'COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2759, 1 May 1916, Page 8

'COMMERCIAL ITEMS

-DALGETY AKD CO., LTD. ' -The ~-3tav . Zealand superintendent of Messrs. Dalgety • and Company, Limited, has been advised by cablegram from London that an interim dividend of 4s. per share,, equal,to 8 per cent, per annum, has 'Ijceii declared. This "will be payable to shareholders 'on the colonial register on and alter May 15. TFOOL. SKIN, AND HIDE SALE. Messrs. Murray, Roberts, and Co.. reporting on their wool, skin, and hide eale, held on Friday last, state that they olfered.a • catalogue-of 2CCO sheepskins, 360-hides, and 70 bales/of wool, mostly scouring lots and bales,, besides tho utrnal oddments of tallow;"" Prices were, on the whole, quite equal to last eale, with the exception of .hides, which, -wero par to Jd. lower* competition being keen at the lower range of prices." "The quality of the hides on tho average nras. however, hardly equal to the offerings ot our .last catalogue. The range of prices was the same as the figures published on Saturday. „ ' '•;? JEILDING MARKET. Messrs..; Atkinson and .Co., Ltd., sold on 'Friday', a considerable quantity of poultry and pigs, for which there was good inquiry, at advanced'prices. Good weaner pigs sold at lis. 6d. to 12s. 6d.; others, 83. to 9s. 6d.; elips, 13s/.to. IBs; 6d.; medium porkers, to 385.; light, 32a. 6d.; stares, 16s. to 265, . Hens, per pair, 3s. 3d. to 4s. 3d.; 3©. 6d. to ,6s. 9d.; ducks, 4s. 9d. to ss. 3d. Potatoes, 7s. to 10si p«r bag; pig. 35.; pumpkins,. 7s. per sack; onions, 7s. to 95.. per cwt.; apples, 2s. to 4s. per case; pears, 2s. 6d.; walnuts, 6d. per lb.; chaff, £5 10s. per ton; straw, £2;. hay, £4. .Onstoms duty collected at the port' of Wellington on Saturday amounted to £2448 16s. 4d. \ LONDON. MARKETS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ' (Hec. April 30, 5.5 p.m.) ' 'London, April 29. Wheat.—Dull." v " Favourable weather in F-urope has increased the pressure to sell. Canadian, 655. being aeked. Cbicago, May options, cents to 112 J. cents; July, 115J cents to 113 i cents. Wheat and, flour afloat for tho United Kingdom totals .3,260,C00 bushels; Continent of Utirope, 4,290,000 buehels; Atlantic shipments, €19,000;' Pacific, 2COO. Total for Europe, 1,230,000; Argentine, 225.0C0; Australasian, 153,000.. ,;^Jute.—April ; May'shipments, £33 10s. v r 'New Zealand Hemp.—Quiet; high-point, fair; February-May shipments, £48. llid.; smoked. 3s. 03d.; plantation, 3s.' lid. " . Copra.—April-June shipment, £34 ss. Cotton.—April-May, 7.72 d. per lb. Silver, 35Jd; ,per ounce standard.

'FROZE* MEAT. :'■■■■ ; w . April 30,, 5.5 ; .p.m.)..; - London,' Artil 29. Quotation for New Zealand, lamb is 9id.. per lb. Australian sheep, first quality, Bjd.; lamb, 9jd. ..Other...moats are unchanged. • ■•Babbits.—Firm and unchanged,