COMMERCIAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1376, 29 February 1912, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS.

INVESTMENT SHAP.ES. There were no transactions in investment shares yesterday. The buying and selling quotations were as under: — '■ Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ s. d. National Bank : 5 14 6 - Well. Gas (£10) 17 17 6 - Well. Gas (third issus) ... — 12 10 0 W»U. Gas (prof. 7s. 6d.) ... 0 8 0 - Moat Export (525. 6d.) ... - 219 0 N?Z. Shipping - 15 0 0 Union Steam 1 19 6 — Kaiapoi Woollen 5 10 0 5 15 0 Well. Woollen (ord.) — 3 15 0 Well. Woollen (pref.) - 2 19 0 Wlkuraiißi Coal - 10 0 IVcstport Goal 17 0 17 6 Taringarautu Totora 2 6 0 2 8 0 C. 11. Banks, Ltd - ' 0 19 6 Crown Brewery — 2 10 Golden Bay Cement 14 3 14 6 Manning and Co — 4 12 0 N.Z. Con. Dental — 12 0 N.Z. Drng - !H ( Sharland's preference — 14 6 Ward and Co. 5 3 6 5 4 3 WELLINGTON WOOL SALES. The nest and last wool sale of the season will be held on Tuesday nsxt, but as yet the probable quantity to be offered is not known. In some of the stores the wool held over from last sab is still in store, and it is not known whether it will be reoflered in Wellington or shipped to London. The probability is that a large proportion will lie offered locally, but in that event the owners must modify their views of values. Not much importance can be attached to the sale, because the wool to be offered Is mostly log-stained and seedy.

Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £4235 17s. 2d.

GRAIN MARKET. (B» ToUzranu.—Press Aseoota.tlon.l Dunedln. February 28. Oats.—There is good inquiry for new season's oats, but as yet only a few samples have conr.3 to hand. Stocks of old oats are practically exhausted. Prime milling, to 2s. 4d.; good to best feed, 2s. 2d. to 2s. 3d.; inferior to medium, Is. 10d. to 2s. Id.

Wheat—There am no new samples offering and stocks of old are pretty well sold out. Inquiry for the latter is not keen. Fowl wheat is in cood demand. Prime milling vclvat, 3s. 10d. to 3s. lid.: Tuscan, 3s. lOd. to 3s. lOJrt.; best fowl wheat. 3s. 9d. to 3s. 10d.; medium, 3s. sd. to 3s. Bd.

Timaru, February 28. Inquiries made here indicate a probabls ehortage of grain sacks this season, and a consequent increase in the price. A local importer has correspondence from Calcutta which tells or a short jute crop, short manufacture, and a rise in prices there.

A line of wheat sold to-day at 3s. sd. at Timaru. Good weather for the harvest has prevailed for the past few days, and work is beini; rapidly pushed on.

HIGH COMMISSIONER'S CABLE. The 'Department has received the following cablegram from the High Commissioner for New 'Zealand, dated London. February 27. 1912. (Note: Quotations, unless otherwise specified, are average market prices on spot):— Egus.—liccently with small supplies cominpr forward and a pood demand, the prices have been unusually high for this tinio of year. Expect supplies will increase this week, <iii(l lower rates will have lu be accepted. Per 120: Home, 15s. 6d.; Dutch, 13s 6.1. to 15s. 6d.; Assyrian, 12s. lo Us.;, Moroccan. 11s. 6d.: French, 12s. 6d. to 133. 6d.; Danish, Us. to 15s. 6d.; Italian, 135.. 6d. to 15s. 6c1.; Egyptian, 9s. 3d. to 10s.

Poultry.—Tin market is iiuiet, small business doing. Chickens: Home, 9d. to 10(1. per 11).; Russian, Bd. to 9il. per lb.; American, 9(1. to 11(1. per 11). Ducklings: Home, lCd. to Is. per lb.; Chinese, sid. to 6J(I. per lb.; llussi.in, sid. to 6}d. per lb. Turkeys: French. 3d. to 10} d. per lb.; Continental, 8(1. to 9(1. per lb. Uncoil—Tlie market is (juiet but slrnicly, the consumption lately has been satisfactory, and jn'ici'S are linn. Hides: Irish, 58s. to 68?. per cwt.: Danish. 565. to 6's. per cwt.; Continental, 50s. to 61s. per cwt.; Canadian. 555. to 6Cs. per cwt. Hams—Tho market is dull for Canadian and American, and for Knglish and Irish a good demand at steady rates. English, 84s. to 10£s. per cwt.; Irish, 86s. to ICOs. per cwt.; unnudian, 565. to 665. per cwt.; Ani:ricau, 50s, to 645, per cwt,

CniUSTCHUItCH WOOF; SALKS. ißy Telesraiih-l'rcss Association.] Christchurch, February 28. The fifth of th 3 season's series of wool sales will be held to-morrow afternoon. The total offerings arc 1709 bnles. compared with 1784 at the corresponding sole last yenr. LONDOX WOOL SALES. By Telegraph—Press Astociatlon-CopyriEht London, Fsbrnary 27. Since the last wool sales a totfll of 406,000 bales of wool has arrived. Of this quantity 228,500 bales have been fnrwardsd direct to the manufacturers, leaving, with what was held over from last sales, 191,500 bales available for the forthcoming sabs. •

METAL PRICES. London, February 27. Copper.-On the spot, £64 3s. 9d.; three months'. £64 16s. 3d.; electrolytic, £67. Tin.-On the Bpot, £196 65.; three months', £192 ss. Lead, £15 16s. 3d. per ton.

LONDON QUOTATIONS. London, Fsbrnary 27. Australian Mercantile deb:uturcß are quoted at £100.