COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2665, 10 January 1916, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

FEILDING MARKET REPORT. Messrs. A. 11. Atkinson and C 0.,, Ltd., quote market values as under:—Good meaner pigs, 15s. to 175.; otließS, lis. 6d. to 135.; slips, 15s. to 20a.; stores, 25s.'to 3fe.; porkers, 3Ss. 6d.; heavy, to 445.; sows, oOs. Poultry, per pail - : 1 Bens, 2s. 6(1. to 3s. 3d.; duek6, 3s. 6d. to ss. 3d. Peaches, 3s. fid. to 45.. 6d.; plums; Is. 6d. to 25.; apples, 2s. to 35.; potatoes, 6s. 6d, to Bs. 6d. cwt.; chaff, £6 to £7; wheat, 6s. fed.; oats, 4s. 9d. to os.; Scotch tares, 17s. 6d.; barley, 6=.; peas, ss. 6d.; maize, 6s. to 7s. Customs duty collected at tlL n - port of Wc-liiuEton on Saturday amounted to £1557 I-. ?d. LONDON MARKETS. •By ieleKraph—Press Association-Copyright (Rbc. January 9, 5.5 p.m.) . London, January 8. Wheat.—Chicago Stay options, 1273 cents to 125J cents; July options, 119 3-8 cents to 117.3-8 cents. Jute.—Native first marks, January-Febru-ary shipment, £28 ss. per ton. . Copra—January-February shipment, £31 6s. per ton. Outtqn.—January-February shipments of American middling, cotton o.re Quoted at 7.95£ d. per Jb. ■ Hew; Zealand Hemp—March-May shipment, £41 per ton. • Rubber.—Hard fine Para, 4s. OJd. per lb.; plantation, 40. 3d.; emoked. sheets, 4s. 2d. : Quicksilver.—£l6 13s. 6d. to £1S 16s. per bottle. ' /

FJtOZEiY MEA*. (licc. January 9, 5,5 p.m.) London, January 8. Tory, little frozen meat is being released, by the authorities. The Incorporated Society of Meat ImpOrters is riot issuing pricc 'lists. , ' The unofficial quotation, for New Zealand ewes is 65<1. to 7;,< i.; lamb, 7Jd. to 73d. . Babbits are tlull owing to largo supplies. New.South Wales'blues,'ex store, 235. BRITISH . TRADE. (Eeo. JanuaTy 9,. 5.5 p.m.) London, January 8. The Board of Trade returns show that during December the imports increased by £5,621,496, exports by £7,668,691, and re-ex-ports by £1,831,355, compared with tho figures for December. 1914.

Harvesting operations ■ are now well advanced throughout tills district. The yield of oats: lias / been very satisfactory. .As the price of oateu-slieaf is 'comparatively low, many, of the farmers arc preferring to stack. Hie raius of the last week, or two' havo ]iad a good effect upon the rape crops in the Masterton district. Some of them had been showing signs of wilting.