COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2529, 2 August 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

• INVESTMENT SHAKES. In the investment market-on Saturday there, were soles of New Zealand and. River Plate-at 415.; Christehurch Gas (£5) at £8, and Sharlierad and Co., ordinary, t 225. 6d. The quotations were os. under:— Buyers. Sellers. • £ s. d. £ s. d National Bank 5 3 6 5 5 8 Gisborne Gas '.. 114 0 — «We<ll. Gas (£10) ... 16 15 0 17 0 0 Well. Gas (pref.) ~'0.19'6. .1 0 0 •Wn. Heat Ex. (£2l2s; 6d.) 2 15 6 2 17 6 Union Steam ■ (0rd.).......... 1 3 6 — Union Steam (pref.) 10 4 10 7 "Kaiapoi Woollen (0rd.)... 53 8 — .Well.' Woollen (pref.) , — . 3 I 6 Golden Bay Cement .116 Sharland (pref.) 12 6 — Ward and Co. 5 12 -6 — Kauri Timber. (155.) 0 15 3 — , - *(Jum div. , ' WOOL, SKINS,. AND HIDES. - ifessrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Palmerston. North, report, on" their monthly sale of .wool, skins,: and hides, as follows:—Competition was very keen for all good clean lines of crutchings, free of seed,' but seedy or carbonising; lines showed a consideraole decline 'in sympathy with cable advices from London and. other markets. Best sheepskin's were about on, a par with last sale's-rates, while shont and inferior were somewhat lower. ' Hides a,nd tallow maintained last sale's rates. Crutchines: Medium to good,l2d. to 12Jd.; shorter and heavy-condition-lines. IOJd. to 113 d.; seedyj 7jd. to BJd.; very ; inferior and seedy,'to 6i<L; no super lines catalogued. Fleece L Rough and inferior, 12d. to 12id,; lambs. Is.; dead wool, 9Jd. to llld.; locks ana pieces, 6d. to 63d;; pieces and bellies, Bd. to 9Jd.; .black wool, 10} d. - Sheepskins: FuUwool ooarse, best lines, 10id. to lid.; ditto medium and.fine, 103 d. to lid.; inferior and damaged, BJd. to 9d;; half-wool, Bd. to Bid.; ditto broken and damaged,: 6d. to 61d.; iambs. 10-a.; shorn 6Jd. to BJd.; dead hoggete, Bd. to BJd.;' ditto damaged and inferior, 6d.' to 6Jd.; pelts, 3d. to 3jd.; ditto torn and damaged, lid. to 25d.; butchers' damp and salted, at each, medium, Bs. to Bs. 3d.; other lots, fe. 6d., 75., 7s. 6d„ to 7s. 10d.;. lambs, 4s. to ss. 9d. .Hides: Cows, beet lines, 9 3-Sd.; £ood, 9d. to Sid.; farmers' . lines, 81d. ■to 83d.; ox, medium to heavy, 9Sd. to lOltl.; light, 9d. to 9 3-Bd.; ditto, cut and slippy,'73d. to 9d.;-yearlings, Bd. to: 81d.;'ditto, out and damaged, 4Jd. to.6Jd.'; bulls, :to"5 ; 3-Bd.; horse hidos, to Bs' 3d. each. Calfskins: Sound, 91d.; cut and " slippy, from. sd, to Bd. Tallow, in tins, 21s. 6d. Horeehair, is. 3d. per lb. Owing to a number of our clients, being unable to get their crutchings'.in -time-for Friday's': 6ale, owing to the . wet weather, •we have decided to hold e, further special orutching sale on Thursday, August 27.

,;. GEEEN PEAS, ON liOCAI MARKET. '' Messrs.. Thompson : Bros., Lt., report tho ! firsts shipment, of green peas to hand from Nelson on Saturday, sample being fair, and l'Mised 3s. 3d. per peel!.

' Customs duty 'collected in the port ot Wellington' on Saturday amounted to £1141 lis. Ild. / ,

WEST COAST' COAL SHIPMENTS. By Telejraph.— Westport," August 1. The West. Coast coal shipments last week to Wellington were:—Westport Coal Co., 15,977 tons 6cwt.; coke; 48 tons 4cwt. West-•port-Stockton Co., 3450 tons 1 llcwt. LONDON HAHKETS. \ : (Eec. August 1, 5,5.. p.m.) i-.-y-'p"-- •-'• . - ; . London, July 31. Danish butter, is quoted at 1645. to 168s. per' ewt. ' ' ' Cotton.—AugustrSeptember, shipment,s.23d. per lb. ' ■ . Jute.—Native first marks, August shipment, £23 ss. per ton. ' • • New Zealand Hemp—July-September shipment,' £31 ss. per ton. _ ' Rubber.—Hard fine Para, 2s. Sid. per lb.: plantation, 2s; 5J.; smoked sheets. 26. sd: • Copra.—August-September-, shipment,, £22 2s; 6d'. per ton. , r ' - . -WHEAT., , ; (Kec.'August 1, 5.5 p.m.) London, July 31. Wheat is quiet and unchanged. . There are better crop reports from North •America. ' . • ' Chicago July .'options, 108Jc. to. lilac.; September, 1035 c., to. 106 c. • METAL MARKET. ' . London, July 30. ■ Bar silver is quoted' at 22 7-16 d. per ounce standard? ■'. -: ■ . ' Tin—On. the Bpot,- £15s to . £155 30s. per ton; at three 'months, £156 lCs.. „ .• > Lcad.->Soft foreign, £23 7s. 6d. to £23 12s. 6d. per ton. ' - . SHIPMENTS OP HREADSTUFFS. . (Rec. August 1, 5.5 p.m.) ' London, July 31. The wheat arid flour afloat for the United Kingdom total 2,090,000 quarters; the Continent, 895,000. quarters. . Atlantic shipments, ■ 296.000; total, for Europe, 610,000 quarters, including 148,000 quarters.

FROZEN MEAT. By Telegraph—Pres3 Association—Copyright (Rec. August 1, 5.5 p.m.) ' London, July 31. The Incorporated Society ol Meat Importers' SmHhfleld market quotations for Ihe undermentioned classes of frozen meat are based on actual sales of not less than one hundred carcasseo of mutton or lamb, or twenty-five quarters of heer, of fair aver'ago quality. -Tho quotations ere not for selected lines, but for parcels fairly, representative of the bulk of the (shipments now on the market The price? which follow are on the average ft forthIni; per lb. more than tho values ex ship, this difference representing tho average coet In expense, handling, conveyance. end sailing of the meat:— Mutton— d Canterbury, light v 7J Canterbury, medium 7 Canterbury, heavy 63 Southland 67-8 North Island,. host 67-8 North Island, ordinary 63 New Zealand, ewos • 6i ■' Australian, heavy J. 6 5-16 Australian, light 6 5-16 Australian, ewes 6i River Plate, light 61 River Plate, ewes 6j Lamb— i Canterbury, light . 83 Canterbury, seconds l 8j Canterbury, medium 8} Canterbury, heavy Hit North Island,' ordinary 81 .. North Island, selected 8J Australian, best ....: 8 Australian, fair 1 73 ' Australian, inferior 75 River Plate, light 8 River Plate, heavy 7} BeefArgentine, chilled fores 6J ■ .Argentine, chilled hinds 6J Rabbits.—Colonial fire quiet and. unchanged. English are moregjilentiful. and are improving in. quality ! ®nd 6ize, and telling readily. ... ■.