponding periods of last year, show as under:— 1911-12. 1910-11. £ £ December 9 9,870 12 989 December 16 18,853 21,567 December 23 15,579 13,923 December 30 12,636 11.936 January 6 15,454 8.143 January 13 24.024 24,234 January 20 13C(>7 9 439 -January 27 23,468 25,245 133,676 127,536 The beer duty collected during the past week amounted to £176 155., as compared with £212 16s. in the correspondiii" week of last year. SOUTHERN GRAIN 3IAKKET. fflr reieei-aub.-Vresa Association.! Oamaru, January 28: The farmers of Oamaru, who still hold wheat, are not anxious to sell, owing to the broken weather delaying the harvest and tlie consequent probability of better prices. A few lines of Tuscan and velvet ha-vo been sold at 3s. 6id., less commission, and sales ex store have been made of vclvDt at 3s. 7d. net, and a mixed line of velvet and Tuscan at 3s. Bd., less commission. New oats have been sold at 2s. lid. net on trucks. The possibility of a market opening in Australia owing to the partial failure of the oat crop there is giving growers more confidence. Some saraple3 of ryegrass seed have been submitted, but as yet no business has resulted. LONDON MARKETS. By Telejraiih -Pros* A.i?ndation—Copyright (Rcc. January 28, 5.5 p.m.) London, January 27. Cotton.— January - February shipment, 5.32'jt1. per lb. Jute.—January-February shipment, £22 ss. per ton. Ifcmp.— The market is quiet, and prices are unchanged. Enbher.—Fine hard Para rubber is quoted at 4s. 7<l. per Hi. Copra.—There arc small sales of South Sea at £24 10s. per ton. THE METAL MARKETS. By Tclfitiranli —I'ross — Oopyticbi (Rec. January 20, 5.5 p.m.) London, January 27. Copper.—On spot, £61 17s. 6d. per ton; three months, £62 12s. 6d. Tin.—On spot, £192 ss. per ton; three months, £190 ss.