COMMERCIAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1940, 24 December 1913, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS.

INVESTMENT SHARES. ' The sales recorded in investment shares yeikerday were Westport Coal at 3Cs., and Westport-Stockton at 4s. Tho quotations wero as follow:— „ Buyers Sellers £ s. d, £ s. (I Bank Now Zealand 10 16 0 — National Bank • — 5 7 6 Equitable Building 1 8 17 6 — Well/ Investment 0 11 0 0 11 9 Well, Trust and Loan ....■ 7 5 6 — Olirlstchurch Gas 6 15 0 7 0 0 Well. Gas (£10) - 17 0 0 Well. Gas (preference) ... 0 19 6 :10 0 Standard Insurance — 113 0 Gear Meat (£4) 13 0 0 — Gear Meat (£1) 3 5 0 Union Steam (ord.) — 1-4 9 Union Steam (pref.) 0 19 5 — Well. Woollen (ord.) 4 0 0 4 2 6 Taupiri Coal. .... 10 9 — WostporHStocbton 0 3 10 0 4 0 Leyland-O'Brien — 13 6 Golden Bay Cement — 0 18 3 FEESH, FOOD & ICE CO. TO LIQUIDATE. At a meeting <f ilio shareholders of tho Wellington Fresh. Food, and Ice Company held oil Honday, it was decided that tho company should go into, voluntary liquidation. Messrs. J. P. Brandon and R. IT. Simpson wero appointed liquidators. TRADE IN ALLEN STREET. Fruit.-Thc market has been extremely active dttrin? tho week, and largo quantities of fruit lia.vo been handled. Tlio Wairuna from Fiji landed 45C0 cases and SOOO bunches bananas, and the whole of this has passed into retailers' hands. Hc&yy supplies of Califorriinn apples are available. Peaches and plums from tho Hawkc's Bay, Nelson, and llotucka dstricts are. arriving each day in tago quantities. Shipments of tomatoes are on the light side, and hiffh prices axe ruling. Raspberries aro now coming from Motueka, also blackberries. So far only light shipments of apricots have come forward, and hava rcialteeid high ipricns. Con si gin meats of black currants are recommended. C'aotim,hers are also in good domand. Vegetables.—Green peas have advanced in value owing to the Christmas demand fin il"(oii sign ments aro. recommended; in fact! all vegetables' are in strong demand. Not/ potatoes—Tile market is glutted owing to farmers digging their crops, which aro more or less affected by the blight; values now rule at !s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. per Onions.—Shipments of Australian onions aro (lue to-day by tho JTaungnmil, nna hi"li prices are likely to rule for thi3 lot. Flour is quoted at £9 103., f.o.b. south, and £9 15s. at Wellington. - Fowls' wheat is in strong demand at c &. 9(1. to 4s. lCd. per bushel. Maize meets with moderate «uo at 4S. 9d. to ss. per bushel. Bran' is in extremely heavy fiupply, and is celling at £4 53. to £4 IPs. per ton. Bollard lias oscellent inquiry at £6 103. continues at £13 per ton for 251b. k'lioiled-Oata.—Thistle brand, in 4*lb. bags. ' 10« per. dozen; Creamoata, 41b. boga..9s. I Chaff—Prime oaten sheaf chaff is extremely'scarce, and now season s should bo 'available in about a fortnight. The quotation now is £5 l£e. to £6 per ton. Eggs—Fresh eggs are in good demand at ls. J 4(i'.'to Is. sd" ''per dozen, i flutter.—Primo nulled, In bull*» 9d. to 9ja. per 111.; good quality, Bd. Prwsian Blue .pcaa aro extremely slow of =ale at E<;. to ss. 6(1. per bushel. Partridge peas 1 are m poor demand at 4s. 61- to 4s. 9d. per bushel. Poultry.—Hens, 3s. to 3s. 6d. a pair) cock'TPls. 4'. to. 65.; old roostcre, ' oa. to fe.; Indian Itunner ducks. 4s. to be.; I'eltln and Avlcslmry ducks. fe. 6<l. to 75.; goslings, 7s. to Bs. Turkey gobblers, Is. nci !b. live weight, hens 9d. to lCd.

COSTOJIS REVENUE. Customs duties collcctcd at tlio port of Wellington yesterday amounted to IJJoi l!. 6d.

GRAIN ItAIiKET. lKj Tsloiraph.-Vr.WB A«»eotaUisi.) Chrlstchuroh, Dtwnito 80. The statwuit state of the (Train oro. $ujo jwCTr* ia tut Uidr. w> to rolUrsil

wit.il after tho holidays..ami probably not until- tho new crop is available, lucre is stood innuiry for botli milling «"» 'JJ' wheat, but notlunc is to bo had fiorn tlio country, <uid any small business that.l 6. doinc i= out of etoro. There is practicalls no whole Towl wheat, and the "W"mcnte of poultry keepers can only be micd with, milling wliwit. There is not much in oats. Prices nro decidedly easier to wliat they were a lew weeks %<>:■*■ small amount of sluppuiK business with the north is being done when spate w obtainable, but altogether the market, for grain and produce is extremely , quiet, BEET SUGAR. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyrielit London, December 22. Herr T. 0. l,ielit. Magdeburg, in his monthly circular, states that the production of beet sugar in Germany. AustriaHungary, Prance. Belgium, and Holland, for the first.three months of the 191J-H campaign, which commenced in September, shows an increase of. 19.CC0 tons compared with the same period last year. ili> estimates a surplus of 133.0C0 tons.

AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKETS.' (Eec. December 23, 11.25 p.m.) Sydney, December 23. Wheat, ss. 6d., ~3s. Flour, £8 10s. Oats. Algerian feeding, 2s. 4d„ 2.3. 5d.; muling, 2s. Bd.; Sparrowbills, 3s. Id., 3s. 2d.; Giants, 3s. 2d., OS. 3d.'; New Zealand A Cartons, 3s. 3d. Barley.' Cape mflltiDK, 33. 3d.. 3s. fid. Maize, <s. 3d:, 4s. 4d. Brail, £4. Pollard. £4 ss. Potatoes,. £6 Bs. Onions (Victorian), £10. Butter, selected, 107 a.; secondary, 100s.. 102s. Checso, 63., 6d. Bacon. BJd., 9d. Adelaide, December 23. Whoat. 3s. . fid., Js. fi»d. Floor, £7 1»„ £8., Bran <md pollard, lid.