COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2780, 26 May 1916, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

. INVESTMENT SHARES. . Yesterday's quotations for ■ investment snares were as under:—

WHOLESALE PRODUCE .PRICES. • Messrs. Laery Mart 00.. Urpit-ed, Allen Street, report wholesale prices as follow-'-.Fowls wheat, prime, ss. 4d.; fowls' barley 4s. 3d.; Cape barley, 4s. 9d.: partridite peas, fe. 3d.;'maize feed, ss. 3d.; oatensheafchaff. £6; lucerne hay,. £6 155.; flour, in saoks, £13 ss. ; oatmeal, £17 to £18; bran, £5 10s,; pollard,'£B 55.; rice pollard, £6 155.; bacon sides-Is., rolls Is. Id., hams Is. Id., should, ers'lOd.;. cheese, modium 9d., loaf 9Jd • onions, £5 103.; potatoes, £6 to £7.. ■ Customs duty collected at the port of Wellington . yesterday amounted to £5584 6s. Sd. . . .. , • WOOL, SKIS ' AKD HIDES. The' New Zealand Loan and Mercantile (Masterton) report as ■ follows on their periodical wool, skin, and hide sale, held on Wednesday. Wo submitted a good catalogue. Bidding wis brisk, and iva cleared the whole of our catalogue at rates slightly ip advance of last sale. We quoio as follows:— Wool: Crossbred, lOjd. to 12id. ; half bred, faulty, 12Jd.; dead wool, B}d. to Uid.; crutchines, Bd. to HJd;; bellies'and'pieces, Bd. to 9Jd.; locks,' 5Jd. ' ' Sliinß: Crossbred, medium to coarse, 9Jd. to lOd.; oroesbred. damaged, BJd.; crossbred seedy, 6id.; crossbred, dead,' to 83d.; crossbred, hoggets, damp and faulty, 3s. each; lambs, first,- 10Jd.; lambs, dead, Bd. to BJd.; crossbred half-wools, 94d.; quarterwools, 7Jd.;' pelts! 2Jd. to 43d. Hides; Cowhide, 7d. to BJd.; calfskins, up to 9id. I INYERCARGI'LL WOOL SALE. . By Telegraph—Press Association. Inveroargill, May 25. The wool sales' opened to-dajr, 9759 bales being offered. Juyers included Bradford and a representative of the French Government. Competition was keen, and eood wools realised equal - to previous sale. Medium showed a decline, and seedy was .easier, by three-farthings to a penny. Slipo .'wool realised 19d., half and three-Quarter-bred to 183 d„ fins crossbred. 18Jd., lambs For choice woots the demand Improvea. ' - • LONDON WOOL SALES.- " Messrs. Dalgoty and Company, Limited, have received the following cablegram from their London office, 'under date of Jfey Z4-—"For the next series of sales our own dates have been fixed as follows:— June 1 1 and J."

. N.Z. LOAN AND MERCANTILE. I Tho Now Zealand Loan and -Mercantile Ageucy Co., Ltd., has received cable advice from the head office in" London' that an 'interim dividend at the.rate of zi per cent., on account of the year ending .Tuno 50 next, has been declared upon the 5 per cent, cumulative preference stock and ordinary, stock. of tho company. i FROZEN MEAT MARKET. Messrs. jsilbert Anderson and' Co.'-(Messrs. Alellsop, Ehott, and Co., Palmerston North, local, agents) report on tho'frozen meat market' under date . London, April 7 as follows:— Home-grown: Last week's prices -have not been maintained, supplies being 'oh a more liberal scale. Beef is plontiful, ond prices lowered to effect sales. . ' Frozen: Supplies - heing altogether Jtj. adequate l for the. demand, an all-round price. is being charged for Governmentcontrolled" lambs, tho idixi being to keep tho trade together ■ until more ■ normal conditions prevail. Shipments, last month wero heavier than in March.' 1915, and there ,'aro prospects of some relief in tho near future. 1 Market Prices. April 7. April 13. „ 1916. 1916, Frozen..' .. d. < d. d. d. Mutton, N.Z. wethers... % nom. 65 to sii N.Z. ewes 71 55 to 53-8 Australian . wethers 71 nom.: 51 to 51 '■ Mutton, Australian ewes ; 71 nom.'H Mutton, Plato wethers 10 to 92 5? to 5§ Lamb, N.Z. old season 83 • — . „ . N.Z. new season BJ. a to 73 „ Australian 83 7 3-8 to 7J „ Plate 103 to 10S 71 Veal, N.Z. 6J noin. ■ > — Pork, U.S.A. ....:. .- t to 10 — Chilled- ".' Plate oa fores .and - • ■ hinds 7aud«i 6and63

TALLOW; By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Hoc. Hay 25, 9,20 p ni.) ~ „ . London, May 25. Tallow.—-Restricted demand. No sales have been hold. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MAHKET3. (Eec. May 25, 11.20 p.m.) Sydney. May 25. Oats. Algerian feeding, 2s. 7d. to 2s. Bd.; milling, 2s. 10(1. to 35.; Tasmanian, ■white, 35.. 2d. to 3s. 3d. Barley, 3s. sd. to 3s. Bd. Maize, £4 10s. to £5. Potatoes, Tasmanian, £6 10s. to £8 10s. Onions, £4 10s. Adelaide, May 25. Bran, Is. Old. Pollard. Is. ljd. to Is. 21d. Oats, 2s. Id. to 2s. 2d.

'Buyers. Sellers. „ , £ s.'d. f. b. d. Bank-N.Z. (£6 13s. 4d.) ... 17 6 6 - 17 9 0 union Bank — 56 o n National MortfrOgo — 3 jg j Xxran and Mercantile (ord.) 80 5 0' — Well. Meat Export (52a. 6d.) J 0 0 — N./S. yhippini- lord.) ai 0 o - Union Steam (ord.) 113 0 Kaiapoi Woollen (ord.) ... 5 15 0 6 0 0 Well. Woollen (ord.) 5 15 0 6 0 0 Vvmpa Coal -. 0 18 3 — Taupiri .Ooal : 012 9 - Woatport Ooal ; 0 5 8 ' — fleyland-O'Brien 116 — Manning and .Co 4 12 0 — / N.Z. Consol.- Dental 116 — Drus 2 5 0 Golden Bay Cement ...... 12 0 — whitcombe and Tombs ... 6 6 0 6 11 0 tEx div.