COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2548, 24 August 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

- INVESTMENT 6EAUEB. In tho■ -Investment market yesterday a ' enHo 'of Golden Bay Cement shores at 21s.' ttos reported. Tho quotations were as follow:—' . ..: '' Buyers. , Sellers. . " £ b. d. £ b. A. National 'Bank' — <18 0 Bank N.Z. (£3 6s. Bd.) ... - ,10 2 6 '- : . WelL Dep.' 1 aid Mort; ...'. — 08 0 Well. Gkis (pref.) - ,10 0 Union £'eam (ord.j — . 12 9 Union. Steam (pref.) , —. I'.# 0 KaiapoKWoollen- (ord.) v 5.1 0. - <5. 2'. 6 Well. Woollen, (ord.) ...... 4 18 0- — West/port Coal.'. . — .1,18 9 . Wostport-Stockton: ...... 0 5 0 —' Leyland-O'Brien . ........... 1 3- 3 —•' N.Z. Drug 2'7 0 Customs duty: collected at the port' or Wellington yesterday amounted to £201! 4s. WHOLESALE PKODTJCE PRICES. Messrs. Laery and 00., lAd., Allctt Street, report wholesale prices of produce as follows Fowls' wheat, whole, "7s. 6d. a ' bushel; fowls' barley, ss. 10d.; Cape barley, 6s. 3d.; feed'peas, prime 6«. 6d„ rood 65.; - . -Prussian blue peas, Bs.; maize, Es. 6d.; oatensheaf chaff, £9 to £10 per ton; oat . straw chaff, £5 10s. to £6; lia.y, £6 to £8; flour,- in - sacks, £16; oatmeal, £24; bran, £7 10s.; pollard, £9; rico'pollard, £8; ricemeal.J.£7onions, N.Z'.,' £7. to - £8; ; seed potatoes, Early Rose and Beauty of Hebron £9 10s., Up-to-Dato £6 155., Northern Star and GameKesper £6 10s.; bacon, 6ides 10d., rolls lid., hams 9i&, shouldera 73d.: llnGeed meal, £19 -10s.; linseed nuts and ; linseed ground cake, £14; vrholo linseed, . £17 to £17 10s. j , BUTTER AND CHEESE. • • 'Messrs. A. S. Paterson andi Company, Ltd., Wellington, have been advised by cablegram' ■■ from their' London principals, . Jleßsra. J. and J. Lonsdale and Company, ' Ltd., as followsßutter: Sfaxket unchanged. Steady. Cheese: Market quiet-, Quotations, 725. to 735. ( HIGH COMMISSIONER'S CABLED MARKET ] . REPORT. - The Department of Agriculture, Industries, end Commerce has received the fol- j lowing cablegram from the High Commis- j eioner-yforrT New-Zealand, . dftted,. London, ' August '21."-'(Note:--Quotations, unless qtherwiso /ore average * market" prices \ : . : on spot) r— ! ■ - ' ' Meat-fGanterbury .an'd ■ NortU leland -r . mutton'-'osuinot bo-quoted'.fori the. follow- : ' tog reason: The Government arc now hold- J ; ins wethers for feeding the armies, and •only ewes are available' for the general I ; publio. :' Ewes aire plentiful,/with a: fair demand, at. sjd. per lb. More lambs havo .a i ; been', released, and prices have declined, r ;■ with a. result that the demand, is : getting i better. . The demand has been stimulated » by the scarcity of chilled beef, and is chiefly l for; light-weight. . I ■Lamb—Canterbury, two's, 81-Bd. per lb.; h.oavy-'S'eicht four's, 7Sd.; second grade, t . light-weight. 7|d.; other than Canterbury, i 81-161- for best quality; higher prices havo i; been paid for light-iveaght.- '> . • o Beef—Chilled beef is not quoted.- officially. A very limited supply -at .the market is selling at—Hinds, lOd.-pettj'lbVi-'fores, Bd. Butter.—The ;miarket : f-.iS|-«ttrm.,- --The : loss of a- steamer with 28,000 • casks of Siberian butter lias made the market'firmer. Dan- „ is'a, in small demand, 1695. t0.'1725::-Sibe- y 'Han, in good demand," a little offering, * 1345. to 1365.; Irish creamery, : firm-, ' 1565. li to 1605.; unsalted, 16Cb. to 1625. . ' Cheese.—The -market is very.-'quiet,, arid • . - prices are ; irregular. . Canadian 1 / quiet, - : 735. .to',-755.'. per owt.. according to'quality B .: and-condii-tion,' exceptionally, 765.; English s oheddar," quiet, 945.; New Zealand market ~ . . quiet, but steady, lie. to 755.; United S-tates, quiet, 68s. to 705.", but if not in good E condition is selling at 6ta. to 665.. • V Hemp.—The market is quiet, but steady, /jj Xo\v Zealand, good-fair grade, per ton, £32 v £30 lCs.; forward shipmenti'is\ * quoted at the sam® 'price; Manila, new & graded, fair, per ton, £38; the output'from 8 Manila for the week vro.s 23,C00 bales. ~ . !■ 'Wicat:— l The . market. ..is , weaker and slightly lower. : It is reported, that Ithe 0 . Canadian crop is large and of good n quality. Canadian, old crop, on passage, b per quarter, 555.; new crop, October 1 to No- tvember shipment,"'47s; 6d.; American,,new ' crop. 475. ? Oats.—The market is'quiet, small business 11 ■ ' ; ■' t

1 doing.' Argentine, on spot, 255. 6d. per : quarter; August, to September shipment. Wi. fill. J Wool.—The.mffirtet remiains'iirm. I WHEAT AND -FLOOR. >, By Telegrapli-Press Association-Copyright l ■ ' !■'London, August- 22. j He wheat and flour afloat for tho United « totals -1.605,000; quarters: for the f Continent, 715,000.; Atlantio shipments, j 340,000. The'total shipments to- Europe amount to'.- -430,000 qiiajtere, including 14,000 i from India. .