COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2589, 11 October 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES. In the investment market on Saturday sales wore reported pf Manning aud Co. at £4 17f. 6d., and Gear Moat (£1) <at £4 8s The Quotations were as follow:— Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ 8. d. National Banls 419 0 — Bank N.Z. (£3 6s. Sd.) ... 10 0 0 10 a 0 Bonk N.Z. (£6 13s. 4d.) ... - 16 7 6 Well. Trust, Loan, Ltd.... — 7 b 6 Oliristchurch Gas (£5) ... 7 8 0 7 10 0 ChTistclluTcli Gas (£2) ... 2 10 0 2 14 0 Well. Gas (£10) - 16 2 6 ChJietohurch Meat — 16 5 0 Union Steam (prof.) 10 0 — Kaiapoi Woollen (ord.) ... 5 4 0 — Well. Woollen (pre!.) J 6 0 . - Westport Coal — 19 6 Westport-Stockton 0 5 4 — liO.vland-O'Bricn 12 3 — Golden Boy Cement ... 0 19 0 10 0 Ward and 00. 5 5 0 — FBILDING PRODUCE JLVRKET. Mews. A 11. Atklnaon, Ltd., report reelten'd prices as follow:—OS. chaff, £8: wheat; straw chaff, £3 155.; feed oats, 4s. Bd. to 55.; seed, 7s. 6d. to Bj.: maize, 6s. 6d.; wheat, 6s. 6d. to 75.: potatoes, £7 to £8; seed, £5 to £8; pig, £2 to £2 10s.; barley, 4s. 6d. to ss. 9d.: pressed hay, £5 to £5 10s.; peas, 6s. to 8s ; tares, 17s. 6d. Hens, ner pair, 4s. to ss. 6d.; roosters, 4s. to ss. 6d.; turkey liens, 7s. 6d. to lis.; best weaner pigs, 225. to 245.:' others, 106. to lbs. 6d.; slips, 225. to 25.; stores, 28. 6d. to 37s 6d. ■ Customs duty collected at the port ■of Wellington on Saturday amounted tp £1707 15s. 3d. N.Z. SHIPPING CO. By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyrisrhi (Itec. October 10, 5.15 p.m.) London, October 9.' The New Zealand Shipping : Company's profits total £119,702; tlio dividend for tho year is J6s. per share, and £33,584 is carried forward. ■ NATIONAL BANK OF AUSTRALASIA. (Kco. dctober 10, 5.5 p.m.) ' Melbourne, October 10. A meeting of directors of the National Ilonk of Australasia recommended a dividend at the rate of 7 per cent, per annum for the half-year ended September 30. QUEENSLAND INVESTMENT CO. London) October S. The Queensland Investment Company shows a profit of £3609. A dividend of 3 per cent, has been declared, and £272 carried forward. FROZEN MEAT. fUcc. October 10, 5.15 p.m.) London, October 9. : The Incorporated Society ol ileat Importers' Smithfield market quotations for frozen meat are based on actual eaies of not lesa than one hundred carcasses of mutton, or lamb, or twenty-flvo' quarters of beef, of fair average quality. The quotations are not for, selected lines, but for 'parcels fairly representative of the built of the shipments now on the market. Tho prices which follow are on the average a farthing per lb. more than tho values cx ship, this difference representing the average cost in expense, handling, conveyance, and selling of the meat:— Jlutton— , d; Canterbury, light 73-8 Canterbury, medium H Canterbury, heavy 7 Southland none offering New Zealand, best none offering New Zealand, ordinary ... none offering New Zealand, ewes 5$ Australian, heavy 5? Australian, light 5? Australian, ewes 51 River Plate, light OJ Hiver Plate, heavy 6 Itiver Plate, ewes ii t#amb— Canterbury, light 8J • Canterbury, seconds 7J Canterbury, medium 75 Canterbury, heavy lh Southland 73. North' Island, ordinary 7ij North Island, selected ... none offering Australian, best none offering Australian, fair none offering Australian, inferior 64 River Plate, first quality 7} Eiver Plate, seconds -tj • BeefArgentine, chilled fores 63 1 Argentine, chilled hinds 65 RABBITS. Tho market is very firm. iNew South Wiales Blues are quoted at 255. 6d. . LONDON MARKETS.' .. (Rec. October 10, 5.15 p.m.) London, Octobor 9. Wheat.—The market is Quiet and slightly easier on the reaction 111 America and Canada. ■■ Chicago December options, lt'uc. to lOlic.; May options, 105Jc to 102 1-Sc. Butter.—Danish butter is quoted at 2055. to 2095. "The Grocer ," a trade journal, ' states that the opening prices for colonial butter may be 170s. to 180s. Cotton.—October-November shipments, 7.07jd. per lb. Jute—Native first marks, October-Novem-ber shipment, £24 10s. pel' ten. N.Z. Ifemp.—October-December shipment, £33 per ton. Rubber.—Hard fine Para, 2s. 5d per lb.; plantation, 2s. 6d.; smoked sheets, 2s. 4£d. . Copra—September-October shipments, £23 per ton. AMERICAN WHEAT CROPS. Washington, October 8. The official estimate of the winter wlioat crop is 659,C00,0C0 bushels, and of the spring crop 345,000,000 bushels.

BBEAD STUFFS. (Ecc. October 10, 5.15 p.m.) London, October 9. The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the Unite! Kingdom is 1,055,000 Quarters; for the Continent, 2,355,CC0. Atlantic shipments; 1,060,C00 quarters; Pacific, 72,000; total for Europe, 1,345,000 quarters. Eussia, 30,000 quarters; other countries, 18,000 quartors. METAL MABKET. • London, October 8. Copper—On the spot, £72 ss. to £72-10s.; three months, £73 to £73 33 Tin-On the spot, £149 10s. to £150; three months, £150 15s. to £151 ss. Spelter—Spot, £72 56.; forward, £64. (Bee. October 10, 5.15 p.m.) London, October 9. Quicksilver is quoted at 3205. to 3255. per k&Sver.—Bar silver is quoted at 23M. per ounce standard. 1 1