COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2539, 13 August 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT SHARES. There were" no transactions in investment shares' '- yesterday. ■ The quotations wore as follow:— ..Buyers, Sellers. , ' .' ■ £ s. d. £ s. <1. National Bank — 6 10 Equitable, Building' 9 5 0 — Well; Gas'tpref.) — 1 0 0 Ohch.-Meat — 16 5.0 :*Woll.' Meat -Ezport (£2 12s. 6d.) , ... 216 6 Union Steam (ord.) — 13 0 Union Steam'(pref.) — 10 6 Westport : Cool — • 111.0 Westport-Stocltton 0 5 1 — Golden Bay Ooment ....... — 113 Sharland (ord.) 1 2 6 — ' Sharland (pret.) 12 6 — "Ward and Co ■.... 5 7 6 — Kauri Timber (155.) ......... 0 15 6 — *Exdiv.'" WHOLESALE PRODUCE PEXCBS. ■ Mossrs. Laory and Co., Ltd., Allen Street, report '.wholesale, prices as follow:—Fowls' wheat,. prime, '7s. 7d. per bushel; barley, 65.; Oape barley,,6s. 3d.;.feed peas, prime, 63.. 6d.; good':6s.; Prussian blue peas, 7s. 6d.; maize,' 6s. 6d.; oatenaheaf cljaff, £10 per ton; hay,': £6 10s. to £8 10s.; flour in sack,' £16;. oatmeal, £24; / bran, . £8 10=.; pollard, £9 55.;: rico pollard, £8 55.; rico - ixioal, £7 55.;. onions, £6 10s. to £7 10s.; potatoes, white skin, table, £6 10s. to £7 15a.: potatoos seed, Karly Rose and Beauty of Hebron, £9 10s.; Northern Star, £6 '06.;-Up-to-date, £6 155.; Gamekeeper, £5 10s.; 'bacon, best factory,.sides 10d., rolls lid., hams 9id„-shoulders 7Jd.; chose, factory, medium, 9d.; linseed moal, £19 10s.; ]m'seed nuts £14; linseed ground cakes, i.14; Vwhole linseed, £18." ■ Customs• duty, collected-at the port of Wellington yesterday amounted -to £1515 ios. ■ , LONDON MARKETS. . By Telegraph—l're6s Association!-Copyright . London, August 11. ' Wheat.-Tho market' is steady; prices quiet. Australian shipments shortly due, 675. 75d. v ' •Linseed oil—Spot pipes, £24 ss. per ton. ■ Turpentino —335. 9d. per cwt. ; ! 'METAL MABJCET. London, August 11. Bar : silver is quoted i at 22 9-16(1. per ounce standard. , ■ . ... • Ooßper— On the 6Pot, £68 2s. 6d. to £69 ;7s. 6d. per ton; at three months, £69 7s. 6d. to £69 12s. 6d.; electrolytic, £82 to £83. Tin— On the' spot, £152 to £152'105. ner ton"; at three months, £154 ss.'to £154 15s. Lead.—Soft foreign, £20 12s. 6d. to £20 15s. per ton: ' , Spelter.—Cash, £70 per ton; forward, £50. TALLOW. , London, August 11. . At the tallow sales 2271.casks were offered and, 1843 sold. Prices:—Mutton, fine, 365. 9d.; n;edhim,\ 335. 6d. Beef, fine, 375.; me(liuni, 335. The Zealand - Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., has received the • following cablegram from its London : house, under date - August 11:—"Tallow:. Wo qote present wot values ; for the. following 'descriptions:—Fine- mutton, 365. per cwt.; good beef. 343. 9d. per cwt.; mixed, 325. 3d. 'per cwt.- The market is good." ; AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKETS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Itec.. August '2, 10.25 p.m.) • Sydney, August 12. aals.-Tasmanlan, ■ New Zealand, and iAmCTioan, all 55.'3d.; Algerian, 55., ss. 3d. :Barloy, nominal.. Maize, ss. 5d., ss. 6d.; -Java-, ss. 5d., ss. 2d. Potatoes, Tasmani&n, £9"10s. £11-10s.; Victorian, £9; Jfew Zealand,'£9.los.; New Zealand TJp-to-dates, £8. Onions. Victorian, £10. Bacon, IOJd. , / Adelaide, August 12. Wfteat. .Bs.j flour, £18 ss. Bran, Is, lid., 25.,1 d. Pollard,,2s-3id., Zs. 4Jd. HIDES. Melbourne,, August 8. Efdes.—Smaller supplies; good competition; iprlces "unchanged. MINING NEWS ; 'WELLINGTON SEAEE MARKET. , In the mining 'mJarket.a sale of' Ross :Goldfields at 2s. 4d. was made on 'Change. ■The quotations were as under:— Buyers, Sellers. -.-* .. '. £ e. d. ' £ p. d Murray's . Freehold . — 15 0 Talisman,;. 1 0 0 — AVaitangi ; — 8 16 ■Dominion Developing ...... 1 1 0 — STOCK EXOHANGE. . (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Auckland, August 12. Sales:—Auckland Trams, 21s. 3d,;. Northern 00a1,..65. 6d. Duncdln, August 12. The' following .styles, were reported on the Stock Exchange to-day:—Union Bank, £52, and Goldflelds, 2s. Bd. - LONDON MINING'QUOTATIONS. - By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ' . .London, August 11. . Share market quotations include:—British Broken Hilli 425. 9d„ 435. 9d.;'Hampden- ' Oloncurry, 28s. 6d., 295.\6d. .. ROSS RECONSTRUCTED. .' The mine superintendent of the Ross Goldflelds, Reconstructed reports as follows on the work done at the mine for tho week ending August s:—No. 2 east drive was extended 32 feet in soft brown nay wash, 4'feet deep. The clay formation intersected in the. south, drives had made its appearance,. and. the drive wn-s now continued along the'boundary of the clftj and wash without materially altering 'it-s

direction. ■ No. 9 north drive, which had been turned into a double blocking .drive, was advanced 14 feet in pay wash 4 feet deep. No. 7 north drive\had continued in pay wash 3 feet deep, and was now out 82 feet. From the end of this drive leading blocking striips had been started, parallel to but 4,feet lower than, No. 6 level,, immediately -ahead. Blocking was proceeding off No. 3 south-west drive, and Nos. 10_and 8 south drives. ; The 'mine superintendent telegraphed yest€.rdiay tliat the gold return was 620z. Udvrt. of gold from 972 truclis. HIGGINSON AND MACSHANE, 143 FeatEerston Street, Wellington, BHAREBROKERS and ACCOUNTANTS. MONET TO LEND on First-class Freehold Security.