COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 161, 3 April 1920, Page 10

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES. ' Thursday's quotations for -investment shares wero an follow:— ' - ' Buyers. Sellers. ' , £s. d. Ja_B. d, Inscribed Stock (1938 and 1939) 95 0 0 - Bank Australasia IWO 0 ~ , Bank Australasia,.(new) 137 10 0 140 10 I National Bank — 7 0 .1 Bank N.S.W 36 0 0 36 5 ( , Union l Bank 13.10. 0 ,1315 I Goldsbrouglr Mort — 211.1 Trust and Loan ...; 6 5. *0 — Well. Deposit 0 8 3 — National Insurance 3 19 6 — . N.Z. Insurance 112 8 113 . S. British Insurance ...... : 9 10 0 — N.Z. Refrigerating (10s.) 19 0 — Huddart-Parker (ord.) ... 213 3 214 I O.S.S. Co. (prcf.) .' llO' • - 11,I 1 , and 0. Defi Stock — 6CO 0 ( Weil. Woolleir (ord.) 9 2 6 — : Westport Coail 112 6 — Westport-Stockton.(pref.); — 010 I Wain a Colliery .. — 0 16 . Kauri Timber (155.) 0 18 0 — Le.vland-O'Brien Timber 1 11 9 —• Golden Baj- Cement — 15 1 Paper Mills — 1 lfl. I Well. Cordage :... — 1 2 i Wilson Cedent ;.... — 016.! Kolburn Tram (ord. and ■ prcf.) 119 — , AMERICAN WHEAT SUPPLY. Australian-New Zealand ..Cable Association (Rcc. April 1, 9.20 p.m.) Now York, March 31, A Chicago message states- that the vis Iblo supply of wheat and flour cast 'o: tho ' Rockies is estimated! at 51,015,00 bushels. >• • EXCHANGE RATES. ■ • London, March 29. Foreign rateßi of > exchango on Londoi are quoted:—Paris, 67.05 francs to £1 Stockholm, 18.10 kroner; Christiariia., 20.& kroner; Montreal, 4.25 dollars; Nfcw York 3.92 dollars; Calcutta, 28? t d. to rupee. LONDON ' MARKETS. Lorfdon, Mjrch 27. Homp—The market is dull. I'ebruary April shipments, £60 per ton. > i Rubber—Para, 28Jd. per lb.; plantation 278 d.; smoked, 27id. , jj Copra.—March-May shipments, £62 pe: i ton, nominal. I ' Linseed Oil—£llß per ton. Turpentine.-2208. per cwt. Messrs. Levin and Co., Ltd., have re ceived the following cablegram from Lon don, dated March 29:—"Aa compared wit! tho opening sales the March closing salei show merinos 21 - per cent, dearer, fini crossbredß 5 per cent, dearer, mediun crossbreds 10 per cont. dearer, and coarsi crossbreds, 71 per cent, dearer." PRIOE OF PETROL. How York, March 27. The price of petrol'is unchanged. CUSTOMS REVENUE. Customs revenue collected at the por of Wellington ou Thursday amounted. t< £3105 4b. lOd. INCREASE IN CAPITAL. . The following increases-in tlip capita of companies are notified in the "Mer cantile Gazette":— Benjamin's, Ltd., of Lichfield Street Christchurch, C., merchants, i Capital in crcaßcd to £20.000, into 20,000 shares o! £1 each by addition of 10,000 shares. Re solution dated February . 16, regiaterec March 13. Whitcombo and Tombs, Ltd., of Chrißt church, C. Capital increased to £350,001 by creation of 39,250 shares of £5 each 32 500 of which shalhbe ißßued as bonui shares. Resolution February 26, registered March 17.