COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2724, 20 March 1916, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT'SHARES. . No transactions ivoro recorded in the lnvestwam market on Saturday. Tie Quotations wero as under :— lluyore. Relle'ra. , T ~ , „ £s. d. £e. d. National Bank 5 13 - Bank N.Z. (£3 6s. Bd.) ... 10 12 6 - Union Bank : 50 15 0 — A'mional Mortgage — 317 6 N.Z and liivcr Plate ... 2 0 0 - Well. Trust, Loan, Ltd. ... - 7 10 Gisborne Gas 1 12 6 — A'npier Gas. (£5) 715 0 810 0 Well. Gas (£10) - 1515 0 Union Steam (ord.) 1 710 19 0 Union Steam (pref.) 10 9 — Well. Woollen (ord.) 5 0 0 — Well. Woollen (pref.) — 3 9 0 Leyland-O'Brien, '.... — . 12 6 Ttyingamutu Totara, ■- I 18 6 *Jf.Z. Drag 2 4 6 — Golden Bay Cement 019 3 10 6 .Saarland (ord.) 14 6 — Sharkmd (pref.) 14 6 — *Cuin div. PEILDING MARKET. Messrs. Atkinson and Co., Ltd.. report 'a good demand lor poultry at increased values, a small yarding of pigs also sold to better advantage. Weaner pigs made 6s. to 10s: 6d.; light porkers, to 355. Hens, per pair. 3s. 6d. to 45.; ducks, 4s. 9<t. to os. 3d.; turkeys. 10s.; cockerels, ss. 3d. to 6s. 3d. Gig pony, £7; three-year unbroken colt, £7. Apples, 2s. 9d. to 4s. half-case; pears, Is. 6d. to 3s. 6d.; quinces, 25.: tomatoes, 3s. to 5a.; passion fruit, 26. 6<£' to 35.; onions, 76. per cwt.; potatoes, 6s. to 9s. per sack; pig, 3s. to 3s. 6d.; pumpkins, 7c. per sack; cabbage, ss. per sack; uhafi, £5 10s.; barley, ss. per bushel. Customs duty collected at the port of Wellington ou Saturday amounted . to £3710 6s. sd. . LONDON MARKET. ' By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Bee. March 19, 5.5 p.m.) London, March IS. Wheat.-The market is dull, and there are no bids for cargoes. Chicago May options, llllc. to 108 c; July options, 1083 c. to 106 c. Cotton—March-April shipment. 7.65 d. per Jute.—Native first marks, March-April shipment, £34. New Zealand Hemp.—March-May shipment, £47 per ton. Rubber.—Jlard fine Para, 3s. 2d. per lb.; plantation, 3s. 6d.; smoked Gheets, 3s. 53d. shipment, £35 15s. per ton. METAL MARKETS. (Bee. March 19, 5.5 p.m.) London, March 18. ■ Antimony, 9s. 6d. per limit for forward delivery. Copper.-On spot, £107 ss. to £107 10s. per ton; lorward, £103 15s. to £IC4. Tin:—On spot, £195 10s. to i 195 15s.'per ton; forward, £190 15b. to £191 ss. Lead.—Soft foreign, £35 10s. to £35 12s. 6d. per ton. •Spelter.—On spot, £92 per ton; forward delivery, £82. Silver—Bar Bilver is quoted at 27 3-16 d. per ounce standard.

LONDON WOOL SALES. (Rec. March 19, 5.5 p.m.)

London, March 18. The wool sales have closed firm at the top.prices. There was wider competition this week, and prices. hardened considerably. Compared with the January • Bales finest' crossbreds close at about par, medium and coarse crossbred, 10 per cent, lower; best merino, 5 per cent, lower on the averago; and faulty, fully 74 per cent, lower. All sorts of scoured found a good market, owing to Russian demand at par to 5 per cent, decline. The fallowing wero the prices realised for the fleece portionß of tho clip 6 named:—Topralo, • top pries 37d., average price 36Jd.: "Kilongbux," top 22Jd., average 22d.; "lieid," top 22d., aver, age 183 - "Portland," top 20d., averago 184 d.; "Tinenburia," top 15Jd„ averago 14jd.; "Orion Downs," top 21Jd„ average 18d. New Zealand clips, "Hawini," top 21fcd-, average 183 d. '

There was sold to the Home trado 77.000 bales, to the ,Continent £000, and to America nil. Tho quantity held over is 11,000 bales.

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, I/td. ho-va. received the following cablegram from their agents :—"The sales have closed with' a etrong market. Ab compared with the closing rates of last sales, merinos are 5 per cent, to 10 per cent, lower; flno crossbreds, 5 per cent, lower; medium and coarse orosßbreds, 10 per cent, lower."

The New Zealand Loan, and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, have received the following cablegram from their Lon. don house, under date March 17:—"Sales closed firmly, as compared with February 5. The following are, all lower:—Merino superior, par to 5 per cent.; greasy medium inferior, 75 per cent, to 10 per cent.; scoured, 6 per cent, to 7i per cent.; crossbred greasy, fine, par to 5. per ceul.i medium, coanse, 10 per cent."; Messrß. Murray, Roberts, and Co., Ltd., have received a cablegram from their London, friends, Messrs. Sanderson, Murray, 'and Co., under date -March 17, as followp-.—

"Sales have closed firm, 11,000 bales held over. Compared with last sales' closing rales, scoured morino par, greasy halfbred par; crossbred declined, 5 per cent.; medium ,to coarse crossbred, de.f clined 10 per oent." " > ■ '■ \ FROZEN MEAT. (Rec. March 19, 5.5 p.m.) London, March 19. The Incorporated Society of Moat lm. porters' Sniithfield Market quotations for frozen meat are based on actual sales oj not less than one hundred carcasses of mutton or lamb, or twenty-five Quarters of beef, of fair average quality. The quotattons are not for selected lines, but for parcels fairly representative of the bulls of the shipments now on the market. The prices which follow are on the average a farthing per Ih. more titan the values ox ship, this difference representing/the aver, age cost in expense, handling, conveyance,, and selling • of' the meat:— Mutton— d. Canterbury, light ! 78 Canterbury, light (seconds) 7J Canterbury, medium 78 Canterbury, heavy 78 Southland 7| Kew Zealand, best .'. 78 ' New Zealand,. ordinary 78 North Island,' ewes 78 Kew Zealand, ewes '.. 75 Australian, heavy :...' 85 Austria-lion, medium , 85 Australian, light \ 85 Australian, ewes" 85 River Plate, wethers, light 8J River Plate, heavy 83-8 River Plate, ewes, none offering Lamb—', ; • Canterbury, light 85 Canterbury, seconds 85 Canterbury, medium 85 Canterbury, heavy 85 Southland 85 North Island,. ordinary 8} North Island, soleoted '. ■ 85 Australian, best , .' 85 Autralian, secondary ...; 8J Australian, inferior 85 ltlver Plate, first quality none offering Elver Plate, seconds ...... none offering Beef— , Argontine, cliiljed fores ... nono offerfttE Argentine, chilled hinds ... none offering 'Uruguay, fores nono offering Uruguay, hinds '.; none.offering RABBITS. Babbits aro firm. (Supplies aio short.