COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2478, 3 June 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHAKES. In tlie investment share market yesterday a sale of Wcstport Coal shares at 31s. 6d. was reported. The quotations were a* under;— Buyers. Sellers. £ 6. d. £ s. d. National Bank — 511 0 Bank N.Z. (£5 6s. 6d.) U 6 6 1110 0 Bank N.Z. (£6 13a. 4d.) ... — 17 9 0 Well. Trust, Loan, Ltd. ... 7 11 0 — Chri3tchurch Gas (£5) ... 7 17 6 8 2 6 N.Z. Insurance ,6 10 — Gear Meat (£1) 4 0 0 — Well. Woollen (ord.) 412 0 — Taupiri Coa-1 0 15 0 — Ley'and-O'Brien 116 — *To.ringamutu Totara ... 2 0 0 2 3 0 N.Z. Drue — 2 7 0 N.Z. Portland Cement ... I) 7 6 — Golden Bay Cement 116 — *Ex div. NEW COMPANIES. The "Mercantile Gazette" issued yesterday reports registration of the following companies:— Addison'e Gold Mining Co., Ltd., Wellington. Capital: £45.000, divided into 45,000 shares of £1 each (of which 35.003 ate deemed to be fully paid up). Subscribers: Wellington—H. W. Williams, P. W. Irwin, A. E. Whytc, H. N. Firth, Sophia Morroll, D. If. Findlay, Kathleen B. Thornlull, all one share each. Objects: Mining and incidental, and to carry into effcct an agreement dated April 12, 1915, made between the Addison's Sluicing Co., Ltd. (vendor) and F. H. Irwin (as trustee). Tararua Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd. Capital: £25C0 divided into 1250 shares of £2 each. Subscribers: Ballance—J. Hay, 8?; D. 0. Martin, 26; T. W. Jones, 58; E. W. Littler, 20; W. P. Olsen. 10; W. J. Foster, 50; J. H. Brewer, 28; H. L. Lewis, 25; A. E. Pond, 16; P. W. Oresswell 'for Oresswell Bros.), 20; J. Harris, 40; W. H. Chaytor, 16; E. S. Holdaway, 40; W. W. Waimvrighb, 20; E. J. Brotherstone, 18; F. T. ITorc, 5; O. Meng, 15; J. T. Marriott, 46. Objects: To purchase land and to tako over as a going concern the business now carried on by Marriott, Talt and Co., at llallance, as cheese manufacturers. Customs duty collected at tho port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £2430 17e. Id. LONDON MAItKETS. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) London, Juno 1. Copper—On the spot, £79 to £79 55.; three months, £79 15s. to £80; electrlytic, £89 10a. to £90 10s. Supplies ,46,032 ton*; deliveries, 43,429 tons; i : n stock, 22,742 tons; afloat, 4200 tone; visible supplies, 34,090 tons. Tin—On the spot, £160 10s. to £161; three months, £160 to £160 10s. Lead. £21 10s. to £22. Spelter, £95 and £90. Bar silver is quoted at 23 3-Bd. per ounce standard. Tallow—ln stock, 8375 casks; imiports, 5544 casks; deliveries, 4599 enfiks. The meat market is dull. Prices for I white sorts are unchanged, while for La Plata and Indian sorts they bavo declined j by 6d. to Is.