COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2615, 10 November 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT,'SHARES. . „In the investment market-yesterday sales ■wer-o recorded of Bank;, of : New Zealand (new) at £16 Bs.6d:, and Wellington Woollen (ordinary) at £5.' The quotations wero os under: „ ' ' „ ~ Buyers. Sellers. : £s.d. ' £s. d. Well. Trust, Loan, Ltd. — . 7 ' j> Napier Gas (£5) - — 9 0 0 Well.; Meat Export (£5)... - 6 0 0 Well. Meat Ex. (£2125.6 d.) - . , -215 0 N.Z. Shipping (ord.) - 18 0.0 Union Steam (ord.) ...;.. 14 0 14 6 Union Steam tprof.) 10 9 — Well. Woollen (pref.) ... 3 6 6 - Taupiri-Coal — 0 15 5 Weetport Coal 18 9 n -- N.Z. Drug - A 250 Sharland (ord.) 13 0 — S-harland (nref.) 1 3-. .0 Ward and Co '. 5 0 0 — O. M. Banks 12 6 — WHOLESALE PRODUCE PRICES. Messrs. Laery and Co., Ltd., Allen Street, report wholesale prices as follows-.-Fowls wheat, •• prime, 55.. to ss. 9d.; barley, 55.; Capo barley, ss. 6d.;feod peas, prime,-55.. od.; partridgo peas. 6s< 6d.; maize, feed, 55.;. seed, fo.; oatensheaf chaff, £8 ss. to £010s.; cat straw, £4: hay, £4 10s. to £7 10s.; flour, in sacks. £13; oatmeal, £20; bran, £6; pollard; £8 ss. to £8 lCs.; onions, Yict-orian, £10 to £12; potatoes, table, £12;' bacon, sides lid., rolls Is., shoulders 83d., hams Is.; cheese, medium 34<1.', loaf 9£d.; linseed meal, £19 10s.; whole linseed, £18.

Customs duty collected at the port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £3362 lte. 7d. ■ ' •HIGH COMMISSIONERS' CABLED' REPORT. The,- Department of Agriculture, Industries, and • Commerce has received the following; cablegram from the High, Commissioner for New Zealand, dated- London, November 7. (Note 1 Quotations,.. unless otherwise specified; are. average market prices: Oil spot):— . : . Meat.—Thero 5s less demand for frozen .meat. All descriptions at lower prices owing'to a continued large, snpply of home-killed lamb, -together : with , more frozen, meat available for', the general public. . - . „ , , ' . Mutton— Canterbury, 71d. per lb. for light-weight; heavy-weight, 63d.;, other brands than Canterbury ore not quoted; ewes, 5Jd. Lambr-Cawterbury, twos. Bd. per lb.; heavy-weight fours, 7 3-Bd.; second-class mio.lity lightweight. 73d.; other brands than Canterbury: Rest nnality are note quoted; ordinary quality, 78d. '. • Beef .—New Zealand bf ef, second-class ounlity, hinds. Bid. per Jk; fores, 43d.; chilled hinds, 7£d.; fores; 6d. _ v Butter—The market is nuiet. Dufi rather steadier. Danish, per eirt., 160s. to 1645.; New Zealand, '158s. to 1645.; Siberian, slow, tho stock is eccumulatine .as * result of heavy arrivals, 1265; to 1345.; Irish creamery. slow,. 14<5....t0 ,154b.; Argentine, first, ".rrival this season. 1525. to 1545.; United States, pidcoi" are irrßsrulor, 14Cs. to 1505.; lo"- grade.' 120s. to'. 130s. ... Cheese;— Hie market remains firm. English Ched<fa.r, per o.wt., 965. to 1CC.1.; Cheshire. 100s. to 1045.: Oanndian.. white 85s. to 85"., cnlonred 84s. to 863.. fine Soa. to 835.; New Zealand.! white and colourpd W/>. *o 84.'. States, oiiiet. 765.-to ,78s. :-low erode,'7os.; to{ 745. On November l. : . Canadian T aridU« United., States stocks, Ijondon. - T,-ivAjnx>ol.- Bristol. 275.000 boxes, against; 263.<* 1 0 bnxep'at the same f.uTin last yfyr. N fl w .and Australian (rotation). Bristol, 31,000 crates, ar"-inst nil last yeaT. TT»mp.—Th» market is firm. N»w Z«i-Jn-d per ton. on snot, fJS; fair. . Manila, new rmded f"?r. per tni. ,w.: NovemSnr to January sWnment— 7p.*,.lrtnd good-fair. per ton, £34 10s.: fair. ■£7.1 10s. Tb" ontmit, from Manila for the .v" 1 ; wis 18.000 bales. .Wheat—Tile market is firm, and prices

continue ■to <ul vance. Canadian,, t&t ; quarter, November to Decomuer shipment, Oats.—The market iB firm, with more inquiry. Argontine, on spot,. 325. 6d. per oust tor; shipment in November, 31b. 6cl. JCETAIj MAiRKETS. By Telegraph—Press Association—CopTiicht . (Reo. November 9, 7.30 p.m.) London, November 8. Copper.—On the spot, £73 ss. per ton; three months, £73 1&3.; electrolytic, £89 10s. to £90 10s. Tin—On spot, £162 to £162 10s. per ton. Lead.—Soft foreign, on spot, £25 2s. 6d.; forward delivery, £24 2s: 6d. Spelter.—On spot, £S2 per ton; forward, Silver—Bar silver is quoted at 24 7-16 d, per ounce standard. . ' , , WHEAT. (Eee. November 9, 7.30 p.m.) London, November 8. Wheat.—The market is quiet, -with a lower tendency.