THE WORLD OF COMMERCE

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12526, 16 August 1926, Page 3

THE WORLD OF COMMERCE

WELLINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE SATURDAY'S QUOTATIONS. (10 a.m. Call.) Saturday’s closing quotations for pr©» miums of investment and mining stock, as advised by the Wellington Stock Exchange, are as follow :

Wairarapa Far mers’ (pref.) 016 6 tO 17 0 •Cum div. tEx div. Sales reported.—Union Bank of Australia, <£ls. frozenmeatlarket N.Z. LOAN AND MERCANTILE. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, have received the following cablegram from their London house, under date 13th instant: — "New Zealand frozen meat.—Lamb, 84d per lb, average; mutton, 6id per lb, wether and maiden ewe. light; ssd per lb, wether and maiden ewe, heavy; 43d per lb ewe, light; 4id per lb ewe, heavy. Market slow.” TRADE TREATYUNDER FIRE CANADIAN ELECTION FIGHT STOUT DEFENCE BY LIBERALS. Australian o-nrj X 7 CnHp Acenoint’on. VANCOUVER, August 13. The Canada-Auetralia trade treaty haa been a prominent subject at meetings held during the election campaign of Mr Mackenzie King, the ex-Prime Minister. The Hon. J. H. King, ex-Minister. said that since the pact the paper mills in British Columbia had doubled their capacity, but Alberta had a surplus of butter owing to Australian competition. The British Columbia Associated Boards of Trade Convention, which it not a political body, to-day urged that Canada increase its Empire preference. Mr J. H. McDonald, who accompanied the Hon. J. H. Robb to Australia in connection with framing the treaty, vigorously defended it, and said s-y "Figures prove that the trade balance is preponderantly in favour of Canada/’ OPOSSUM SKIN SALE Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co.. Ltd., Wellington, advise having received the following report from their Dunedin office in Tegard to the opossum skin sale held in that centre on Friday, the 13tl instant:— , _ . , At to-day’s sale we offered, catalogue of 7000 skins to the usual attendance oj buyers. The quality of the skins offered was not up etanda % of last sale, consequently bidding was not so spirited Prices showed a general decline of from Is 6d to 2s 6d per skin. To quote: Super blues, 13s to 15s; first blues, 10s to 12s; second blues, 7s to 9s; super greys, 11s to 13s; first greys, 9s to 11s; second grevs, 5s to 8s; super blacks, fts to 11s; first blacks, 6s to 8s; second blacks, 4s to 6s; super reds, 6s to 76; first rede,, 5s to 6s; second red, 8s to 4e; super browns, 6s to 7s; first browns, 5s to 6s; second browns, 4s to ss; inferior ana damaged, Is to 3s. wholesauTproduce prices Laery and Co.. Ltd., report wholesale valnes as follow: —Takaka fowl feed, 5-sack lots or over, 6s 6d per bushel, lesser lots 6s 9d per bushel, sacks in; linseed meal, 16s; linseed note, 14s per 1001 b bag; linseed, whole, 20* 6d peT cwt: Takaka meatmeal, for poultry 12s per cwt; Takaka oyster shell grit, 5-bag lots or over ss, lesser .lots 5s 6d per 1001 b bags; Takaka nipi shell grit, 5-bag lots or over 5s sd. lesser lots gs per 1001 b bags; oafs, machmodressed seed Algerians -6s 3d to 6e 6d, timers dressed seed Algerians 5a 6d, feed Algerians 4s lid, Duns 5s Bd, Cartons 4s 3d to 5,4 d. crushed 5s 6d, blade oats 5s 6d per bushel, sacks in; shelled oats, for chicks 6s 6d per bushel; South African maize, whole 7s 3d to 7s 6d per bushel, crushed 7s lOd; barley, feed 5s 9d, seed 6s per bushel; rye corn osack lots or over Cs Sd, sin. gle sacks 6s 10d. sacks in; partridgi peas 9s, feed peas, Bs3d; Prussian blue 10; bushel, sacks in; wheat, milling, 8s S( per bushel, sacks in; wheatmeal feed, ton lots, iU6 per ton eggs, first grade new - laid, -a -M. storekeepers’ lines 2s Id; pea mcnl. 4-ton lots or over .£lO 15s, lesser quantities ljs 3s; barley meal. 4-ton lots or over .610 5s lesser quantities 10s 9d: , prime farmers’ separator. Is 3d to is -Kt, dairy pats and bulk Is 3d Jo ls 4d > turkeys. Is 3d to Is 4d per lb: ducks, runners, young 12s to 14s. large whites 13s to 15s. old 9s to Us per pair; fowls. 'T- h l e oton^ h n°d nS s,miSr henW varieties. 8s to 10s per pair; ronsters Wlute Leghorps, 7s to 9s, heavy breed W'mi 8s t? 11s per pair; fungus. New Zealand <l.i to lOd %r lb; dre««er]l pork 60 s to 90’= Sd to 9d ocr lb- sucking piw. 8W to 94d per lb; Farro food, l-ton lots. £lO 15s per ton. lesser lots, 11s *<• - - i .£l2 lots 12s suenvune. *-ton >°is- v . 6d; Blenheim chaff. prime good bright, J>lo 5-. good heavy £9 15s, Australian whenten £l3 per ton net. sacks in; cow chaff ton lots .£7 10s. sack lots .s per sack:' rock salt, 6s 6.1 per hag: _straw chaff, ton lots. £S. sack . lots as 6<l sack; mutton birds ni casks of 450. 6d per bird, in k>t«'conked n* -•> ■■ 114 d per bird; molasses, m casks 4"-. in cwt cases Ss 6d case: bran. 1-ton ot- or over JCIO ton, lesser lots 10« Pd cwt- n.ulard, 1-ton lots or over 612 ton. lesser lots 12s 6d per ewt: oat nolk'rd ton lots or over £S 15s ton. leyer lots .- per 1001 b: Takaka pig meal. 611 laton for Lton lots. - n,,T 1001 b: granulated cbnr-001, 11 : bag; basic slag. £* discounts; NiVau dny.olo rm.-oi\ 22s per 1001 b bog; 1 < ''J nT " = chick raiser. 21s per 1001 b hae: poultry spice, cases containing 40' r»noKotA -Cri 10« oo«e. lot- J* M nackot: black leaf -<0 spray. 2’b tins. 13pnrh. 10ll> tins SO= each not - note or- ton lots Panterbn-rv-grown P ’o-- tn i l >«. Worth T- 1 md «t 5s per for - e--lv_ seed ..0.0.00- top lots Arran Chief 67. Gamekeeper* '£7. Sutton Smweme seed £l3 •herbrothorV -C«. Northern ‘ifr all South Inland-grown. CUSTOMS REVENUE The Thistoms revenue collected at pork of AVellington for August loth amounted to £5836.

