COMMERCE AND MINING

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10280, 15 May 1919, Page 2

COMMERCE AND MINING

WELLINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE.

YESTERDAY’S QUOTATIONS. Buyers. Seller*. jc g. d. £, s. d.

LONDON WOOL SALES. The Loan and Mercantile Agency Company has received the- following cablegram from its London house under date Mav 7th The wool sales opened yesterday. Fine crossbreds 5 per cent dearer, medium unchanged, coarse easier. Market firm for combing merino; irregular I for faulty sorts. TALLOW SALES. The Loan and Mercantile Agency Company has received the following cablegram from its London house under date May Bth :—Tallow —Fine mutton X 4 Ss per owt, good beef £4 per cwt, mixed X 3 13s, good demand. ADDINGTON MARKET. Press Assoolation. CHRISTCHURCH. May 14. At the Addington market there were large entries of stock in almost all departments. Prices generally were easiei for fat stock. Store sheep met with fair inquiry at late rates. Fat sheep and fat lambs were down about 2s per head from the previous week’s prices. Fat cattle wore also much easier. Thqpo was a decline in the value of fat pigs, but stores sold at the previous week’s rates. Store Sheep—Two-tooth ewes 14s 2d to 23s lid. four and six-tooth ewes 18» Cd to 225. elx and eight-tooth owes lls 7d to I6s 9d, poorer sorts 4s 6d -to lls, twotooth wethers 15s 5d to 235, four and sixtooth wethers 22s Id, ewe lambs 10s Id to 16s Id, wether lambs lls 9d to 12s 4d, mixed sax lambs 8s 7d to 10s. Pat Sheep—Prime wethers 80s 6d to SBs 6d, medium wethers 25s 6d to 80s, lighter wethers 21s 9d to 265, merino wethers 10s to 13s 9d, extra prime ewes 38s, prime ewes 27s 6d to 30s, medium ewes 21s 6d to 275, lighten- ewes 12s to 21s, extra prime lambs to 31s 6d, nrime lambs to 31s 6d, prime 25a to 28» 6d, medium 17s to 21s. lighter lls 9d to 15s 6d. ’ Fat Cattle^ —Extra prime steere 4823 Bs, prime steers JBI3 10s to 4818, ordinary steers,Aß 10s toMIS, extra prime heifers Al 4 10s, prime heifers JBIO to £l3 Job. ordinary heifers £5 17e 6d to £0 10s, extra prime cows .£ls 2s 6d, prime cows £lO to £l3, ordinary cowe .80 17s Cd to A 9 10s. Pigs—Choppers £3 Bs to, .89, haooners JH 5s to -66 16s (equal to BJd lb), porkers 55s to 75s (equal to 10d and to l«4d poi lb), best stores £2 10s to -62 16s, medium stores -63 to -62 Bs, smaller 22s to 80s, weaners 17s to 21s. WELLINGTON CUSTOMS. Tho Customs revenue received at Wellington yesterday totalled -69328 Ss 4d.

Mining— 0 8 3 z 5 3 0 3 9 1 nvcstment — National Bk 6 4 0 — 0 39 16 Bk. N.Z. (JC3 6s 8cl) ... — 13 19 0 Bk. N.Z. (.£6 13s 4d) ... — 18 11 0 Union Bk. (old issue. — 57 0 0 Metiopo’l.'kan 11 7 6 — Loan and Mere 106 0 0 — 0 10 4 Wn. Deposit 0 8 0 — Napier Gas — 9 10 0 Wn. Gas 11 12 0 11 18 0 N.Z. Insurance 12 15 6 — Sth. Brit. Insurance .. — 7 15 0 N.Z. Itefrigerating ... 2 16 0 — Meat lispprt (£212 6d 11 0 lluddart-Porker 1 19 10 *2 0 6 U.S.S. Co. (pref.) 1 1 2 ■ P. and 0 899 10 0 405 0 0 Kaiapoi \V oollen — 7 12 0 — Wn. Woollen 7 12 6 8 0 0 ’Wn. Woollen (pref.).. 4 15 0 — Westport Coal 1 11 6 1 12 3 w oal — 0 16 0 Loyland-O’Brien N.Z. Paper Mills 1 7 6 — - — 1 10 0 Ward and Co 4 17 6 — Wilson’s Cement — 0 15 3 N.Z. Inscribed Stock.. 36 15 0 97 0 0 War Bonds (1941) — 97 0 0 5 p.c. Ins. Stock (1927) 97 10 *J)2 Cum. 0 98 5 0