COMMERCIA ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2492, 21 June 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIA ITEMS

INTESTJIENT SHARES. In tit investment market on Saturday A sale of Bank of New Zealand si?.ire:; (new) at £17 125., cum dividend, was reported. The quotations wcto aa under:— Buy erg. Sellers. t, i. d. £ ». d. National Bajik 5 10 6 5 11 0 Union Bank 57 0 0 67 7 6 Eqi.ic.able Building 9 10 a — Well. Trust, Loan, Ltd.... 711 0 Well. Dep. and Mort — 0 8 0 Gisborne Gas — 1 10 0 W::i. Gd3 (ill!) - 17 ii 0 Gear Heat (£1) 4 0 0 — N.Z. Shipping (pref.) 10 14 0 — Onion Steam (pref.) 10 3 — Weil. Woollen tad.) 4 14 0 — Taupiri Coal 0 17 0 — Leyland-O'Brien 115 — Manning and Co 4 12 6 — N.Z. Portland Cement ... 0 8 9 — Golden Bay C«iuent ! I i — Wilson's Cement (ord.) ... 1 2 0 »- Customs duty collected a* the port of Wellington on Saturday amounted to £2667 9s. 7d. Messrs. A. H. AUjinson and Co., Ltd., report the following prices for produce, etc. For both table and pie potatoes tnora ha-s been considerable demand at higher rates. Horse carrots and swedes also meet with ready tale. Tablo potatoes, £5 to £6 per ton; pig, £2 ss. to .£3 10s.; horse carrots, £3; swedes, £2 10a. to £3; peas, 6s. 6d. to 7s. 6(1. per bushel; beans, 75.; meadow hay, £6 to £7 per ton; prime clover, £9 IC»., chaff, £8 10s.; straw, £4 55.; feed oats, ss. £s. per bushel; seed Algerians, 7s. to 7s. 6d Trap horses from £2 to £10. There is a good inquiry for pigs, and higher values ruling. WEST COAST COAL SHIPMENTS. >Dy XelegMflii.—l'scw .•.»s<K'i«Miin. Westport, June 20. The coal shipments last week were as follows:—Westport Coal Co., 8724 tons 4c\vt.; coke. 65 tons lewt. Westport-Stocktofl Co,, 1545 ions Wcwt. FROZEN JIEAT! By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (l!ee. June 20, 5.5 p.m.) London, June 19. The Incorporated Society ol' Meat Importers' Smrthfield market quotations for the undermentioned classes of frozen meat £iro based on actual sales of not less than oae hundred carcasses of mutton or k.mb, or tucnly-ave quarters of heef, of fair average quality. The quotations are not for 6elccic<i 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 ox ship, this difference representing tue average cost in expellee, handling, conveyance, and selling ®f the meat:— llutton— d.

Canterbury, light Vl Canterbury, medium 71-8 Canterbury, heavy 7 North Island, best 71-8 North Island, ordinary' 7 - New Zealand ewes 6j ' Australian, .heavy 41-8 Australian, light h 7-16 Australian, ewes 61 Eirer Plate, light 7 Hirer Plate, heavy 4} Lamb— Canterbury, light 83-8 Canterbury, seconds 8 3-8 Canterbury, heavy Si: > North Island, ordinary 8 5-15 North Island, selected 83-8 Australian, best 81-S Australian, fair 8 Australian, inferior 78 River Piate, light 71 Kivur Plate, heavy 78 BeefArgentine, chilled .fores 78 Argentine, chilled hinds is Babbits—The market is quiet, but firm. LONDON MARKETS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright CReo. Juno 20, 5.5 p.m.) London, June 10. Butter.—Danish, 1495. to 1525. Jute.—New crop, August shipment. £24 ss. per ton. "N.Z. hemp is quoted at £32 per ton. 'Rubber.—Hard fine Para,, 2s. 63d. per lb.; plantation, 2c. s}d.; smoked sheets, 2fi. sid. Cojira.-Juno-iTuly shipment, £21 per ton. Quicksilver, 325». to 3255. per bottle. Cotton.—June-July shipments, 5.24 d. per lb. WHEAT. (Kec. June 20, 5.5 p.m.) London, June 19. The whoat market is dull on lower official Indian quotations, and good weather reports from Amcrica and Canada.. Chicago opticus, July IM-'c. to 106Jc.; September, 102ic. to 105 c. IjEAD STATISTICS. London, June 19. Lead.—lmports, 31,232 tons; Australasian, 9118; exports, 4816. MINING NEWS WELLINGTON SHAKE MARKET. In the mining market, on Saturday a sale was reported of Talisman at 21s. 3d. Thu Quotations were us follow Buyers. Bellori. X e. d. .fl s. n Ross - _ « 0M» Waihi 1 If f ~ Grand Junction 13 6 — HIUGWSON AND MACSHANE, 143 Ffiiitherston Streat, Wellington. SHAEEBROSTEES and ACCOUNTANTS. HONEY TO LEND on First-class Fiejj , ioW SSSWi&e