COMMERCIAL.

Evening Star, Issue 12873, 24 July 1906, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

A meeting of shareholders in the Southern Starr-Bowkett Society was held last evening for the purpose of disposing of two appropriations'of £SOO each. There was a large attendance of shareholders, and Mr S. S. Myers (chairman of directors) presided. 'An appropriation was disposed of by ballot, and cluster 186, was drawn, the shares being held by two members, who had three and two shares respectively. The other appropriation was disposed of by sale, and realised a premium of £l6 5s per £IOO. . A proclamation has just been gazetted revoking as from the 12t!h inst. the ap 7 poiutment of Oamaru as a warehousing port. The Oamaru bond is therefore no longer a bond store. Snkrina, an importation, which is apparently a substitute for sugar, is to have a. duty of J,d per lb levied on it, this being equivalent to the proportion in which it is a substitute for sugar. PRESERVED MEAT DISPLAY FOR LONDON. In response to the Government's invitation, some large firms have submitted samples of preserved meat for display at the Grocers' Exhibition at London in "September to demonstrate the fact that canned food exported from Now . Zealand makes a wholesome dish. Supplies ha.ve been received from the Meat Company, Wellington Meat Export Com.pa.ny, Wanganui Meat Freezing Company, Messrs Irvine and Stevenson (Dunedin), W. E. Tart (Inveroargill), Southland Preserving Company, a.nd Christchurch Meat Company. The stock includes pies, roast mutton, roast beef, sausages, rabbits, jugged hare, oysters, whitebait, corned, spiced, and pressed beef and mutton, ox, s£ieep, lambs', and calves' tongues, soups, and meat extract. The gcods were consigned. THE WOOL SALES. Dalgety and Co. report having received the following cable from their head office, dated London, July 20.—" The wool sales closed dull. As compared with the closing rates of the last series, prices for good greasy merino wools are 5 per cent. higher; greasy inferior, faulty, and earthy wools, 7J, to 10 per cent, lower: scoured inferior, faulty, and earthy wools, 15 to 20 per cent, lower; greasy rme and medium cross-bred wools, 5 per cent, lower; coarse cross-bred wools, at par to 5 per cent, lower; sliped, scoured cross-bred wools, 10 to 15 per pent, lower. Out of the net quantity available tor sale, some 59.000 bales have been sold for Homo consumption-, 36,000 bales for the Continent, 4,000 bales for America, leaving 19,000 bales to be carried forward to the next series." The following figures show the quantity of wool sold in Australasia by the various branches of the firms mentioned for the year ended 30th June, 1906 : —Dalgetv and Co., 209,918 bales; N.Z.L. and M.A." Co., 159,630; Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co., 130,099; Winchcombe, Carson, and 86,725; Harrison, Jones, and Devlin, 75.032; John Bridge and Co., 69,266.