COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2312, 20 November 1914, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES. There were no transactions- in investment shares yesterday. The quotations were as follow:— Buyers Sellers. £ f. d. £ s. (1. Bank N.Z. (new) 16 6- 0 N.Z. and River Plate — 2 0 1 Ohristchurch Gae (£5) ... — 7 2 5 Kapler Gis f£s) 8 0 0 — Well. Gas (£10) — 16 3 6 Heat Export l£2 12s. 6d.) — 215 0 Westport-Stockton 03 8 , — Tarinframutu ......t. — 2 6 0 Manning and Oo 3 17 6 — Ward and Co. ~ - 5 10 COMPANIES REGISTERED. According to this week's "Mercantile Gazette" the following companies have been registered:— ■ Lankehear's, I/td. Registered' as a private company November 17. Officer: 354' Lambton Quay, Wellington; Capital, £5000, divided into €000 shares of £1 each. Subscribers: Wellington—W. J. Lankshear, 4200; L. E. Lankshear, 500; E. D. R. Lankshear, 100; 0. R. Lankshear, 1C0; A. R. Lankahear, 100. Objects: To acquire the I business now carried on at Wellington by i William John Lankshear under tho firm name of "The Barnsbury Printing' and Publishing Works, W. J. Lankshear, proprietor." Slade and Moss.. Ltd. Registered as a private company, November 10. Office: 95 Taranaki Street, Wellington. Capital, £1800, divided into • 1800 shares of £1 each. Subscribers: Wellington—J. B. Pinlay, 1; G. ,W-. Slade, 600; A. E. Moss, 1; H. S. Sivell, .1; "New. Zealand Shipping Gazette" Co.. Ltd.; 997. Objects: To acquire as a going concern tho business of newspaper proprietors and publishers now carried on by the '"New Zealand Shipping Gazette" Co., Ltd. Customs duty colleoted at the port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £3253 ss. lOd. ; i NAPIEB WOOL SALE. (By, Telegraph.—Press Association.) Napior, November 19. A total of 17,681 bales have been catalogued for the first wool Eale of the season to be held to-morrow aftornoon. Much more wool has come forward than was anticipated, and a large hench of buyers will be operating. . SYDNEY WOOL' SALES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. November 19, 10 p.m.) ' Sydnoy, November 19. The. week's wool sales closed slow, with an, easier tendency. .

AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKETS.' (Rec. November 19, 10 p.m ) Sydney, November 19. Oats, T-asmanian and Victorian, 3s. 7d. to 35." Bd.; barley;* English 4s. 6d., Cape feed Maize, 3s. lid. to 4s. 3d.; potatoes, New Zealand, £4 10s. 6d.; onions, Victorian, 9s. .Jkl.: butter, selected 1045., secondary 945. to 985.; cheese,' fid.; bacon', 9d. Adelaide, November 19!. Wheat,-ss. 3d. to ss. 6d.; flour, £11; bran and pollard, £8 10s.

MELBOURNE HIDE SALE. (Rec. November 19, 10 p.m.) . . .... Melbourne, November 19. it the hides-sale there were Email rapplies, but excellent ; competition; There was fully o. farthing advance all round. AMERICAN WHEAT. CRec. November 19, 10 p.m.) London, November 19 The American visible supply of wheat East of the Rockies is estimated by Bradstreot'a at 121,283,000 bushels. : LONDON MARKETS. London, November 18. Tho wheat market is firm. .Sellers occasionally ask a threepence advance. Linseed oil, £24 ss. Turpentine, 355. lid. . TAW.OW. ~ ' London, November IS At the tallow sales 1013 casks were offered and. 801 .sold.. Prices realised:—Mutton, fine 37a -6d„ medium 325.; beef, fine 365. 6d„ medium 30s. VETAL MARKETS. London, November 18. Copper. £53 10s. to £53 155., and £53 155.to £53 17s. 6d. : Electrolytic, £55 10s. to £55. Tin. £137 10s. to £137 165., and £136 15s. to £137 ss. - Spelter,-£25. Bar silver is quoted at <22 15-16 d. per ounce standard. P. AND 0. COMPANT. London, November 18. The Peninsular sud- Oriental Steam Navigation Company has declared a dividend on deferred stock of 61 per cent, and a, bonns of 5 per cent '