COMMERCIAL ,ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2451, 3 May 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ,ITEMS

I Customs duty collected at the port of : Wellington on Saturday amounted to . £1117 Is. » SYDNEY, WOOL SALES TO BE KESUMED. [; (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) • ' • ~ , Sydney, May 1. The wool sales resume on Monday, tie j freight difficulty having been settled, j Future weekly wool offerings will be reetricted to the tonnage available. ! LONDON WOOL SALES. .(Rcc. May 2,' 5.5 p.m.) London, May 1. { At the wool sales a Eood average selection of merinos. were 'offered, ■ and prices were fully maintained. Cro«bredß aro still irregular. The following were the prices realised for the fleece portion of the Ngatapa. chp:—Top price, 15£ d.; average price, 15Jd. There has been catalogued up to date .47,530 bate, and there have been sold <5,018 bales. "•. LONDON MARKETS. • ; , (Rec. May 2, 5.5 p.m.) London, May 1. Wheat—Chicago May options. 1613 cents to 1633 cents; July options, 135 cents to 1363 cents. Tallow stocks, 7430 casks; imports, 5312 casks; deliveries, 4149. Cotton—May-June shipments, 5.55Jd. per lb. Now Zealand Hemp.—May-July shipments. £32 per ton. Jute.—Native first marks, April-May shipment, £20 15s. per ton. Rubber—Hard fine Para, 2s. 6d. per lb.; plantation, 2s. 3d.; smoked sheets, 2s. 3Jd. . Copra—April-May shipment, £24 10s. per ton. Quicksilver is quoted at 2425. 6d. per bottle. FROZEN MEAT (Rec. May 2, 5.5 p.m.) London, May 1. Th« Incorporated Society of Meat Importers' Smithficld 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 beef, of fair averago quality. The quotations axe 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 the average a farthing per lb. more than the values ei ship, tills difference representing the average cos f *?,. cs P cn3e > handling, conveyance, and selling of the moat;—

' BABBITS. The market is unchanged. METAL MARKETS. London, April 30. Capper—On tho spot. £77 to £77 55.; three months. £78 10s. to £78 155.; electrolytic, £87 to £88. Tin.—Oil the spot. £159 10s. to £160; thrco months, £161 10s. and £162. Lead, £20 17s. 6d. to £21 ss. Danish butter is .it 1445. to 1465. per ewt. Bar silver. 2.3 13-16(1. per oz. standard. AUSTRALIAN APPLES. Many of the Tasmanian apples by the steamer Hector were wasty or overripe. Com realised 6s. 3d. to 10s. 6d.; Clcopatras, Bs. 3d. to Bs. 3d.; Crabs, 9s. 6d. to 10a.; Rib-

Mutton— a. North Island, best. Gj ' North Island, ordinary 58 Australian, light 5J Australian, heavy 5} Now Zealand, ewes 69-16 Australian- owes 5} South American, light S3 South American, heavy Ej kaml)— Canterbury, light 7J Canterbury, medium 7S North Ielana, setectea 72 North Island, ordinary 7S ... Australian, heat 73-8 Australian, fair 7h Australian, inferior 78 South American, first quality 7} South American, second quality... 7J BeefNew Zealand*, ox fores 6} New Zealand, ox hinds 68 Australian, ox fores 61 Australian, ox hinds 6J Argentine, chilled fores 63 Argentine, chilled hinds 8 Uruguay, chillcd fores * Uurguay, chilled hinds * •None offering.