COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3084, 15 May 1917, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES. • Yesterday's- quotations lor investment shares were as follow:— Buyers. Sellere. £•6. d. £ a. d. Bank N.S.W .' — 38 0 0 Bank N.Z. (£3 6s. Bd.) . 12 2 6 - Bank N.Z. (£6 13s. 4d.) 17 10 0 - Union Bank 54 0 0 — National Mortgage - 3 16 6 X.Z. and R. Plate ' - 118 6 Well. Invest. T. and A. 0 11 4 - Well. Trust, Loan, Ltd. 6 19 0 — Well. Gas (£10) , - 14 2 6 S." British Insurance ... 5 14 0 — Union Steam (pref.) — 11-4 HuddartParker (ord.) ... — ■ 19 3 Kaiapoi .Woollen (ord.) ...' 6 12 0 - Well, Woollen (pref.) 3 15 0 — C Westport Coal 18 9 — WestportrStockton (ord.) — 0 7 6 Customs duties collected at tlje port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £2617 Hβ. sd. HIGH COMMISSIONER'S MABKET HEPOBT. The Department of Agriculture, Industries, end Commerce has received the followine cablegram, dated London; May 12; from the High Commissioner for New Zealand... ■ (Note: Quotations, unless otherwise specified, are average market prices on spot):— Meat.—AH descriptions of meat nre in small snpply, and record prices are being made. Home-killed mutton and English lambs, Is; lid., occasionally as high as Is. 9d.; N,Z. mutton, per lb., 83d.; ewe mutton,, S|d.; N.Z. lamb, 10d.; Patagonian, Is.- p 35d.; Argentine mutton, 10t , ,; Argentine lamb, lid. Quotations are nominal. Holders axe not anxious \p sell carcasses, but by telling portione higher prices are being made. Argentine chilled beef, hinds; Is.; fores, lOid.

Butter.—Maximum prices remain unchanged for both butter and cheese. Butter market continues firm. Danish butter, 2045. to 2085., salted; N.Z. butter, salted, 2045. to 2085.; nnsalted, 201s. sd. to 2105.; Argentine, salted, 186s. to, 1905.; nnsalted, 1925. to 1945.; Australian butter. 1925. to 1985., salted. Irish salted, 1925.; unsalted, 1945. to 201s.

Cheese.—Market continues firm. Canadian, white and coloured, 1625.; States Mats. 160e. . ,

Hemp.—Manila, no change to report. Small business has been done with spot parcela at Government fixed prices. Average output during tho last fortnight 30,000 bales weekly. N.Z., a- good demand for spot hemp near at hand. Business has been dono with fair, March to May, and high-point shipment by early opportunity, £80. Wheat.—Firm market..' , Fair business doing. Canadian No. 2, 80s.; No. 2 Manatoba Northern, 81s. Oats.—Martet firm, with * hardening tendency. MINING NEWS . WELLINGTON SHAKE MAHKET. The quotations- yesterday for miniug shares wereas nnder:— (, (' <■ Buyers. Sellers. ' £B. d. £s. d. Jlurray Orecfc 1 12 6 — tTaliaman ; . 0 9 0 v - tEx dividend. , STOCK EXCHANGE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Ounedln, May 14. Sales are reported as/follow:—Huddarl, Parker Co., 28s. 9d.; Waihi Grand Junction, 16s.