COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2520, 22 July 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES. In the investment market yesterday, sales. wore recorded of Leyland-O'Brien at •22$ i 3d:, New- Zealand' Portland' Cement at 96. 9d.. and Now Zealand and River Plate at ,41e. The quotations were as under:— Buyers. . 'Sellers. . £s. d. • £B. d *National Bank , — /••• 5.10 '0 Bank N.Z. (£6 13s. 4d.) ... • - «>5-« Loan and Mcrctle (ord.) ■— , , 83 10 0 Christchurch.. Gas (£5) — ■ 8 2 6 Well. Gas ; (£10) - . 17 0 -.0 :Chch: Meat V......; - -- K-7 0 Gear. Meat '(£4), 16 0 0 17 0 0 Gear Meat (£1) - 4 0 0 - AlO 0 Union Steam . (ord.) - — J j ' Union Stoam (pref.) ...v.. — ■ 10 7 Wcstport /Goal — 1 '] • N.Z. Drug ; — 2 7 6 Sharland ■ (ord.) 1 2'3 -- Sha'rland '(pref.). 12 3 — ' /•Cum dividend. • Customs duty collected at the port of Wellington'.'yesterday amounted to £5557 18s. 3d. WOOL, HIDES, AND SKINS. Messrs. Williams and Kettle, Ltd., Dannevirke, report Holding their usual periodical Eole of wool, skin 6, hides, etc.', on •Tuesday, when they offered a large catalogue of all descriptions to a representor tive attendance of buyers. Compared with last sale, wool showed a. decline of Id. per lb. on good clean stuff, and lid. to 2d. on seedy and rough wool. We topped the market' on-three'nice lines of crutchings at 125 d. Skins showed an advance of about jd. per lb. ■ On tallow there was a drop of'2s;;6d. per cwt. , , / '- We .quoteas followsCrutchings, clean, lid.' to: 12! d.; seedy and stained, Bd. to 103 d..; bellies and-pieces, BSd. to 9Jd.; crossbred. rough, 12d.; dead, 113 d.; black. IOJd.; crossbred, Beedy, 9d.; lambs, seedy, 4d.; locks, 44.

Skins: I 'Crossbred,. : 9Jd. to Hid. ; lambs, Hid.; half to' three-quarter wools, 9d. to 93d.; quarter-wools. Bd.; pelts, lid.; 'black, 7d.; dead, Sid.—:

Salted..skibs:' Quarter, to half-wools, 2s. 3d. .each; half to three-quarter-wools, 4s. 6d.-each; dead:hoggets, Is. 7d.; lambs, ss. 6d.*; three-auartcr to full-wools, Bs. to 106.; black,''3s. 9d. : , Hides: Cow,' B}d. to 9d.; yearlings, B}d.; horse,. Bs.; ox, 75d. to 9.1 d,, weaners. 4?. d. to B>d.; weaners, cut, 7d.; cow, cut, Ba.; bull;' 6d.; -yearlings, cut,, 7d.; cow, slippy, 6!d.;, steers and, heifers, heavy condition, ad. ..." r . Calfskins: Prime, 9d.; calf, cut,'Bd,; light, Bid. ( slippy; 41d.; calf, dTy. -53d. Tallow: Tins, 20s. ;6d, per cwt.; rough, 145.'6 d.: casks,-225. 6d. to'2ss. ; Horsehair, Is. 3d. por lb. 1 ... LONDON WOOL SALES/, : By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright v • London, July 20. At the wool saleG stylish wools are meeting with good, competition, but faulty aro slow of sale, and . bidding; is indifferent. The following prices were realised for the'fleecc portions of the clips named :— "Barenya," top price 28d„ average 2£i(!-; "Bayriok," 18ld. and 163 d.: "Barooka," 16Jd. and 15Jd.; "Pevensey,"- 16d, and 15 ' 3-Bd. New Zealand: "Ketu." 16d. and 143 d.; "Abbotsford," 19d. and 18d., : ' It has been decided to close the present 6ories on Saturday, and open the 6ixth series as arranged, except that the list will .close : on Saturday .next.,

Messrs. Murray, Roberts and Co., Ltd., have received the following cablegram from. London, dated July '20:—Market very weak; sixth series' list now closes July 24.

. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency ;Company, Ltd.. have received the following cablegram from their. London house, under date July 20:—Prices for best merino and .crossbred are unchanged. Other descriptions are irregular and weaker.

STOOK AND SHARES. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright London, July 20. The following wore yesterday's closing quotations: Australian Mercantile, debentures, £79; Dolgety's, £79; Goldsbrough, Mort'and Co., £90; Dalgety's Bhares, £5 155.; Hampden Mining, 2Bs. 9d. to 306.

WHEAT. London, July 20. Tho wheat market shows increasing flrmness. A -threepence to sixpence advance is asked. There is more inquiry for cargoes. THE IfETAJL MAIIKETS. London, July 21. Copper.—Spot, £74 10s. to £74 155.; three months', £76 to £76 ss.'; electrolytic, £90 to £91. Tin—On .spot, £164 10s. to £165; three months'. £160 10s. to £161. _ Lead.—Soft foreign, £24 155..t0 £25 per ton. 1 ' ■