COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3186, 10 September 1917, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT' SHARES. On Saturday- a sale of Wellington Investment snares at lis. fid. was made on .Change. The quotations wore as follow:— Buyer! Boilers. £ s. d. £ b. d.' Bank N.Z. (now) 17 10 0 — Metropolitan Building ... — 1110 0 Well. Investment — 011 9 Well. Trust and Loan ... 5 7 6 5 15 0 Ohch. Gas (£5) 6 0 0 — National Insurance 2 17 6 — 8.8. Insurance 5 10 0 5 13 0 Huddart-Parkcr (ord.) ... — 114 0 Well. Woollen (ord.) — 6 15 0 Golden Bay Cement — 10 0 Colonial Sugar 22 12 6 — GOLDEN BAY CEMENT 00. The annual roport of tho Golden Bay Cement Works, Ltd., stated that after providing for depreciation, tho amount to tho credit of profit and loss is £10,079 Os 3d., which includes a balance of £5744 9s sd. brought forward from last year. Tho board recommends that a dividend of 5 per cent., which amounts to £3000, bo paid for tho year ,lust ended, the balancc, viz., £7079 Os. 3d., to be carried to post year. In accordanco with tho articles of association. Dr. 0. Prendcrgast Knight and Mr. George Wilson are flic retiring directors, and, being eligible, offer themselves fori reelection. The retiring auditors, Messrs' E Bucliolz and D. It. Menzies, also seek re- i election.

Customs duties collected atftlio port of Wellington on Saturday amounted to £1283 19s. lOd LONDON MARKETS. (Australian-New Zealand Cable Association.) QSec. September 9, 5.35 p.m.) LONDON, September 8. Hemp.—Market inactive, and prices unchanged. ItuMier.—Para, 3s. 23d. per lb.; plantation, 2s. 92d.; smoked sheets, 2s. Vgti. Copra.—Unchanged. Babbits.—Little doing owing to the small Quantify released. FROZEN' MEAT.(Eec. September 9. 5.35 p.m.) LONDON, September 8. Mutton.—No Australian or New Zealand offering: Lamb, IOJd. per lb.; South Amerl- ' nan mutton and lamb, ll*d. MINING NEWS WELLINGTON SHAIUJ MAT!KM. The quotations on Saturday for mining shares wero as under:— Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ s. d. Murray Greek — 2 4 0 Talisman — 012 0 TALISMAN CONSOLIDATED. (B.y Telegraph—Special Correspondent.) AUCKLAND, September 8. During the month' of August the Talisman Consolidated, Ltd.; crushed and treated 1660 tons, yielding bullion valued it £14,440. The costs for the month totalled 725. 4d„ made up as folioiv:—Mine development, 20s. 5d.; mining, 255. Id.; milling 21s, 10d.; general, ss. The directors have sent to London the following cablegram—No. 5 level, south drive: Progress, SOft.; width, 39in. No. 16 level, south drive: Progress, 93ft.; width, 2tin.