COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2718, 13 March 1916, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHAKES. ' In the'investment market on Saturday a sale of National Bank shares at £5 Is. 6d. was made on 'Change. Tho Quotations wer-o as tinder:— ' ' Buyers. ' Sellers. - £ s. ,d. ■ ■■ s. d. Bank N.S.W — 3912 6 Banlr;N;Z. (£3 6s. 6d.)-... 10 13 .0... .. — 'N.Z." arid' Eiver Plate .... 119 9 — Woll. Dep. and' Mort — 0 9 9 Auckland Gas (paid) — 19 3 Gisborne Gas 1 12 6 Ncpier Gas (£5) — 8 10 0 .Well...Gas v .(£lo). , 1515 0 -National- - Insurance. , — 2 10 3 Union''Steam (ord.) '1 7 3' —' Union Steam (pref.) 1 0 ' 9 • — Well. Woollen (ord.) 5 3.0 5 6 0 Taringamutu Talara — 1 18 6 N.Z. Consol. Dental 1 0 '3 ' N.Z. Drug 2 4 6 — Golden Bay .Cement o 19 3 ' — ' N:Z. Paper- Mills 0 16 6 • : Customs •-revenue collected at Wellington on/Saturday'amounted to £1338 7s. 4d. . ,'.Y;' ".!;": LONDON MAEKET.'- . ' By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. March 12, 5.5 p.m.) ■ ( l'.^! 1 ! - London, March 11. . j . ..The wheat market is quiet. Chicago May. options, 1101 cents to 1115 cents; July op- '

Hon, 1093 centG to 110 3-8 ,centE. Ootton.—March-April shipments, 7.605 d. per lb. Jute.—Native first-marks, Fobruary-March shipment. £J4 per ton. New Zealand Hemp.—March-May 6hipment, £47 ss. per ton. Oopra.—February-April shipment, £35 15s. per toil. Rubber.—Hard fine Para., 3s. 2id. per lb.; plantation, 3s. 7^<L; smoked sheets, 3s. 7d. Ilides are firm and unchanged iLe<ither is in strong dcinaud. Stocks are small. Best Sydncye. 18s. to 2fls.; Melbourne, 18s. 6d, to 206. Basils are iu good demand; better qualities . are advancing, but commoner sorts arc unchanged. First-grade vSydney, 15s. to Its. 6d.; New Zealand, 17s. to 19s. FROZEN MEAT. (Rec. March 12, 5.5 p.m.) London, March 11. Tho Incorporated Society of Moat Importers' Snuthfield Market quotations for frozen meat aro based on actual sales of not less than one hundred carcasses of mutton or lamb,. or twenty-fly© quarters of beef, of fair average quality. The quo-1 tatlons are not for selected Unas, but for parcels fairly representative of tho bulk of tho shipments now on the market. The prices which follow are on the average a i'arthlng per lb. more than tho values cs ship, this difference representing the average cost in expense, handling, conveyance, and selling of tho meat:— Muttou— d. Canterbury, light 73 Canterbury, light (seconds) 7ft I Canterbury, medium 78 Canterbury, heavy 78 Southland ; 78 New Zealand, best 73 New Zealand, ordinary 75 North Island, ewes .: .. 78 New Zealand, ewes 7a Australian, heavy 8i Australian, medium 8J Australian, light 8J . Australian, ewes 8$ River Plate, wethers, - light 83-8 River Plate, heavy ; 8£ .River ?late, ewes none offering Lamb— Canterbury, light 8J Canterbury, seconds 8i Canterbury, medium 8J Canterbury, heavy 8J Southland 8i North Island, ordinary 8$ North Island, selected ...... 8J [Australian, best 8i Autralian, secondary 8} Australian, inferior 8j River Plato, first quality none offering River Plate, seconds none offering ; BeefArgentine, chilled fores 6$ Argentine, chilled hinds 8 Uruguay, fotcs nono offering Uruguay, hinds none offering Note: All quotations aTo nominal. RABBITS. The market is firm, and prices are unchanged. LONDON WOOL SALES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rcc. March 11, 6.15 p.m.) . London, March 10. At the wool sales the better tone recently shown continues. The bidding is morn general, and prices are slightly harder" all round. • The following -wore the prices re-, alised for the fleece portions of the New Zealand clifis named:—"Otairi," top price ,19id., average price 18id.; "Akitio," top 19id., average 18Jd.; "Glenside," top 19£ d., average 17$. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., have Teceivcd the following cablegram from their London houso undor dato March 9, 1916:— "Wool sales are weaker, irregular and lower than February 5. Superior merino scoured, medium, 5 per cent, to 7£ per oent.; Inferior, .10 per cent.; greasy, medium, inferior, 10 per cent, to 15 per cent.; fine crossbred, 5 per cent, to 7£ per cent.; medium, coarse, and slipe, 74 per cent, to 1U per cent, (all lower)." • ■ LEAD STATISTICS. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright (Rec.. March 11, 6.15 p.m.) ' * London, March la Ths'lead imports in February amounted to 19,490 tons, and the exports to' 1427 tons.