COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2826, 18 July 1916, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHAKES. •" Prices or investment and mining stocks yesterday were ne follow :— linyors. Sellers. £ s. d. £ s. d. *Na>t-ieiial Hank J ., 5 8 0' — Bank N.Z. (£6l3s. 4d.) ... 16 15 0 - ■ Equitable Building 9 15 — K. British Insurance 4 18 0 — Ohristchurch Meat 19-5 0 — Well: Meat Eiport (£2 12s. 1 6t1.) _ 3 2 6 Onion Steam (pref.) 1 0 10 — Wni'pa Coal 0 IS 3 — Westport Coal 18 6.' — N.Z. Drug. 2 6 6 — Golden Boy Cement — 13 0 •Cum dir. s WHOLESALE PRODUCE PRICES. Messrs. Laery and Co., .Ltd., Allen Street, report wholesale prices <1? follow:—Fowl's wheat, prime ss. 3d. per bushel, medium ss: 2d. pnr bushel; fowl's barley, 4s. 3d. bushel; Cape barley, 4s. Sd. bushel; partridge peas, 6s. 6d. bushel; maize, feed,'ss to ss. 2d. bushel; chaff, oat-shcaf, £65s.per ton, sacks in; oat-straw, £4 ss. per ton, hay, clover, £6 .per ton; flout-, in rack, £13 15s. per toil; oatmeal, £1810s. per ton; bran, £6 to £6 se. per ton; pollard, £8 15e. to £9 per ton; potatoes, seed; Northern Star, £6 15s. per ton; Gp-to-Date, £7 per ton; Gamekeepers, £6 15s. per ton; bacon (all best factory), sides, Is. per lb.; rolls. Is. Id. per lb.; hams,ls. Id. per lb.; shoulders, lOd. per lb.; cheese (factory), mediuim, lOil.. per lb.; linseed nuts. 13s. per cwt.; linseed ground cake, los. per cwt.; rice pollard, £6 15s. per ton; onions. Victorian brown Spanish. £7 ss. to £7 10s. per ton; potatoes, white-skinned table, Southern, £8 10s.' to £9 per ton.

Customs duty collected at, the port of i "Wellington yesterday amounted to £3341 1 ss. 10d., ; HIGH COMMISSIONER'S; MARKET REPORT. The Department of Agriculture, Industries, end Commerce has received the following cablegram, dated London, July 15, from the High Commissioner for New Zealand. (Note: Quotations, unless other wise specified, are average market prices on spot):— 1 Heat.—There is a less demand lor Canterbury mutton. Home-kilted mutton, and English lamb ere in good supply. N.Z. mutton and lamb are in. small supply. Priocs are unchanged, with the'result that arrivals of muttoJi are very. heavy, with prices weak, Argentine lamb, priocs are firmer; N.Z. mutton, per lb., B|d.; ewe mutton, B}d.; Argentine mutton, 9i<L; N.Z. lamb, 9Jd.; Argentine lamb, 102 d.; N.Z. bull beef, hinds, 6d.; fores. sid.; Argentine chilled beef, hinds, ,9fcd.; fores, 7?d. Butter.—The market is ; very quiet. Dan* ish, salted, per cwt.. 170s. to 1745.; Canadian, salted, 160s. to 1625.; Australian, salted, 15Ss. to 160s.;'N.Z. salted, 1665. to 168?., and up to 1705.; unsalted, 168s. to 1705.; Imh creamery, salted, 1565. to 1605.; Argentine, salted, 1545. to 156e.; unsalted, 1565. : to 160s. Cheese.—The! market is depressed, and closed irregular and unsettled. Canadian, white, per cwt., 84s. to 88s.; coloured, 84s. to 88s.; English cheddar, 102s. to 10te.; N.Z. —The market is has been unfavourably affectcd by heated and damaged cheese, and higher prices refer to sales, made earlier during the week. White and coloured, per cwt., 82s. to 845., and up to, 86s. to 88s.; States flats, white, 80s. to Bfe. Hemp.—The market is auiet, little do in;?, but good feeling prevails. Good fair N.Z. •hemp, per ton, £48 10s.; fair, £47; Government graded fair Manila, £52; coarse. £49; July-September shipment, good fair N.Z.. £48; fair, £46; Government graded fair Manila, £50 10s.; coarse, £48. The output of hemp at Manila, for the week eadiug last ..Saturday was 32,000 bales. Wheat.—The market ils quiet, but holderj are firm. Canadian, arrived, 525.; afloat, 51s. . Oifits.—The ma-rket is quiet. Argentine, an-ived,' 30s. Wool.—Merino; the market, is strong, all stocks arc advancing; crossbred; the market is quiet, with a tendency in favour of buyers.