COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2433, 12 April 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHAKES. Quotations of investment dud mining stocks on Saturday were as follow:— Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ s. d. NaLlonal Bank 5 9 6 5 10 6 Equitable Building 9 7 6 — N.Z. and River Plate 2 0 0 — Wn. Invest. T. ond A. ... 0 11 3 — N.Z. Insurance 6 10 — Canterbury Meat — 117 6 Meat Export (£2 12s. 6d.) — 216 0 Kaiapoi Woollen (pref.) 5 0 0 — Mosglcl Woollen 3 15 0 - Wgtn Woollen (ord.) 410 0 412 6 Wgtn. Woollen • (pref.) ...3 5 0 - Lcyland-O'Brlen 12 3 — Golden Ilay Cement : 10 0 — Sharland (ord.) — . 14 0 Shnrland (pref.) ..:■ - 14 0 Ward and Co — 5 16 0 Taranakl Oil Wells - • 03 3 Sale:—Westport-Stockton, <e. !od. (r.). Customs duty collected at the port of .Wellington on Saturday amounted to £923 19s. Id. LONDON WOOL SALES. Messrs. Dalgcty and Company, Limited, hare received cabled advice from their London office'that the fourth series of wool sales, which had been fixed to take place on April 20 has been postponed until April 27, owing to congestion of the docks. FROZEN MEAT. , (By Teieffri>nii--i'-««« .'•-■<n.—Copyright.) (Rec. April 11, 5.5 p.m.) London, April 10. Th« Incorporated Society of Meat Importers' Smithfield market quotations for the undermentioned elates of frozen meat arc based on actual sales of not less than one hundred carcasses of mutton or lamb, or twenty-five quarters of heef, of fair avcrago quality. The quotations aio not for selected lines, hut for parcels fairly representative of the hulk of the shipments now on the niraket. The prices which follow arc on the average a. farthing per lb: more than the values 'ex ship, this difference- representing the average cost in expense, handling, conveyance, aud selling of. the meat:— Mutton— d. North Island, best 6 North Island, ordinary 5J New Zealand, ewes 59-16 ' Australian ewes 5J South American, light 53 South American, heavy 5| Lamb— North Island, selected 8 North Island, ordinary 73 Australian; best 73-6 Australian, fair % Australian, . iaferior 6i South American, first quality 71 South American, second quality... 7J BeefNew Zealand, ox fore 6 ..* 6 New Zealand, ox hinds '. £J Australian, ox fores 6J Australian, ox hinds '. 63-8 Argentine, chilled fores * ■ Argentine, chilled hind« 63 Uruguay, chilled fores 53 Uruguay, chilled hinds 6i RABBITS. Market very firm, owing to slow discharge. New South Wales, blues, ex Bhip, are quoted at 18s. and 19«. LONDON MARKETS.' (Rec. April 11, 5.5 p.m.) London, April 10. Cotton— May-Jnne shipments, -5.47 d. per lb. Leather.—There is a fair demand for Australian at 15d. to ltd.; basil; small inquiry. New Zealand, 19d. to 21d Hides.—The market is quiet. Queensland, 9!d., 9 7-16 d., 9 3-16 d.; New South Wales, 9 7-16 d., 9 3-Bd., 9Jd. Jute.—Native first marks, April-May shipraont, £21 15s. Hemp— Mnrch-May shipments, £34 per ton. ■ Rubber—Hard fine Para, 2s. 6ld. per lb.; plantation. 2s. 4 3-Bd.: smoked, 2s. 55d.

Copra.—March-April shipments, £25 15s. Sugar.—On' a. firm market American granulated sugar is unchanged at 295. 3d. per cwt. ■, Bradford Tops.—ln the Bradford wool market business ie limited, but prices are fairly maintained. Tops on spot, are quoted as follow :-64's, on spot, 31d'. per lb.: euper EC's, 3OJd.; common, ffl's, 29 U-; 56'e, 29d.; M's. 28id. ;■ 46's, 27d.; and Wβ, 26d. These prices show no further change, but there are signs of an eascir tendency. ■ WHEAT. (Edc. April 11, 5.5 p.m.) ■ . London, AprillO. Wheat is firmer, and from 3d. to 6d. more Iβ asked, owing to heavy rains in the Argentine and etronc American competition. Wheat and floiw shipments afloat: Unit-ed-Kingdom, 2,905,0C0 bushels; Continent'of Europe '4.365.M0 bushels; Atlantic shipments. 667,000 bushels; Pacific, 45.000 bush.fJ s^T 0, ' l , 1: , Euro P e ' l-«S.OM bushels: India, 39,000 bushels; Argentine. 515,000 bushels. American wheat is sold at from 645. to 645. 3d. Chicago May options,*lsU cents, 1551 cents; July .options, 121 cents, 123| cents. THE METAL MARKETS. tondon, April 9. Copper.—On the spot, £71155. to £72; three months. £72 10s. to £72: 155.; electrolytic. S/lI OS. 1.0 &// 15S. Tin. On the spot, £169 .to £169 10s.; thrco months, £168 to £168 10s Lead.-£2l 17s. 6d. and £21 2s. 6d. MINING NEWS WELLINGTON SHARE MARKET. Saturday's quotations on 'Change irero:— ■ ■ Buyers. Seller*). £ s. d. £6. d Murray's Freehold „13 0' — New Big '.River :..: - < n 0 Waihi 2 * C — Grand Junction 15 0 15 6 .Waltangi ....:..'..... 0 12 816 Sale:-Tallsman, £1 3e. (r.). STOOK EXOHANGE. 'Br Ttlejraph-Press Aesoolatloß.* „ , . Dunedin, April 10. Sales:—Talisman, 23e. 3d.; Union Steam, ZOe. Bd., 20s. 5d.; Hllburn Lime 31s. 6d.