COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2613, 8 November 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

' investment shares. In the investment morliet on Saturday а. Eala of Bank of New Zealand (old) at £10 7s. was recorded; The quotations were as under:— Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ 6. rt. Bank N.Z. (£6 135.. 4d.) .. 16 5 0 - Well. Trust, Loan. Ltd. — 7 7 6 Auckland Gas (paid) 19 0 — Ohristchurch Gas (£5) ... 7 7 6 — Napier. Gas (£5) — 9 0 0 Well. Gas.(£lo) 15 18 6 16 2 6 Union Steam. (o,rd.). .„ 14 0 — Union Steam (.prof.) 10 9 — Kaiapoi Woollen (ord;) .54 6 5 7 0 Taupiri Coal '........'. — 0 15 6 Westport Coal 18 9 — N.Z. Drug 2 4 0 — Golden Bay Cement 0 19 6 — Sharland (ord.) 13 0 — Sharland (pref.) 13 0 — C. M. Banks 110 — Customs duty collected at the port of Wellington] on -Saturday amounted to £1136 2f. 6d. ■ DALGBTY AND . CO., LTD. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, November 5.. Dalgety's annual report and balance-sheet shows a profit of £368,686 on the year's working. A dividend of eight per cent, has been declared. The sum of £50,000 has been placed to reserve, £40,000 to writing down i premises, £10,000 to the staff's benevolent fund, and £208,686 carried forward. . LONDON WOOL SALES. London, November 5.Tliero is a strong mark«t for all combing w0015,., with a hardening tendency. Crossbrcds are firm, faulty sorts, weak. Prices realised: Maaoupe, top 16Jd., average 15|d.; Clyde, 31>d. and. 24gd.; Bel&r, 14Jd. and 12 3-Bd.; liynuna, 16d. end 14jd.: Cob, 13jd. and 11 3-Bd.; Oomongin, 12»d. ana 10 i<l. METAL MARKET. London, November 5. Coppc-r.—On the spot, £74 to £74 10s. ; three months, £74 7s. 6d. to £74 12s. 6d. Tin—On the spot, £16? to £162 ICe.; three months, £161 15s. to ~ £162 10s. Lead—Cash, £25 55,;• forward, £24 ss. Silver.—24 3-Bd. per ounce standard. WHEAT. CRec. November 7, 5.5 p.m.) London, November 6. The wheat market is steady. Chicago' December options, 107 cents to 1048 cents r May options, 1063 cents to 105 cents. LONDON MABKETS. London) November 6. Hides, are dull and unchanged. Leather is quieter; best Australian, 17s. to 225. Basils are quiet and unohanged. Ootton.—November-December shipment, б.79d. per lb. Jute.—November-December, £25 10s. per ton. Hemp.—December-January shipment, £35 10s. per ton. - Copra— October-Novomber shipment, £27 15s. per ton. • • Rubber.—Hard fino Para, 2e. 6}d. per lb.; plantation', 2s. 6Jd.; smoked sheets, 2s. 63d. Silver.—Bar silver is quofcd at 24 5-16 d. per ounce standard.

FROZEN MEAT. (Eec. November 7, 5.5 p.m.)

London, November 6. IThe Incorporated Society of Meat Importers' Smithfield market quotations far frozen, meat are based on actual ealee of not less than one hundred iorcaeses of mutton or iamb, or twenty-live quarters of besf, of fair average quality l'he quotations are not for selected lines, but for fairly representative of the bulk Df the shipments now on the market. Tho prices which follow are on tho average a farthing per lb. more than the values ex ship, this difference representing the average cost in expense, handling, conveyance, and soiling of the meat:— Uutton— \ ' <1. Canterbury, light 7j Canterbury, medium : 71-16 Canterbury, heavy : 6| Southland none offering New Zealand, best none offering Now Zealand, ordinary ... none offering - Hejr Zealand, ewes 53 Australian, heavy 5J Australian, light 53-8 Australian, ewes none offering River Plate, light 62 River 'Plate, heavy 6 River Plate, ewes 51 i Canterbury, light 8 Canterbury, seconds 73 Canterbury, medium .:.... 71 Canterbury, heavy 7J-8 Southland /. .'. 78 North Island, ordinary 7i North Island, selected ... none offering Australian, best none offering Australian, fair none offering Australian, inferior N none offering ■River Plate, first quality 7 River Plate, seconds 6i Beef- / Argentine, ohilled fores 6 Argentine, chilled hinds i. 73 RABBITS. Owing to larger arrivals importers are accepting about a shilling decline.