COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 125, 20 February 1919, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

LONDON METAL MARKETS. (Roc. February 19, 9.20 p.m.) London February 18. Copper.—On spot, £83 per ton; three months, £75. Lead.-On snot, £29 10s. per ton; throe months, £26. Tin,—On spot,, £233' 10s. per ton; three months, £231 sa. Other metals unchanged. LONDON SH'AREMARKET. (Rec. February 19, 9.20 p.m.) London February 18. Among the latest quotations on tho Stock Exchange are the following :-Waihi, buyors 40s. 7(1., sellers 41b. lOd.; 1. and 0., £416. INVESTMENT SHARES. A sale ol British Petroleum, £250 debentures, at £62 10s„ was roportcd yesterday. The quotations wore as follow:— Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ s. d. Bank Australasia 128 0 0 — National Bank — 7 0 0 Bk. N.Z. (£3 6s. Bd. paid) 13 15 0 - Bank N.Z. (£6l3s. Id.) ... 18 0 5 - Union Bank Rights 8 0 0 — Union Bank, fractional rights 2 0 0 . — Loan and Mer.-(pref.) ... 65 0 0 — Btver Plate 2 0 0, - Well. Investment 010 3 — Wellington Deposit — .0 8 6 Well. Gas (£10) 11 5 0 National Insurance 3 9 6 — Now Zealand Insurance 12 4 0 — N.Z. Refrigerating — 216 0 Meat Export (£4 paid) ... 4 0 0 — Moat Export (£2 12s. 6d.) 2 11 0 2 12 6 Auckland Trams (ord.) .. 0 19 0 — Auckland Trams (pref.) . 0 16 9 — Iluddart-Parker (ord.) ... 118 3 118 6 P. and O. Def. Stock 390 0 0 398 0 0 Kaiapoi Woollen — 711 0 Well. Woollen (ord.) 7 9 0 - Westport Coal — 112 0 Leyland-O'Brien Timber 17 9 — Golden Bay Cement 0 19 0 — N.Z. Paper Mills - 12 9 Sharlnnd (ord. and pref.) 110 0 — Weil. Cordage 12 9 — British Petroleum DeTel- I opment (£1 paid) — 0 3 6 Inscribed Stock — 97 0 0 War Bonds, 1938 96 15 0 97 0 0 6TOOK EXCHANGE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Ounedin, February 19. Sales; Consolidated Goldflelds, 2s. 9d.; Union Bank (Quarter rights), £2; New i Zealand Refrigerating, 545. 9d.