COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2714, 8 March 1916, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES. Thero was nothing doing in thhe investment market yesterday. The quotations were as follow:— Buyers. Sellers. £s. d. £s. d. 1 National Bank 5 0 0 5 1 6 | Bank N.Z. (£3 6s. Bd.) ... 10 12 6 - , Bank N.Z. (£6 13s. 4d.) ... 16 8 0 - ' Union Bank 50 15 0 — 1 "National Mortgage — 3 17 6 ( Well, Invest. T. and A.... — 011 0 . Well. Dep. and Moi't. ... — 010 0 Gisborne Gas 112 6 — I Napier Gas (£5) — 810 0 ] Well. Gas (prcf.) 010 0 - : N.Z. Insurance 6 2 0 6 5 0, Gear Meat (£1) a — HO, Union Steam (ord.) 16 9 — ; Union Steam (prof.) ......... 10 6 — Well. Woollen (ord.) 5 3 6 — | Waipa Coal 0 18 0 , — Taringamutu I'otara ... — 20 0' Ward and Co 5 13 0 — , N.Z. Consol. Dental 1 0 0 1 3 0 i Golden Bay Cement 0 19 0 110, N.Z. Paper Mills 0 16 3 — *lix div. THE EGG MARKET. The -New Zealand Poultry Industries, 1.1 id., reports to-day as follows"The supplies are short and a keen demand. The market ■ rate lias advanced a penny per dozen to Is. Bd. as from to-day." SODTEEHN GKAIN MARKET. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchuroh, March 7. The. local wheat market is steadier, and there lias been no further fall in prices. Business has been done at 4s. 2d. to 4s. 3d. at country stations for milling wheat. Local priccs of flour are unaltered, but for shipping it is easier in consequence of the competition of southern mills. Pollard.—The shipping quotation is £7. Oats.—The market is unchanged. Thero is very good inquiry- owing ,to short stocks and the Southland crop not yet heing on the market. Little forward business 1b being done in potatoes, except for March delivery, for which £5 to £5 ss. is being paid. PRICE OF BRAN REDUCED, liy Telegraph—Press Association—Copj'right Sydney, March 7. The price of bran ha-s been reduced to £4 10s. METAL MAB.KETS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (liec. March 7, 11.20 p.m.) London, March 6. Copper on spot, £103 ss. per ton; three months, £99'55.; electrolytic, £135 to £137. Tin on spot, £137 to £187 ss. per ton. Pig iron, 83s. 9d. per ton. Lead, soft foreign, £31 15*. to £31 17s. 6d. pet ton. Spelter, on spot.£llo per ton; forward delivery, £93. Silver—Bar silver is quoted at 26 15-16 d. per ounce, standard. Customs duty collected at the port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £9846 Bs. 6d. Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., i eport having held a successful sale of dairy cows on hehalf of Mr. T. Field, Ohau, on Thursday, March 2. Prices recorded were:— Early calvers, £9 ss. to £11; spring calvers. £6 12s. 6d.' to £8 155.; heifers in milk, £5 10s. to £7 155.; yearling heifers, £3 16s. 6d.; Jersey bull, £5 4s Messrs. W: and •G. Turnbull and Co., Ltd., report having received a cablegram from London, under. date March 7:— I"Crossbreds declined a further 5 per cent. The embargo is affecting the position, and the future is impossible to foretell."