COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2475, 31 May 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

FEILDING MARKET REPORT. Messrs. A. H. Atkinson and Co., Ltd., report tho following market prices:— Potatoes £4 10s. to £5 ss. per ton, pig £2 10s.; pressed hay, £6 to £7 10s.; chaff, £8 to £8 lCa.; barley, 6s. to 7s. bushel; peas, 7s. 6d.; apples, 3s. half-case; pears, 35.; pumpkins, 6s. to 7s. bag; marrows. 45.; anions, 7s. cwt. Store nigs, 20s. to 265. 6d.; light porkers. 275. to 325.; sows, 335. to 365.; weaners, Bs. to 125.; riding pony, £5 55.; aged horse, 355.; cow in milk, £3. Hens, per pair, 2s. 6d. to 3s. 3d.; p.b. ,155.; turkeys, 10s.; cockerels, 3s. to 45.; p.b., 155.; p.b. drakes, 15s. Customs duty collected at the port of Wellington on Saturday amounted to £570 Is. 9d. FROZEN MEAT (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (lice May 30, 5.5 p.m.) London, May 29 Th» Incorporated Socicty of Meat Importers' Smitlifield market Quotations for the undermentioned classes of frozen meat are based on actual Eales of not less than one hundred carcasses of mutton or lamb, or twenty-five quarters of beef, of fair averago quality. The quotations are not for seleoted lines, but for parcels fairly representative of tho bulk of tho sliipments now on the market. Tho 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, convcyanco, and selling of the meat:— Mutton— d. North Island, best 6 7-16 North Island, ordinary 63 New Zealand ewes 6 Australian, best 61-8 Australian, seconds • Australian, ewes 53 ltiver Plate, light 6} River Plate, lieavy 6 River Plate, ewes 5g Lamtj— Cantorbury, light 8J Canterbury, seconds 8 Canterbury, heavy 8} North Island, ordinary 73 North Island, selected 81-8 Australian, best 73 Australian, fatr 7i 'Australian, .inferior 7 3-8 River Plate, light 3i River Plate, heavy 7} BeetArgentine, chilled fores 6J Argentine, chilled hinds 8* RABBITS. Prices unchanged; rather better demand, owing to ilearness. WHEAT. (Rec. May 30, 5.5 p.m.) London, May 29. WTicat prices aro active. Chicago July options, 126J cents to 128J cents; September, 120 3-8 cents to 1218 cents. LONDON MARKETS. (Rec. May 30, 5.5 p.m.) London, May 29. Jute.—Native first marks, May-June shipment, £20 lCs. per ton, New Zealand Hemp.—June-August shipment, £32 15s. per ton. Rubber.—Hard, fine Para, 2s. 7jd. per lb.; plantation, 2s. 4Jd.; smoked sheets, 2s. 4Jd. .Copra.—May-June shipment, £22 10s. per ton. Cotton.—May-June shipment, sd. per lb. THE METAL MARKETS. London, May 28. Copper—On the spot, £78 15s. to £79; three months, £79 12s. 6d. to £79 17s. 6d.; electrolytic. £87 10s. to £88 10s. Tin.—On the spot, £163 ss. to £163 155.; three months, £163 to £163 10s. Lead, £20 ss. to £20 15s. Spelter. £82 and £78. Bar silver. 23 7-16 d. per ounce standard, (Rec. May 30, 5.5 n.m.) London, May 29. Silver, 23 5-l!d. per ounce standard. Quicksilver, £12 15s. and £12 17s. per bottle. DANISH BUTTER. London, May 28. Danish butter is quoted at from 1495. to 150s.