SHARE MARKET.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9817, 28 August 1897, Page 10

SHARE MARKET.

Mr James Henderson, of 178 Hereford fetreet, Christchurch, and 43 Lambton Quay, Wellington, reports for the week ending August 27th as follows :— Sales—Standard Insurance, cam div., 16s ; New Zealand Insurance, 71s ; New Zealand Accident Insurance, 20s 6d ; New Zealand Shipping 85s; New Zealand Drug, cum div., 47s 6d ; Wellington Trust, Loan and Investment, £6 10s ; Permanent Investment and Loan Association of Canterbury, par ; Wellington Meat Export, par; Wellington Gas (£lO paid), £18 6s ; Patmerston North Gas, 745; Mount Lyell Mining and Railway, £14 14s, £14, £13 12a, £14; North Mount Lyell, £2 12s ; Hercules Gold and Silver, 31s 9d, 32s 6d, 34s 6d ; Silver Queen, 4e 9d ; North Tasmania Gold, 3s 6d : Lake George Mines (20s paid), 43s 6d ; Broken Hill Proprietary, 49s 9d, 495, 46s 3d. Closing Quotations — Banks — National, eellere, £2; New South Wales, £36 ; Union Bank of Australia, £26. Financial — Christchurch Building and Land Society, £11 6s : Dalgoty and Co., sellers 25; Equitable Building and Investment Company of Wellington, buyers £7 7s ; Mntual Benefit JJuihling and Investment Society of Canterbury, £10 15s ; National Mortgage and Agency Company, sellers 13s ; New Zealand and River Plate Land Mortgage Company, sellers 14s ; Permanent Investment and Loan Asso ciation ot Canterbury, sellers £10 ; Wellington Building and Investment Company, Limited, buyers £7 11s; Wellington Trust, Loan and Investment Company, Limited, £6 10s.

Gas—Ashburton, £4 2s ; Christchurch, £9 10a; Greymoulh, buyers £8 7s 6d; Hokitika, £5 3a ; LyUellon, £6 10s; Napier, buyers £18 10s; Now Plymouth, £7; Palmerston North £3 13m 6d; Port Chalmers 159 3d ; Thames, buyers £116 a ; Tiniaru £7 10s ; Wanganui, £15 10s; Wellington, sellers £18 ss. Insurance—Farmers' Co-operative of Canterbury, sellers £2 s<!; National, 18s; New Zealand, £3 Us ; South British, JU2 10s ; Standard, 163; N.Z. Accident, 6s paid, buyers 20s 6d. Meat preserving — Canterbury Frozen Meat Company, buyers £7 15s ; Christchurch Meat Company, buyers £8, sellers £9; Gear, buyers £6 10a ; Wellington Meat Export, £5. Woollen—Kaiapoi, buyers £6, sellers £6 3e; Moagiel, buyers £4 2a 6d ; Wellington, £4256 d.

Miscellaneous—Kaitangata Railway and Coal, £1 paid, buyers £1 iOa; Wellington and Manawatu Railways, sellers £1 2s; New Zealand Shipping, £455; Union Steamship, buyers fßl7s6d; New Brighton Trams, sellers £1 ; New Zealand Candle Company, sellers £12 15s; New Zealand Drug Company, cum div. sellers £2 8s; New Zealand Farmers' Cooperative Association, £2 paid, buyers £2 8s; S. Manning and Company, cum new issue, sellers £7 10s; Ward and Company, buyers £5; Wellington Opera House, sellers £3; Westport Coal Company, sellers £3; Whitcombe and Tombs, sellers £4 3s 6d; Simpson and Williams, Limited, stationers, sellers 10s; Sharland and Company, sellers 12s 6d ; Canterbury Saleyards Company, £3 15s paid, sellers £5.