COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2899, 11 October 1916, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

! INVESTMENT- STOCKS. ! JS tlle inx ; es J tm °nt m.arkot yesterday sales ' wele iccorded of Union Steam (ordinary) ' at S S " Th ß „ d (ordinary) at 265. The quotations were as follow liuyors. . «ollcr«. ■ National Bank ; £ -' d ' f6 < or ■rS I 2 ' P 6 15s - 4d ' ) - ~ 7IV '6 Imon Bank _ 54 5 o ' W- I P est - T ' A. .. - 010 9 ■ ' ".«}]• Trust, ,t Loan. Ltd. — 7 0 0 . We • Gn s (£10) _ 15 2 0 Well. Gas (pref.) — 019 6 ; Gear M«at (£1)- 410 0 — IJA (pref.) 10 10 0 ' - i Well. Woollen (ord.) — ■ 6 0 0! westport Goal - 19 6 N.JS. Consol. DenUl 12 5 • — ! • N.g. Drug 26 6, - N.Z. Portland Cement ... — 011 9 Golden Bay Cement — 116 ' Customs duties collected at the port of • Wellington. yesterday amounted to £6859 ; 2s. Id. SOUTHERN MARKETS. Bj Tolegrapli—Press Association. Christchurch, October 10. 'J'lioro is fair inquiry for wheat, end ; offerings ere still scarce. Prices aro firm, but there is no change to'note. Tho potato market is firmer, and the ruling PPCC is now £3 15s. to £7 at country tions. . The cooksfoot crop on Bank's Peninsula, pi-omises to bo a better ono than it has been for tho past : ljwo previ- . -ous eea-song. So far thare has bcon exi colient groivth, and with the supply of • feed available landowners will bo ablo to shut up larger areas for seed than they were able to do last year. LONDON WOOL SALES. i '• iMlralian-New Zealand Cable Association^ tßec. October 10. 5.40 p.m.) • - ■ London, Ootobcr 9. Tho -wool for the forthcoming sales totals 99,000 hales, of.whioh 28,000 "arc Australian, and 43 000 aro New Zealand. Tho total supplies available aro 110,000-bales., ■ Messrs. Dalget-y and Company, Limited, liavo received tho folloirine cablegram from their London oiiioo, under-, date 'October 9:—"For the seventh series of -wool solos the list of arrivals closod on OotoP« , Tho-gross arrivals• amounted to 164,000, bales, of winch quantity 65,000 bales wero forwarded dircot to. manufacturers, leaving available for sale' 110,000 bales." • ; THE METAL MARKETS. ; Australiaii-Now Zealand Cable Association. , ■ ,(R«c. October Id.. 10.50 p.m.)' ; ' ■ London, October 10. Copper—Spot,■ £120 155.; 3 months. £117 155.; electrolytic, £142. Lead.—Spot,' £30 10s.; 3 months, £29 10s Spelter.—Spot, £57; 3 months, £52. Spot, £178 2s. 6d.; 3 months, £178 7s. 6d. ' Bar. Silver—32Jd. per ounce,, standard.