COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2673, 20 January 1916, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES. Although there were apparently many buying orders, no business was dono in the investment market yesterday. The quotations were ae follow:— • Buyers. Sellers. _ . £ s. d. £ s. d. National Bank —. 5 1 0 tEquitablo Building 9 15 0 — N.Z. and River Plate 2 0 0 — Well. Invest. T. and A ... — 0 11 0 Napier Gas (£5) — 9 0 0 N.Z. Insurance — 6 6 0 Standard Insurance 1 15 0 — Gear Heat (£1) 3 19 0 — Well. Meat Ex. (£2l2s. 6d.) 213 0 - N.Z. Shipping (ord.) 18 0 6 Urnon Steam (ord.) w 14 9 — Onion Steam (pref.) 10 3 — Well. Woollen (ord.) 5 10 — Well. Woollen (pref.) 3 7 6 —. Westport Ooal — 18 0 N-Z- Drag 2 4 0 2 5 0 Sharland (ord.) 14 0 — Ward and Co. 5 7 6 — fOum div, Customs duty collected at the port of Wehngton yesterday amounted to £2614 FKOZEN HEAT REPORT. Gilbert Anderson and Co., London (Mensop, khott and Oo„ agents), report on the frozen moat market, under dnto November 26, as follows: Home-grown.—The feature of the market has been tho price of English ewes, whieh can be bought freely at 6d. Beef Blcntiful, and good quality. p o rlc stronger. Frozen Americans are about tlic only wethers available. New Zealand cw» s still in excellent demand, <uid ijrm a-t Australian scarcc: not quotable. Frozen Iximb.—E-cductions in- prices have not tended to increase the consumption appreciably. Some agents (ire forcing the position, although the situation docs not wan-ant Jl in view of short supplies ill future. Lines of North Island lambs have fjswj sold as low as 63d. Prices show a big loss to the Imperial Government, Beef.—Chilled easier, with increased sunplies. Frozen ftcw Zealand cow bccX *s worth 4jd. fores, and s<d. hinds, LONDON WOOL SALES. By Telegraph—Press AsfociiiUou-CoDyrlzhi (Kcc. January 19, 9.55 p.m.) London, January 19 At the wool polos 7578 bules wcrq olfcrntl, ftS YfWsll HJ J&S. Zwy&ud, There

\ms a largo attendance, and good genera! competition. The United States *ind Continental buyers were operating in merinos, of which there was a good selection. Pricw wctc 5 per cent, above the Deeeuiber dosing rates. Slipes crossbrsAj advanced 5 per cent; groa-sy crossbred* were extremely &oarce. PBIVATB ADVICES. Messrs. TV. and 'G. Turnbull and Co., Ltd., report having received the following cablegram from their London agents, under date of January 18:—"Wool sales: , Sli'j.\es advanced sto 7h per cent; grcasies not represented." WHEAT. ("Roc. January .19, 9.55 p.m.) London, January 19. Wheat is quiet and firm.