COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2650, 22 December 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHABES. , There were no transactions in investment shares yesterday. The Quotations were as follow:— . ' Buyers.Sellers. £ s. d. JB 6. (L ; National 'Bank 5 2 6 — s Equitable, Building 9 5 0 .... — •Loan and Mercantile (ord.) •■. 79 0 0 - Well. Invest. T. and A. — , 011 0 Well. Gas (£10) ...; - ■ 16 0 0 National. Insurance • — ! 6 3 ♦Gear Meat (£1) 317-6 - - It.Z. Shipping lord.) — 18 0 0 Well. Woollen (ord.) ...... 4 19.0 - Well. Woollen (pref.) 3 6 6 — N.Z. Drag — 2 5 0 Golden Bay Cement ; J U 3 VT.F.OJL. (£5) ....: •— 6 10 *Ex diy." Customs" duty collected .at the port of Wellington ye6terday amounted to £2237 18a. lCd. . .' SOUTHERN. '.MARKETS. ».. By Telegraph—Frees Association. Chrlstchurch, December 21: There is still a good demand for wheat end flour. .Sales of wheat are . ex stocks and store. No grain is offering from the country districts. Prices are the 6ame as reported... The contract for supplying the Government with flour for the next troop-

6hips has boon scoured by a Duncdin miller. There is good inquiry for old oats in view of a probable shortage of the crop in Canterbury this season. The rain of Saturday did not extend into the country districts, being purely local. WHEAT. > By Telegraph—l'ross Association—Copyright • (Bee. December 21, 8.5 p.m.) London, December 20. Wheat.—'There is good inquiry. MINING NEWS • >.. WELLINGTON- SEABE, MARKET. . There were several buyers for mining shares in the market yesterday, but no business resulted. The quotations were as under :— Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ a. d. Success Dredge .11" — ■ Talisman 015 9 — Waihl 117 0 - STOCK EXCHANGE. By Telegraph—Prees Association. ■ ' Auckland, December 21. Sales i-Junctions, 196. 9d.; Auckland Ga6 (old), 30s. 3d. • • Dunedln, December 21. Sale reported:—National insurance, 465. Union "Steam (ord.),-245. id. , TALISMAN CONSOLIDATED. The mine superintendent of the Talisman Consolidated has sent to London the following cable messageWoodstock, No. 5 crosscut,• progress'3B feet; No. 6 crosscut, progress "28 feet. . • THE HAURAKI REEFS, LTD. The mino! manager reports:—"During the past week stoping over the No. 3 level has been in progress, and about 101b. picked stone was ohtained from' good crushing dirt. The No. 3 level face was extended; a little picked stone was obtained. In the No. 2 face the reef is again showing a little broken up. The crosscut to tap the Wynyardton reef is out 39 feet in good country."