COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2545, 20 August 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

•INVESTMENT SHARES. In- the investment market yesterday a sale of Wilson's Portland Cement ordinary shares at 225; was - reported. The Quotations were as follow i : V. Buyers. Sellers. ..£s. d. ■'£s. d. Bank Australasia-— - 114 10 0 National. Bank ; — 418 0 Equitoblo Building '9 5 0 ' Wn. Invest. T. and A. ... 0 11 0 — Well. Gas (pref.) — 10 0 Union. Steam (ord.) — 12 9 Union Steam (pref.)- — 10 0 Kaiapoi Woollen, (ord.) . ' —-530 Well. Woolleai (ord.) . 4 IS 0 — WestpoTt ■Ooal —j" .'-110 9 W-estporfc-Stockton 0 6 6 N.Z. Drug — 2 7. 0 Golden Bay Cement'...... — I'l'fl W.P.O.A. (£5) -. 5 0 0 6 5 ! 0 W.F.O.A. (£1) : 1 0 0 -

' WHOLESALE PBODTJOE PRICES. ; ■ Messrs. Laery'and Co.. Ltd., Allen Street, report wholesale prices of produce as follow:—Fowls' wheat, 7s. 6d.; barley, se. iOd.; Oape barley, 6s. 3d.; feed peas,, prime 6s. 6d.; good . fc.; . Prussian blue peas, Bs.; maize, se. 6d.; oatsheaf chaff,: £9 15s. to £10; hay, £6 10s. to £8; flour in sack; £16; oatmeal, £23 10s.; bran, £8; .pollard, £9 65.; rico pollard, £8 55.; rice meal, £7 55.; onions,. £7 to £7 10s.; potatoes, table,' North Island, £6 10s.' to £7; potatoes, eoed; Early Hose and Beauty of Hebron, £9 ICb.; up-,.to-Date,' £6 lfc.; Northern Star and Gamekeeper, £6 10s.; bacon, best factory, sides 10d„' rolls lid.. ham 3 9Jd„ • shoulders 73d.; "cheese, factory, medium, 9d. to IOd.; linseed meal, £19 10s.; linseed nute, £14; linseed, ground cake, XI4; whole lineeed, £17.

Customs duty colleoted ait- the port of Wellington yesterday amounted ' to £4604 2s. 2d. , , . .AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKETS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyright (Bee.. August 19, 11.60 p.m.) ' ' Sydnoy, August 19. Bran, £7; pollard, £7 10s. (millers' prices): oats, Tasmandan. ss. 3d.; New Zealand "A"

Grade Gat-;oris and Duns, fie. 3d.; American, ss. to ss. 3d.;-miaizc, ss. 4d. to ss. 6d.; Java, ss. to ss. 2d.; potatoes, Tasmanian, £9 to £10 10s.; New Zealand. £9; cheese, 10d. ,to lid.: bacon, lOd. to 10|d. Adolaido, August 19. Flour, £18 10s.; bran, is. 10Jd.; pollard, 2s. l{d.; oats, 4s. . • HIDES SALE. . (Eec. August 19. 11.5 p.m.) Melbourne, August 19. At the hides «ule there, were fair supplies. Competition was less keen, and prices were unchanged. ' ■ - .LONDON MARKETS. . London, August 18. The wheat market is steady but inactive. There is a quieter tone. Linseed oil, £23 15s. Turpentine, 335. 9d. TALLOW SALES. London, August 18. At the tallow safes 2368 casks were offered and 1243 sold. Prices realised:—Mutton, rtne 365. 9d., modlum 336. 6d.; beef, fine 37b.. medium 335. ' METAL MARKETS. London, August 18. (Jopper.-On the spot, £66 15s. to £67; three months, £68 to £68 ss. Tin.—On the spot, £148 15s. to £149 55.; three months, £150 - ss. to £150 15s. Pig-iron, 645. Bd. Lead, £20 17s. 6d. to £21. Spelter, £62_and £54. Bar silver is quoted at 223 d. per ounce standard.