COMMERCIAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17289, 3 October 1916, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

HAMLET REPORTS. ' CLARIDGE AND SMITH. Claridge and Smith report another clearance at the Fanners’ Saieyards last Friday, when the large attendance, despite the rough weather, seemed quite comfortable in the spacious building. The following were the principal lines sold:—Spring dray, £11; gig, £11; express, £8 ss; spring traps, £3 7s CU and £7 ss; cultivators, £5; harness, 30s to £3 4s; half truck chaff, £4 16s ton; horses, aged, £3 7s 6d to £6 17s 6d. Furniture and household goods were readily bought at good prices. This is our first weokly sale, and we have every reason to be gratified wjth its success. Wc, therefore, take this opportunity of thanking both buyers and sellers for the support extended to us. Anythin? entrusted to us will be under cover, and receive our personal supervision. Our poultry sales continue to be fairly well supplied, although the demand greatly exceeds the supply, and turkeys, ducks, and geese are eager* ly inquired for. Prices this week were asuin high; hens 5s lOd to Bs, late pullets 6s 7d in 7s lid, ducks 9s Id, ducklings Bs, rooster! 4s 8d to 10s 4d. 8

CHRISTCHURCH. The following are th* latest quotations;—

OTHER EXCHANGES. [Pee Pbess Association.] WELLINGTON, October 2. Sale reported:—Union Bank, £54. [Per Pbbss Association.] DUN EDIN, October 2. Exchange quotations ere as follow:—Ele» trie, sellers 4s; Olrig, 3s, 4s 6d; Talisman. 8s 9d, 9s 3d; Waihi, sellers, 36s Od; Gram} Junction, buyers 16s 3d; Banks, Notional, sellers £5 7s 3d, New Zealand £a 6s 8d paid, buyers £ll 4s 6d; Insurance, Now Zealand £6 10s, £6--14s; Standard Insurance, sellers 89s; Union Steam Ship Company, 42s Gd, 435; Union Steam Ship Company, preference, buyers, 21s 3d; Huddart, Parker 25s and 26s 9d; Westport Coal, sellers 29s 9d; WestportStockton sellers 6s 7d; Auckland Trams, sellers, 20s 9d; D.1.C., preference, buyers, 204 6d: Mosgiel Woollen, buyers, 30s 6d; Drug, buyers 45s 9d; Portland Cement, sellers, 13s"; Paper Mills, rollers, 19s; Onmnru Woollen Company, rollers 29s 6d; Perpetual Trustees, buyers, 22s 6d; Whitcombs and Tombs, ex div., buyers £6 5»; Wright, Stephenson, buyers £7.

STOCK EXCHANGES.

£ 8 d. £ s. d. Buyers Scliers. COAL— Stockton t . , * . Stockton' (8 per cent 0 6 0 0 6 9 preferonco) 0 10 8 FINANCIAL— D-algety N.Z. and River Plate e ■ 6 6 12 a Land Mortgage 2 1 0 GASGiaborne (es rights) SHIPPING— * 10 0 Huddart-Parker (6 per cent preference, ex div.) .... 1 0 0 ; > , Union MISCELLANEOUS2 2 3 LY. (6 per cent pref.) . . . N.Z. Farmers Co-op. 1 0 6 * (6 per can let prof. cum div.) 5 5 0