COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17040, 23 December 1918, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

PRICES OF METALS.

KAURI TIMBER COMPANY.

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.

SOUTH CANTERBURY POTATO CROP

CANTERBURY PRODUCE MARKET.

PROPERTY SALES

WAIKATO STOCK SALES.

MANAWATD STOCK SALES. '

A.' and N.Z.' Cable LONDON', ec . JO. Tin: On spot £269 158 i throe njQRIK Other metals are unchanged.

DIVIDENDS NOW PAYABLE. The dividends due to New Zealand iklrc hoMers in the Kauri Timber Company V •■

A. and NZ. Cable. LONDON, Dec. 20. the shares named: -Wuihia, buyers i ' ft" iJ! R l; Waihi Grand &£: buyers 14 6d, sellers 13, 6d: Talis-. ,i Consolidated ex dw.i, buyers 12s 6d, sell, r, las; P. and 0„ mi. inf- aC n S: - B i nk , ef Scw So ""> Wales, i.J6 10 ; Union Bank, £67 (ex div.) : Bank of Australasia £128 o, . Bank of New ZeahU file (ox B diU £ 7f.° a ' Wd L ° an aad Mercantile'(ex div.), £71. «i«.»u

[BY TELECBiriI.-rOW.V COREF.SmKDENT.] CHRISTCHtJRCH. Sunday. The potato crops in. gown Canterbury are looking well, and solar there "TSn'S law&.,. l. , . W °* appears to b fc considers!^ mental t 6 ,t year ; , oao or two all Si£ C»,! ro Potntces t WB received In Anw-t this week fro ; a Auckland and Wellington, and sold at the rate of .£23 per ton Potatoes, "° ° old. m ™ difit to

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CHRISTCHURCH. Saturday. Beyond ''¥ usual hand-to-mouth irada; and that only in small volume, there it nothing doing m to ° grain 'd produce market, in consequcnc© cf the shortage of supplies of gram. There will now be no improvement until fitter the holidays

Messrs. Walker and Coakley sold by pnViia auction, at their sale rooms, Queon Street, on i riday, a six-roomed reoidmice, «rtih 6 ; /£ £835 1a8 l ° Granse I{ ° ad ' il(su » ti Eden, '" cr

The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Co Ltd., Hamilton, -eporta --During the last week we have ],d E tock sales at Cambridge, HiJtutaia, To Kuiti, Kauroa, Uoio ffiendel, Hamilton, Nguruawnhia, Wailu.u 19 Awanutiy and tliree clearing saW inete is ttill a strong demand lor both beef and mutton, with better supplies ami very satisjactosy prices. Ilia deman » ,jr *orward bullocks and cows continue fir.n anything in good condition selling exceptionally well, and young cattle have iniJS >V ™X ew . hat « ™* quote :-Bulls. heavy, at, £12 10s to £16; bullocks, medium. its to £18; cows, fat, prime. £12 to £14: cows, mediuml fat, £101 10 to £12; heifers, fat, f.ft £10 V& IO V M «a th » a to /our-year. Sin in £^:„ bu . llf ' ci fs. H-year, good. £0 to £7 in, i ,IlocKß - two , 10 3-year, ordinary. H 4 *,P : cows - m &*' fresh-conditioned, ±9 .o £10; cows, empty ordinary, £8 to 48 15s; cows, empty, old nnd poor, £6 to A }r'< ? ,<K!rß ' yearling, «'» good. £6 to ±8 15s; steers, yearling, good, £5 to £5 163heifers, yearling, best, £5 to at,; yearling ""«d.. « 10s to £1 calves, 7s 6d to 85a | cow«, dairy, best. £13 to £19cows, dairy ordinary. £!0 to £12: cows! dairy, backward and poor, £6 0 £8pliers extra choice three-year Shorthorn; in calf, close to profit, £13 to £16; heifers, two-year empty, good. £7 15.. to £S ISsfleiierg,. two-year, empty, medium. eg jjj to £7 10a; wethers, shorn, fat, Sis to 3Paewes, shorn, fat 27.x 6d to 80s; owes, shorn.' fresh-conditioned, 22? fid to 255; hoggets, best woolly, 30s to 335; hoffgets. best shorn 24b. , Pigs; Weaners £1 to 32«; slips, £1 iss to £2: porkers, £3 10? to £? V,baconew, heavy, £5 ids to £8. Horses! ml *rt tB " **, l 0 *®i « 00 & { »m, ±23 to £28; hornets horses, £!." to £13.

Abraham and Williams, Limited, report:— At our Palmorston North sale, on Thn-a-«ay, wo had a moderate yarding of both ™? v ?< a l caU i 9 ' Wlth the wcenpoi ,-of oAa pen, all the sheep were sold. The inqiiii-v for cattle was not good. Wo quote :-Fit 3., 275 0? d S5 289d L two »d four-tooth wethers, 24s 8d; b.f. hoggets, to Ma . fat (mall, to £8 12s 6d; Lit heifers, light. *r-iss; forward store cows, £5 83 6d to £7 17s: cows and calves, £4 3s 0d to £7 10s • Bpringmg cows, £12 to £15; springing Tjeifers, to £7 15s; yearling bulls, £4 5s to £5yearling steers, to £4. * ' At Foilding, on Friday, there was a small cattle B &•&?. 6 " d tt h °^ y yardlng of ntii; A liittea every line of sheen under the hammer. The inquiry for cattle was, on the whole, better. Wo quote--Fat ewes, to 345: fat lambs. 20s; mixed tw" tooths, 15. srf.to 23s 7d; fat cowb, £9 IBs to *ia 3s; forward cows, £7 6s to £9 7s fir!n /j* fiye i* r ' t6Br,, ' , to £12 '< 18-months steers. bad colours, £5 to £5 ss; empty 2J.year haifers. £5 10 .» to * 12s; mixed yearlings. tulg 2 £Vto P^a? ° OWß ' ißlsato£9ioßs