COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2298, 31 October 1914, Page 10

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHAKES. A.-Bile of Bank of New Zealand sharee, £3 63. Ed, paid, at £10 25.-6 d., wa6 the only transaction recorded yesterday. There was but a. single Quotation registered. New Zealand and River Pla,te shares being in demand at 38s. 3d. NATIONAL INSURANCE CO. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Duncdln, October SO. 1 The annua,! report o{ the National Insuranco Company shows that tho directors have, adtfed ivlO.CfO to the reserve fund, and they recommend that a dividend ot is. and a bonus of 6:1. per shs-re he paid, making a total distribution of 2s, 6d. :er share for the year, and that £29,573 be earriod forward. SOUTHERN MARKETS. . Christchurch. October 30. There is nothing to record in connection with the wheat market, there being 110 transactions reported. No wheat is offering by growers, and it is stated tfcftt there are very few holders in the country districts. There is a little inaniry for oite for the North Island, but little business is doing in either oats or chaff. Supplies required' for tho Expeditionary Foreo are now getting ready, and will absorb any that may be on offer. Potatoes aro still dull of sale at tho low price of 20a. at country stajione. . • LONDON MARKETS. • Dalgety and Company, Limited, VTellintrton, have received the following cable,Tnum from their London ofllqe under date Octo- , ber 29:—Tallow: Prices aro fully maintained, inferior rather dearer. November Wool-Sales: Tho total quantity available, for these sales amounts to 13.C00 bales. Wo soil on November 7. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ;Eec. October 30, 115 p.m.) London, October 29. Wheat is firm and unchanged. Australian is .ciuoted at 18s. Flour is quiet. Australian, ex ftore, 35b. to 365. Barley, oats, and beano arc firm and un. changed. Peas aTe very firm. Now Zealand maple?, 60s. to 68a. BRADFORD TOPS. The Bradford;,top market is vrrv strong j all rouml, and stocks are almost depleted. Sixty-foure, 31Jd.; super sixties. SOJd.; common sixties, 295.; fifty-sixeu, 28(1 ; fifties. I £ssd.; forty-sives, 22d.; forties, 20d, LONDON SHEEPSKIN SALE.' (Rec. October 30. 11.5 p.m.) London. Octob.cr 29. At the sheepskins sale 3?CO haks from . Australasia wore cataloeucd. and were sold, af practically July rates. Competition was acliva. ■ | Moests.'Murrayi-Robert» ».nd On., Ltd., yesterday rcceived i cable Irom their I

;o don friqjjtla. Messrs. Sanderson, Murray - and 00., dated October 29. as follows:Sheepskin Market: Sheepskins, Merino, adit ivanced lid.; crossbred, "a. to !d.; erossbrc.l, r- tlirep-miortei'. to full - woollcd, sJiow the d<Mt advaaco 10 The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile , Anency Company, Limited, have ,I'cicevod *>• the following cablesram from their L-on-i- don house, under itoe October 29:—Sheep(1 skins: Crossbred, 25 (o 30 per cent, dearer. I The Bank of New Zealand haso received *T tho foliowinj cable advice from its London in office, datyd October 29:-Fuli-woolled cross- »■ bred sheepfikins are 30 per cent., and half- \. waolled sheepskins are 15 per cent, dearer. r. i-.c-mpared wlili the prices ruiins at last n sales. f. _ OOLONLUj SVG KB. COMPANY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Eeo. October 30, S p.m.) Sydney, October 30. . At a mooting of the Colonial Sugar Corapony the report to September 30. showed ••■ £<It profits o£ .£256,360. of which £135.CC0 «M earned in'Tiji and New Zealand. A dlvt- , dt-nd of 5 j»2r cent., with a bonus of ss. - ■ per share, was declo.rcd A sum of £165,890 J' was carried forward. 1- Colonel Onslow -Thompson replaces ine ■s late Sir Normand it'Laurin on the Board r- of Directors. I , VIOTOKIAN PEODUCB.MARKETS. » Molbourno, October 30. y wheat, flour, bran, and pollard, fixed _ prices: oats, 3s. 6d. to 3s. 7d.: barley, Epkiish ss. 9d., Cape.<s. to 4s. 3d.; maize, 3s. ,s lid.; potatoes, £8 to £9: onione, to £11 n 10s.