COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2816, 6 July 1916, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHAKES. Investment shares were quoted as folio v.- 011 the Wellington Stock Exchange .yesterdayi liuyers. Sellers. is.il. £s.d. "S.Z. and It. Plate 3 0 0 — Well. Gas (pref.j — 10 0 V/oli. aleat Kxport (X- 12s. Cd.) - 3 2 6 N.Z. Shipping (ord.) 22 0 0 — Union ttLSiuu Epret'.) 1 0 10 — Well. Woollen (ord.) — 516 0 tTaupiri Coal — 014 0 Westport CoaL 18 3' Westportr,Stockton 0 6 2 • — 1/jylaLd-O'Urien 119 - Ward and Co — 5 19 0 Manning and Co — 4 13 0 N.Z. Drus 2 5 6 2 7 6 Soonllar Co 13 6 — *oum div. •fCum rights. Cnstoius duty collectcd at the port ot Wellington yesterday amounted to £4415 os. 9d. SEW ZEALAND SHfPPINf! COMPANY SHARE VALUKS. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. London, July 4. New Zealand Shipping Company sharps have risen eleven points, and ure (iiioteil at 32, which is about their value under the imns ot' fusion with the .Peninsular and Oriental Company. LONDON MARKETS. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association, London, July 'l Wheat is firm, and higher prices arc usked. Buyers do not respond. APPLES. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. (Kec. July 5, 3.30 p.m.) London, July 4. A further ten thousand cases or I he sttemcr Banana's apples were sold. The shipment generally was good, but many were fully ripe. The demand was fairly active, rates bcintr about Friday's pricen. FALL IN SPELTEfS. 'Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. ' (Bee. July 5, 3.30 p.m.) London, July 4. lucreased production, and the restriction of general consumption, is causing a full in the price or spelter. The Gov--1 ernment recently bought 3000 tons in Awe- | riea Tor June, July mid August shipment. Further purchases this year arc unlikely. ! This and the improved freight conditions I erp expected to cause a further decline.

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. (l!ec. July 5, 3.30 p.m.) London, July 4. The London ritock Exchange is quietly buoyant, with a further slight hardening: oE prices, in keeping ivitli the steady progress of the armies in France, but nothing sensational. The public has been fully warned not to expect dramatic developments. •- Consols, £61 55.; War Loan, £97 55.; Australian Mercantile debentures, £70 10s.; Dnlgety, shares ,C 6 10s., debentures £74; Goliiibrough, Mort and Co., debentures, £78. HIDE AND SKIN SALE. Messrs. Dalgcty and Co., Ltd., report:— In conjunction with our sale of wool, skins, hides, etc., we submitted our first catalogue of crutchines for this season's special sales. A good offering came forward, which met with active competition from a representative attendance of buyers. Included in our entry was a number of light-cc/nditioned, ffood-nuallfcy lines, which sold under keen competition, realising fi'om 121<1. to 13Jd. The larger portion of the catalogue, however, consisted of medium to heavy-conditioned and seedy parcels, and for these competition was less keen, very seedy lines being slow of sale. Other descriptions'of wool sold at late rates. We offered a iarge number of first-class skins , and bides, which sold at high prices. Tallow was in good demand at an advance on last sale's rates. Wc quote:—Wool:! Crutchings, good to super, 12Jd. to 133 d.; medium to super, lid. to 12id.; short and heavy, lOd. to 10Jd.; seedy, od. to 91d.; very seedy and inferior, 4d. to 6d.;, crossbred, 12d. to 13d.; ditto, seedy and inferior, to lC*d.; lamhs. 12d. to 13Jid.; ditto, inferior and seedy, 6d. to 9d.; dead wool, lid. to 12£ d.; bellies and pieces, B'd. to 9Jd.; locks, sid. to 7(1. Sheepskins: Crossbred, medium and fine, lljd. to Hid.; coarse, lid. to Hid.; hoggets, lOd. to lid.; ditto, dead, SJd. to SJd-; hall-woolled, Sid. to 9£d.; shorts to quar-ter-wool, 6d. to Bd.; dead, 7Jd. to SJd.; ditto, inferior and broken, Sid. to 71d.; butchers' part dry and salted, at each,, best ■ heavy lines (picked), to lis. 9d.; Rood, Bs. to 9s. 9d.; medium and light, 6s. to 7s. 9d.; lambs, 4s. to 6s. 7d.; ditto, short, and shorn, 3s. to 3s. lid. Hides:■ Ox,, heavy. Hid.; medium' and light, lljd.; cow hides, best lines. lOd. to 103 d.; medium to inferior, B}d. to 9Jd.: cut and slippy. 7d. to BJd.; yearlings, 9}d. to 10Sd.; ditto, cut and damaged, 6J<l. to 7jd ; horse hides, 7s. 6d.; sound calfskins, SJd. to lljd.; cut and damaged, 7d. to 9d. Tallow and Sundries: Tallow, in tins.- 20s. to 275. 3d.; in caskr. 28s. to 255. 6d.; rabbitskins, 12d.; horse hair, 15d.

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STOCK EXCHANGE. By Telegraph—i'ivss As-.i-.oHon Auckland, July 5. , Sales: Auckland Gas (paid), 20s. 6d. Christchurcli, July 5. Salo reported: Westport-Stockton Ooal. 7 per cent- debentures, £250. Dunedin, July o. Sale: Union Steams, ill lis. Sd. (two parcels). LOXDOJf QUOTATIONS. Australian-New Zealand Cabl-e Association. (Itcc. July 5, 3.30 p.m.) London, July 4. British Broken Hill, buyers 'iSs., sellers 265.; Block 10, Broken Hill, Duycrs 235„ tellers 24b.; Hampden, buyers 38s. 3d., sellers 395., id.