COMMERCIAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1266, 23 October 1911, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS.

INVESTMENT SHAKES A Kile of Taringajmitu Totara at tip. was the only transaction recorded on Saturday. The bu.vins aud fcllinc Quotations were as under:— liiiyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ b. d. Metropolitan Building' ... 12 6 6 12 7 6 N.Z. Loan and Mercantile 017 3 - Well. Investment 0 11 9 — Kcildinir Gas - 12 6 Well. Gas i£7 155.) 15 10 0 - Christohureh Heat -- 15 0 0 N.Z. ShipninE 10 12 6 - Union Steam 113 6 - Tannin Coal 116 - Levland-O'JSricn 18 9 - Manning and Co 3 19 6 N.Z. Con. Dental - 13 0 tf.K. DritK - 7. 9 9 y.Z. Portland Cement ... — 1 15 6 N.Z. Paper Mills 10 0 - Khar-land's ordinary — 14 6 T-aringaniut.il Totara. 2 5 0 2 6 6 Ward and Co - 5 0 0 KOTCKi; OIL FIELDS. The following cable message was eent to London on Saturday :-The depth of tho "Lady Islington well is tmtl.. showing a little petroleum." CUSTOMS. Customs revenue collected at the port of Wellington on Saturday amounted to £3EO 125., the total for the week bcinjj £9M!) 8?. sd. The rettu-ns for each of the past eipht weeks, as compared with the fi cures for the corresponding periods of last year, ehovf ae under:— 1911. 1910. £ £ September 2 18.156 11.395 September 9 23,406 12.849 September 16 13.455 19.836 September 23 21.591 22,542 September 30 7,593 11.171 October 7 15.117 21,518 October !4 9.908 10,201 October 21 9.340 20,092 118,566 125,404 The beer duty collected during the past week amounted to £273 4s. 5d.. as against. £320 7s. 6d. for the corresponding week of last year. LONDON MABKETS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Hec. October 22, 5.5 p.m., Londcn, October 21. Wheat.—Twelve thousand lire hundred quarters Australian, three ports, Decem-ber-January shipment sold at 365. 7Jd. per quarter. Copra is quiet. South Sea, in bags, £26 7s. 6d. per ton. There would be more demand at a docline. Leather and baeils axe in small supply, and there are practically no sales. Hides are auiet and unchanged; fair demand for colonial. Babbits— Higher prices are checking business. Tho market is glutted with English hares. Jute.—October shipment, £20 2s. 6d. Hemp.—The market is dull and unaltered. liubbcr.—Fine hard Para rubber is quoted at 4s. 6d. per lh. Cotton.—October-November shipment, 5.C21 per lb. TRUST AND AGENCY CO. liy Tclcgraph-Presa Association-Copyright (Hoc. October 22, 5.5 p.m., ' London, October 21. The Trust and Agency Conrony of Australasia has declared an interim dividend , ol 2i per cent. GHAIN AND PEODUCE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Oaraatu, October 22. The wheat market is firm, although only one sale of 320 bags of velvet has taken place at 3s. ed. Oats are firm, and are still quoted at 3s. The potato market hv.c assumed a firmer tone, and during the week sales have been made ai as high a figure as 455. on trucks at sidings. Butter is quoted at lCd. for separator, and Sd. for dairy. Eggs sell at 10d. ; DAIEY PEODUCE. Messrs. W. Weddcl and Co., in their dairy produce report, dated September 8, Etato that "the demand for Australian .ind Canadian butter remains about as last week, although for Danish and some other butters it is slightly easier. The difficulty of transit caused by the strike has practically passed away. Tho Danish official quotation remains at 112 kroner, which is higher thanut has been for tho first week in Soptembo?, since IE3I, which shows the abnormal position we are in better tbon any dctailod account of the weather could do. Markets all over the Continent are very strong, and all prospects of second crops of hay are very remote." The imports of butter into the United Kingdom from Australia, New Zealand, and Canada for tho twelve months ended August 31 totalled U51.837cwt., an increase of o9i,olocwt. over the previous year. LIVE STOCK AND PEODUCE. Messrs. A. 11. Atkinson and Co., Ltd. iPeilding). report having cold a good yarding of pigs on Friday at record prices, every lot offered making values larioly beyond vendors' expectations. For poultry the demand was very keen. a,nd good prices wore made for all birds offered, (hough very little of quality was penned. Several tons of potatoes were sold, at from ss. to 7s. per bag. Grain and f.undric3 of all descriptions made up a largo sale, and more activity generally ' wae observable ■ than for some time past. Vegetables were scarce. Quotations:—Wcaner pigs, lls., 135., Ks., to 155.; slips. 16s. 6d. to 175.; stores, 16s. 6d., 24;., to 255. 6d.; porkeru. 275., 275. 6d., 325. to 365. 6d.; hacks and harness horses, £5 to £10; aged halfdraughts, £8 to £9 55.; Baddies, to £3 lEs. Poultry (per pair): Hens, 3s. 6d., <s.. 4s. 3d., 4s. Cd., 4s. 9d.; roosters, fls. to 4s. 9d.; ducks. 3s. 9d., 4s. 6d., to ss. 3d.; turkeys. 145.; hen 3, with chicks, 65.; seed ami table potatoes, ss. to 7s. sack; cabbages, 3s. 9d.; onions, Bs. to 9s. cwt.; bacon, 7d. to Ed. lb.; hams, S*d.