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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 143, 16 December 1908, Page 6

LOCAL AMD GENERAL o Two sales — one parcel of Talismans at £2 2s 3d and one of Union Steams at £1 16s 6d — were reported bty brokers at to-day's meeting of the Stock Exchange, but otherwise no business was, recorded. v Quotations: — National Bank, £5 2s 6d (buyer), £5 5s (seller) ; Bank of New Zealand, £8 8s 6d (b), £8 10s (s) ; National Mortgage, £2 19s (s) ; New Zealand Loan and Mercantile, 4s (s) ; Wellington Trust Loan, £7 6s 6d (b), £7 7s 6d (s) ; Napier Gas (£1), £3 15s (b) ; Wellington Gas, £16 12s 6d (b), £17 10s (s) for £10 shares and £ 11 5s (b) for £5 5s ; Now Zealand Insurance, £3 15s (s) ; South British, £2 7s 9d (b) ; Gear Meat, £10 (b) for £4 (cum. dividend), and £2 10s (b) for £1 ; Wellington Meat (£2 12s 6d), £3 Is (b), £3 2s 6d (s) ; Union Steamship, £1 16s 3d (b) ; Wellington Woollen (ordinary), £3 (b), £3 3s (s) ; Westport Coal, £6 17s 6d (s) ; Kauri Timber (15s cum. dividend), 15s (b), 15s 6d (s) ; Leyland O'Brien, £1 3s 6d (s) ; Manning and Co., £4 2s 6d (s) ; Taranaki Petroleum (£1 paid), 4s (b), 6s (s). Mining— Big Eiver, £1 15s (b), £1 17s 6d Is) ; KomaU Kcei&, 6d (bj, ild (s) , Tairua Broken Hills, Is 9d (b), 2s (s) ; Talisman, £2 2& (b}, £2 2s 6d (s) ; Waihi Grand Junction, £1 5s 6d (b), £1 6s (s); Waihi G.M., £8 16s 6d (b), £8 17s (s) ; Waiotahi, 2s 1-^d (b), 2s 3d (s). The next wool sale to be held in Wellington on Bth. January is expected tobe one of the largest if not actually the largest held in the city, co far as tLe catalogue is concerned. view of this fact the Wellington Wool Brokers' Association at a meeting yesterday decided to exclude from their catalogues all wool arriving in Wellington after Saturday, 2nd January. Growers should, therefore, be careful to see that their wool is consigned in plenty of time to be included. It is expected that a very large attendance of buyers will be operating at the next sale. The Minister for Education has granted railway concession tickets for boys and girls who are being taught by members of the Hawkes Bay Society of Professional Musicians. Waiting common jurors were to-day released from attendance at the Supreme Court until 10.30 o'clock on Friday morning, when the case of Boyd v. the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society wiU bo heard. At the suggestion of the InspectorGeneral of Schools the Hawkes Bay Education Board has deaHeH to apply to the Hawkesbury College, Sydney, for advico as to the appointment of an instructor in agriculture. Polling is taking place to-day in connection with the Miramar Borough Council's proposal to raise a loan of £5000 to carry out that body's agreement witli the Harbour Board in regard to the improvement scheme for Evans Bay. The result of the poll will probably be announced about a quarter past 7 o'clock. A parade of tho Wellington Rifle Battalion was held last night. LieutenantColonel Duthie was in qommand, his staff officers being Major Macintosh and Captain Cowles. About 230 officerfe and men assembled in Bunny-street, but as the weather was wet, they were dismissed after the roll had been called. The battalion will go out to Trentham on Saturday for field firing. About 50 cows have died this season from septic metritis in the Gisborne district, so Mr. Burton, Government veterinary surgeon, who was responsible for the disease being first distinguished from milk fever, and who brought it under the notice of the authorities, informed a reporter. By the prevention treatment recommended by the Department, however, it is hoped that the disease has been stamped out. A breach of promise case was mentioned in the Supreme Court this morning, before Mr. Justice Denniston. The petitioner was Eva Fyfield, who claimed £501 from Wm. Moore, of Palmerston North. Mr. A. Gray appeared for the petitioner and intimated that arrangements had been entered into for a settlement of the case. His Honour, at the suggestion of counsel, thereupon formally adjourned tho case until the next sittings of the court to enable the arrangement to be carried out. Mr. Wilford appeared on behalf of the respondent. A sitting in divorce was held, before his Honour Mr. Justice Denniston this morning. Annie Maud Hilling petitioned for a dissolution of her marriage with Kobt. W. Hilling on the ground of desertion. Mr. T. M. Wilford appeared for petitioner j respondent did not appear. Petitioner stated in evidence that she was married to Robert Wm. Hilling at the office of the Registrar of Marriages, Dannevirke, on July 28th, 1896. In December the stvsno year her husband deserted her. Hilling used to drink heavily, and witness remonstrated with him. He "cleared out" one evening without saying where he was going. Witness had not seen him since, but she heard he was at Little River. A decree nisi was granted. 1o bo made absolute after three months. Bring the girls to see the great collection of dolls, and bring the boys to see the wonderful mechanical toys. — jiirkcaldio and Stains, Ltd, — Advt.