COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2796, 14 June 1916, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

A;•'-investment, shaees. " - '"-Yesterday's, quotations for investment shares were as under:— ' •V-V-w ■ / Buyers. Sellers.' ."!•. ' £ s. d. . £ s. d. i '. Bank,; Australasia ... 115 0 0 — ' ■ National' Bank — 5 10 6. ;: Union Bank — . 55 5 . 0 . - 1 Insurance 6 5 0 6 7 6 ; Gear Meat (fl) ..4 6 0 . ' ■ — Union.Steam (ord.)- :• 112 .6, .112 9 Union Steam (pref.): ;1 -0 9 — '"' Well.--Woollen (ord.) ...... — 6 16 : Well. Woollen (pref.) ..... - '318 0 : .'Taupiri,Coal — .0 14 0 ;L-*Westport;Coal;.,:'l. 7 6 — . ■.. Leyiand-O'Brien ' ;. 1 19 — «Ex niv. .. V Customs 'duty.collected:, at the port of i s-Wellington yesterday amounted to £3212 12s. 6d. ; ;' ' CANTEUBUIII' FKOZEX MEAT CO. - - 13y. ress A&0(-;s.h0Ji. , Chrlstchurch, Juiiq 13. . -.The Canterbury • Frozen -,Meat. Company .: has-declared a dividend of 3 per cent, on C preference shares and .4. per cent, on or- ;■ Quinary shares, for the half-year. ■-.. —SOUTHERN WoDUCK MARKETS. Ghristchurch, June 15. Although? some business is being clone in \ !wheafc in'the Asbbtirton district 011 behalf : tof-Timaru .mills, there is,very littlechang- . ' ing'hands locally; .The quantity, offeringis Small, but any lines of - suitable. milling ,: (wheat find buyers at'markct ratcs. Thero is ho change t-o -note in -pricbs. '■' There is inquiry for seed oats, butstocks ■ ar© limited, and thero is practically . rio-,-thing oifering-bygrowers. ■■-'■■■ ''- -The '.oatsheaf-' chaff market remains . firm. V''. ' .-..,._V)-r • ■ Two shipments comprising, .'about 10,000sacks of potatoes, are being made to ■ Auckland, and this'amount, may tend to , ! ;:ease >the market .-:there. A 'good, deal-of difficulty is being ..experienced with deliv- : cries at the port of shipment-, and'. picking over of many lots,.is .necessary. Growv. crs'-'are' 'place their potatoes- in : ; tho* pit. or shed"'and 'pick them over to -■. save expense at the port. The price gen-" ■ cr&lly offered, by vbuyers for . this- month's dcUveiy is .£5 ss. ■ at,:country stations,- and ' -the£e is-not-a large quantity offering.-At tiie"saTne time merchants are not keen to .; purchase unless they have' orders in hand. ■ The -local-'-onion : market isV-noivabout ; over for the• seasonr-and Victorian sup- : .plies are now coming' into southern-; and - North Island markets. "■ ; ■•;:*'■ • V. LONDON WOOL SALES. '■ - -Messrs. L'ev,in and' Co.;. Ltd., have received Hhe. following 'cablegram from their : : . London ? . agents:—Sales'- closed, r -Medium,, and.-coarse. crossbreds -unchanged. Fine' 2\ per ocnti,' slipeiTahout. 5 per cent., and • 'merinos .5 per cent, above opening rates, ' .■■■ UECOED WOOL PRICES.-' .' • By lelegrs.sh--Ptess Association-Coipyright >», (Rec;, JUHP..J3, 8.20 p.m.) -. . -fSydnoy, June 13. • /..Two ; further;- Sydriey---nvool records',, are .'.reported—greagy merino., fetched VA.; /■.scoured superjcomcback, 36Jd.-- . APPLES.': .; London, Juno 12. : Mooltan's end : Barunga.'s , apples

are." selling-'briskly at 'about late rates. The maintenance of .'prices is largely at-tribntablo;to-the backwardness of strawberries,- owing to the cold and ' wet and the absence of French cherries. ' '' RABBITS. v London, Juno 12, Many of the rabbits, by tho Euripides, were mouldy, and a considerable number wero condemned. The underwriters are making allowances on others: ' THOMAS IiBOWIs AND SOX'S. London, Juno 12.'. The . annual report of Thomas Brown and Sons, Ltd., warehousemen and general merchants, shows a profit of £37,122. A dividend of 5 per cent, has been declared, £15,000 adde„d to the reserve, and £7497 carried forward.