COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2987, 26 January 1917, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

v INVESTMENT SHARES. Yesterday's quotations for investment 2L..iOa were on follow:— - Buyers. Sellers. £ ts. d. £ s. d. National Bank 5 0 0 - Lii'.i.i A./. Ui 6s. Bd.) ... 11 0 II — Bank N.Z. (£6135.4 d.) ...17 0 0 — is./,, and itiver Plato — 119 0 *\Vell. Trust. Loan, Ltd. — 617 6 Well. Gas (pref.) 0 18 3 0 is u Well. Meat Export (£5) 6 5 0 — Union Steam (ord.) 2 0 0 - "Oum Div. " COMPANY BUSINESS. The Pahjatua "Herald" has been regis tered as a private company with a capital of £6000 (6000 shares of £1 each). uW subscribers are: fi. Bolton, 4000; E. h. Darley, 2000. The business is to be acquired as a going concern from February 1. / ti. Wood and Son, Ltd., lias been registered as :i private company with a capital of £4COO The subscribers arc: Alice wood, 3400; and Percy Wood, 600. Tho objects are to acquire as from August 30 last the business of shipwrights and ship's carpenters, hitherton carried on by S. Wood and Son. The name of the firm of J. B. Clarkson, Ltd., cycle and motor-importers, haa been changed to Hope Gibbons, Sons, and J. B. Clarkson, Ltd. The capital of the company has been increased! by 5000 shares of £10 each. The capital of the New Zealand Glue Company, Ltd., has been increased to £25,000 by the creation of 15,000 ordinary shares. , AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MABKETS. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright CRec. January 25, 9.30 p.m.) Sydney, January 25. Oats,'Tasmanian, 3s. Id. to 3s. 2d.- Algerian, feeding, 2s. 6d. to 2s. Bd.; milling, 2s. 10d.; barley, nominal; maize, 3s. 6d.; potatoes, £6 to £9; onions, £9 to £10. Adelaide, January 23. Oats,, 2a. Id. SLUMP IN BUTTER. CRec. January 25, 6.40 p.m.) i London, January 24. 'Tho colonial butter market has slumped owing to the simultaneous arrival of three steamers with 131,000 boxes of Australian and New Zealand butter, also to heavy arrivals at Liverpool, where more is expected shortly. Australian, choicest salted, 186s. to 1905.; unsalted, 190s. to 1925.; New Zealand, salted, 1925. to 1945. • unsalted, 1945. to 198s. Danish is- firm and lmohanged, as production is short— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Aesn. TALLOW SALES. CRec. January 25, 6.40 p.m.) London, January 24. At the tallow sales, 649 casks were offered and 504 were sold. Mutton, fine, 575. 6d. per cwt.; medium, 605.; beef, fine, 56=, 3d.; m&dium, 50s.—Aub.-K.Z. Cable Assn. ' IMPERIAjy'CONSOLS.. CRec. January 25, 6.40 p.m.) London, January 24. Imperial Consols (24 per cent.) are quoted at £53, as compared with £53 10s., the quotation on Thursday last.—Aus.-N Z Cable Assn.