COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2496, 24 June 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES. , No business was done in the investment market yesterday. The quotations iveru as under:— Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ 6. d. National Banl< 510 6 — Equitable Building 9 10 0 — Well. Gas (prof.) 0 19 6 — N.Z Insurance 6 4 6 — S. British Insurance 4 15 0 — Gear Meat. (£1) 4 n 0 — N.Z. Shipping (prcf.) 10 14 0 — Union Steam (ord.) 1 310 14 0 Union Steam (prof.) 10 6 — Well. Woollen lord.) 4 14 n — Taupiri Coal 017 9 — ' Leytand-O'Brien 119 — N. 7., Portland Cement ... 0 9 0 — Golden Bay Cement 116 12 0 Customs duty collected at the port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £9244 lis. Id. METAL MARKET. By Telegraph—Pross Association—Copyiight London, June 22. Silver—Bar silver is quoted at 231 d. per ounce standard. Copper-On the spot., £S2 15s. to £83; three months, .£B4 to £84 ss. , • Tin—On the spot, £163 15,*. to £169 55.; three months, £166 ICe. to £167. Lead—Soft foreign, £24 7s. 6d. to £24 17s. 6d. per ton. Spelter—Spot, £95; three months, £85 per ton. Thoroughness invariably results in a structure which will stand .sound and strolls for all time. Having built our foundations of the business, solid as a rock, nothing can sliak • them. Suppliers of various produce continue to • come tu us, and we give everything our best and most careful attention. We sell direct to stores and consumers, saving the middleman's 10 per cent, profit., and we can therefore afford to distribute, at any rate, an extra ;'i per cent, over and above others to our suppliers'. That is the reason we have such large support. Send u.<; your milk, butter, eggs, or creaui. Wangamti Fresh Food Coy.—Advt. ' Exhibitors at the forthcoming Show should remember that the benefits from their display will bo but' transient unless the wider publicity obtainable from newspaper advertising is taken advantage of. By photographing the exhibit, and lpprcducing in "The Dominion," or having same fully described by a reporter, not onlv will those who attend the show be reminded of what they saw during their visit, but others who ivere unablo -to be present wili be reached, and business prob. ably result. Special arrangements have been made to meet advertisers' wants in this respect. A representative will be in attendance at the paper stall just inside the entrance gates, where "The Dominion" will be on sale, or messages sent to 22 Princess Street, Palmerston, will receive prompt attention.—Advt. MINING NEWS WELLINGTON SHARE MARKET. A dull market and no business doing iras tho record of the mining market yesterday. There were only two lines quoted os follow:— liuycr6. Sellers. £ a. d. f, b. d. Talisman 116 12 0 Waihi — 2 0 0 STOCK EXCHANGE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, June 23. Saks—Waihi, 395. 9d., 405.; Grand .lunction, 235. 9d.; Northern Steam (paid), 14s. 6d. Chrlstchurch, June 23. Sales reported—Ward, £5, 155.; Waihi Grand Junction, 235. 9d. Duncdin, June 23. J The following sales were made on tho ] Stock Exchange to-day:—Waihi, £2, and Milburn Lime and Cement, £1 13s. The following pales were reported :—Mount Lyeli, £1 7e„ and Dalgoty and Co., £5 10s. LONDON MINING QUOTATIONS. ' By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, June 22. Stoclt and share market quotations include —British Broken Hill, 235. 6d„ 24«. 6d.; Broken Hil Proprietary, 455. 6d., 465. 6d.; Ilampden-Cloncurry, 30s. 6d., 31s. 6d.:j Mount Wiiott, 605.. 6bs. Australian Loan and Mercantile, £87; City of Sydney, £99. TALISMAN CONSOLIDATED. The mine superintendent of the Talisman Colsolidated reports having sent to London the following cablegram:—Woodstock, south drive, progress 051t.; No. 4 1 crosscut, driving north—progress 69ft.; No. 15 level, south drive—progress 13ft.; reef, 24in. wide; values nil; north drive—progress 48ft.; red, 63in. wide, value £6 7s. 6d. Jlccf faulted. ROSS GOLDFIELDS. The following telegram has been received from the mine superintendent at. IIobS:--"Return, 440/.. 3d\vt. of gold from 1060 trucks." HI(;GINSON"AND MacshANE, 14.'t Fentherston street, Wellington. SHA lIEBROKEIiS and ACCOUNTANTS. MONEY TO LEND on First-class Fr<i<y hold Security. "■ Mr. F. P. C'orkill, land agent, New Plymouth, has a choice dairvitlg [urni iu the Xariipuki district fur wle,