COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2421, 29 March 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

FEILDING MARKET REPORT. Messrs.' A.' 'H, 'Atkinson and Co., Ltd., Bold on Friday a yarding of pigs, porkers making fair value. Some 250 head' of poultry sold at better than late rates, fruit sold well. Peaches, in half-cases, 3s. to 45.; apples,. 2e. 6d. to 35.; grapes, 4d. to 6d. per lb.; potatoes, Bs. to 10s. bag; passion fruit, 3s. to 3s. 6d.; tomatoes, 2s. to 35.; quinces. 2«.; onions, Bs. to 9s. cwt.; pears, 35.; rock melons, 2s. to 35.; cabbages, 4s. per sack; pig potatoes, 3s. Good weaner pigs, 9s. to 10s.; others, 4s. 6d. to 6s. fid.; light porkers, 225. to 23b. 6d.: heavy, 31s. to 445.; hacks, £4 ss. Poultry, at per ■ pair, hens, 25." 3d. to 4s. fid.;. cockerels, 2s. 9d. to 3s. 3d.; ducks, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d.; geese, ss. to 65.; turkeys, fe. to 12s. Customs duty collected at the port of Wellington on Saturday amounted to £1237 31s. 7d. ' - -

DEWAB'S AND BUCHANAN'S COMPANIES AMALGAMATE. . (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) London, March 26. Dewar's and Buchanan's ■ whisky companies have amalgamated, with a capital of £5,000,000. There will be no public ■issue: The amalgamation is stated to be purely a financial 'arrangement to enable the firms to meet high taxes and .the high price of raw materials; otherwise they will maintain separate existences. .LONDON WOOL SALES. London, March 26. At the wool sales, competition for good wools was animated. Faulties were rather clow of Palo. , The following prices were realised for the fleece portions of the clips named—"Manuka," top price 29Jd., average 273(1.: "St. Clair," 14id. and 13Ad. New Zealand: "Ara," 19d. to 18\d.; "Burlin," 19d. to 18(1.; "Tokorangi," 17Jd. to 173 d. (R-ec. March 28, 5.5 p.m.) London, March 27. At the wool sales, there were catalogued 89,844 bales, and 85,495 bales were sold. Crossbrods were very firm, but merino were slightly in the buyers' 'favour. The following prices were realised for the fleece portions of the clips named:—"Gwavas." top price 19d., average 18jd.: "Angi," 18d. and 17Jd.: "Tautanc," 19Jd. and 18Sii. FROZEN MEAT. (Eec. March 28, 5.5 p.m.) London, March 27. .The Incorporated Society of Meat Importers' Smithfield market quotations for the undermentioned classes of frozen meat are based on actual sales of not less than one hundred carcases of mutton or lamb, or twenty-five quarters of beef, of fair average quality. The quotations are not for selected linos, but for parcels fairly representative of the bulk of the shipments now on tho market. The prices which follow aro on tho average a. farthing per lb. more than the values ex ship, this difference representing the average' cost in expense, handling, conveyance, and selling of the meat:— Mutton— ' North Island, best 6 North Island, ordinary 55 New Zealand, ewes 5 9-16 Australian ewes 5J South American, light 53 South American, heavy 5S WmliNorth Island, selected 7J North Island, ordinary 7J Australian, best 73-16 South American, light 63 South American, hea.vy 62 BeefNew Zealand, ox fores 6 New Zealand, ox hinds 6$ Australian, ox fores 65 Australian, ox hinds 63-8 Argentine, chilled foros 6J Argentine, chilled hinds 7i Other meats aro unchanged. RABBITS. The market is quiet,, and prices aro unchanged. LONDON MARKETS. (Eec. March 28. 5.5 p.m.) London, March 27. Jute.—Native first marks, March-April shipment, £22 per ton. Hemp—May shipment, £35 se. per ton. Rubber.—Hard fine Para.. 2s. 53d.. per lb.; plantation, 2s. 33d.; smoked sheets, 2s. 43d. > Silver—Bar silver, 11 3-Bd. per ounce standard. \ Cotton— May-June ehjDznents ata quoted \e.fc Midft ngrib.-y, 1 * ♦ « » -1

DANISH BUTTER. . London, March 26. Danish butter ia quoted at 140s. to 1435. WHEAT AND FIiOUB SHIPMENTS. (Rcc. March 28, 5.5 p.m.) London, March 27. Wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at- 2.820,000 quarters; Continent of Kurope, 3,830,000 quarters; Atlantic shipments, 549,000 quarters; Pacific, 60,000 quarters. Total for Europe, 1,235,C00 Quarters; India, 7CCO quarters; Argentina., 410,000 quarters. THE METAL MARKETS. London, March 26. Copper.—Electrolytic, £76 to £76 IDs. Tin.—On the spot, £165 10s. to £166; three months, £164 to £164 10s. Pig-iron, 655. Bar silver is quoted at 133 d. per ounce standard.MINING NEWS STOCK EXCHANGE.' (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Dunedln, March 28. The following sales were made on the Stock Exchange yesterday:— Talisman Consolidated, £1 ss. (two parcels). The following sales were reported man Consolidated, £1 55.; Union Steam (preference), £1 Os, lOd. . DREDGING RETURNS. Dunadln, March 28. Dredging returns;— Rise and Shine No. I, 460z. 12dirt.; Rising Sun, 2oz. 14dwt.; Rise and Shine No. 11, 260z. ldwt.; Golden Bed, 250z. COAL OUTPUT. Creytown, March 27. The week's coal output.;— Point Elizabeth, 2284 tons 18cwt.; Liverpool, 2385 tons 18cwt.; Paparoa, 1238 tons 17cwt.; Blackball, 3419 tons Bcwt.; North Brunner, 53 tons Bcwt.: Brunner, 369-tons 13owt. Total 9852 tons 2cwt. „ , ~ Westport, March 28. Coal shipments last' week were;—Westport Coal Co.. 15,271 tons 7cwt.; coke, 32 tons 12cwt. Westport Stockton, Co., 2272 tons ltewt.