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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 44, 21 February 1908, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL — -*» Not a single sale was effected on the Stock Exchange to-day. Buyers' orders were fairly numerous, but prices did not appear to meet the views of hold- • c-rs. The brokers state that there is an entire absence of country orders at ! present, and until they experience- co- { pious rains no improvement can be look•od for from tHis> quarter. There is little to comment upon in the investment j section of the market. After a hose of several weeks a parcel of Union 1 Steam shares wore offered at £1 13s 6d, 1 but apparently the price is on the high side, as the shares were not accepted. In mining, Talisman Consolidated were a shade easier, with buyers at 53s j ■ 6d, sellers Is more ; Waihis were about | j the samo, buyers P/8 193, sellers £9 Is ; , j and Waihi Grand Junction were en- ', quired for at 20s 6d, bufc sellers de~ | niand Is 6d more Big Rivers were on , offer at 13s 6d, but the best buying ■ bid was 123 6d. In this week's Gazette the Government Meteorologist (Captain Edwin) has i some remarks to make about the weather. Speaking of the month of January, he says :— ln nearly every part of the North Island the rainfall haa oeon so low that i it constitutes a record for any month since returns have been generaily made ! In all the northern parts of the South , Island the drynoss has alEo been most I remarkable ; but in the southern parts j the rainfall, though below the average j everywhere, has not been so deficient. ' On the whole there can be no doubt that ] the past month has generally been tho ; driest since the country was settled, and ' (is this follows as a second very dry month in the eastern parts of the North Island, and Marlborough and Canterbury in the South, the experience is all the moro 1 unusual in New Zealand. The tempera- I i turo, though subject to considerable range, had a- higher mean than usub.l in all pa,rts ; and the barometer was also higher, with only very moderate flue i tuitions from westerly depressions which , passed quickly on the 10th, 20th, 22nd, and 30th, with but little influence on tho woiithor. The Postal authorities advise that the Zenlandia, which left Sydney on the 19th j inst., for Auckland, has on board an English mail for Wellington. It should in th-2 ordinary course arrive by Tues- j day's express train from New Plymouth. | The estates of fort/-thret> deceased persons were placed under the charge of tho Public Trustee during the month oj January. The biennial conference oi the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of New Zealand will be held in Wellington on Thursday next, 27th iastant. A notice is published in this week's ' Gazette, authorising ths laying off of Gordon-avenue, Johnsonville Extension, ! to a width of 66 feet instead of 99 feet as prescribed by the Land Act, 1892. Members of tho defence Council will attend the Easter encampment. Colonel Robin will go to Canterbury, Colonel Collins to Otago, Colonel 'Ttison to Auckland, Colonel Webb to Nelson, and Colonel Davies will be present at the Wellington oacampmeat.