COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2445, 26 April 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Customs duty collected at the port of Wei lington on Saturday amounted to £3238 4s, Bd.

WEST COAST COAL SHIPMENTS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Westport, April 25. The total of tho week's coal shipments is as follows:—Westport Coal Co., 10,762 tons 10 cwt,, coke 21 tons 6 cwt.; Wcst-iport-Stockton Co., 3401 tons 11 cw.t

COLONIAL BANK OF AUSTRALASIA. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) Sydney, April 24. Tho half-yearly report of the Colonial Bank of Australasia shows that the net profit was £28,317. There was carried forward £8277, and to the reserve . fund £10,000. A dividend of seven per cent, was cleared.

LONDON MARKETS. (Rec. Aipril 25, 5.5 p.m.)

London, April 24. Wheat—Tho 'market ie firm. Chicago May options, 160Jc., t0.1623c.;. July options, 136Ji\ to 138ici' Cotton.—May-June shipments of American middling cotton are quoted at 5.70 d. per lb.

Jute—Native first marks, April-May shipment, £20 15s. per ton. New Zealand, Hemp—May-July shipment £32 per ton. Rubber.—Hard fine Para., 1 2s' ■ 6id. per lb.; plantation, 2s. 33d.; smoked, 2s. 45d. Copra—April-May shipment-, £23 15s. per ton... ... FROZEN MEAT. (Rec. April 25, 5.5. p.m.) London, April 24. Th» Incorporated Society of Meat Importers' SinHhficld market quotations . for the undermentioned classes of frozen meat are based on actual sales of not less than one hundred carcasses of mutton or lamb, or twenty-five quarters of heef, of fair average quality. The quotations are not for selected lines, but for parcels fairly representative of the bulk of the shipments 'now on the market. The prices which follow are on tho average a farthing per lb. more than the values ei ship, this difference representing the average ooefc in eipcnse, handling, conveyance, and selling of the meat;— Mutton— ■ d, . North Island," best 6 North Island, ordinary 5J , Australian, light 5J Australian, heavy 5 7-16 New Zealand, ewes 5 9-16 Australian - ewes £J South American, light 5j South American, heavy 5j Lamb— Canterbury, medium 8 Canterbury, seconds 73 North Island, selected 7 A North Island, ordinary VS... Australian, best 7 3-8 Australian, fair '...: 71 ■Australian, inferior 73 South American, first quality 71 South Amerioan, second, quality... 71 BeefNew Zealand, ox fores 6 3-8 New Zealand; ox hinds ,6| Australian, ox fores 61 Australian, ox hinds ; 63-8 Argentine, chilled fores tj: Argentine, ohilled hinds 71- . .Uruguay, .chilled fores * TTurguay, chilled hinds 8 •None. offering. BABBITS. . ' The market is dull, and tending easier, MINING NEWS DREDGING RETURNB. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Dunedlh, April 25. Dredging returns:—Rise- and Shine No. 1, 570z. 13dwt.; Golden Bed, 28oz. 13dwt.; Rising Sun, 230z. 14dwt. iMOUNT LYELL MINING COMPANY. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Rec. April 25, 5.5 p.m.) Melbourne, April 25. The Mount Lyell Mining Company's, ro turns for the month ended April 14, are as f0110w27,129 tons of ore were treated,' producing 628 ton 6 of blister copper, contain ing 622 tons copper, 33,015 ounces silTer, and 643 ounces gold,