COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2648, 20 December 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

TNVESTU2NT SKARES. In the investment market on Saturday sales were recorded of Bank of New Zealand, old. at £10 2s. 6d., and new at £16 2s. Gd. Tho Quotations were as follow Buyers. Sellers £ s. d. £ s. d National Eank 5 2 0 — Equitable 13uilding 9 5 0 — Lo-an and Merc, (ord.) ... 79 0 0 Well. Trust, Loan, Ltd. — 7 5 0 Chch. Gas (£5) — 710 0 Well. Gas (£10) - 16 0 0 National Insurance — 2 6 3 South British Insurance 4 15 6 Gear ?leat (£1) 3 17 6 — Wn. ileat Export (525. 6d>) 213 0 — N.Z. Shipping: (ord.) — 18 0 0 Well. Woollen (ord.) 4 19 0 — Well. Woollen (pref.) 3 6 6 — Golden Bay Cement — 10 3 W.F.C.A. (£5) ; - 6 10 HIDE AND SKIN SALE. Messrs. Dalgety and 00., Palmerston Is'orth, report:—At our usual monthly sale ■\vo offered a fair catalogue of all classes. Competition was good, aud the following satisfactory prices were realised:—Wool: Crossbred, in bales, bright and. clean,- 132 d. to 14Jd.; seedy and inferior, lid. to bug lots, 12d. to 123 d.; hag/lots, inferior, lid. to Hid.; dead wool, ICd. to 103 d.; iTiitchinfi-s, Bi-d. to 9*d.; bellies and pieces, 2£d. to 9J<L; lock 6 and pieces, 7Jd. to Bid.; locks, 6d. to 6Jd.; black wool, 10* d. Sheepskins: Crossbred, full wool, coarse, 103 d. to lid.; medium and fine, to lid.; inferior, Bd. to 63d.; broken and. damaged, 6jd. to 3Jd.; dead skins, Bd. to 9d.; do., damaged, and inferior, s£d. to 7d.; shorts to lia.lf : woolled, 6id. to Bd.; butchers' partdry "arid salted pelts and lambskins, at cach: Best lines salted pelts, Is. lOd. to 2s. 6d..; others, Is. 3d. to Is. 7d.; dry pelts, Is. to Is. 3d.: lambskins, 25., 2s. 6d., 2s. £d.,' to os. Hides: Ox, medium and heavy lines, lC3d-; do., light, ?d. to 9£d.; cow hiaes,- best, lines, BJd. to 8&I.; medium, Bid. to Bid.; inferior, 7£d. to Bd.; slippy and damaged, 6d. to 7Jd.; yearlings, 72d. to B*d.; cut. damaged and inferior, s£d. to 7?d.; horse hides, 6s. to 7s. each; sound calfskins, 92d., 10id., to lid.; cut, damaged and inferior, 6£d. to BJd. Tallow and sundries: Tallow, in casks, 255. to 255. 6d.; in tins, 20s. 3d. to 235.; horsehair. Is. 2d. to Is. 3id.; rabbitskins, 6d. to 63d.* FEILDING PRODUCE MARKET. Messrs. Atkinson and Co., Ltd., report no change in prices generally, but there is inquiry for barley and wheat. Store pigs were difficult of fxde. "Weaners made Bs. fid. to 14s. 6d., elips 16s. to 175., stores 225. to 275., porkers 31s. to 345., baconcrs 475. Some 4CO head of poultry sold well, hens makiug 2s. 6d. to 3s. 9d. pea' pa.ir; turkey hens, 12s. to 155.; gobblers, to 29c.; ducks, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 9d.; geese, 6s. 6d. to Os.; peaches, ss. 6d. to 6s. case; black currants at 6<L lb.; plums, 3s. case; lemons, >. 4s. 6d. Chaff is selling at £7 to £8 per ton, oats 4s. 6d. bushel, barley 4s. Gd. to ss. 6d.; peas, ss. 6d.; maize. 65.; wheat, 6s. to 6s. 6d.; Scotch tares, 17s. Customs duty collected at the poTt of Wellington on Saturday amounted to £1620 15s. 6d. AUSTRALIAN WOOL SALES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, December 18. Tho wool sales resume on January 17. Melbourne, December 18. At the Geelong wool sales there was the keenest competition. Prices were Id. to lid. higher'than at the close of tho November sales. Greasy merino realised 24? d. There will be no wool sales in Melbourne next week. LONDON "WOOL SALES. • (Rec. December 19, 5.5 p.m.) London, December 18. At the wool sales the highest rates of the eeries were maintained with a slight tendency upwards. . "WHEAT. (Rec. December 19, 5.5 p.m.) Londoni December 18. The wheat market is quiet. Chicago December options, 118£ cents to 116 cents \ May options, 1193 cents to 117£ cents. LONDON MARKETS. (Rec. December.. 19,- 5.5 p.m.) / London, December 18. Hides are dull. Queensland. iQ&d:, 9 11-16 d. and 9 3-Ed.; New South Wales, 10Jd., 9 13-16 d., and 9 9-16 d. for the various grades Leather is quiet. Best heavy Australians 17s. to 20«. Basils are quiet. New Zealand, 16s. to Cotton-December-January shipment, 7 21d per lb. •• '

Jute.—Native first marks, December-Jan-uary shipment, £37 lot>. per ton. Rubber,—Hard fine Para, 3s. 2d. per lb.; plantation. 3s. W.; smoked sheets, 3s. 6Jd. Copra.—.January-February shipment, £27 ss. per ton, Silver.—Bar silver is quoted at 26d, per ounce standard. Quicksilver is quoted at £16 2s. 6d. to £16 fts. per bottle. FROZEN MEAT. (Rec. December 19, 5.5 p.m.) London. December 18. Tbo Incorporated Society ol Meat Importers' Sinithfleld marKei quotations foT frozen meat arc based ou actual ealcs of not less than ono hundred carca66c« of mutton or lamb, or twenty-llvo quurtcrs of beer, of fair average quality The quotations are not for sclectcd lines, but for pc-rcalfi fairly representative of tho bulk of the shipments now on the market. The priceo which follow are on the arerago a farthing per lb. more than the values es ship, this difference representing the average cost in expense, handling, conveyance, and selling of the meat:— Mutton— d.Canterbury, light none offering Canterbury, light (seconds) none offering Canterbury, medium nono.offoring canterbury, heavy none offering Southland ; ■. 73-8 New Zealand, best nono offering Now Zealand, ordinary ... none offering North Island, ewes 7 3-8 New Zealand, ewes 6i, Australian, heavy none offering Australian, light none offering Australian, ewes none offering ■River Plate, light . 63 River Plato, heavy 62 , River Plate, ewes none offering Lamb— ' Canterbury, light* 7i Canterbury, seconds 7 Canterbury, medium 73*16 Canterbury, heavy Southland 7J . North-Island, ordinary 7 North Island, selected 7i Australian, best none offering . Australian, fair ; none offering Australian, inferior none offering River Plate, first quality ..... 6i River Plate, • seconds 6$ Beef- • • Argentine, chilled fores 61 Argentine, cnilled hinds 8' ' RABBITS. " Kabbfte arc unchanged.