COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2409, 15 March 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHAEEB. i There'were no transactions in'investment shares-on Saturday. The quotations were as follow:— ... Buyers. Sellers. . £ a. d. £ 6. d. National Bank 5 9 0 Bk. N.Z. (£3 6s. Bd. pd.) 10 17 6 - Bk. N.Z. (£6 13s. 4d. pd.) 17 0 0 17 .5 0 N:Z. and River Plate .... 2 0 0 .2 3 0 Wn-. Int. T. and A. 0 111 Wn. Tsust ■ Loan, Ltd. ... 7 6 0 — Auckland Gas 1 8 6 7 — .Well. Gas (£10) 16 2 6 " - - Gear- (£4) 14 5 0' ; — N.Z. Shipping (pref.) 10 ID 0 — . Union -Steam (ord.) ■' 13 11 '1-'4 3 Union Steam (pref.) 10 7 1 0 10 -Mosgiel Woollen 315 0 1 — Well. Woollen (pref.); 3 3 0 — •Westport 111 9 — Westport-Stockton — 0. 5 1 Golden Bay Cement 0 19 9 — Manning and Oo — 5.0 A ,N.Z. Portland Cement ... 0 8 0 - — • Sharland (pref.) .... 13 6 , — Ward and Co. — ~6-0 0 Kaiapoi Woollen (pref.) 5 0 0 r' — D.1.0. (pref.) 10 3 * - W.F.O.A. (£5) — - 6 5 0 I • Customs duty collected at the port. of -Wellington on Saturday amounted to £820 19s. id /

LOXDOS WOOL SALES.

. Messrs.; Murray, .'Roberts and Co., ■■ Ltd., have received the ' following cablegram from their. London. fri«nds, Messrs. Sanderson. Murray and Co., under date March 12:—"Market firm -with upward tendency. .Tops all dcfcriptiocs advanced fcincc sales closed:"; ; . v ' ' . FROZEN MEAT. .(By Telegraph—Press- ASsh.—Copyright.) (Rec. March 14, 5.10; p.m.) ■ •- London, March 13. The- Incorporated Society of- Meat Importers' Bmithfield market quotations for .the undermentioned 'cla-sees of frozen meat are based on actual sales.of not less than one hundred carcoseee of mutton or lamb, or twenty-five quarters of beef, of. fair average quality. The quotations are not lor . selected lines, but for parcels fairly representative of the bulk of the shipments now on the ■ market... The prices which follow are on the average a farthing per lb. more than the values ex ship, this difference representing the average cost in expense, handling, conveyance, and Belling of the meat:— Mutton— d. . • North Islandi best 6 North Island, ordinary ;...... 51 ■ New Zealand, ewes i 5 9-16 Lamb—. North Island, selected 7j North Island, ordinary % Australian, best 7 3-16 Beef— . New Zealand, ox hinds 65 Australian, ox hinds 63-8 Argentine, chilled fores 53-8 Argentine, chilled hinds 61 Other meats are unchanged. ■ ' RABBITS- AND HARES. ■ Rabbits are unchanged. ' The delivery is improving. Hares.—There, is a fair trade doing at llta: English ha.ve eased. ,- WHEAT. (Rec. March 14, 5.10 p.m. 7 ■ London, March 13. Wheat.—The market Is steady, and inactive. Chicago May options. 153 - cente to 1553 cents: July options,-120 cents to 1213 cents. 1 '' ■ LONDON MARKETS. -' (Ecc. March 14, 5.10 p.m.) London, March 13. - Cotton.—May-June shipments are quoted at 5.04Jd. per lb. Jute.—Native • first-marks, March-April shipment, £23 ss. per ton. New' Zealand Hemp—Maich-May ; shipment, £32 10s. per ton. Rubber.—Hard, fine Para, 2e. sjd. per lb.; plantation, 2s. 4Jd.; smoked shecte, 2s. sri. i Copra.—Ma-roh-April shipment, £26 15s, per. ton. THE METAL MARKETS. London, March 13. Copper-Forward delivery, £65 ss.■ threemonths, £65 10s.; electrolytic (spot), £70: three months, £70 10s. - three months, £167, £lbr 10s. Lead,—£?.lss. ; three months, £21 10s.