COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2619, 15 November 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

FEILDING PRODUCE HAKKET. ,_ . Messrs. Atkinson and Co., Ltd., report the week's prices as follow:—Old potatoes, £9 to £9 ss. per ton; seed, £3 to £4;\pig, '3s. to 4s. per sock; feed-barley, 4b. to 4s, 60. per bushel; seed, ss. to Es. 6d.; oatenshcaf chaff, £7 10s.;-straw chaff, £3 to £3 10s.; feed o>at3, 4s. 6d.; maize, 6s. to' 75.; G.P. peas, ss. to' ss. 6d. • cows, in milk,. £7 10a. to £9.' -Poultry, per pair Hens, 4a. 6d.."t0 6s. 9d.; roosters, be. ,6a.; good;weaner,pi£6, 14s. to 16s.;'poor Eorts, Bs. to 125.; slips, 195.; stores, 27e. to '285.; porkers, 345. to -40s. Customs duty collected at the port of Wellington on Saturday- amounted to £2200 15s. Bd.' •_■'.-'..• .-'•'.' LONDON WOOL.SALES. 3y Telegraph—Pross Association-Copyright' .....' _ ..London, November 12. At the wool sales theVe was excited competition at full prices for cpossbreds. Combing merinos were unchanged. Faulties sold more freely. ■ . . ,(Kcc. November 14, 5.5 p.m.) ■-,- London,. 13. ■At" the wool sales competition was excited, recent advanced rates being firmly maintained.. .WHEAT, {liec. November 14, 5.5 p.m.) London, November 13. Wheat is firm. Chicago December options, 103 cents, 1048 cents; May options, 104 3-8 cents, 1053 cents.Tho wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 1,840,000 quarters; Continent of Europe. 2,875,000 quarters;. Atlanticl' shipments, 1,152,000 quarters; Pacific, 400,000 quarters. Total for Europe, 1,315,000 quarters; Russia, 20,000 quarters.

.LONDON . MARKETS. (Bee. November 14, 5.5 p.m.) London, Novomber 13. Hides are dull audeunchanged. Leather is quieter ;■'best Australian, 17s. to 22a. . Basils are quiet and unchanged, ' ' Cotton.—November-December shipment, 6.89 d. per lb ... •'.''• Jute.—November-December, £25 lte. per ton. New Zealand Hemp— January-March shipments, £35 10s. per ton. Copra—November-December shipment, £28 as: 6d.. per ton. * Rubber.—Hard fine Para, 2s. Bid. per lb.; plantation, 2s. 9 3-Bd.;6moltcd sheets, 2s. 9id.; Silver—Bar silver is quoted at 24 s—l6d. per ounce standard. Danish Butter.—Demand improving at 170s. to 1745. FBOZEN HEAT. (Rec. November 14, 5.5 p.m.) London, November 13. The Incorporated Society ot Meat Im. porters' Smithflold market quotations lot

frozen meat axe based on actual soles of not Jess then one hundred carcasses of mutton or lamb, or twenty-five Quarters of beef, of fair average quality Tho quotatione aro not for selected linos, but for parcels fairly representative of the bulk of tho shipments now on tho market. Tho prices which follow are on the average a farthing per lb. more than tho values ex Bhip. .this difference representing tho avurago coat in expense, handling, conveyance, and selling of tho meat:— Mutton. . i, Canterbury, light 7J Canterbury, light (seconds) l\ Canterbury, medium 7J Canterbury, heavy 75 Southland 73-8 New Zealand, best nono offering New Zealand, ordinary ... none offering North Island, ewes 7 3-8 New Zealand, owes 53 Australian, heavy ; 5J Australian, light 53-8 : Australian, ewes nono offering Hlver Plate, light L... 65 ' ltivor Plate, heavy i Itivor Plate, ewes 6} Lamb— BeefCanterbury, light 8 . . Canterbury, seconds '■ 73 Canterbury, medium 78 Canterbury, heavy 73-8 "Southland 78 North Island, ordinary 78 North Island, selected ... nono offering Australian, best. none offering Australian, fair none offering Australian, inferior none offering River Plate, first quality 7 River Plate, seconds 6h Argentine, ohllled fores 65 Argentine, chilled hinds 71 , ' BABBITS. Itabbits are dull, owing to recent arrival of 100,000 .crates of colonial supplies. New Saii'th Wales are emoted at 225. and 83s. ei store.