COMMERCE & MINING

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10064, 31 August 1918, Page 2

COMMERCE & MINING

WELLINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE. YESTERCDAY'S QUOTATIONS. Buyers. Sellers. £ s d £ s U MiningMount Lyell 1 10 G Talisman Consol. ...... 0 ft 2 0 !) 5 Waibi 2 0 3 S 1 0 Waihi Grand June. ... 0 13 (i 0 13 8 Westland Gold Syndicate 17 6 Investment—, National Bank 6 16 - Bk. N.S.W - 38 0 0 Bk. N.Z. (£3 6s Sd) ... 12 17 G 13 <> 0 Bk. N.Z. U'G 13s id)..: 18 0 0 18 5 0 Equitable Bdg 8 15 0 Metropolitan Perm. (je.io) ii o o National Mortgage ... -13 6 N.Z. Loan 87 0 0 Wn. Invest 0 10 6 N.Z. and R, Plate 1 18 0 Abraham and Williams Auck. Gas (pd) - 17 9 Choh. Gas (£5) 5 15 0 6 0 0 Wgtn. Gas (.£10) .., Wn. Gas (pref.) ......... - 0 18 6 National Insur 3 0 6 3 10 South Brit. Insur. ... C 6 0 Standard Insurance ... 2 4 0 Gear Meat (£i) ••' 20 0 0 Oear Meat Ul) 5 0 0 Wn. Meat (£6) 4 16 0 Wn. Meat (£i) 3 15 0 Huddart Parker (ord.) 2 0 6 2 0 10 Huddart-Parker (pref.) 10 9 1 1 J P. and O. Dofd. Stk. 368 0 0 372 0 0 Kaiapoi Wool, (ord.) 7 5 0 Wn. Wooll. (ord.) ...... - 7 11 0 Westport Coal 1 10 0 —. Westnort-Stock. (pref.) 0 10 10 0 11 0 Waipa Colliery - 0 16 0 Kauri Timber (33s pd) 1 8 0 Crown B rower v 1 10 3 D.I.C - "10 0 Farmers' Auct. Co. (pref.) ~ 10 3 N.Z. Paper ■• ~ ■ A 1 s 6 Shaiiand and Co. (ord) 18 0 Shaiiand and Co. (pref) 18 0 Ward and Co. .., 4 5 0 ~ Wn. Cordage - . J .f 2 Wilson's Cement 0 14 0 0 14 J *Sale Reported. QUOTATIONS HLSEWHER-El Press Association. AUCKLAND, August 30. Sales on 'Change-. Waihi, 40s 3d. Talisman, 9s sd. South British, £6 63. Auckland Gas, 27s 6a. . CHRISTCHUiRCH, August SO. Sales reported-. P. and 0. Doferred, .£8(0. Westport-Stockton Coal, 8 per cent., non cum. (pref.), THE MFfIIAL MARKETS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received August 31 12.25 a.m.) LONDON, August 29. Copper-Standard, for cash, .£122 5s per ton; Electrolytic Copper, £l3o. Lead-Soft foreign for A29 10s per ton; forward' delivery, *» 10s. .Spelter-Ordinary brands, for -.cash, £sl per ton; forward delivery, £oo. Tin-Straits, for cash, ,8361 10s per to Silver-In bars, 491 d per ounce standard. .... ■ SOUTHERjN GRAIN_AND PRODUCE. Press Association. OHRHSTQHiUROH, August 30. There is no wheat offering, locally and only: one line of oats, comprising, several thousand bushels of jg ood .Algerians and iGartons, is reported to have changed hands, the seller's price being 5s at country stations. The oats market is very firm, especially for milling and seed lines.. Algerians _are worth up to 5s and Gartons 5s to as 3d. The latter figures are also offered, for seed. Buns, sparrowbills, Canadians, and Danish aie very scarce. The oafaheaf chaff market keeps firm. Prime bright is worth up to JB7 at country stations, and good ■ Sit discoloured up to 10s. lienor chaff has been sold as low a 3 505., The difficulty of obtaining shipping is a general complaint among dealers in potatoes There is a keen demand for other sorts,- besides Auckland and, Wellington, and for those markets better prices appear to have been given than FJr the northern centres The arrival, of Australian potatoes in the north has made the regular suppliers to- thctee ruarkets less teen to do„ buslneas with lerowers at present, antt offers, have, fn some cases, been declined. The regular market price appears to he from JUS 5s to =CS 10s at country stations, but it is. reported .that odd sales have been made as high as £9 and £& ss. See<l potatoes for second early crop aie now Ving inquired ior. " There are no buyers for onions in view of tho collapse of the Auckland and Wellington markets through the arrival oi largo consignments from Melbourne. Cow grass seed is a little firmer, and !the American market in reported to have hardened. There is very little doing in white clover. Cocksfoot is in good demand and machine-dressed seed has been selling at up to Is lOd per 161b-17!b seed, and Is. 6d to Is <d for 15lb-161b seed. TheTO is a good inquiry for linseod, but tho crop is now practically all out of growers' hands. From inquiries made it is probable that a larger area will be sown this season. It is now worth .£25 to per ton at 'country stations. HIDES AND TALLOW FORTNIGHTLY WELLINGTON SALES. The fortnightly sales of hides and tallow were held by tho Wellington brokers yesterday. The reports to hand show that calfskins and hides, with the exception of heavy ox sold at about tho level of the previous sales rates. Heavy hides wore lower by about Jd per lb. Tho demand for tallow" and fat was not quite so good as at previous sale. The following range of prices was obtained : HIDES. d d Ox. heavy, 601 b up m to 123 Ox, medium, 501 b to 591 b ...... «>1 „ 11* Ox. light, 491 b and under 10J „ 10J Cow. heavy, Bslb and over ... 9J ~ 10f Cow, medium, 421 b to 541 b ... SI „ m Cow, light, under 421 b 98 „ Iff* Cow, slippy and inferior 6i „ 101 Yearlings, icib "to 241 b ..."!!" 9J ', 123 Calf, super., up to 161 b 12J „ 17| Calf, medium to. good 12 „ 17j Calf, damaged 3 „ 15i TALLOW. In casks 25/G to 36/G In tins, etc. —..,,- 22/- to 34/LIVB STOCK SALES AUiOTJONEEIRa' REPORTS. Abraham and Williams, Ltd. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report: At Levin on Tuesday we yarded good entries of both sheep and cattle, the bulk of which mot with a, keen demand, and' practically ovory lot changed hands at satisfactory prices a« under:—Fat wethers 3os 6d to JS ss, fat maiden ewos and "wethers J?i 0s Id, light fat ewes 26s to 80s. fat' hoggets 26s 10d, ew63 in lamb 20s to 28s, ewe hoggets i24s, fat cows .£lO 2s 6d, JJII 7s, JEII U2s 6d to .Sl3, forward cowa i"8 16s. store cows JH to £-1, 17« 6d, 3-year emp'ty heifers -C7 15s, empty heit'ora

