COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2335, 17 December 1914, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

■.■■'; INVESTMENT SHAREC. ''V In the investment- eharemerket yesterday, e, sale of Union Bank shares at £52 10s: was reported. The quotations wore Oβ follow:— ;■ ■ . .. • Bnyers. Sellers; ■ . ' £s. d. £g. d. Bank N.Z. (new) 15 4 0 - Bank N.Z. (old) 9 17 6 9 19 0 N.Z. end River Plato .... — 20 0 Palmerston North Gee ... — 12 0 0 South British' 4 1 0 ' — Meat Export (£2 12s. 6d.) 2 14 0 - 'Union Steam (pref.) 10 3 10 9 AVestport ..' — 110 3 WestportrStockton, — 0 5 0 leyland-O'Brien — 116 Taringamutu ;... — 2 3 0 Manning and C 0... 4 2 6 — N. 7.. Drug ...'. 2 2 0'- — ■'Cum- dividend. •• •• ■ - /' ■ • ■ ■ Customs duty oolleoted at the port of Wellington, yesterday amounted to ' £2117 _43. Id; , . ' - ■ . . ■•.•■■■;;.;■. ;NAPIBB WOOL SALES. '- (By Telegraph.—Prese Association.)-. ' mi' '•' „' Napier, December 1«. .Hie second ■ wool , .sale of the season was heldto-'dqy, , when. 18,964 bales were offered to the-usual attendance of buyere. The condition' of the wool was not up to the average, ■ being heavier in, the grease and cofrtaining a large quantity pC dust. There was r a*general falling off in prices, the drop- -lUi the higher glades being from Jα. to sd.j'ana on inferior wools from Id: to Uα. .The. range of prices was as folfowfi:— Best halfbred. 13d. to. 143 d.; medium halfbred; llja.; to 123 d.; fine .crossbred, 121' d: to 13d.,■-■medium crossbred, ICJd. to U}d.; coarce crossbred,: 9*d. to lid.; inferior, 81d. to .6^.; 'pieces, 73d. to 9Jd. ; : bellies, 6Jtl. to 6?d.;- locks, 4ld. to 6d.; lnmhs, Bd. to lOJfl.; dead,,BJd.i to 10d. ■ ■ i'EONDON WOOL SALES. '; London, December 15. The market is unchanged. Thero Is sughtly -better competition for best sorts There withdrawals of wa=ty and. faulty. nr Pri S e9 'S al H ed , :^ Be!aranE ' n i d - "M-i Momba, 83d., 7 3-Bd.; Bcanbah, 15d., 12* d • BeUevue t .9d,, Bid.; Culpaulin. 9Jd., Bjfl.| W/ybrechan,! lCd. 8 3-Bd.; Xcd's Corner J;?j' '^ ,: Ncw Zcalan<l Kaputone, 2Ma., «cu. ■ ' • . MELBOUBNE--WOOL SALES. , Melbourne, December U. At tho wool sales there was keen demand for hotter classes. The Teccnt weakness jn ordinary recovered. WHEAT. 1 London,- December 15. The wheat market is firm, but quiet. METAL MARKET. 1 Copper.—For forward delivery. £58 12e. 6d.; three months, £58 17s. 6d. Electrolytic on spot, £61 10s. j three months, £62. Tin.-On spot, £149 10e. to £150; three months, £148 10s. to £149. " Lead,—£l9 53. Spelter, £28 55., £28 7e. 6d.