COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2556, 2 September 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES. '• \ Thare werci no transactions in inrestmcnt shores yesterday. The quotations were as' follow:—. * Buyers. SeHera. .; . V - ■ • £s. d. £s. d. National Bank 411 0 418 0 Bank N.Z.. (£6.135. 4d.) ... - .16 0 0 Well. Gas" (£10) 16 5 0 National Insurance ....... — - 2 6 0 Standard Insurance • t- 113 6 Well, Msit Export' (£5) ... — 6 0 0 Kaiia>poi Woollen (0rd.),.. 5 2 6 . — •Well. Woollen (pref.)'... 3 10 0 ' - Westport Coal ................ — 110 8 Westport-Stockton 0 6 0 . — ■ Leyland-O'Bi'ien — 12 3 Manning and Co. 4 10 0 — W.P.C.A. (£5). ......;. 5 0 0 - ......:. 1 0..0 ' - r . *Gum dividend. WHOLESALE PRODUCE PRICES. ; Messrs. I.flory and Co., Ltd., Allen Street, report .wholesale prices as follow:—Fowls' ,whwt,\ prime, '7e.;'fowls' barley, ss. lOd.j Cape'barley, SsX'&C; feed peas, prime'6s. 6d„ good 6s.i Prussian bluo peas/ 7s. 9d;; peas, 6s. 6d.; maize, ss. .6d.; seed maize,' "Hickory King," 6s. 6d.; eaten, sheaf 'chaff. £9 10s.'; wheat'straw, £4 10s.; hay, ■£6 to £7 10s.; flour.-in. racks, £16; oat:meal,' £23; bran, '£7 55.; pollard; £8 :55.; •rice pollard; •' £7,15®.; rice meal, £7 55.; onions, California)!, 14s. per case; potatoes,.,southern, .£7 10s„ Nortlilsland £7; se9d potatoes, Early Hose and Beauty of Hebron,'£9 10s.; Reading' Russet, £7 10s.; Up-to-Date, £5 10s.; Circular Head, ;£7; Gamekeeper. £6; Northern Star, £5.105.; bacon, best factory, sides. 10d., rolls lid., hams . 91d», shoulders ; 7J<l.; cheese, ■ best factory, BJd,. • , ; LONDON MARKETS; By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, August 31. . Wiheat.—The market is neglected. Pacific is fid. and Indian Is. lower. Jute.—Native first-marks, Autrust-Septem-,'ber shipment, £24 10s. per ton. METAfIj MARKETS.' ." , ■ . - London, August 31. Copper. l —On the spot, £6B lfls. 6d. to £68 17s. 6d.; three months, £69 17e. 6d- to £70 2s. 6d. ' . Tin.—On the spot, £150.155.. to £161 ss.;' three months, £152 to £152 10s. IXiid;—£22 ss. to £22 10s. ■ • Spelter.—£74 and £70. ■Bar silver is quoted at 23d. per ounce standard. BUBINSIDE MARKETS,. . ■ (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) ' Dunetfln, September 1. - There was a, ■ very large yarding of fat cattle at Burnsidei to-day, 276 being penned.' Tho entry consisted chiefly of good quality bullocks and heifers. Tho supply was .much, in excess of local requirements, and prices were 10s. to 15s. below last wcelt'6-rates, and several pens wero passed out unsold. Best builoeks, £15 to £16 15s'.;' extra prime, to £19 17s. 6d.; medium, £13 10s. to £14 10s.; others', £10-to £12 10s.; best cows, £10 to £12 10s.; extra, prime, to 1 £13 55.; medium, to £10; others; £7 10s. to £9. , . ■ ' ' There was a large yarding of fat sheep the entry totalling 3600. The quality was good' to fair. The market opened with prices about on a par with last week's' rates; but as the sale advanced values' were slightly easier. Extra heavy wethers, to 445.. 6d.; prime, 335. 6d. to 385.; medium to good, 285.. to 3Zb.; others, 21s. to 265.; prime ewes, 275. 6d. to 325. 6d.; extra, prime, to 355.; medium to good, 225. to 255.; others,' 19s. to 21s. 6d. ' Fat lambs: 1181 were penned, a largo pro-' portion were only good stores, and on account of this freezing buyers were operating very cautiously. Prime lambs sold about equal to last week's rates, but others showed a, decline of about Is. to Is. 6d. per head. There was not much competition among graziers, i Prime heavy, 265. to 285.; extra prime, to 335.; vood, 21s. to 245.; others. Ife to 19s.