COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 106, 29 January 1919, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES. Yesterday's quotations for' investment Bhares were as follow.— Buyers. Sellers. £ 8. d. £ s. d. .National Bank 610 0 ' — Bunk X.Z. (£3 Ca. Bd.) ... 13 8 6 Bank N.Z. (£6 13e. <d.)... 17 18 0 — Union Bank ..." «10 i> National Mortgage 4 10 0 — N.Z. Loan and Aterc. (cum pref. stock) 63 0 0 — Well. Trust and Loan ... 5 16 0 — Well. Depoeit and Jfort. 0 8 0 0 8 9 N.Z. Inau-rancc 11 4 0 — S.B. Insurance '7 2 0 — N.Z. Keiri&erating 210 0 — Heat Export (£2 12s. (A.) 2 10 0 — Auckland Tramß (pref.) 017 0 — Huddart-Parker (ard.) ... 117 6 1 18 6 P.O. Beferrcd Stock 1 - 405 0 0 Well. Woollen (ord.) .... 7 8 0 - Weutport Coal 111 9 Crown Brewery ISO — • N.J. Drug Co ?. 12 0 - ' N.Z. Paper Mills ) -3-6 13 0 Wellington Ccrtinge 11-3 ' — N.Z. Inscribed Stock .. 97 6 0 9710 0 N.Z. War Bonds (IMS) ... - 97 J0 0 NEW COMPANIES. The "Mercantile Gazette" reports regietraiion of two new coal companies, with mines at Shag Point, Otago. and Itoefton respectively. The Shaft Point Company hae a capital of £12,00U, and takes over a coing concern. The Rcefton property is known as tho Sherwood Coal Jlininu ■Company. It has a capital of £40,000, and acquires tho business of coal miners lately carried on by W. J. Moirie and T. Lcarmont. Other companies registered include the following :— Harvey and Co., Ltd. private company, Levin. Capital: £4000, divided into 4000 Bharen of £1 each. Subscribers: Lovin— Henry Walker, 20C0 .preference: Josiah Harvey, 200-3 ordinary. Objects: To acquire and take over ,ib a goinir concern the business of contractors, builders," cabinetniakere, wood-workers, timber merchants, and undertakers heretofore carried on at Levin under the name of Harvey and Co. W. 11. Jamee, Ltd. A private company, Wellington. Capital: £2Cflo; divided into 2000 shares of £1 each. Subscribers: William Henry James, 1999; iVnnie Catherine James, 1. Objecta: To acauiro and take ov.er as a Roinj concern the business heretofore carried on in Wellington by William Henry James as bakers, confectioners, (jrocers, tea and provision merchants, restaurant keepers, refreshment room proprietors, traders, etc. New Zealand Oil and Acid Extraction Co., Ltd., Palmereton North. Capital: £3COO, divided into 600 sharee of £5 each. Subscribers: Ealmeraton North—William Walter Kußsell, 64; Itepinald Theodore Bell. 3; Charles Louisson, inn.. 3; Jamee H'Nei 1 3; J. A, Nash, i: R. H. Spencer. 9; Herbert Hepworth, 3: G. W. A'aw. 24; L. H. Collineon. 3. Objects: To extract from woods, treee, and sawdust, acetic acid, methyl, alcohol, oxalic acid, acetone, tar, potash, charcoal, oils, and other products. Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington yestcrdav amounted ;o £11,607 89. sd. LONDON MARKETS. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association, (Eec. January 28, 8.15 p.m.), London January 25. Cotton—American upland, February shipment, is quoted at Liverpool at 15.17 d. per lb. • Rubber.—Pine hard Para. 2s. (A. per lb • plantation, 2s. OJd.; smoked sheets. Is. lljd. Jute.—Market quiet; prices firm. Janu-ary-March shipment, £35 loa. per ton. Hemp.—Dull; quotations unchanged. PRICKS OF METALS. (Rcc. January 28, 9.35 p.m.) London, January 27. Copjier.-Spot, £89 10s. per ton; forward delivery, £82 10s. Tin.—Spot. £248 per ton; forward delivery, £245 ss. : Other metals are unchanged.