COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2672, 19 January 1916, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

. INVESTMENT SHARES. In the investment share • market yesterday there were no transactions recorded. The quotations wore as follow:—

Customs duty collected at the port ol Wellington yesterday amounted to £3341 2s. 2ti|. !

, / HIDE AND SKIN SALE. Messrs. Mgcty' aud • 00., Pblmerston North, report:—At our usual monthly sale of # wool, hides, skins, etc., we offered o. fair catalogue of all classes. Competition was good, prices for wool were well main'taiued, while both. skins and hides showed sin attainco of from Jd. to U. per lb.. Prices for tallow remained firm at l&to rates. Wool.—Crossbred, in and bags, bright and .clean, 13d. to 14Jd.; ditto, inferior, lljd. to 12*d.j dead wool, best lines, Hd. to llid.; inferior, B£d. 'to 10d.; pieces, Bd. to 9^d.; locks and pieces, sid. to 7£d.; orutckings, 9d. to 9Ad.; black, lid. Sheepskins.—Crossbred full wool, coarse, lid. to Hid.; medium and. fine, to ! llid.; ditto, inferior and rough, 9d. to 10d.; broken. 6d. to'9d.; lambskijis, 9£d. to 93d.; ditto, short-and shorn,-7*4. to Bid.; Quarter and : half-wool skins, 7d. to 84d.; dead, 7£d. to 9£d.; ditto, broken and damaged, 6d. to 7d. Butchers' part dry and salted pelts and lambskins, at oach:—Best lines salted pelts, 2s. 3d., 2s. 6d. to 2s. 9d,s others, Is. 3d. to U. JOd.; dry ptfts. Is. 2d. to is. fid; salted lamb pelts, lOd to l-s. Hides.—Ox• hides; heavy, llid.; medium and light 9d. to 10£ d.; cow hides, be?b heavy lines, 9-3-Bd.; good, 94d.; fanners' lines 3|d. *x> 82d.; cut and damaged, 6Jd. to 7£d.: yearlings, 73d. to Bid.; ditto, cub and damaged, 3|d. to 7 3-Bd.; dry hides, to BJd.; hcrse hides, 4s. 6d. to 65.; sound calfskins, 10ld- to 10 3-& d.; cut and damaged, 61d. to B*d. Tallow and Sundries.—Tallow, ~n casks, 265.: in f-ins, 235. 6d. to 245. 6d.; rough fat, to 18s. 6d. - K>abbit6kius f to 6Jd. SOUTHERN GRAIK MABKETS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Cnristchurch, January 18. Somo lines of wheat have been submitted in Ckristchurch. Ah offer of ss. for a line fit for milling was made, but there was no sale. Several lines have been purchased at ss. 3d. to ss. 4d. for fowl feed. Seed wheat lately has ,been very scarce and dear, and orders had i-o bo filled with good milling wheat. With the amount of scoonds taad shrivelled wheat available this season, fowl feed will drop aB soon as threshing is more advanced. The Premier informed a deputation of grain merchants to-day that the Government did not. intend to interfere in any shape or form with the grain trade this year, nor import any wheat. , Algerian oats, which have been coming into Auckland and some into Canterbury from Victoria, are mostly for seed for sowing for winter and spring feed. The oats market i'u Victoria has firmed about 3d. per bushel. Some thin samples nf new oats have been shown in the local market, but sellers' ideas of value are much those of buyers'. The samples of barley coming forward are very poor, and compare very unfavourably with the sample of malting 'tetrley offered from Victoria, which conld be .landed in New Zealand at about ss. per bushel.

MELBOURNE WOOL SALES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Melbourne, January 18. TUb wool sales opened with keen competition. The top price obtained was 22! d. THE METAL MARKETS. (Koc. Jitnuary 18, 5.40 p.m.) London, January 17. Copper—Spot, £85j three months, £85 ss. Kteetrolytic—Spot, £113; three months, £115. Tin.—Forward deliTery, £174 15s. to £175 ss. Lead.—Soft foreign, on spot, £29 12s. 6d.; forward delivery, £29 2s. 6d. • Silver—Bar silver is Quoted at 26Jd. per oz. standard.

Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ s. d. National Bank 5 16 Bk. N.Z. (£3 6s. 8d.) 10 4 0 - Napier Gas (£5) — '900 N.Z. Insurance 6 5 0 6 6 0 S. .British Insurance 4 15 0 — Standard Insurance 115 0 — Gear Meat (£1) 3 19 0 — Well. Meat Ex. (£212s.6d.) 2 13 6 - N.Z. Shipping (ord.) 18 0 8 Union Steam (ord.) 14 9 15 6 Union Stwim (pref.) 10 3 — Kaiapoi Woollen (ord.) ... 5 5 0 — Well. Woollen (ord.) 5 10 — N.Z. Drug 2 4 0 - — Shailand (ord.) 14 0 — Waipa Coal (ord.) — 0 19 0