COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2361, 18 January 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES. There were no transactions in Investment shares on Saturday. The quotations were as follow:— . Buyeri. Sellers. £ b. d. £ 6 d Bank N.Z. (old) 10 0 0 10 4 0 Bank N.Z. (new) ..'. 16 10 0 — Well. Gas (£10) 16 2 6 - Meat Export.(£2 12s. 6d.) 2 14 0 —- Union Steam 119 — Union Steam (prof.) 1 o'3 ' — Well. Woollen (ord.) 4 7 6 — Westport Coal ..;..... 110 6 ■ - — Leyland-O'Brien 116 — Westport-Stockton — 0 4 ,0 Ward and Co 5 4 0 — Crown Brewery 1 16 0 — Onetoma duty collected at the port of Wellington on Saturady amounted to £3263 os. 4d. ' FEILTJING MARKET BEPOHT. Messrs. A. H. Atkinson and Co., Ltd., sold a considerable yarding of pigs on Friday, everything making good values. .Quotations: Slips, Us. 6d., 125., 145., 15s. 6d.stores, 175., 21s. 6d., 235. 6d., 2Ss., 31s„ to 355.; baconors, 435.; porkers, 255., 325. 6d., 3M., to 375. 6d.; purebred sows, 345. 6d. Poultry, at per pair: Hens, 2s. 3d., 2s. 6d., 2s. 94.; cockerels, 3s. 3d. to 45.; chicks, Is., Is. 3d.; ducks, 35., 45., to 6s. 3d.; potatoes, is. to 7s. cwt.; prime peaches, 66. case; plums, Zs.; barley, 16s. bag; wheat, 7b. 9d. to Bs. per bushel. FROZEN MEAT. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright (Rec. January 17, 5.5 p.m.) London, January 16. The Incorporated Society of Meat Importers Smlthfleld market quotations for th« undermentioned classes of frozen meat ore based on actual sales of not less than one hundred carcasses of mutton or lamb, or twenty-five auarters of beef, of fair average quality. The quotations are not tor selected lines, but for parcels fairly representative of the bulk of the shipms,uts.uow on the market. The prices which follow are on the average a farthing per lb- more than the values ei ship, this difference representing the averag* cost in expense, handling, conveyance, and selling of the meat:— Mutton— (j,. Canterbury, medium 5J North Island, best 57-16 Australian ewes 5 South American None offering Beef— b Ohilled fores 68 Chilled hinds •, 7 Other meats are unchanged. RABBITS. The market is firm and more ere now being discharged. '. LONDON MARKETS. London, January 16. Butter.-Danish is quoted at 1535. to 1565. Jute—Native first marks, January-Feb-ruary shipment, £18 15s. per ton. New Zealand Hemp— January-Maroh shipment, £26 10s. per ton. Cotton.—May-June shipments of American middling cotton are quoted at 4.66Jd. per lb. Copra—South Sea,' in bags, DecemberJanuary shipment, £23 12s. 6d. per ton Rubber.—Hard fine Para, 2a. 73d. per lb • plantation, 2s. 2d.; smoked sheets, 2s. 3Jd! Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., have received the following cablegrams from their London office, dated January 13:—Tallow: At the soles, mutton tallow showed an advance of 6d. per cwt., and mixed Is. to Is. 3d. January wool, sales: Our own sales will take place on January 21 aud 28 and February 4. CHICAGO WHEAT MARKET. (Rec. January 17, 5.5 p.m.) London, January 16. The Chicago -wheat market is excited. May options, 142 cents; three months. 145 cents; July options, 125} cents to 127J cents. WHEAT SHIPMENTS. London, January 16. The wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,305,000 quarters, and for •the Continent 2,270.000 quarters. Atlantic shipments, 818,000 quarters; Pacific, 45,000 quarters. Totals: Europe, 1,129,000 quarters; India, 31,000 quarters. I The market is wry firm. METAL MARKETS. London, January 15. Copper—On the spot, £60 Zs. 6d. to £60 • 7s. 6d., three months, £60 ss. to £60 10b. Tin.-Por forward delivery, £145 to £145 10s. Le«d.-£lB 10s, to £16 Us. 3d. The imports were 20,562 tons, including 5060 tons from Australia; exports, 3273 tons. Spelter—£29 12s. 6d. to £29 17s. 6d. Bar silver is quoted at 22 13-16 d. per I ounce standard. . Silver—Bar silver U quoted at 23Jd. per ■ounce standard. Quicksilver, 2355. per bottle. J • • . AUSTRALIAN CHEESE. London, January 15. The Australian cheese lauded from theRoscommon realised 765. to 78s. TASMANIAN WOOL SAMS. Hobart, January 16. At tho Launcc6ton annual wool sales 5289 bales were offered. Competition was spirited, and prices generally wero 5 per cent, better. At the Hobart sales medium crossbreds were Id. deaier, Lincolns and Leieostcrs lid. to 2d. dearer.