COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2273, 6 October 1914, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHAMS. There were no transactions in investment Shares yesterday. The quotations wero as follow;— Buycra. Sollere. 1 £8. d. £s. d. National Bank ■ — 5 4 0 talk S.Z. (£6 13s. 4d.) ... 15 2 6 N.Z. and Eiver Plate ...' 1 18 6 — Ghristchurch Gas (£5) ... 6 17 6 — Well. Gas (£10) 15 15 0 - South British ~ 4 0 0 — OhrisUshuvoh. Meat 15 0 0 . — Gear Meat (£4) — 14 7 6 Gear Meat (£1) — 313 6 Meat Export (£2 12s 6d.) — 216 0 Woll. Woollen (ord.) - 4 8 0 Kikurangi Coal 0 9 6' — Leyland-O'Brien 110 — Ward and Co — 5 10 Kauri Timber (155.) 0 17 0 — Customs duty collected at the port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £6526 Ba. 4d, . ~. LONDON WOOL SALES. Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, have received the following cablegram from their London office, under, date October 1:— ■ "The wool market has a slightly tetter tone. For the eale commencing on Tuesday the total, offerings will be approximately 48,000 bales. We- sell on Wednesday." HIGH COMMISSIONBE'S MAEKET EEPOBT. The Department of Agriculture, Industries;, anu Commerce hao received tho following calegrain. from the High. Gominilissioner for iiew Zealand, datevi London October i. (Uuotatious, unless otherwise specified, are average .market prices onepot.) • ■ Mutton—Tho market is steady; there is not much demand, but prices are firm on account of a limited supply at presor .t la store. Canterbury, 5Jd. per lb.; North !»■ land, 5 5-Bd. ' Lamb.—Tliore is little demand for lamb. Tho market is dull, with a downward teudeiioy. Canterbury twos, 63d. per lb.; heavy weight, 6 o-6d.; other than Canterbury, 6 5-Bd. for light weight. Beef.—Tho market is not quite so firm. Tho cause of the decline Iβ a large supply of lrwh, togother with tho lower prices paid by tho Government in nntiqlpatio'n. of heavy arrivals from tho Argentine. Now Zealand hinds, 6 5-fd. nor lb.; forea, 5 5-Bd. l'horo were no arrivals of chilled beef at the market this week. . Butter.—The market is firmer. There Iβ an , inortoeing demand for better grades. Danish, steady, 138s. to l<103.; Australian, a moderate demand, 1206. to 1245.: Siberian, a fair demand, 110s. to 1225:; Irish creamery, a -ftilr demand, 124?. to 12&3.; exceptional, 12Ss.; Argentine, 1183. to 1225. Chespe.—Too market is quiot, but steady. Canadian, white and coloured, 745. to 765. j Kiijlish, 765. to 845.. Sto-sks of Canadian cheese at London. Liverpool, and Bristol on Ofltobe-r 1 wero 169,000 boxes, against 298,C«0 at tho eame timo loot you , . ■ Stocks of Now Zealand cheoee on October 1 -wero 2250 orates, a?ain,3t 300 at thesamo timo last ye«r. Hemp.—Tho market is very quiet, and nothins doing. Quotations arc nominal. New Zealand good-fair,, per' ton-, £23 10s.; fair, £21 10s.; fair current Manila, £26 103. New Zealand is very seriously affected by Mbxica-n stall declining rapidly. American quotation. 3 7-8 cents, equal to £17 Its. c.i.f. New York. Tho output from Manila for the week was 13.CC0 bales. Wheat—Tho market is quiet, with a tendency in favour of buyers. Australian, 455., Oats—Tho market is dull, end very littlo business doing. New Zealand Gartons, 69n.. ex store. Boa™.—Tho. market is steady, bnt tho demand only moderate. New Zealand be?.ne, f.a.q. (now crop) per 5041b., 345. Wool.—The market , is flrm, and pricescontinue to advanco for el] grades of medium and coarse crossbreds." PEOZEN MEAT MAEKET. By Telegraph—Press Aesnoiation— Copyright London, October 4. The Incorporated. Society , of Heat Importers' Smithpcld markot quotations for the undermentioned classes of frozen meat aro based on.actual sales of not less than ono hundred carcasses of mutton or lamb, or twenty-five quarters of beef of fair average quality. The quotations are ■ not for selected lines, but for parcels fairly repreEoiitative of the bulk of the shipment* now on the market. The prices which follow are on tho average a farthing per lb. more than tho values ex ship, this difference representing tho average cost in expense, handling, conveyance, and selling of tho meat:— ■ , ' New Zealand Sheep.—Canterbury, light, medium, and heavy, all 5Jd.; Southland and North Island, 5Jd.; ewes, s|rt. South. American Sheep. l -Light, SJd. j heavy. sjd. JTevr Zealand, tombs.—Canterbury, UgM, 6Jd.; second quality, 6 9-16 d.; medium, 6 5-Bd.; heavy, 6 3-Bd. New Zealand Beef—Pores, 6Jd.; hindj, 6 5-Bd. . ■■'"•■••. Auetralinn, Shuep.-Wethers, 5 5-16 d. Australian Beef—Pores, 53d.; liinds, 6Jd. Beof-Argentine frozen fores, 5 5-Bd.; liinds, 6 5-fid.; chilled, none offering. ■Urujruay.—Froten forss, 5 5-6 d.: hinds, 6Jd. : Eabbite sito firm; prioes uncbansed; selling well, especially young. LONDON MARKETS. London, October 4. The hemp market Is inactive. Good, fadr, Ostober-Doccmber, £24. Eubber.-Para, 2s. 9Jd. per lb.; plantation, 2e. l»d-l smoked, 2s. 23d. Oopra—South. Sea. September-October shipment, £23. • • "Aluminium, £80 to £83. Q.uiekeilvor, strong, 1803.- to .1856. . Jute—Native, first marks, October shipment, £19. WHEAT AND FLOUE. London, October 4. Tho wheat market shows a. further- decline, owing to continued weakness in America and increased preseure to sell. For West Australian arrived, 4Js. Ie asked. Tho wheat and ilour adoat for the United Kingdom is 1.8C0.0C0 quarters; for the Continent 1,800,000 quarters; Atlantic shipments, 248; Pacific, 32. The total shipment to Europe during the week totalled 1,200,000 quarters, including 69,000 from India,; from other countries, nil. SILVEH. Bar. silver is quoted at 23 7-Bfl. per ounce standard.