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Evening Star, Issue 21622, 18 January 1934, Page 12

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NEW YORK STOCK MARKET. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright, NEW YORK, January 17. (Received January 18. at 1.55 p.m.) Stock market prices continued to advance to-day, but tbs gains were smaller on heavy profit taking. All security bond markets were strong, however, on renewed confidence. Commodities were mixed. Wheat futures were variously up and down fractionally. The dollar was comparatively steady against foreign exchanges. NEW GUINEA GOLD SHARES. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 17. (Received January 18, at 1 p.m.) New Guinea Gold shares arc quoted at 6s 6-Jd. BULOLO SHARES. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 17. (Received January 18, at 1 p.ni.) Bulolo shares are quoted at £5 ICs. BUTTER AND CHEESE. ■The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Ltd. has received the following cabled advice from their London house, dated January 17: —Butter, 655; market firm. Cheese: White, 445, 455; coloured, 425, 435; market irregular, no business. SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, January 18. (Received January 18, at 2.10 p.m.) Stock Exchange sales: Four per cent. 1938 bonds; £lO4 15s; 1953, £lO6 2s 6d; 1955, £lO6 12s 6d; Commercial Bank of Sydney, £lB 12s; National Bank £5, paid £6 14s; Toohey’s, 28s 4}d; Tooth’s, 45s 3d; Associated News 21s 4Jd, preference 21s 9d; Burns, Philp, 54s 6d; Dunlop, Perdriau 22s 4-)d, preference 36s 3d; Goldsbrough, Mort, 36s 3d; Wilcox, Mofflin, 14s; Winchcombe, Carson, 32s 9d. . * LONDON WOOL SALES. - Messrs Murray, Roberts and Co. Ltd. have received the following wool market quotations from their London agents, Messrs Sanderson, Murray, and Elder, Ltd., dated 17th inst.'; —60-645, New Zealand merino, yielding 48 per cent., 16cl (at close of previous series 14d); 56’s, New Zealand merino, yielding 64 per cent., 17d (14)d); 50’s, New Zealand merino, yielding 70 per cent., 14d (115); 44-46’s, preparing, yielding 76 nor cent., IOJd (8Jd); 44-46’s, carding, yielding 74 per cent., 10id (BJd) ; 4.0-44’s, carding, yielding 75 per’ cent., B|d (7sd); 46-48’s, mixed preparing and carding, yielding 74 per cent., lOid (8|d); 48-50's, mixed preparing and carding, yielding 72 per cent., 12d (10d). ' SALES ON ’CHANGE: THIS DAY! Auckland.—Traders’ Finance, 2s 2d; Northern Steam, 2s lOd; Farmers’ Trading, 3s sd; King Solomon, 3s 8d; Refrigerating, 20s; Mount Lyell, 24s 9d; Wilson’s Cement, 27s 7d; Waihi, 29,s 9cl; Bycroft, 41s 9d. Banks: New Zealand, 50s; Union, £lO 3s; New South Wales, £35. Christchurch. —Sales on ’Change; Rank of New South Wales, £35 (2); New Zealand Breweries. 40s Id and 40s; Staples’s Brewery, 28s 6d; British Tobacco, 37s 3d (2) ; Dunlop Rubber, 22s Id (2) ; Electrolytic Zinc (pref., cum div.), 355; King Solomon, 3s 7id (3) ; Mataki, Is 4d; Waihi, 30s. Sale reported: New Zealand Breweries, 40s.