COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2623, 19 November 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT- SHARES. , There -were, no transactions i in investment shares yesterday. Tho quotations were as follow:— Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ b. d. National Bank 5 0 0 — Bk. N.Z. (£3 6s. Bd.) 10 5 0 - Loan, Mercantile (ord.) 79 0 0 Well. Invest-. T. and A. ... — , 011 ( IV ell. Truet. Loan, Ltd. — 7 7 6 Napier Gas (£-5) — 9 0 0 N.Z. Insurance 1 6 10 — Kt&ndard Insuranco 113 0 — Christ-church Heat 16 0 0 — Gear Meat (£1) — 18 0 Well. Meat Export (£5)... — . 6 0 0 Well. Meat Ei. (£2l2s. 6d.) — . !U ( N.Z. Shipping (ord.) — 18 0 0 Union Steam (ord.) 14 2 1 4 ,6 Well. Woollen (pref.) ... 3 6 6 — Taupiri Coal — 015 6 Taupiri Coal — 0 15 6 N.Z. Drug 2 4 9 2 5 0 Sharland (pref.) 14 0 — Ward and Co 5 0 0 - — - COMPANIES REGISTERED. ■ . ' - The "Mercantile Gazette" published yesterday reports the registration of the following epmpanics:— C. it. Stroud , and Co., Ltd. ' Registered as a private company November 10. Office: 73 liidgway Street,. Wanganui. ' Capital, £2250,' divided into 450 shares of £5 each. Subscribers: .Wanganui—Johanna K. Stroud, 20 ord.; H. 11. Stroud, 10 ord.; U Wood, 10 ord.; W. Puhabi, .40 pref.; 0. B. Stroud, 260 ord. and 110 pref. Objects: To acquire as a going concern the business of a dealer m now and second-hand furniture, etc., now carried on by 0. B. Stroud at Wanganui.

J. P. Shand, Ltd. Itegistered as a private company November 10. Capital, £2000, divided into 2000 shares of £1 caoh. Subscribers: Wellington—J.• P. Shand, 1800; I P. J. Shand, 60; Amy 0. Shand, 100; E. 11. Shand, £0. Objects: To acquire as a eoing concern tho business of bookseller, publisher. newsagent, and stationer, heretofore conducted by .J.-P. Shand at Cuba Street, Wellington, and' at Trentham.- • D.- J. Barry, Ltd. Registered as a private, company October 29. Office:' Cbilder's Road, Gisborne. Capital, £38,750. divided into 88,750 shares of £1. Subscribers* D J. Barry, 48,750; G. B. Oman, 15,000; J. W. Nolan, 3750; John Clark, 9375; W. G. Sherratt,' 625; H. G. Maude, 1250; P. Harris, 1250; Hy. .Williams, 625; W. B. Miller, 1250; estate late A. F. Kennedy, 5625; Dan Barry, 1250. '.Objects: Take over as going concern brewery, bottling, export, and wine and spirit business heretofore carried on by D. J. Barry and others. East Coast Slot.Machine Oo„ Ltd. Begistered October 30. Office: Lowe Street, Gisborne. Capital, £3000, divided into 30C0 shares of £1 each. " : Subscribers: J. W. Nolan, 100; C. B. Oman, 200; P. Hall, 100: J. W. Parker, 100; Geo. Grant, lCo;.Chas. Adair. 100; A. W. Mann, 100; A. M. Puflett. 100; P. W. Nolan, 100. Objects: To purchase. or otherwise acquire the patent rights • for the East Coast district under patent i\o. 34332 dated January 28, 1914, foran invention called "Tho Coin Freed Vending' Machine for packcted goods."

Customs duty collected, at the port of Wellington '.yesterday amounted to £3633 9s. 3d. •' ' '

1 ": '• : NAPIER , WOOL SALES. 3y Telegraph—Press Association. .Napier, November IB.: A total o£ 12,535 bales will be offered ae the Naprier wool e&les on Saturday, and nigh prices' aro anticipated. One wellknown authority, expressing an oninion, sa.id_that 40Vflcece would find a readyeale at led., while Southdown fine wools would go up to, 2s. Tho wool is better grown and in far better condition than it was last year, while tho general get-up of the clips is about up 'to the average. LONDON WOOL SALES. By Mtfcrafeb- ?rws : v,--nc'i Conyrirhi (Hec. November 18, 10.20 p.m.) ." . London, November r/. ■ The .wool sales, are brisk, and all classes snow a rising tendency.. There ie-bettor competition for faulties and merinos. The following were the prices realised for the fleece portion of . the clips named:—■ W.M.E.Co., top price 19d„ average 17d.; Taratahi, top 23d„ average 15id. . WHEAT. _ i ■ London, .November 17. .Wheat—The American visible supnlies total 109,719,000 bushels. Chicago Decernber options arc 106J cents and 1043 cents; May options, 108 cents and IC6J cents. (Reel November 18, 10.20 p.m.) London, November 17. There. Is.a poor demand for wheat, at 5(1. to sd. decline. TALLOW. ; London, November 17; Tallow—At tho sales 1358 casks were Catalogued, and all were sold. There was an excited demand. The sale opened at a-shilling odvancc and dosed five shillings up.. This was apparently due to a general shortage, and buyers' knowledge that only a, small quantity was available for some time. Prices: Mutton, fine, 48s. 6d.; medium, 4fe. Beef, fine. 475. 3d.; medium, 455. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantilo Agency Company, Limited, havo received the following cablegram from their London house, under date November 17:—TaJlow: We quote present spot values for the following descriptions :—Fine mutton, 475. 6d. per cwt.: good beef, 465. 9d.: mixed, 425. Tho market is active.

AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKET.?. (Kec. November. 18, 10.20 p.m.)

; Sydney, November 18. : Oats.— 3s. 6d.j American. 3s. to Js. 6d.; maize, J«vun 4s. 9d. to 55., South African yellow 53. 4d; to ss.- ffd., white ss. to ss. 2d.j potatoes, Tasmenian £13. New Zealand £11 to £12; onions, £5 to ,£5 lCs. i ■ Adelaide, November 18. Wheat, for prompt delivery, 4a. 3d.; flour, now; £13 10s.; bran, Is. to Is. Id.: pollard. Is. sd. to Is. 65a;