COMMERCIAL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10517, 27 July 1910, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

HOME MARKETS. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) Received July 27. at 10 a.m. London, July 26. The wool sales closed firm. Combings brought the highest prices of the scries. Bank shares—Union. £62 10s to £63 10s; National Bank of New Zealand. £5 7b 6d to £5 12s 6d : New Zealand Loan and Mercantile. £96. LAND SALE. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Limited, report Laving ottered .m Saturday, 23rd inst., Mr William M'Auirhtrio's compact lie—- :!•• farm (307 am-* freehold at Sriarlian's Siding), at public auction. it', their sale rooms, Tyno street. Bid'iiiifi started at £lO per acre, and went '.:p gradually to £l2. at which price it -a-" passed'in. After the sale a pri- ■ deal was .-made at sn advance on :•:•• passed-in-price. the buyer being Mr James Quinn. and he is to be con.nitulau'd on his purchase. PROPERTY SALES. Messrs J. D. Familt-on and Soils report having sold, on account- Mr Paul. s< ft ions 5 and 6, block 2. Maheno, to Mr G. Mather: also, on account Mr CVIHs. section 2. block 14, Thames scr.'t-t, to Mrs Glass. Both sales were tifected at satisfactory prices. Greshani. Watson, and report having sold, on account of Mr Vine, his Xirth Road property, consisting of }- acre freehold, together with 6-roomed dwelling and all improvements, to Mr ■Tames Emslie, at a satisfactory figure. WOOL SALES. Tiie New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company has received the t'ilowing cable from London : —Average f":rreiit London value of the underii'tod descriptions of New Zealand -r.u-sy wool: Good merino 13od, medium n s'rino llAd. inferior merino lOd, fine '■r.-'ssbred 13.U1. medium crossbred 12d, " rse crossbred (40s) lOd, coarse cross-i-r-'fl <'36s) 9}d. As compared with last >••!•. s closing rates prices are about the for greasy crossbred, about 5 to *i per cent, lower for crossbred lambs, "tid about 10 per cent, lower for scour-<-t merino inferior.