BLACK CAT ON THE BENCH "While Alderman Neal was presiding at the Guildhall, London, a strange black Manx cat found it way on to the bench, and unconcernedly jumped on to his lap. An officer approached the bench with a view to removing it, but the Alderman waved him away, remarking: “Leave him alone; he is all right.” He sat stroking the cat until it jumped on to the clerk’s notebook, and was taken out of court. The defendant in the dock at the time was an unregistered street trader, and he was discharged with a caution.

AFTER FORTY-ONE YEARS A woman who applied at Willesden for a separation order told the magistrate that she had been married for 41 years, and her husband now said that ho thought it best for them to have a change. Magistrate: That may be; but you have disclosed no legal grounds for a separation.

DIDN’T SEE THE JOKE A judge was pointing out to his court that a witness was not necessarily to be regarded as untruthful because he altered a statement ho had made previously. “For instance,” ho said, “when I entered this court to-da.v I could have declared I had my watch in my pocket. But then I remembered I had left it in the bathroom at home.” When tho judge got home that night his wife said: “Why all this bother about your watch—sending four or five men for it?” “Good heavens!” said the judge; “I didn’t send anyone! What did you do?” “I gave it to the first one who camo; ho knew just where it was.”

£ a d JE s. d. Government Loans— Inscribed Stock (1939) 96 10 0 96 15 0 Inscribed Stock (19331 99 10 (1 99 15 0 War Bonds (1930* 97 7 6 — War Bonds (1!I33) 99 12 0 99 15 0 P.O. War Bonds (1927) 9S 10 0 — Banks— National of N.Z New Zealand 6 15 9 3 2 0 Union of Australia ... 15 0 0 15 1 6 Financial— N.Z. Guarantee Corp. (ord., Ss) 0 9 9 Wn. Invest. T. and A. 0 10 3 Wn. Trust Loan 6 6 0 W. Dep. and Mort 0 9 6 — Transport— Hudriart-Parker (ord.) 2 4 6 — Huddart-Parker (pref.) Union Steam (pref.) ... Kelburn and Karori 1 0 9 — 1 0 2 . Tram (ord.) 1 5 0 — Woollen— Wellington (pref.) *6 10 0 — Coal— Westport «... 1 15 9 — Timber— Leyland O'Brien 2 3 3 2 * 6 Breweries— Staples and Co — 1 18 0 Miscellaneous— Howard Smith. 1 12 8 1 13 0