STOCK AND SHAREMARKET.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 135, 4 December 1909, Page 6

STOCK AND SHAREMARKET.

WELLINGTON BUSINESS. There was a fair amount of business transacted on the Stock Exchange today, principally in the mining section. INDUSTRIAL AND INVESTMENT. i Sales. 10 a.m. to-day.— Gear Meat (£1), £2 14s (r); Wellington Woollen (ord.), £3] 4s (r). Quotations. 10 a.m. to-day. — National Bank, £5 19s (b), £6 Is (s) ; National Mortgage, £2 18s 6d (b), £3 (s) ; Wellington T. and A. Co., lls (b), 11s 6d (s) ; Wellington Trust Loan. £7 (b) ; Wellington Deposit and Mortgage, 8s 6d (s) ; Feilding Gas, £1 Ls (b) ; Napier Gas (£5), £12 (b), £12 7s 6d (s) ; Wellington Gas (£10), £18 5s (s) ; Wellington Gas (£6 15s), £14 5s (s); National Insurance, £1 8s 3d (s) ; N.Z. Insurance, £3 15s 6d (b); Standard of N.Z. Insurance, £1 2s 9d (b); Wellington Meat | Export (£2 12s 6d), £2 16s 6d (b), £2 17s 6d (s) ; Taupiri Coal, 19s 6d (s) ; Westport Coal, £6 4s (s) ; Westport. Stockton, 7s 3d (s) ; Kauri Timber (15s paid), 16s (s) ; Manning and Co., £3 15s (b); N.Z. Consolidated Dental, £1 4s 6d (s) j N.Z. Drug (£2),- £2 6s (b) ; Sharland (ord.), £1 Is (s) ; Sharland (pref.), £1 Os 6d (b) ; Taranaki Petro- J leum (£1 paid), 7s 6d (s) ; Ward and Co., £4 15s (s) ; Wellington Opera House, £7 17s 6d (s). MINING. Sales. 3.15 p.m. yesterday. — Tairua Broken Hills, Is lid (r) ; Talisman, £2 2s 3d (r) ; Progress, 12s lOd (r) ; Ross (paid), 8s 9d (c). 10 a.m. to-day. May Queen, 3s Id (r) ; Eoyal Oak (con), 10£ d (r) ; Talisman, £2 Is 9d, £2 2s (r), £2 2s (c) ; Waihi, £9 13s 6d (r) ; Grand Junction, £1 16s (c) ; Consolidated Goldfields, 18s 3d (c) ; Progress, 12s lOd (r). 11.45 a.m. to-day.— May Queen, 2s lid (c). Quotations. 11.45 a.m. to-day. — Dominion (Karangahake), 3d (s) ; Kuranni Caledonian, Is (b), Is 2d (s); Maoriland, 7d (s); Saxon, Is (b), Is 2d (s) ; Tairua Broken Hills, Is 2d (s) ; Tangiaro, Id (b) ; Talisman, £2 2s 6d (b); Waihi, £9 14s 6d (b) ; Waihi Extended, 3s 8d (b) ; Grand Junction, £1 17s (b) ; Consolidated Goldfields, 18s (b), 18s 6d (s) ; Progres.s, 12s 6d (b), 13s (s) ; Ross (paid), 9s 3d (s). "C" signifies sale on 'Change, and "r" a reported sale. AUCKLAND PRICES. [BY. TELEGBAPH — PBESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, 3rd December. The following business was done at the afternoon call on "Change: — Dixon's Consolidated (con.), 5d ; Point Russell, 3£d ; Saxon, Is 2d ; Waiotahi, 4s lid ; Consolidated Goldfields, 18s 3d ; Hauraki Freehold, 4d ; Monte Christo, 3£d ; N.Z. Crown, 4s lOd ; Golden Belt (con.), 6id ; Talisman Consolidated, 43s 3d, 42s od ; Waihi Extended, 3s 5d 3s 7d ; Waihi Grand Junction, 35s 6d, 36s ; New Sylvia, 5s Id ; Old, Hauraki, Is 6d ; May Queen, 3s Id ; Northern Steamship (con.), 5s 4d; Northern Steamship (paid up), lls 6d ; Kauri Timber (con.), 15s 9d; Wilson's Cement (pref.), 425; Bank of New Zealand, 192s 6d. AUCKLAND, This Day. The following business was done today : — May Jueen, 3s Id ; Monowai, Is Id; Waiotahi/ 4s lOd; Tairua • Golden Hills, 4s 8d; Talisman, 435, 43s 6d, Grand Junction, 36s 6d, 36s 9d ; Handsworth, 7id; Waihi Extended, 3s 7d; Hauraki, Is 6d. • . DUNEDIN TRANSACTIONS. DUNEDIN, 3rd December. Stock Exchange sales:— Muddy Terrace 29s ; Waihi Grand Junctions, 35s 6d, '35s 6d, 34s 6d, 34s 7d, 355. " National Insurance, 27s 6d. • Sale reported: Standard Insurance, 235. NEW BIG RIVER SOUTH. ~" The following telegram was received to-day by the Wellington Stock Exchange from the Big River South Gold Mining Co. : — "Big River South Mines mine report for, week ending 3rd inst. : Contractors extended tunnel 27ft, making 398 ft driven to date— the drive now very wet, otherwise no change."

The amount ofj revenue: derived from Customs dues at Wellington for the week ending to-day was £15,2^9 15s sd. Beer duty accounted for £300 10s, and the surtax £269 2s 7d. Dr. M'Arthur, S.M., to-day heard the case brought by Alexander Macdougall against Donald Stuart and his wife — a claim for £2 10s for one week's rent in lieu of notice. Plaintiff's statement of claim declared that defendants leased a house of his for twelve mpnths, at a rental of £2 10s .per week, beginning with Ist May, 1909. The lease was not signed, and defendants paid rent weekly until 7th August, when defendants removed their furniture without giving, it is alleged, due notice. Defendants entered a counterclaim for £1 100 for cleaning in the house and £5 damage for inconvenience while the interior of the house was being repaired. After taking certain evidence, the court adjourned till Monday afternoon next. Mr. T. E. Petherick appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. D. M. Findlay for deiendants. Timber of an exceptionally good quality is reaching Masterton from Manunui, on the Main Trunk Kne, near Taumarunui. According to the Wairarapa Age, out of a consignment of over 50,000 ft tor a dw'ellinghouse not a single foot was condemned. The varieties of ' timber were totara, matai, and rimu. -The architect for the work declared he i had never seen a better assemblage of timber. A health talk to ladies will be given at ttb.o Viavi Rooms on Monday afternoon.