COMMERCIAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1163, 26 June 1911, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS.

INVESTMENT SHAKES. There were no transactions in investment shares on Saturday, the-buying and selling quotations being as under:—. ' , Buyers. Sellers £ s. d. £s:d Bank of New Zealand ... 11 13 6 — National Bank : 6 0 6 6 2 0 Well. Trust and Loan ... 7 13 0 7 15 6 Well. Deposit — 0 8 6 Christchurch Gas 9 15 0 — Oisborne Gas 3 10 — New Zealand Shipping ... 11 12 6 11 15 0 Union Steam 2 10' ' — Taupiri Coal — 019 6 Kauri Timber (15s. paid) 0 17 0 017 6 licy'and-O'Brien 17 0 — Manning and Co — 4 8 ft N.Z. Drug 2 9 3 ,J 9 9 Taranaki Petroleum ....:. 0 16 0 (' 17 0 Taringamutu Totara ...... — 210 0 CUSTOMS. The Customs, revenue collected at the port of Wellington on Saturday amounted to £1148 12s. 6d.. the total for the we»lt being £9565 6s. 6d. The returns for the past eight weeks compared with the figures for, the corresponding period ol last year show as under:— 1911. 1910. £ R May 6 19,765 19.796 May 13 B.C-87 6.948 • May 20 14,954 15,319 May 27 13.011 11.601 June 3 16,160 12.57G June 10 9,164 8,306 June 17 15,570 15.4R2 Juno 24 9,565 9,578 108,576 99.6C8 Tho beer duty for the week amounted to £225 35., as against £274 7s. 3d. for tho corresponding week of last year. LOS DON MARKETS. Messrs. Dalgety'and Company, Limited, have been advised by cablegram from their London house, under date June 20. as follows:—Frozen Meat: Since our last cablegram, prices for mutton and lamb are Jd. higher. Beef: Prices are unchanged. Tallow: Since our last cablegram prices are unchanged for prime mutton tallow. For low and inferior descriptions, prices are 3d. oer cwt. higher, and, for all other L descriptions, 6d. to 9d. per cwt. higher.

CiOLDSBEOUfiII, MOItT, AND CO. By Telegraph—Press Association—CopyrigM

Melbourne, June 24. At 111!) annual meeting of Goldsbrougk, Jtort, and Co., the report stated that seasonable rains had assured a pood season. Lambing prospects won: encouraging. The board's proposals included a, further addition to share capital, bringing the total increase to over £VCO,COO, the placing of £75,CC0 additional to tho reserve fund, and the devoting of £10,000 to tho Employees' Provident Fund. NORTH OTAGO GRAIN MARKET. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Oamaru, Juno 24. A little more business in wheat has been recorded during the week, but the nuantity actually changing hands between growers and millers has been small, holders being still disinclined to sell at current rates. A few parcels v.oro obtained at from 3s. 2d. to 3s. osd., less commission, at countjr stations. The bulk ot the business has been ex store, consisting of merchants' sales for shipment, the prices paid ranged from 3s. 4d. to os. Ed., ana the me'or portion comprised red wheats. A small parcel of malting barley, a little off colour, was sold at 3s. 6d. at a. country staUon OatensheaS cba.fl has been taken at £3 15s. net at country stations. Potatoes continue to move s owly,. very .few sales being reported. The .price; given have ben £3 ss. at country stations, and JES 10s? delivered in town, not to, growers in both cases.

FEUDING MAKKET KEPOKT. Messrs A. H. Atkinson and Co., Ltd. of Peildin™ report a smaller entry than, usual of poulTry on Friday, this being ™) a e.l 0 _ the holidays. A medium yarding of.pig. made still. belter values than those la„eii ruling. A quantity of gram and produce was marketed, and also a lot of general goods and sundries. Onions sold well ana also potatoes of good quality. Q«° ta <f -Prime Chaff. £6 per ton; feed oats, te. 3d. to 3s. 6d. per ton; barley, te. 4d. to m. bo., poUard, 12s. 6d. per sack; P»mP k ' a =- 3 , s ' 9d. to 65.; marrows, 55.; onions. Bs. to 9s. per cwt.; pickling, ljd. per lb.; rhubarb roots, 6d.; currant trees, Is. 6d per. bundle; gooseberries, 9d.; shrubs, 6d. to Is 6d; cfrrots, 4s. per bag; PW Potato , 3s. Pigs: Weanors, 3s. 3d. to 55.; slips, 6s. 6d. to Bs. 3d.; small stores, 9s„ 125.. 145., lis. 6d.; sows, 18s. Poultry: Hens at per pair, 3s. to 45.; cockerels, 2s. 6d. to 2s. 9d; ducks, 3s. 3d., 3s. 6d.,'35. 9d., to 4s. 6d.

WOOD, HIDE AND TALLOW SALES. Messrs. Dalgety and Co. (Palmerston branch) report:-At our usual monthly sale last week we offered a large catalogue to a good attendance of buyers, and all lots were keenly competed for and rcali-scd prices fully UP to last sales rates. Wool: Our catalog'uo under this'•heading consisted principally of crutchings, which met with good competition,' especially for tne better sorts. We quote :-Crutchings, best lots, 6d. to 6!d.; medium. 5Jd. to 53d.; inferior and. seedy, from 43d. to 5d.; crossbred, 7Jd. to 73d.; lambs wool, from 7d. to 7Sd.; dead wool, 6d. to 6Jd.; black wool, 6d. fri CSd.; locks and, pieces, from '3Jd. to 43d. Sheepskins: Crossbred, 6«d., 63d., to 7d.; half-wools, 53d. to 63d.; shorts and quar-ter-wool, 43d. to Sid.; woollr lambs, 6Jd. to 7d.: shorn lambs. sd. to 51d.; dead ditto, 5d.: dead hoggets. s}d. to 5Jd.; pelts, 53d. to 4Jd.; dead, 53td. to 5Jd.; inferior and damaged dead.-333.'t0 43d.: crossbred, damaged, sd.'to'Sid.; socdy, 4d. to 4}d:; inferior and badly damaged, 2}d. to 23d.; butchers' green and salted crossbred, at each, heavy. 55.. ss. 4d. to 6s. 3d.; milium, 4s. 3d., 4s. 6d.. 4s. 7d., to <s. 9d.; light. 3s. Bd. to 45.; b.mbs, 2s. 3d. to 3s. 6d.; shorn lambs and hosrsets, 2s. 4d., ,2s. 9d.. .to 3s. Hides: Ov medium, 63d.; medium to light, Sid. to 6?d.; cow. best lines, 6d. to 6Jd.: inferior and rough, 5Jd. to 53d.; cut. and slippy, 4?d. to 5d.; heifers and r.teers, sSd.j yearlings. 53d.'to 7d.: bulls, 43d. to 5d.; horse, 6s. 3d. to. 9s. each. Calf: Tlcc-t lin-s, BJd : good, Bd.: cut and slipov, from 3£d. to 5d.; dry calf, Is. each. Tallow: In tins, from 2?s. M. t 0 235.: inferior, to 145.; rough fat, Ids. 3d. per cwt. Horsehair, to Is. 7d. per lb.