COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2458, 11 May 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES. There were 110 transactions in the investment mfl.rket yesterday. The Quotations ■wore as follow:— Buyers. Sellers. < £ c. d. £ b. d, Bank N.Z. (£3 6s. Bd.) ...... 11 4 0 - ißank N.Z. (£6 13s. 4d.) 17 2 6 lEnnitable Building 9 10 0 — ■N.Z. and E. Plato 2 10 y i ,Wcll. Int. T. and A 0 11 5 . 0 11 6 I iWell. Trust. Loan, Ltd. ... V 8 t — Well. 'J)cp'. ami Mori. ... — 0 8 6 ■ Oriptchurcb. Gas (£5) ... 7 15 0 — 'IN.Z. Insurance 6 0 6 6 2 0 South' British Insurance — 4 15 0 VUnion Steam (ord.) 14 0 14 4 iKaiapoi Woollen (ord.) ... — 5 2 0 ,Woll. Woollen (pref.) 3 6 0 • — ' *Lcylan c! - O'li r ie n 116 — *Ex,div. 1 Customs duty collected at the port of ■Wellington yesterday amounted to £1863 &. Id. • CITY PKODUCE PItICES. Messrs. Laery and Co., Ltd., Allen Street, report, -\vholesale prices as follow Fowls' wheat, prime, 7s. 7d. per bushel; fowls' . iharley, (*-■ 3d.; Cape barley seed, 6s. 6d.; feed peas, prime, 6s. 6d.; partridge peas, •7s. 6d. bushel: Prussian blue peas, Bs.; •maize. 6s. 6d.; oats, 4s. 6d. to 4s. Bd. per •imfihel; chaff, oatensheaf, per ton, £8 to v£B 10s.; hay, SI; flour, in sacks, £18 155.; oatmeal, £22; bran, £8 55.; pollard, £9 10s. to £10; onions. New Zealand, £6 to £6 50s. ton; potatoes, white-skinned table, ■£S to £5 15s. per ton;'bacon, all best fac,'tory sides, 9ld. per lb.; hams, 9,1 d.; Tolls, 102(1.; shoulders, bacon, 73d.; cheese, factory, medium, BJd. to 9d. per lb.; super- ' phosphates, £5 55.; bonedust, mixed £6 155.; linseed meal, £19 10s.; linseed nuts, •14s. cwt.; crushed linseed cake, 14s. cwt. HIGH COJfJnSSIONEE'S CABLED MARKET EEPOET. The' Department of Agriculture, Industries, ,and Commerce has received the following cablegram from the High Commissioner for New Zealand, dated London, May 8, 1915. (Note: Quotations, unless otherwise specified, aro averago market iprices on i t • . 4 ' Mutton.— I The market is steady, with a ■very good demand. Canterbury, 61d. per Jb.; Xoi'tli Island, 6 l-16d.; ordinary quality, The market is weaker and slightly lower. Supplies arc increasing, and Jiigh prices are restricting business. Canterbury, 72d. per lb. for all weights; other than Canterbury, 7|d. for best quality; sccond grade, 7_ 9-16 d. Beef—There is very little frozen beef available at the market, and quotations are nominal. Now Zealand hinds, 6Jil. per lb.; fores, 6id.; chilled, a moderate supply, hinds', 7®d.; fores. 6Jd. Butter.—Tho market remains nrm, and a good demand continues for colonial. Prices are firmer on account of small supply. Banish, per cwt,. 148s. to 1545.; New Zealand butter has been firm this week, and the market has advanced 4s. New Zealand, 138s. to 1405.; unsalted, 140s. to 144«.; Australian. WOe. to U4b^

Irish crcameries, little offering, 140s. to 1425. j Argon line, 1325. to 1365. Cliccsc.-Tho market is lirmcr. Canadian, >yJuU}, per cwt., 96p>. to 98ti.; coloured, 94,s to 965.; Now Zealand, market. cloecd tirnier with more inquiry, white uud coloured, 93*. to 945.; United SUitos. in pood donmnti, Just sctison'd make, while and coloured, 88s. to 9Ss.; tills season'* whit* and coloured, 2s. Ices. Est limited Canadian and United States cheese stocks at London, Liverpool, and Bristol on 3 werc.B7,COO crates, chictly United States flatu, against 48,000 orates at the same time last year. New Zealand and Australian cheese stocks at Lqndon nud Bristol on May 3 were 19, CM crates, which amount does not indmic ROIO orates ou. Kaikoura, which is docked, but has not .yet discharged, against 70,CC0 urates at the sauio time last year. Ifeiup.—Thc raarKet ifi finr., anti wriccg . havo slightly advanced for .all pnidiu nominally, but trone-actions are' moderate. , New Zealand pood fair Grade, per ton, ' £33; fair, £31; fair cinrcnt Manila, £39 lOs.j May to July, good fair, £32 10»s.; fair, I £30 10a. The output from Manila for tho week was 20.000 bnlos. ' Hops.—The market is quiet, but Btcady. English, per cwt., 100s. to 755.; Catiforiiian, 955. to 70s. Wheat.—'Tho market is activo. -with* <i good demand for immediate delivery during thie? week, but the n.arkct for forward shipment is quiet. Canadian, on paw-ape, 675. por quarter; May to Juno, 66*.; American, July to 'August, 565.; Aupust to Hoptember, 555.; Argentine, on 645. Oats.—Tho market is firm, with more inquiry* .Argentine, on spot, 31s. per quarter; April to May, 305.; New Zealand e'nort (Sparrowbille), on spot, 355. ptr qiiflrter of 3S4ib. Wool.—The market is weaker and downward tendency for crossbrcds dunn? this week, but now there js great improvement, and the market is firmer for all wools. LONDON WOOL SALKS. Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited have received tha following cablecrani from their London office, under dnto of May 7:— "Wool sales: The sales are more animated, except for short faulty merino 6. Crossbrcds are selling better again." TALLOW. Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, have received the following cablegram from their London office, under date May "Tallow; At the auctions there was ho demand for mutton, which was nominally Is. per cwt. lower. Other descriptions dealincd about 3d. por cwt."