COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2864, 31 August 1916, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHATtES. Yesterday's quotations for : investment

Customs duties collected at the port-of Wellington yesterday amounted to £<038 12s. sct. HIDE AND 'SKIN SAI/E. Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Palmerston North, report' having held a Bpecial crutching rale in conjunction iv.itli their monthly 1 skin' and ludo sale, etc., on Friday. "Tho crotohing sale," the firm report, "comprised about ICO bales, also a. largo quantity of fadges and bags. etc. Owing to tho absence of any demand from Japanese houses, ■ prices for crutohings, in sympathy with other leading markets in tho Dominion, showed a considerable decline as compared with rates ruling at 'first crutching sales. Although it is Tory difficult to forecast the future market for erutchings, it is. the'general opinion that this class of -wool will not again reach the-exceptionally lligh level ruling earlier in the .season, ; and'rather than hold on and risk the market falling lower, we

thought it advisable in clicnts* interests to accopt prices offered. Skins, hfclos, and tnllow Bold -well up to laßt sale rates, and we cleared the whole of pur catalogue at very satisfactory prices. We quote:—Wool (Crutchings).-No super lines -offered,' medium to lOd. to 103 d.; short and heavy condition, 9d. to 9}d.: &oody and inferior. 6d. to 81d.:'cross-brcd inferior, lOJd. to 12Jd.; dead wool, lOd. to 12d.; bellies and pieces, 7id. to "Bid.; looks and pieces, 53d. to 71d.; locks, 4d. to ssd. vSheepakins.—Orosslircd medium and fine, 12d. to 12$ d.; ditto, coarse, lUd. to 12(1.; ditto, i to 1-wooll.od, 7Jd. to 10jd.; hoggets, lOid. to lljd.; ditto, short and shorn, Bd. to Bid.; ditto, dead, 73(1. to Bd.; merino, to 73d.; dead skins, Bd. to 10d.; butchers' Sart dry aod salted crossbred at each-, est heavy lines, lis. to Its. 3d.; ffood, 9s. to 10s. 6d.; light, 6s. 6d. to Bs. 9d.; hoggets, 4s. 6d. to 6s.- 6d. farmers' dead skins. 6s. to 7s. 6d. Hides.—Ox (medium . weights), ilid.; ditto, light, 103 d.; steers, 9d. to 9Jd.; cow (best lines), lOd. to 10jd.; wet and sloppy, 9d. to 9Jd.; farmers' lots, Bid. to 9Jd,; yearlings, Bd. to 9d.; ditto, cut and damaged, 6£d. to 7?d.; cow and ox, cut and damaged, 7d. to 9J,d.; horso hides,, to 9s. 3d. each. Calfskins, best lines, 'to 13& d.; medium to good, 12Jd.; mea-ty and rough, 93d. to 103 d.; cut and damaged, 7d. to 9Jd. Sundries.—Tallow, In tins. 28s. 6d.; casks, 295. Bough fat, 16s. Horsehair, Is. 3d."

LONDON METAL HAftKETS. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. London, August 29.: Copper.—Spot, £110 155.; three, months, £109; eleotrolytic, £129. •Lead.—Spot, £30 10s.; three months; £29 10s- • Spelter.—Spot, £58; three months, £45. Tin.—Spot, £172 17s. 6d.; three months, £173 12s. 6d. Bar silver, 31 11-16 d. per ounce.

shares were as under:— Buyers. Sellers. . . £ s. d. • £ s. d. National Eank 5 7 6 5' 9 0 Bank N.Z. (£3 6s. Sd.) ... 11 2 0 - Bank If.Z. (£6 13s. 4d.) ... 17 2 6 . N.Z.,and Hiver.Plate 2 0 0 _ — Wcl. Trust- Loan, Ltd. ... 6 17 6 i 0 0 Christchurch Gas (£5) ... — .19 9 Well. Gas (£10) .14 12 6. 15 0 0 National Insurance 2 13 I : S. British Insurance ... 5 1 0 — Rear Meat (£1) 1 9 (1 ' - {Well. ITeat Export (£4) 4 7 6 —■ tfuddart-Parker (ord.) ...■ 1 'l j Union Steam 1 (ord.) 2 1 9 2 2 3 •:Well. Woollen (ord.) ... -r S 6 0 Waipa' Coal 0 18 6 — Westport Coal IS' ~ . Wostport-Stockton u o 4 — Leyland-O'Brien 12 0 — N.Z. Oonsol. .Dental 1 2' 3 — . dlv. 'Cum dir.