LATE COMMERCIAL

Evening Star, Issue 19386, 21 October 1926, Page 9

LATE COMMERCIAL

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON SHARE MARKET. LONDON, October 19. Bank of Australasia, £l3 18s fid; Bank of New South Wales, £44 10s; Union Bank of Australia, £l4 17s 6d; National Bank of Australasia, £8 12s 6d; National Bank of New Zealand, £7 As; Bank of New Zealand—stock £9l, shares 62s 6cl; New Zealand Loan and Mercantile—debentures £73 10s, stock £96 ss. PRICE OF GOLD. LONDON, October 19. Fine gold is quoted at £4 4s HJd an ounce. MELBOURNE WOOL SALES. MELBOURNE, October 20. At the wool sales ordinary topmakers and merinos were about 5 pep cent, below the prices ruling earlier in the month. Burry and faulty skirtings and bellies were aleo lower. SYDNEY WOOL SALES SYDNEY, October 20. At the wool sales the market was unchanged. Fine grades sold well under very keen demand. Broad-haired and burry sorts continued irregular at the lower level recently established. Greasy merino sold to 27£d per lb. CHICAGO WHEAT QUOTATIONS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, October 20. (Received October 21, at 11.50 a.m.) Chicago wheat: December, 143 J cents per bushel; May, 147 J. SALES ON ’CHANGE: THIS DAY, Christchurch.—Western Australian Bank, 69s 2d; Bank of New Zealand (rights), 6s 3d. Auckland.—On ’Change: Kawnrau, forward, 2s 7d; Albumin, 4s 4d; Auckland Gas, 23s lid; Sandford (ord.), 235. Sales reported: South British, 60s; Wilson Cement, 38s 3d.