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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 27, 1 February 1908, Page 4

i ♦ The Exchange was active, and thfc dominant note an optimistic one. Usualiy the week-end call is lis tlesa, but today's was the briskest the brokers hava experienced thiß year. Trading took a wide fisld, and included banking, industrial, and mining shaves. The outstanding feature of the market was the rapid rise in Waibi. Onco again thia mine has come into favour with inves•tons. Tq the early part of the week scrip was 6old at JBB 6s 6d, but yesterday saw 3s put on to that quotation, and privately after the call shares changed hands a£B 10s. Operators to> day carried the price to £58 15s 63, sales being effected at that figure- It transpires that London is a buyfrr afc £9, but sellers there yesterday were asking £0 ss. The twofold explanation is cheap money, and the Edward reef. As our special correspondent pointed out in our Thursday's issue this reef has widened out to 65 feet. Talis* mans sold at £2 12s 6d, but the nnproved prospects of the bigger mins may tend to make Talisman quotation* slightly easier. Bank of New- Zealand 'i were again Quitted at £Q 12s 6d, attempts to force quotations above that lev&l havd so far been fruitless. ( .ChristchurcU meat cum 8 per cent, dividend went sold at £10 12s 6d, which allows th« investor a return of 7£ per cent- Westport coal had ' acceptance at £7 ' 16s ; in this instance the 'return is nearly 6| per cent. Leylajid O'Brien at £2 5s 6d and N.Z. Drug at £2 11s 3d completed the business. The criminal nessions of tke Supremo Court jn Wellington will be opened by Mi\ Justice Chapman at 10.30 a.m..on Monday next. In addition to tho casef which we published a few days ago th» following charges have been placed on tho calendar :— Patrick Brady, robbery with violence at Wellington ; Phylia J?crraro, assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm at Wellington; James Sheridan, murder at Wellington; EdwaVd Winter, indecent assault at Wellington. Professor Kirk is to be asked by lh« Central Pharmaceutical Association to confer with that body on matters of interest to pharmaceutical students. Priests of the Archdiocese of Wellington go into retreat at St. Patrick's College on Monday next until 'tlie following Friday. The preacher will bo Eev. Father Lowam, of tlie Kederaptorists. The adviseableness of securing a supply of water for ,Eastbourn£ Borough irom a stream in the upper reaches of Gollan's Valley, is to be considered by the 'local council at its meeting this eveniug. An alarm* of fire was given at 9.20 p.m. yesterday on account of aft outbreak in a "stable at the 'corner of Tfara-naki-street und Martin-square. The flames were kept in check by neighbour*! until the fire brigade arrived, wfipn tb» fire was quickly extinguished. A Greymouth correspondent telegraphs that there were 420 members of the Dennistor. Miners' Union present afc the conference with the Premier, and that it is understood that thirty-six -of those voted against the acceptance of tb*> Minister's mediation. At a parade- of the Civil Service Eifles last night there was a satisfactory muster, and tho company was inspected by Major Mackintosh, of the battalion staff. A social gathering took place after the parade, when wedding presentations were made to Captain Wray and ColourSergeant Rudkin. The works on the railway at Otira are being pushed ahead with all despatch, the big cutting being so far completed as to allow of a line of rails being laid through to the Rolleston bridge, thus enabling material for the contractors to be transported with expedition. A. gang of workers is busily engaged strip* ping th© surface from the hill, side>, which, when removed, will lay bars the solid country, and allow of boring operations being commenced when desired. Mr. Leslie Reynolds and his staff are at present occupying their time in a surrey of Holt's Creek. Work here also jo to be commenced in a day or two(eiy« tha Christchurch Press correspondent). 'Mr. Justice Button gave judgment thi» morning in the case of Matilda Frost v. David |p. Matthews, a claim (1) for possession of a farm of 103 acres at jfakara, for non-payment of rent and rates, breach of covenants' to repair, etc., under lease containing the usual power of re-entry (2); of one instalment of rent, £4; (3) £300 damages for breach of covenants ij4) £50 for mesne profits. Defendant, aiter denying the' breachea complained of, counter-claimed for relief from the forfeiture-. His Honour gave judgment for plaintiff for £25 ss, and granted defendant relief from forfeiture, on the condition that ''he paid all rent due to date, the damages assessed (£25 ss) and expended not les« than £25 in repairs witihin three months. Plaintiff was allowed costs on the lower scale on both claim and counter-claim. ■Mr. TreadweU was for plaintiff, and Mr, Tjevi for defendant. In the couj',3o of the Waikare'e cruise in the Sounds, a regatta was held at George Sound. Dunedin, British, Vic^ toria, New Suith Wales, Auckland, and 1 Ifawkes Bay crews competing in the ladies' rowing race, which was won by tho Dunedin crew. A fancy dress .ball waa held the same evening, and proved most enjoyable. Three days were spent in Milford Sound. There ate about 150 pleasure-seekers aboard. The band accompanying the excursion is composed entirely of Christchurch mußicians v Up to Thursday, only one wet day had been experienced. The seiisation of the trip (says a Press correspondent) was the practical joke worked off on the passengers at Dusky Sound. One of the crew was dressed up as a wild mart of the woods, with long whiskers and hair, qnd a dirty mask, lus clothing being manufactured from sacks and flax, in which apparel he presented a fearsome spectacle. He was taken ashore secretly and lodged in a tree. The first boat load of excursionists, on landing, were terrified at the sight of what they imagined to be a creature like a chimpanzee swinging from branch to branch, and they returned in great excitomejit to the 6hip. Another party thereupon set off for the shore, and it was not till their return that the mystery was explained. The great semi-annual sale will be continued all nex,t week, .and the week after. Every day a bargain diy. Kirkcaldifi and Stains. Ltd.— Advfc«