COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2332, 14 December 1914, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHAKES. There were no rausactions in investment shares on Saturday. The quotations wore as. under: •■ / Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ o. d. •'Bank N.Z.' (old) 9 17 6 918 6' Union Bank 51 0 0 55 0 0 Equitable Building 9 0 0 N.Z. and Eiver Plato 119 0 — Well. Trust Loan, Ltd.... 7 6 0 Cbristchurch Gas (£5) ... 7 5.0 Well. Gas (£10) 16 2 6 - . Meat Export (£2 12s. 6d.) 214 0 . — Union Steam (pref.) 10 6 — WestpoTt — 1 10 6 WestportrStockton — 0 5 0 Leyland-O'Bricn 110 • — Taringamutu — 2 3 0 Manning and Co. 4 0 0 Ward and Co 5 10 *Ex dividend. Customs duty collected at the port of Wellington on Saturday amounted, to £901 17s. od. FEILDING MAEKET REPORT. Messrs. A. 11. Atkinson and Co., Ltd., report on their weekly sale as follows:— was penned in small numbers, hut a, good yarding of pigs came forward, prices for both being on a par with late sales. Quotations:—Poultry, at per 7»ir: Hens, 25., 2s. ■ 6d., 2e. 9d., 45., 3s. 6d.; roosters, 2a., 35.: chicks, si. 2d.; cocker Dig, 2s. 3d.; ducks, 4s. 3d., 4a. 9d.; geeso, 6s. Pigs, porkers (light), 275. j heavier sorts, 365., 365. 6d.; stores, 25a.; slips, 175., 19s. 6d., 2fs., 215., 245.; woanere, 9s„ IBs., Us., Us. 6d„ 135., 145., 14s. 6d„ 155., 165.; goat, 135.; pony, £2 ss. Potatoes (pigsl. Is., Is. 6d., 2s. sack; ditto (new), 3s. 3d.., 4a 6d., ss. 6d., 6s. 6d.; bag lots, cauliflowers, l}d. each; cabbages, 2d. each; onions, 6d. bundle; cabbage plants, 6d.; plums, 35., 4s. per hulf-caso; rhubarb, 6d. - , LONDON MAEK'GTS.' By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Eec. Deoember 13, -5.5 p.m.) London., December 12. Wheat.—The market is Hteady but quiet. Jute.—Native first marks, January shipment, £15 15b. per ton. Hemp is steady. February-April shipment, £24 10.1. per ton. , Cotton.—May-June shipments, 4.044. per lb. • Eubber—Hard, fine Farm, 2s. 9Jd- per lb.; plantation. Is. lid.; smoked sheets, 2s. 3d. Copra.—South Sea, in bags, DecemberJanuary shipment, £241 per ton. METAL MARKETS. ■ Loniion, December 11. Copper, on the spot- £57 ss. to £57 10s.; at three months, £Ei7 10s. to £57 155.; electrolytic, on the spot, £60; at three months, £60 10s. - Tin, on the spot, £147 to £147 lCs.; at three months, £145 15s. to £146 ss. Spelter, £28 to £7,8 65.(Eec. December 13. 5.5 p.m.) ILondon, December 12. Silver,—Bar silver is quoted at 23 l-16d. per ounce standara Antimony is quoted at 2505. per-ton of 50 per cent. ore. ADELAIDE ELECTEIO CO. London, December 11. The Adelaide ISloctric Supply Company, Ltd., shows a profit of £50,357, of which the directors carry forward £10,815. The Melbourne Electric Supply Company's profit is £48,319. and the amount carried forward is £7819. •' The directors propose to increase the capital by 20,000 7 per cent, cumulative first preference shares, and 2000 ordinary one pound shares. If the shareholders approve, an issue of 75,000 ordinary shares at par will be made in February.