COMMERCIAL.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15657, 1 August 1916, Page 9

COMMERCIAL.

Caole. Press Association.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Gable Association.)

< WHEAT. LOMkTN". July 30. . The quantity c f -wheat ;aid flour afloat ror tno United Kingdom i.i l,oou,ouU quarters, and for tho Continent 525,0ut) 1,200,000 quarters. India 37,000, Arties, OUO quarters, and Pacific I'o.OOO nrlk lo *- ota ' from jiurono is quarters, In dm 37;000, Argentine lob,ooo. and Australasia 08,000 quarters.

, .. f^ie Zealand Loan and Mercan- . Agency Co., Ltd., adviso having received a cablegram from London giving the undernoted market information: Hool sales closed Srmlv. .Vs compared _ with Juno Bth, merino superior o per cent., medium inferior per cent-, higher; crossbred fine greasy, scoured and coarse slino o per cent, lower. - ' "

f LI !' C °f eiv Zealand has received the following cablegram from London regarding th c wool gales: "London woo. sales closed firm at decline. Cross,l®, ; Coarso 10d to l«£d, medium I' I d t° 18d, line lJ»d to 20d. Merinos: Inferior 16id to 17d, superior 23d, halfbred 20$ d to The National Mortgage and Agency Company of Xew Zealand. Ltd.? .ore in receipt of the following cablegram lrom their London office :'"Wool sales closed very firm compared with opening, except fine cross ten per cent, cheaper."

palgety and Company, Ltd., havo rceiyed tho ft) Lowing cablegram from *w nd ? n officc > dated July *»V 00 sales closed firm. As compared, with last sales' closing rates prices for scoured merinos, super and good aro five per cent, dearer. Short faulty aro par. For C mer »)os, super are five per cent, dearer, good par fo fi ve per cent, dearei, faulty aro par, and lambs nar il' c °nt. lower. For greasy crossbreds. fine arc par to fi.ve per cent. medl «m aiul coarse and Jambs & ' lo 7 er ' For soured cross!l nm' i° arc P° r 0011 1 lower, nie+a*l COarso seven an d a half per cent t-o_ten ner c ent. lower. Slipes .-re par to o per cent, lower. Of the nua'n90MoT? tbo I ?° NiC trado ,x,u ? ht 90 000 bales and the Continent 5500 bales, and 12 500 bale* Tvero carried ofiK '' WhWb 8000 CHUISTCHURCFT STOCK EXCHANGE. YESTERDAY'S TRANSACTIONS. Sales on 'Change:—Union Steams, 45a 3d. LATEST-QUOTATIONS j Buyers. Sellers. j [ BANKS— *«.<!. £s. d. New Zaaland (fully paid) _ 17 o G BREWEKIES— 1/2 6 Manning .. i, 7 c jt> r CEMENTS— ' 6 413 6 Golden Bay .. _ 1 o e FINANCIAL— 13 6 GAS-^ 5 " " •• 65 0 GlO 0 Cbristchurcli (cum div.l " 11 fi MEATS— ' 0 Canterbury (G p.c. prcf.) 5 2 6 — Cluistchurch 19 I*J G alil.f iViNG— Now Zealand .. 2S 5 0 Union .. .. 3 5 0 2 6 0 .. , iCIJjANEOUS— V >T.Z. Farmers' Co-op. (6 per cent, pref.) 5 6 0 — iUNING— 7 Talisman .. _ 0 10 6 YESTERDAY'S BUSINESS O-X OTHER EXCHANGES. (rRESS ASSOCIATION" TELEGRAMS.) WELLINGTON. Quotations: —Dominion Developing, eellera •lis; Murray Creek, Bellera S7 e 6d; Suooeae, sellors Talisman, buyers 10s, sellers 30s 3d; \\ r aihi, buyers 375; Waihi Grand Junction, buyers 15s 6d; National Bank, buyora 105s 6d; Bank of Now Zealand (new), buyers £16 15s; Napier Gas, buyers £15 10s; Wellington Meat Export (53s 6d paid), sellers 62a 6d; Huddart, Parker, buyers 255, eollers 26a 3d; Union Steam (prof.), buyers 20s lOd; Wellington Woollen, buyers 1203; Wellington Woollen (pref.), buyers 75e Gd; Leyland O'Brien Timber, buyers 225; Consolidated Dental, buyers 21s 6d. DUNEDIN. Sales: —Union Stoam (ordinary), 44s 3d, 445, 43a 6d; RosburgE Amalgamated, Is.