COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2644, 15 December 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

INVESTMENT BTTABE3.. • No business was done in the investment market yesterday,, and the quotations were , a# follow:— Buyers. Sellers, i i i £s. d. ' £s. d. (National Bank 5 2 6 — ißank N.Z. (£5 13s. 4d.) ... 16 1 $ 16 E 0 ffl.Z. and River Plate .... 2 0 0 — SWell. Invest T. and, A. ..., — 011 0 (Naplor Gas (£s)'- : 8 0 0 - •Well. Oos. (£10) - ' 16 0 0 Well. Ges (pref.) 0 18, 0 -0 19 0 ' ter&tional"; Insurance " 2 6, J gT.Z. Insurance. i.-. . 6.6 0 /South British Insurance 4 15 6 — |+Gear Meat (£1) .... 4 O H " .Well. Meat Export (62is. 6d.) 2 13 0 ■■ gr.Z. Shipping • (ord;) ......' — 18 0 0 Woollen (ord.) ... 5 4 6 5 6 0 iWall- Woollen (ord.) ....:. 419.6 - ;VTcll. Woollen (prcf.) 3 6 6 — iTaupiri Goal — 0 17 0 iLeyland-O'Brien 12 0 - —' IN.Z. Drug 2 4 0 — iW.P.O.A. (£5) - 6 10 tCum dlv. N.Z. SHIPPING COMPANY ' The, report and balance-sheet of the New Zealand Shipping Company, which will be ,presented to shareholders at the meeting ,I,> he held in Ghristchureh at the end of the month, shows that a dividend of 16s. per share, free of income tax, is declared. ■Of this,- Bs. waa paid on April 7j last. The .balance to be carried forward amounts to '£33,563. The profit and loss account, shows 'the absorption of £86,138 in preference dividend. The net profit wa6 £91,932, to which £27.770, brought forward from June 30, 1914, is . added. ' The fleet of steamers, after deducting depreciation to Juno 30, 1915, and the value of the Kaipara sunk Jiy the Germans, and ' the Bakaia sold, is £941,166. Investments, including shares acquired in the Federal 6team .Navigation C-0., ere .set down at £338,937. WELLINGTON'PHODUCE MAKKET, Messrs. 'iaery and Co., Limited,- Allen Street, report- wholesale prices (is follow-.— Fowls' wheat, prime, 6s. to 6s. 3d.; fowls' tarley, 4s. 9d:: ■ Cape barley,, ss. 3d.; field peas, prime, ss. .6d.; good, ss. 3d.; part- ■ xidgo peas, 6s. to 6s. 3d.; maize, feed ss. to ss. 3d., seed' 65.; oatensheaf chaff, old, £8 to £8 55.; new, £6 155.; hay, £4 10s. .to '£! 10s.; flour, "in Eacks, £14; oatmeal, £19; Iran, £5 10s.; pollard, £8 165.; rice pol•Jard, £7; onions, £7 10s. to £8; potatoes, lew, :£7, to. £8 10s.; hacon, Ud. per lb.; Tolls, Is.; shoulders, BJd.; hams, Is.;checse, imedinm,"-Bld.': linEeed mefil, '£19 10s.; linsood nuts,,£l3 10s.'. .

SOUTHERN MARKETS. By Telegraph—Press Assoolatlou. 5 ChriStchurch, December 14. i The wheat market is practically without - change, millers and merchants are well . stocked, and are supplying the northern j demand for wheat, tho price obtaining be- > ing about ss. 6d. f.0.b., and represents a heavy loss on what the wheat cost. There ' is practically nothing offering by growJ . cts. who'are still holding wheat. Thc'auan- - tity of wheat sold ox store during the past • few days amount to about 8000 or 9000 sacks. Beyond a, few showers in parts of Canterbury/and North Otago, the conditions remain (very dry. A number of light crops such as oats have been cut and stooked, and some, crops of wheat damaged by frost have been cut for hay. Old wheat-growers say they have never known frost do. so much damage before to wheat in Canterbury, the reason being that the.crops are so forward on account of the dry season and the. frost so late and severe. The potato crops which were cut down by . frost are making a slow recovery, and good rain is required to ensure anything like an average crop this season. ' ';. MELBOURNE. WOOL SALES. By Telegraph—Press. Association—Copyright Melbourne, Decrtnbcr 14. At the wool sales there was a good selection of ■ merinos and crossbreds. Keen competition took place at 7i per cent, increase on late rates. V QUEENSLAND SUGAR CHOP SHORT. Brisbane, December 14. The sugar statistics for 1915 show {.bat 92,911 acres produced 1,153,217 tons of cane, yielding.-143,427 tons of sugar, representing a decrease upon the 1914 crop of 82,420 tone. ■ WHEAT. ~ (Ree. December 14, 7.50 p.m.) London, December 13. The wheat market is quiet, with prices eteadjv- . . • THE METAL MABKETS. (Bee. December 14, 7.50 p.m.) London, December 13. Copper.—Spot, £76; three months, £76 12s. 6d. Tin.—Spot, £166 155.; ttoee monthE, £166 10s. . Lead.—Spot, £27 155.; three months, £27 ss. ' _ , Spelter^—Spot, £60; three months, £72. Silver.—Ear silver is quoted at 265. 11-16 d. per ouriui standard. Customs duty collected et the port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £7677 19s. 8d... :