COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3117, 22 June 1917, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES. Yesterday's quotations for inyestment shares wcro as follow:— Buyers. Bpllors. £ s. <1. £ s. d. National Bank - 511 0 Bank N.Z. (£6 13s. 4d.) .. - 17 16 0 N.Z. and E. Plato 116 9 — Well. Dcp. and Mort. ... — 0 7 6 South British Insurance 6 0 6 6 3 0 Well. Meat Export (£5) — 66 0 Union Steam (ord.) 3 0 0 — Union Steam (ijrcf.) 10 9 - Huddart-Parker (ord.) .. 112 0 113 3 Waipa Coal 018 0 0 18 9 Wcstport Coal 1 10 6 — Wtistport-Stockton (ord.) 00 11 — Wcstport-Stockton (pref.) 0 11 6 — Leyland-O'Brieu 16 3 - COMPANY REGISTERED. Tho following company has been registered: — Rialto, Ltd., registered as a private company, June 35, 1917. Office: Wellington. Capital: £2500, into 2500 shares of £1 each. Subscribers: Wellington—T. M. Donovan 700, A. V. Darnill 300, E. Johnston 300, W. Butler 300, M. Manthel 300, H. 0. Hunter 300, F. T. Clarke 300. Objects: To enter into a certain agreement dated June 6, 1917, and to carry on tho business of n refreshment room and bar for the sale of non-intoxicating refreshments, etc. Customs duties collected nt the port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £2484 Gs. "d. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE. By Tclcgraph-Prcss Aesociation-CoprriiUt (liec. Juno 21, 9.50 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 21. Oiits, Algerian, feeding, 2s. 5d., 2s. 7d.; milling, 2s. Bd., 2s. lOtl.; Tasmanian, 33., id., 3s. 6d. lliizo, 3s. sd. Potatoes, Tasmauiiins, £5, £8. Onions, £6 10s., £7. ADELAIDE, June 21. • Qats, 25., 2s. Id. MINING NEWS WELLINGTON SHAKE MARKET. The quotations for mining shares yesterday were as under:-— Buyers. Sellers. £ s. A. £ s. d. Murray Creel: — 2 6 0 Wiiihi 1 14 9 — ""Grand Junction 0 15 0 0 15 6 *Cum div STOCK EXCHANGE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. AUCKLAND. Juno 21. Sales: Huddart-Parker, 325. 9d.; Auckland I Gas, 295. 6d. Reported: Northern Coal, Cs.; Talisman, 9s. 3d.; Waihi, 345. 6d. WAIJII GRAND JUNCTION. Auckland, Juno £0. A cablegram from the London office of the Waihi Grand Junction Company states that tho annual, meeting of tho company will be held on June 25. After writing olf depreciation £14,152 and development redemption, £31,445, tho credit balance is £49,796. This added to credit balance from laet year, £8656, makes £58,453 to the credit of profit, and loss. Tho interim dividend paid in November absorbed £19,218, leaving £39,235. Tho directors recommend that a final dividend of 5 per cent., free of incouio tax, bo paid, ,aiid that, in vioiv of tho uncertainty o'f labour conditions, tho balance, of £20,015 bo carriod forward without any transfer to the rcscrvo fund. Tho dividend is payable on Juno 27. MURRAY OREEK. In his report for tho week ended Juno 19. the mine manager of tho Murray Orcelt Gold-mining Company, Limited, states that No. 4 level haa been extended on reef 30 feet, tho rcof being of an average width, of i feet. Only two Eomples have so far been taken, which assnyed 37 and 39d\vt. Gold ran be fcen plainly in Hlmost ajiy part, of the reef. 'J'hero is a. lot of water running out of the face. Murine the wool; 344J tons of nnarlz have been sent to tho batlery.raaking a total since tho lirst of tlio month of 737 tons.