COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 115, 8 February 1919, Page 10

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SIIAKES: Sales of Inscribed Stock at £97, Wellington Cordage chares a.t 225. fed., and National Bank shares at £6 13s. were reported yesterday, and a sale of National iiank shares ai. £6 14s. wns made on 'Change. The quotations were as follow :— Buyers. Sellers. £ b. d. £ s. d. Bank Australasia 125. 0 0 — National Bank 6 12 6 6 15 0 : Bank-N.Z..(£6 138.',W.)....'18,' 0 0 . -- ; Union Bank 62', 2 6 — ' Loan and Mercantile ... 96 . 0 0 — Loan and Mer. (pref.) ... 64 0 0 — ■ K.ii. and Eiver I'late ... 119 6 — . - Deposit and Mortgage...:' — • 08 3 : Abraham and Williams (ord.) — . 6 0 0 Dalgety and Oo 10 0 0 — Well. Gas (£10)'.... ......1115 0 National .Insurance 3,;7 9 ..3 8 9 1 South' Britißh Insurance 7.6 0, 8 0 0 N.Z. Kcfriger'ing (ex div.) — 211 0 Meat (£2 12s. 6d.) ... 2 10 6 - 1 Huddart-Parker (0rd.).... ' — 119 0 XJ.SiS. Co. .(prefi) 113 116 P. & o..Deferred Stock 396 - 0 o>. — : Kaiapoi Woollen • -7 0 '' — Well. Wcollcn ' (pref.).... 412 6 . ' .Westport Coal' Til 6 — : .Waipa-Colliery 0 18 0 Leyland-O'Brien (Timber) 17 3. — Golden Ba'y 018 6. _ — N.Z. Patier Jlills .1' 16 12 3 Well.' • Cordage '12 3 N.Z. Inscribed Stock .... S6 15 0 57 2 6 War Bonds (1938) • .. .'9l 5 0 NEW. COMPANIES. The "Mercantile Ga'zetlo" reports regis--tration of the following 1 companies:— , .Jenkins Furnishing ' C 0.,. Ltd;,,, private company, Wellington. -Cnpiial, fIOCO, divided into ICOO shares'of £1 oae-h. fiubBcriborß; Wellington; George - William -Frederick House, • SCO; Arthur Lynch Gold,finch, HO. 'Objeots: to jiiireliace or otherwise acquirers a going concern the business of'furniture manufacturers and dealers carried on by Arthur Lynch Goldfinch and' George William''Frederick Rouse-at ■ . Vivian and Manners .Streets, Wellington, - '.'under the style of "N. Jenkins.'" .M'Lcan and Gray, Ltd., ; arivatc com- ' pany, ,Wcllingt j on..' Capital, .'.IOOO, divided into 1000 shares of £1 cach. subscribers; j Wellington; Georse -Archibr.ld M'Laan, '900; William J,till; ICO. Objects; To purchase or otherwise acquire from November 1. 1918, tile business of builders and build- ' ing- contractors heretofore carried on by George Archibald Jl'Lean in Wellington and elsewhere under the style of "M'Lean and Gray," and Carry on same. Customs duties' collected at the port of WeJliugton yesterday amounted. Ito £12,357 17s. lOd. . , SOUTHERN "GEIS MARKETS. " By Telegraph—Press Association Christ'chunch, February 7. There' is a scarcity of wheat, and one of tho principal - local mills ha-s closed down for the time being. The new wheat ass not yet. come on the market, but itferings are shortly expected.. Brokers . -iavo not yet been advised as to the con-.itions-under which tii3y . will handle the aw wheat f,n behalf of the Government, nit. they are expected-to be tho same as ast'year; , Brokers have asked, howevjr, , ..hat. they SII9UW be allowed 2d. per bushel commission. instead of id., and have not yei roceived a, reply. Oats are .offered . ,ui few lines,,owing; to-the check caused by the rain last week, Algerians being 1 the only, variety, that , has been thrashed in any quantity, and they 'are selling at about 4s. 4d. to 4s. 9d. at country stations,' according to quality. There has • been a large amount, of forward selling of . oats by merchants this season, and , they-will have a.-much, better quality of grain •to handle ■ than for some years past, as the standard samples when fixed will show. There is practically 110 business doing in oatslieaf chaff. 011 account of there being better out crops-'in the i North Island and of the large amount'of hay having been saved there this summer, it is not anticipated that anything like.- ; the quantity of outside supplies of feed ' will be required, as was' the case last 1 year. Quotations for oatslieaf chaff arc purely nominal. Thero is a fair amount of business passing between merchants in cow grass, as it , is anticipated that this year's crop will 1 be a small one. On the other hand, whito clover is plentitful, and largo quantilies are offering. Most of the crop con- . tains a, large percentage of sorrel, and I this class of seed is selling at from lOd. to Is. 2d„ and some of it is worth oven 1 lees money. There is very little perennial ryegrass offering, but a fairly large quantity of Italian and also somo Western Wolths. These varieties arc selling at from 4s. 9d. to 4s. 6d.. aiid old samples of better quality up to 6s. at country stations. ' A fair amount of cocksfoot seed, grown on the Plains, has been offering, but some of it is badly mixed with fog. The best of it has cold up to Is. per lb.' A 1 line from tho Lyttelton sido of Banks Peninsula,' going 141b. to tho bushel, has been purchased at Is. OJd. per ll>. There , is little business doing in potatoes, but bffei'B of £5 IDs. have been mode lor the main crop oif the forks. The crop is promising well, and although tho area is smaller than last year the yield and ouality will be considerably better. Onions are selling at £4 2s. 6d. at country stations. LONDON METAL MARKETS. Australian-New Zealand Cable.Association. (Kcc. February 7. 10.45 p.m.) London, February 6. Copper—Spot, £86 per ton; three months, • £79 10s. Lead.—Spot, £29 10s. per toil; three months, £27. Spelter.—Spot, £48 per ton;.three months, £40. - . Tin.—Spot, £245 per ton; threc : months, £242. ; Bar silver, 48. 7-16 d.. per ounco standard. VICTORIAN PRODUCE .MARKET.. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright (Rec. February 7. 10.2} p.m.), Mcibourno, February 7. ■ Barley, English malting, ss. Bd. to ss. lOd. per bushel; Oape, 4s. 4d. to 4s. 6d.; oats, Algerian, feeding 4s. Bd. to 4s. 10d., milling ss. to ss. Id. j maize, 6s. lOd. to 75.; potatoes, £14 to £14 10s. per ton; onions, £11 10s.