£3. £3 8s to i'3 15s, weaners to 18s, springing cows =£B 15s, .£9 15s, ,£lO to JilO 15s to .-813 10s, springing heifers £o 15s, .£B, to 15s, cows in milk £o 10s to £8 ss, p.b. yearling bulls S.H. 12gns, 12igns to logns, P-b. 2-year S.H. bulls 20gns to 30gns, store liigs 275, 35s to 37s Gd, porkers ,£2 Us, £2 16s, .£3 as, to £1 Us. Loan and Mercantile Agency.

The Loan and Mercantile Agency reports:—At our Palmcrston North sale on Thuroday we had i-.n average yarding of both sheep and cattle and prices were on par with recent sales. We quote:—'Fair hoggets 22s lOd to 265, medium hoggets 18s to 18s 3d, small hoggets 13s 6d to 15s, cull hoggets 7s 0d to 8s 7d, fat, ewes 28s, yearling steers 32s to .£4 10s, weaners 23s 6d, forward cows .£7 13s, heiifers in milk X'6 15s, springing cows .£3O to .£ll. WHOLESALE PRODUCE PRICES. Lacry and Co.. Ltd., Allen stroet, report wholesale prices as follow:—Fowl .wheat, prime, 7s to 7s 2d por bushel, sacks extra; Capo barley, good, 6s 3d per bushel, sacks ill; feed barley, 5s lid to 6s per bushel, sacks in; oals, crushed 5s lid per bushel, sacks in; oats, feed Algerians, 5s 5d per bushel, sacks in; oats, feed Cartons, 5s lOd to 6s per bushel, sacks in; oats. JJuns. ,0a lid to 6s 6d per bushel, sacks in; oats, seed, machine-dressed and . clipped, t>s 3d per bushel, sacks in; chafi, oaten-sheaf, eood bright heavy, £l3 1<;, ]); j i- ton. sacks iui: medium quality, .£lO 10s to J6ll per ton, sacks in: flour in sacks, per ton; oatmeal, 25's, .£3O per ton; poultry and pigmeal, ,£9 2s 6d per ton; potatoes, southern, tabio white .£l2 10s to .£l2 15s Dakota rods .£l2 16*. to ton. sacks included; potatoes, seed Un-to-Dates 10s. Sutton's Abundance J 69 5s Gamekeopors £3 10s per ton, sacks in; anions. Victorian, 2«s per owt; fowls, 6s 6d to 8s per pair; ducks, 8s 6d to 12s per pair; geese/10s to 12s per pair; turkeys, 9d to Is Id per lb; butter, farmers' separator and dairy, bulk and lb pats, Is 3d to Is id per. lb; eggs, fresh crates Is 4d to Is sd, cases Is 3d to Is 4d dozen; pork, keen demand, choice 70's to 9/ s 9d to lOd, 90's to 110's 8d to S.Jd; bacon pigs, 7d to S<l; choppers, 5d to 6d per lb: beesirax, 2s per lb: bacon (best factory), sides Is 2d per lb, rolls Is 3d, hams Is 3d; molasses, in 5 owt casks, 40s each, casks included; salt, Lochiel, coarse, J 213 per ton. WELLINGTON CUSTOMS. The Customs revenue received at Wellington yesterday totalled .£11,772 17s *d.