COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2583, 4 October 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Customs, duty collected at the port of Wellington on Saturday amounted to £2752 Bs. sd.

■ FEILDING PRODUCE KErOKT. Messrs. Atkinson, Ltd., report prices as follows:—O.S. chaff, £8 to £8 10s.; straw chaff, £3 15e.; pressod hay, £5 to £6 10s.; seed barley, 6s. per bushel; feed, 4s. 9d. to 55.; Scotoli tares, 176. 6d.; peas, 55.; table potatoes, £7 ton; pig, £2 to £2 10s.; seed, £5 to £7; horse carrote, £2; feed oats, 4s. 9d. per bushel; seed, 7s. to Bs.; maize, 56. to 6s. 6d.; wheat, 6s. 6d. to 7s. 6d. Poultry, per pair, hens 9d. to sg. 6d.; cockcrels, 4s. 6d. to ss. 9d.; duck 6, ss. 3d. to ss. 6d.; turkeys, 195.; food weaner piss, 15s. 6d. to 18s.; others, Bs. to 145.; fit-ores, 225. to 295.; porkers, 3te: to 455. LONDON WOOL SALES. Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, have received tho following cablegram from their London house, under date September 30:—"At the wool sales .prices are very firm for good -wool, especially for merinos, whilst scoured is dearer, as also are shabby crossbreds. There is an Increased demand for sheepskins. Merino combing is Arm and slightly dearer, wlulEt merino clothing is occasionally slightly lower. Crossbred combing par to id. lower, especially Now ZeaJand, but clothing.is unchanged. Inferior as neglected and crossbresd lambs Id. lower; 56C0 bales offered, 4700 bales sold.

Messrs'. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., havo received the following advice, under date October I:—The pricep for merino and coarse crossbred show an. avorago of ,5 per cent, down, fine crossbrcd 5 per cent. up. i The JTew Zealand loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, have received the following cablegram from their London house, under date October I:—"Sales closed with better tone as compared with July. Inferior me'rino scoured fine crossbrcd, 7J to 10 per cent:; scoured medium coarse, 10 to 15 per cent.; crossbrcd, greasy, and lambs, 10 per cent.; scoured merino medium, 5 to 7* per cent, lower." .Messrs, Murray,- Roberts,' and Co., Ltd., have received a cablegram from their London ' friends, Messrs. Sanderson,. -Murray, and Co., under dato October 1, as follows:—"Sales-have closed without any material change, rather better tone; 48,000 bales held over." FROZEN MEAT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rcc.' October 3, 5.5 p.m.) j London, October 2. ..'The, Incorporated Society ot Meat Importers' BmithSeld market quotations for frozen, meat are based on actual sales of not less than, one' hundred carcasses of mutton or lamb, or twenty-ilvo auarters -of beef, pi fair average quality. T'he quotations are not for selected lines, but for parcels fairly representative of the bulk of the shipments now on tho market. Tho prices which follow are on the average a farthing per lb. more than tho vaiueß ex ship, this difference representing the average cost in expense, handling, conveyance, and selling of the meat:— Mutton— d. • Canterbury, light .-...; 7 3-8 ■ Canterbury, medium ....>.. 7J Canterbury, heavy -7 : v - Southland • none offering New Zealand, best none offering Now Zealand, ordinary .... none offering New Zealand, ewes 5j Australian, heavy 5? Australian, light 55 ' Australian, ewes -... 5J i River Plate, light (g River Plate, heavy 6 i' 1 River Plate, ewes 5J Lamb— * Canterbury, light 84 Canterbury, seconds 71 Canterbury, medium 73 . Canterbury, heavy 7J- . Southland ...: 7J - North Island, ordinary 713.16 North Island,. selected 8 Australian, best : none offering Australian, fair none offering Australian, inferior 62 ' - li.ivcr Plate, first quality 7i River Plate, seconds 7 Becf--1 Argentine, chilled fores 63-8 Argentine, chilled hindfe 85 ' RABBITS. The market is very firm, owing' to the shortage; New South Wales Blues are quoted at Ms. 6d. and 255. ex store. 1 LONDON MARKETS. " ' (Rec. October 3, 5.5 p.m.) London, October 2. New Zealand Hemp—The market is quiet; prices unchanged. Jute.—Native first marks. SeptemberOctober shipment, £25 <8. per ton. . Rubber.—Hard fine-Para, 2s. 4gd.' per lb.; plantation and smoked sheets, 2s. 4Jd. ' Copra.—"September-October shipment, £22 7s.'6d. per ton. : Cotton.—October-November shipment 6.70£ d. per lb. I. Danish butter, 198s. end 2025. per cwt. Tallow.—Stocks, 11,865; imports. 4591; deliveries, 4389.

1 METAL MAEKETS. - (Eec. October 3/ 5.5 p.m.) London, October 2. ; Silver is quoted at 23 13-16 d. per ounce standard. ' Tin.—Tin 6tocks arc' estimated M 17,286 tons; on spot, 2528 tons; afloat, 1448 ton 6; deliveries, 2660 tons. • Copper.—Spot, £73 and £73 55.; three ,months, £73 17s.'6d. and £74 2s. 6d. Supplies: 23,628 "tons; deliveries, 28,759 tons; etocke, 25,158 tons;-afloat, 3000 tons; visible supplies, 34,106 tons. . Tin.—Spot. £150, £150 10s.; three months, £151 55., £151 15s. ' • Lead, £25 end £23 ss. per ton. : Spelter, £70 and £65. ■ • WHEAT.' ' (See. October 3, 5.5 p.m.) London, October 2. The wheat market is firm. Chicago options, 965 cents to 945 cents; May options, 98J cents to 963 r.ent/J. •' Snow estimates that the American ■winter wheat crop will total 646,000,000' bushels, and the spring crop 352,000,000 bushels. > . The -wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 985,000 quarters; Continent of Europe. 1,745,000; Atlantic shipments, 669,000; Pacific, 58,000. Total for Europe. 835,000; Binssia, 40,000; other countries, 19,000. > . '