COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2652, 24 December 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

investment skah.es. • In the investment merlict yesterday a gale of Bank of 2?e\v Zealand new shares at £16 2s. 6d. wa-s recorded. The quotations were as follow:— Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ s. d. National Bank 5 2 6 — Bank N.Z. (£5 6s. 84.) 10 2 6 - National Mortgage 3 17 0 — N.Z. eud River Plate 2 16 — Well. Invest. T., and A. — 011 0 Well.'Trust, Loan, Ltd. ... 7 2 6 7 5..0 Well. Gas (£10) - • 16 0 0 N«r!7shal Insurance — 2 6 3 S. British Insurance 4 15 o — N.Z. Shipping (ord.) — 18 0 0 Well. -Woollen (ord.) 4 19.0 — ' Well/Woollen (pref.) ' 3/5 6. ■ . — We6tport Coal —1. 7 9 .18 3 ; N.Z. Drug - 2 5 0 W.F.C.A. (£5) . • 610 WHOLESALE PRODUCE PRICES. Messrs. Laery and Co., Ltd., Allen StTeet, report "wholesale prices as . follow Fowls' wheat, good whole, 6s. 2d.; fowAs* barley, 55.; Cape barley, ss. 6d.; feed, peas, good, ss. 3d. to ss» 6d.; partridge peas, 6s. 3d.; maize, feed, ss. 3d., sesd 65.; oatensheaf chaff, old £8, new £6; hay, £4 to £7 10s.; flour, in saojis,, £14; oatmeal, £20; bran, £5 155.; pollard,' £9; rice pollard, £7; onions, £7 to £8; potatoes, £7 to £9; bacon, sides lid., rolls Is., hams lid., shoulders •B?d.; cheese, medium. Bid., loaf 9id.; linseed :meal, New Zealand, £19 10s.; linseed nuts,' £13 10s. . ; LONDON WOOL SALES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright . (Rec. December 23, 8.35 p.m.) London, December. 22. At the wopl sales there was an excited .demand, and' slipes registered a halfpenny advance. Merinos were firm and unchanged. WHEAT. (Rec. December 25, 8.35 p.m.) London, December 22. Wheat is firm, but in the United Kingdom thy market is apathetic. ✓AMERICAN WHEAT SUPPLIES. / ' London, December 22. Wheat.—The American visible supplies of wheat total 160,212,000 bushels. Ohica-po December options are 12l£ cents' to 124 cents; Hay options, 1223 cents to 125 cents. TALLOW BALES.. (Rec. December 23, 8.35 p.m.) . London, December 22. At the tallow eales -519 casks were offered and 482 sold. Mutton, fine 535., medium 47f3.; beef, fine 535., medium 465. •The New Jcaland Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, have receiyed the following cablegram -from their London house, under dato December 22:—Tallow: We quote present spot values for the following descriptions:—Fine,, mutton, 49a. 6d. per cwt.; good beef, 48s. 6d. per cwt.; mixed, 455.-9 d. per cwt. < There is a firm market. • . !_ AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKETS. • (Rec. December 23, 8.35 p.m.) Sydney, December 23.Oats, Tasmanian, white, 3s. 9d.; Chilian, 3s. to 3s. 3d.; barley, malting, 3s. to 45.; maize, South African, 53. 7d. to 65.; potatoes Tasmanian, old £10 to £13, new £16, others £14 to £15; onions, old £2, new £5.- , Adelaide, December 23. I Wheat, the price has been officially ad- 1 vanced to ss.'3*d.; flour, £12 to £12 10s.; bran, lOd. "to lid.; pollard, Is. 4d.; oats, Is. Id. , • HIDES SALES. ' (Rec. December 23, 8.35 p.m.) Melbourne, December 23. - At the hides sales there were fair supplies. Good, condition, sorts sod irf favour of sellers;, other sorts were firm. •MINING NEWS WELLINGTON SHARE MARKET. There were no transactions in mining shares yesterday, although there were plenty of buyers. Tho quotations were as under' , Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ b. d. Murray Creek (old) 117 6 — * Hurray Creek.' (new) ... 0 17 6 — Ro6S 0 0 7 . • — Success Dredge 110' — Talisman 0 16 0 — Waihi 117 0 ■ - Doin. Developing Co ; 110 .0 — , SULPHIDE CORPORATION. ■ Messrs. Gibbs, Bright and! Co., Melbourne, agents for the Sulphide Corporation, Ltd., report having received the following cablegram from the head office of the Corporation, dated London, December 22:—"Annual meeting was held to-day and report adopted."

The following information relative to the export of hides and skins is published in the Gazette:—