COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2124, 16 April 1914, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

LONDON MARKETS. 3r«s.r3. D.algety and Company, Ltd., Wellington, have received cafelecl information, from their London office, under date of April 9, as follows—Froam meat—Beef: Demand for New Zoala,nd is poor. River Plato .meat o£ good quality being- offered at low prices. Quotations: Ox b.ec? ftiros, 3§d.; hinds, 4id. Lamb: Demand for ]S£vr Zealand is fair, and the market is steady. Quotations: Canterbury, heavy s}d,; iieht Hi. Mutton: The demand for Now Zealand Tuns principally on light 'weights. The .'mariel is Quiet, and moderate-bnsi. ness doing. Quotations: Canterbury, heavy 4id-.; light 43d.: North Island,' heaw 4d.: light 43d. There is x <m improved demand'for frozen meat, but owing to heavy supplies prices arc tending downwards. Tallow: Since our last eabte prices aro unchanged, except good-coloured mutton, which is par to 6d. per est. higher.

FINANCIAL OABLBGEAMS. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright London, April 14. Yesterday's closine quotations were as follow-.— Bonk of Australasia, buyers £ICO, tellers' Bank o.f Now South Wales, buyers £12, Eellers £4J. Bank of Victoria, buyer* £4 10a., sellers £4 15s. 'Union Bank of Australia, buyers £57. sellers £59. National Bank of Australasia, buyers £5 155., (sellers £6 ss.' National Bank of Saw Zealand, buyers' £5, sellers £5 10s. Bank of Now Zealand, buyers £10, sell. crs £10 10a. N.Z. Loan and Mercantile AffCßiry * per cent, dobenturce, £91. City of Melbourne, 4 ee* cent, debentures, £100.. Melbourne Harbour Trust, 4 per cent, d* bentures, £101. Mclbourno Tramway Trust, <J per cent, debentures, £102. llolbourno and Metropolitan, Board of Works. 4 per cent, .debentures, £95. Australian Mercantile Debentures, £94 10s.

Dalgcty end Co., 4 per cent, debeafnrej. £93. ' Dolgety and Co.'s shares, buyers £5 lflj,, tellers £7. Melbourne Gas Co.'s debentures, £99. City of' Sydney. £99. Ooldsbrough. ilort and Oo.'s debentures. £95 10a. "Bank of New Zealand, 4 per cent, guaranteed stock, £100. JUTE. London., April I*. Jute.—Native first marks is quoted at £34 10s. per ton. THE METAL JTABB.ETB. (Kec. April 15, 10,10 p.m.) London, April 15. Copper-Spot, £64 10s,; three months, £64 16*. 3d.; electrolytic. £67 if*-. Tin.—Spot, £166 7s. fcl.; three months, £168 ss.' Lead.-£l7 17s. 6d. WHEAT. <T!ec. April 15, 18,10 p.m.) Lendoft, April 15. The wheat, market H cuiet, nnrj prices arc unchanged; 365. 3d. wis asM for South Australian. Tho American visible supplies «ast. <*f the Rockies ia estimated! at 86,017,039 bushels.