STOCK EXCHANGE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 125, 25 November 1908, Page 7

STOCK EXCHANGE.

» At the meeting of the Exchange today, Bank of New Zealand shares were sold at £8 2s 6d, a fractional advance on tho last transaction reported a week ago. Leyland O'Brien Timber were taken at ±51 3s, and buyers were prepared to go on at a slight concession. No ecrip changed hands in the mining section, but Talisman quotations, held theirdividend. Taranaki Petroleum were or* offer down to 5s 3d, and Westport Stockton could have been bought at 9s ■ 9d. On the other hand Westport shares moved up to £7 Is aeller ; buyers increasing their offers to £6 17s. Qnotations : — National Bank, £5 0s 6d' (buy- » er) ; Bank of New Zealand, £8 2s (b), £8 4s (seller) ; Equitable, £10 (s) ; Na£ional Mortgage, £3 Os 6d (s) ; Loan and < Mercantile, 4s 6d (&) ; River Plate, £1' 11s 6d (b) ; Trust and Agency, lls 3d (s) ; Trust and Loan, £7 4s 6d (b), £7 6s (s) ; Deposit and Mortgage, 9s (&) ; Christchurch Gas, £9 16s (s) ; Wellington Gas (£10), £16 (b), "Wellington Gas £5 ss-), £11 5s (s), new issue 10s premium (s) ; Watkraal Insurance,, £1 7s 9d (s) ; New Zealand, £3 lls (s) ; Gear Meat, £9 16& and 1 £2 9s- (b) ; Wellington Meat, £5 and £3 Os 6d (s) ; « Manawatu Rails, £2 12s 6S (b), £B 14b* 6d (s) ;. Union Steam, £1 14s 9d< (b) ; Wellington Woollen, £3 (h), £3 os 6di> (s) ; Westport, £6 17s (b), £7 1b (s),; Kauri Timber, 15s 3d (s-) ; Leylaxrds 'O'Brien, £1 2s 9d (b), £1 3s 3d (s) ; New Zealand Drug, £2 8s (b) ; New Zealand Paper, £1 2» 6d (s) ; Taranaki Petroleum s«s 3d (s) ; Big River, £1 18s (b) ; Crown, 4s 2d (s) ; Tairua Broken • Hills, 2s (b), 2s 3d (s) ; Talisman-, £2t Is 3d- (b), £2 Is 9d (s), ex. div. ; Waihi Extended, 3s 2d (s) ; Grand Junction, £1 12s (b), £1 12s 9d (s) ; Waihi, £8 19s (b), £9 0s 6d (s), cum. div. ; Waiolahi, 2s 6d (s).