COMMERCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14391, 5 January 1911, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

ff 'Pres* asaooitftSon—By/^Pel.—OopyrinJit. I LONDON* ffatt. H.'o I Bir Edward Grey's negotiation* teI garding tho Japanese tariff ore proceeding favourably. Japan's 1910 ( «*» park amounted to £46,000,000, Mid tha imports to £46,000,000. ITALIAN CHIPPING SUBSIDY'.' Tho Italian Government mewsly pro* poses a subsidy of £I2OO to* Italian shipowners with a transporting rate of sevon shilling* a ton on 700.000 tho* of South Wale* ooal annually, tbi* W ing one tenth of the coal imported from Britain. , , MOUNT MORGAN, "' BRISBANE, Jan. 4. The Mount Morgan mine report* tbow that for lit* half year ended ,No> ' veinbw 80th, the revenue was £4&4,f1*4 and tho pronto £70,804* ttfhil* .tty Talus, of stock increased' by! £87,?78. A dividend of a shilling a, •hate, «¥> aorblng £60,000, wo* deolar^; vi'„ ; LONDON SHARE MARKET. 'i ' LONDON, **JU'*£',"■ ,Wftlhl share*, 100* to iOSa|,WJIM' Junotioni, 80a 7d to Sit., fel'' Bonk shares.—Bank of ~A.ustrala*ni > £ll4 to £115) Bank of Mii* aMtSL" Wales, £4B > to £63 10b; NTatlonal Bank of, NiJt 1 Zealand, £lo'fit to £lO lCij'Ne* £«fe'? land Loan and Mercantile Agent* Ccf, , * *" ' -Li' <-:>s&. A commercial agent In 'the' . porta that the.new which come* into~foro* Jt^'M*, ' praotioally probibtta 1 imporUWonxli , foreign steamers, ' native demand for cargo- ifyetmtrotiir • i old pasisnger or cargo boat*, ''wfcjV ridod tho Utter an tttltaMe for tajro ing up. . -\ - *->•» ''V! '< ' l ?^ WEBTPOET OOAI. Par ■ \|.<-1,,"' ,_. > WESTPORfc JaaV'* ma •The coal output frojn-thia'.'JiiitttiJlr:.' tart year was 831,114 tons fat obiniW**) !wjth 719,078 torn in 1000. -'JbiMtoV, the total tie Woitport Ooal"'*oia*tt«s;v l contributed 616,695 tons,', WettjSjiiH Stookton loljflM totis,' HwdlMleV'.' State, mine 62,628 to**K <.-'4Wup* , <tM.,'> others show increases output decreased' 4722 ton», '. : \i >', —j-j —., /,, U Jj' SMMpFte-D MAHffEft*,!>\ I! Gilbert Aad'cMin nijdiCo; mail under- date, Not;. ate tte.de in all classes ' plies short and irico*. firmer.-, aptijkL killed beef a. id Hitter; Scotch mutton from' per to' * j or; English and Sootdi laoiha'WiW'W ' higher. Chilled. beef ha* mwiuSb' forea nellinc at 8d to B|d; m& -t to m. OotakidoraUe <,t»lftSlel , ' of, froncn besf have been nurkoted,' ,Knmo> , cially Atatrolian, after having -, brisket and flank out offvrF<*»»-*t» ( quoted 4d higher, htnda *r* auoted'|llir ', to on Id .lower. QpotatiOM for'N*ir Zcalniid mutton and lamb M* ttertly nominol, the *mUl «roppli*» hands frequently to supply, ■mMfclrfe quirements. With oonaideraßle, »rW« rich of Australian and PlktaLttUttyh, prices are unehang«d. SeWteKUJ* . thousand lftmba haro month to * bar* maylrM, I *a>id'i*» *•*•■• ing aoeording to quality,,lnfetJOr «|a, faTr ; gjd and best 61d to M." «„ • For the wool Sole at Naptar v ;tflT morrow, 16,104 bales havo boeh «)■!»> logned, a drop of 600 bales pi"agfttaat tho third sale last year. 1 The shortage is accounted for by tho fact tHt sat*. ral thousand bales are looked up* W Wairoa, owing to Btesrnors boing Jinable to negotiate the bar there, Ond that shoVery weather has' interfered with shearing during the past ffW, weeks. • \