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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 148, 19 December 1907, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL. ' * The Exchange to-day saw an animated market for mining scrip, with complete absence of business on the investment side of the call. Talismans had an active enquiry, and scrip was accepted at yesterday's rates of £2 13s, with £2 12s 6d paid at the close. New Alpine (6s paid) were in demand, scrip changing hands at 5s 3d and 5s 6d. Waihi Extended at 5s 3d, and Ngatiawa 'at Is 9£di, were the other lines dealt in. Buyers of Waihi declared at £8 5s without inducing sellers to come lower than- £8 Bs, which quotation has held good this week. Tairua Triumphs (4d paid) were jn good demand at 2s Id offered, with sellers declining to accept less than 2s 4d. There were buyers for Karangahak© at. Is Bd', May Queen Is 4d, Crown 7s 6d, and Kuranui-Caledonian Is. ' The principal movements in the general side of the market were Union Steam, sellers £21 (cum rights), Loan and Mercantile 6s 6d (ex dividend), and Manawatu Rails, buyers £2 3s, selleTS 2 Us. The interesting announcement was made by the Premier at Marfinborough yesterday afternoon that he' had telegraphed to Wellington, authorising, the establishment- of ,a post office in King Edward VII. Land, and the printing of £100 worth of specially-inscribed stamps, to be taken down there by the members of the Antarctic expedition. The new post office would be .the most southern establishment of the kind m the world, and the expedition would be ablo to post letters to their friends at Home with stamps which would form a very interesting memento of the expedition. The Premier' informed Mr. Field, M.P., by telegram yesterday that notice will be gazetted this week bringing employees of the Manawatu Railway Company under the Government Railways Superannuation Act, as from Ist January, 1907, instead of as from the date of the acquisition o" the line. Satisfactory running is being made on the Seatoun electric tramway service, which was opened for public traffic yesterday morning. The MmisteT for Marine has- consented to allow the New Zealand training ship Amokura to visit Napier during the March carnival to be held theie. The passengers by the Warrimoo from Sydney yesterday included Mr. and Mrs. C." Y. Fell and Miss Fell, of Nelson, who have been on a visit to Europe. The depth of water in the Karori reservoir has decreased seven feet since the warm weather eet in. During one dry summer thoTe was a decrease of 15ft. The ratepayers of Levin have decided to raise it loan of £10,000 for the erection and equipment of ' municipal gasworks, and £3000 for street construction and formation. Votes of condolence with the families of the late -Sir James Hector and the Rev. J. C. Andrew,, were passed by the Victorian College Council at its meeting last evening. The Miuister for Railways has arranged that, in accordanco with custom, at Christinas-time, railway workshop employees 6hall be paid on Friday night, up till the following Saturday week. During the month Captain M'Naught, general organiser oi the National Defence League, has held enthusiastic puDlie meetings throughout Westland. Branches have been established at Greymouth, Hokitika, Reefton, Kumara, Ross, and Westport. The thermometer registered up to 99 degrees in the shndo :it GisboTnc' yesterday, oight degrees higher than ever previously experienced there. On Monday the maximum register was 91 degrees. Only on four previous occasions has that heat been registered in Gisborne. At the annual meeting of tho Wellington Furniture <, Trades Industrial Union, held 'ast night, officers for the ensuing year wore elected as follows : — President, Mr. Moriarty ; vice-president, Mr. <W. A. Allan ; secretary, Mr. W. H. Westbrooke; treasurer, Mr. A. E. Turner; management committee, Messrs. H. E. Swindell, A. E. Adams, G. T. Aers, H. Wellsford, and K. I. Gandy. Before the second annual confeicnce of tho New Zealand Institute of Architects terminated, a. special vote of thanks was passed to Mr. W. C. Chatfield, the retiring president, for his interest in tho working of the institute since its inception. The new president is Mr. Petro, of Dunediu. The retiring treasurer (Mr. W. Crichton) and secretary (Mr. Atkins) and auditors (Messis. Badham and Bias) have been re-elected. It is stated that the present "slump" in the potato market is unprecedented in Oamaru. 'The North Otago Times says that on Saturday potatoes were being sold at Is a sack, bags in ; that is, 7d for the sack and 5d for the pota* toos. A holder of a considerable quantity has, -according to the Times, arranged for the lot beins* dumped into the sea tli is week. Nearly all those who hnvo dealt in potatoes <it Oamaru during the prtst month or so have experienced JoseeSi