COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2925, 10 November 1916, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES. Yesterday's quotations for investment shares were as under:— Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ a. d. National Bank ' 5 0 0 — N.Z. and Kiver Plato ... — 2 16 Well. Trust, Loan..Ltd.... -- ' 619 0 Well; Gas (£10) —. 15 0 0 N.Z. Insurance 6 16 0 — Gear Meat (£1) 4 10 0 — Well.. Meat Export (£2 12s. 6d.) ■. — '330 Well. ' Meat Export (£1 _ ISs.) - 210 H-nd.tart-Pa:-ker lord.) ... — 16 0 Kaiapoi Woollen (ord.) ... 6 0 0 6 6 0 Well. Wodllen (ord.) 618 6 6 0 0 Westport Conl • — 19 3 We6t,port.St«ckton (ord.) 0 6 2 0 6 8 Leyland-O'Rrion 13 0 — ■ Auckland Trains (ord.) ... 0 19 9 — Golden Bay Cement — 10 0 WHOLESALE PRODUCE PRICES. . Messrs. Laery and 00., Ltd., Allen Street, report wholesale prices ae follow: —Fowls' wheat, prime, 6s. per bushel; fowls' wheat, medium, ss. lid. per bushel: fowls' barley, 63. lOd. per bushel:' Australian Cape barley, 4s. 6d. per bushel; N.Z. Oa-pS'barley, 3s. lOd. par bushel; barley, «euond, 3s. fid. per bushel; partri|lse peas, 6s. 9d. per bushel; maize feed, ss. 3d. per bushel; chaff, "ofttshcaf, £6 ss. per ,'toi/j hay, clover. £4 10s., £5 per ton: flour, in sacks, £14 ss. mer ton; oatmeal, 7's £21, 25's £19; •bran, £4 15s.- per ton; pollard, £7 10s. t-o £7 15s. per ton; bacon (all best factory), sines, 10Jd. per lb.; rolls, lljd. per lb.; hems, Is. per lb.; shoulders. 9Jd. per lb.; cheese (factory), medium, lOd. per lb.; linseed nuts. 12s. 69. per cwt».: linseed ground cake, 12s* 6d. cwt.; Victorian brown Spanish onions, £13 per ton; potatoes, whiteskinned table, £12 10s. to £13 per ton,; pipmeal, £6 Jpbr ton. All poultry in very good demand. Hone, ss. 6d. to 6s. per pair; cockercls, 6s. 6d. to Bs. per pair; ducks (Pekin and Aylesbury), 9s 10s.; ducks (Indian runners), ss. 6d., 6s. 6d. per pair; turkeys (gobblers). Is., Is. 2d' per.lb.; turkeys (hens). Is. per lb.; butter (prime bulk), Is. 3d. per lb.; otrirs is 4d per doz.

Cnstoms duties .collected at the port of Wellington s'eeterday amounted to £38'S I 9s. 9d. . ■ ; , LOKDON' WOOI/ SALES. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. (liee. November 9, 5.25 p.m.) London, November 8. At- the wool sales, elipes were in strongest demand, adi-flocing from ljd. to 2d. in a week. A miscellaneous selection of merinos realised extraordinary prices. The topmakers have withdrawn. QuotationsA..S. clip, top, 20a.; axeragc. 19jd. Mcssre. Murray, Eobcrts and Co., Ltd., have received! the following cablegram from their London friends, Messrs. Sanderson, Murray and Oo„ dated Novembcr, "Wool market advanced] 5 ner cent. SYDNEY WOOL SALES. * By Telegraph-Press Assooiation-Copyright i (Ecc. November 9, 10.55 pim.) .. , , Sydney, November 9. At the wool sales estreme rates for good ■wools were maintained, owinf* to Japanese competition. Faulty sorts improved. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKETS. (Rec. November 9, 10.55 p.m.) Sydney, November 9. Oats, Algerian feeding, 2s. 63., 2s. 7d.; milling, 2s. 7d., 2s. fld.; Tasmanian, white,

2s. Bd.. 2s. lOd.; barley, 3e., 3s. 6d., 3s 9d 3b. potatoes. nominai; onions, noni- _ •. Adelaide, Norombor 9. Oa-t-s, If?. Bd., ifi. 10d. HIDES. (Rec. November 9, 10.55 p.m.) Melbourne, November 9. Hides.—Small supplies. Lights are unohanged; heavies are stall neglected. P. AND O. CO., LTD. Ai'.fitralian-New Zealand Gable Association, (licc. November 9, 2.40 p.m.) mu n i «*- on^on « Novomber 8. Ihe P. and O. Company has declared 4 dividend on doforred 6 per cent., and a bonuß of 6 per cent., rooking 18 per cent for tlio yen r. TALLOW SALES. (Rcc. Kovcmlier 9, 2T30 p.m.) ' ~, .. London, Novomber 8. At tho tallow sflJea, 1576 casks w<;re offered, .and IM9 were sold. Mutton, fine 44s' ; sd ' flne ' Ms,: me 4 ium ' WHEAT.- . „„ , Now York, Novomber 8. at ion nt a j~i °j m er opened fou J 'a 5 ,°& eei at 194J cent «: M «y. 191J cents and 1858 cents. Tho visible supply is 72,995,000 bushels. MINING NEWS WELLINGTON SHARE MARKET. The quotations for mtntnf shares vcs. terday wore as follow:— Buyers. Sellers. Talisman * 010 0 £ f', d ' Rising Sun _ 0 2 11 STOCK EXOEANOB. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dlinedln, November 9. b£ Change—Electric, 3s. 6d.; Uflion Steam, 425. fid. and 425. 3d. TALISMAN CONSOLIDATED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, November 9 Dunne the month of October the Talwman Consolidated crushed and treated 1470 tone of ore for a yield of bullion valued at £3052 Is. 4d. The costs for the past month totalled 655. Is., made up as follows Mine development, 16s. 10d.; minrnL'' .filing, lfis. lOd.; genera], 6s. 10d. Tho directors have sont to London the foUowang c<tb>egra,m :-"Number 16 level north drive .prosross 67 feet, reef 18 inches wide, value 6s. South drivo progress from 60 to 74 feet, reef 34 inohes strin'gerf US fr ° m 74 to 102 f€ot "Available for delivery now" is tho claim made by "Tim" manure manufacturers. Its worth remembering now that .fertilisers are in short supply. i u "Tui" manures you 11 find one for every crop and every soil. Write for prices and analyses to Hodder an! Tolley, Ltd., Dept. D, Pnlmerston North.—Advt