COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2463, 17 May 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES. In iho investment share market, on Saturdav sales were reported of Kaiopoi "Woollen" preference at £5 Is., aud Auckland Trams at 21s. 9d. The quotations T?cre as follow: Buyers. Sellers, £ s. d. £ a. <L Bank N.Z. .(£6 13s 4d.)... 17 2 6 N.Z. and Biver Plato - Well. Int. T. and A. 011 3 9U 6 Well. Trust Loan. Ltd. ... - 712 6 V/cl!. Dep. end Jlort. ... - u 8 6 N.Z. Insurance 6 o o — Canterbury Meat ............ , [1 ' 1 Well. Mt. Eipt. (£3lZfi. 6d.) 212 6 — ' LONDON MARKETS. Messrs. Dalgety land,; Company, Ltd., Tiave received the following cablegram from their London office, under date May 13:Wool: Sales continue with mcreeswg spirit, compared with the closing rates of March. Sales of fine and .medium groMy crossbred aro .on ft eelt, .

cent. ■ lower. Good merino (rrea?y and scoured are on a. par, and faulty and inferior 5 per cent. lower, whilst short, burry sconred are neglected. Tallow: At auction priccs were on the average Is. per cwt lower; good niixod realised 34a. 6d. LONDON WOOL SALES. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) London, May 14. At the wool sales merinos were firm, crossbreds unchanged. The following were tho priccß realised for the fleece portions of the clips namedMide&on (top), 14Jd., arcrase 13Jd.; Wellehot, 15; d. and 13d.; Miamia, 93<1. and 8 3-Bd. New Zealand: Mangatapiri. 18id. and 171 d.; Waikaraka, 17* d. ana 16Jd. (Kec. May 16, 5.5 p.m.) London, May 16. At the soles there was good competition and a harder tendency all round. To date 152,370 bales have been cataloEued and 143,167 bales were sold. The following prices were realised for the fleece portion tof the clipe named:—"Hiner&.nf;i," top price 17id.; "Kollcsby," lop 27Jd., averago 26Jd.

COLONIAL AND OTHER PKODUOB. London, May 13. Wheat.—The market is Quiet. Flour.—The market is depressed ow ng to heavy American offere. Oats—The market is quiet, but firm. Ba.hia Blanca, June-July shipment,, 38s. 6d. Beans are 6teady. Peas arc in little demand. „ • , ,r. Butter.—Market very firm. Danish, 1545. to 158s. Australian choicest v scarce at 1365. to 1385.; unsalted, 140s. New Zear land is', at 140s. to 1425.; unsaltcd, 1445. to 1455. . Oheese.—Market firm, owing to tho Government demand. New Zealand, 955. to 9os. Sugar.—Market steady; priccs unchanged. Tho Bradfurd market is stronger, lyith keen demand for merinos of the four later months of the year. Prices, 32Jd„ 32d„ 31d„ 29Jd., 28id., 26d., and 24d.

METAL MARKETS. Copper—On the spot, £78 17s. 6d. to £73 2s. 6d.; three months, £79 17s. Sd. to £60 2s. 6d. Tin, £163 and £163 10s. . Pig-Iron, 645. Bd. Lead, £19 15b. to £20 7s. 6d. London, May 14. Copper.—On the spot, £78 to £78 55.; three months, £79 to £79 ss. Tin—£l62 lCs. to £163. Lead, £20 to £20 10s. Imports 23,<<09 tons (including 6245 Australian); exports, 4021 tons. •» ■ . WHEAT. (Rec. May 16, 4 p.m.) '■ London, May 15. Wheat is dull, and is occasionally offering at less money. . The wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is the equivalent of 2,580,000 quartern, for the Continent 4,420,000 quarters, and Atlantic shipments 554,000 quarters, Paciflc 4COO. Total for Europe, 1,175,000 quarters, inoluding India, 28,0C0 quarters, and Argentine, 448,000 quarters.

TRUST AQENY COMPANT. London, May 14. The report of the Trust Agency Company of Australasia shows profit totalling £67,298. A dividend at the rate of 10 per centum for the year lvas docla.rod, and £7298 carried forward.

Customs duty collected at the port of Wellington on Saturday amounted, to £495 3s.