STOCK AND SHAREMARKET.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 83, 9 April 1910, Page 5

STOCK AND SHAREMARKET.

WELLINGTON BUSINESS. The business reported and en 'Change to-day was as fellows : — INVESTMENT. Sales. 10 a.m.— Wellington Gas (£6 los), £13 »0s (r) ; Leyland-O'Brien Timber, £1 os (T). Quotations. 10 a.m. — Bank of New Zealand, £9 13s (b); Loan and Mercantile, 6s (b); New Zealand and River Plate, £1 13s 6d (b) ; Wellington Trust and Loan, £7 2s 6d (bl, £7 4s (s) ; Feiiding Gas, £1 Is 6d (bj; Wellington Gas (new issue), £2 7s 04 (s., preni.); Gear Meat (£1), £2 13s (b); Wellington Meat Export (£2 12s 6d), £2 15s 6d (s) ; Union Steam, £1 11s 9d (b); Wellington Woollen (ord), fIS 2s (b), and (pref.) £2 9s (b); Westport Coal, £6 4s (b), £6 6s (s) ; Consolidated Dental, £1 4s 6d (s) ; Sharland {pref. and ord.), £1 2s 3d ; Taranaki Petroleum, 9s 6d (s); Ward and Co., £5 (s). MINING. Sales. 10 a.m.— Old Hauraki, 3s 5d (r) ; Talisman, £2 12s, £2 12s 3d (r), £2 12s 6d (c); Ross, 8s 9d (r). Noon. — New Sylvia. 4s 3d (r) ; Talisman, £2 12s 6d (r); Waihi, £9 5s (r) ; Grand Junction, £l 11s 3d (c); Ross, 8s 9d (r). Quotations. Noon.— Dominion, Id (o) ; Kuranul Caledonian, Is 4d (b), Is 5d (s); May Queen, 4s 2d (b), 4s 4d (s); Maoriland,5d (b), 7d (s), Mountain King, lid (b); Old Hauraki, 3s 3d (b), 3a 5d (s); S*xon Is 6d (b), Is 8d (s); Victoria, Is Gd (s); Waitangi, 2s (b), 2s 2d (s); Watchjnan. Is 9d (b) ; Blackwater, £1 lCs (b)j £1 12s (b); Consolidated Goldfields, £1 Is (b), £l 2s (s); Progress, 13s 9d (b), los (*). AUCKLAND PRICES. £BT TELEGRAPH — PMSS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, Bth April. The following business was done at the afternoon call : — May Queen, 4s 3d ; New Sylvia, 4s sd, 4s 4d, 4s 3d; Ss-son, Is 7d; Victoria, Is 4d; Golden Pah, 3£d; Old Hauraki, 3s 4d, 3s sd, 3s 4d; Royal Oak (oontrib.), Is, lid; Golden Belt (contrib.), 2id; Maorirand, sid, 6d; Tairua Golden" Hills, 3s Id; Tairna Monarch?, 3d; Waihi, 186s 6d; Waihi Reefs, 7s; Mis*»ouri, 2£d; Wilson's Oment (pref.), 47s 6d. AUCKLAND, This Day. Business done on 'Change this morning included : — Slyvia. 4s 6d, 4s 7d ; Progress, Us 6d; Four-in-hiind, 9d; Hauraki. 3s sd, 3s 6d; Royal Oak (con.), JKI; Talisman, 535; Waihi, £9 5s Gd to £9 4s; Grand Junction, 31s 9d; Handsworth, B£d; Mountain King, lid; Watchman, Is lOd; Crown r 4« lid; Tairua Golden Hills, 3s Id: Mount Lyell, 35s 6d. DUNEDIN SALES. DUNEDIN, Bth April. Stock Exchange sales :— May Queen, 4s sd. 4s 44d (three parcels). Saks re- ' ported— Waihi Extended, 2a 9d; National Bank (cum rights), £6 ssvs v New Sylvia 4s sd ; Waihi, £9 fc* ; New Zealand Paper Mills, 225; New Zealand Portland Cansnt, 42s 6d; Wellington Gas, £13 10s ; Dunedin Corporation Debentures (£IOO, 4A per rent.), pat; Mornington Municipal Debentures (4£ per cent.), par.

A Press Association cable message leceived. this morning from Sydney states that Mr. Tw S. Clibborn, secretary of the Australian Jockey Club, is seriously After an exciting struggle lasting over half an hoar the occupant* of a rowing boat in Napier inner harbour, on Thursday, landed a sting-ray nine feet long and weighing about 130lb. Mr. H. Ross Dix, one of the engineers of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company, Burm&h, and a son of the lato Mr. H. Boss Dix, of Wellington, is at present visiting his friends in this city. He returns to the East next month. Sergeant J. M'Guire, who has been in the Wellington District Office for the past twelve years, left yesterday afternoon for Palmerston North, to which place he has been transferred. Prior to his departure he was presented by the men of the Lamb ton-quay police station with a travelling bag and umbrella, as » mark of esteem. The presentation was made by Station-Sergeant Darby. "Your boys turn out better than your men," remarked Captain W. F. Blunt, commander of H.M.S. Pioneer, to a New Zealand Herald representative, when speaking of the success which attended the training of New Zealanders for service in the^avy. Those of the men who display a willingness to settle down under the discipline of warship life, usually made successes, Captain Blunt stated, but in cases where recruits came from the back country and quickly tired of sea life, they often displayed a foolish tendency to desert. On the other hand, the younger New Zealanders entered more into the spirit of naval service, and were far more amenable to discipline. "In fact, I consider that this country has been doing very fina work during recent years in the direction of cadet training," Captain Blunt "added. "The boys seem to have far more healthy attractions to keep them off the street* and t-> prevent them from cultivating cv inc'.ination for idling." Speaking at a social functioi. in hil bononr at Grevmoath, tha Public Trustee (Dr. Fitchett) said a Minister of the Crown had stated that it would be a good thing to take thn Native lands 'out of the hands of the Public Trustee. He (Dr. Fitchett) felt now justified iv expressing the same opiniou. The administration of the Native lands gave no profit. Oil paper it looked as if a profit was made, but it was not so. Certainly they got 71 per cent, for administering the estate, but the expense was great. A special department had to be kept for the v.ork alone. While the Public Trust Office had this class of business it lost a good deal of legitimate business of a more profitable character. 1 The people of Greyraouth had no kindly feelmgs towards the Public Trust Office when they felt so strongly t.ver tho Native leases. The best interests of the Public Trust Office would bo conserved by gettins rid of the Nauv« reserves. In I.iid.naki the feeHmj was vory strong against the Public Trust Office, mainly due to the Native question. The office was not doing the business in Taranaki that it should do.* It w&s doing a good business in OreymoutJi. but would do ■rore if it dropped the Native lease question. If similar steps were taken next Year to those token last year, he would nave no hesitation in giving hie opinion and advising that the Public Trustee ehould lat the Native affairs go. Business cares make aching heeds— but no matter, Steams* Headache Care stops tiie pain quickly, makes your head ready for buriness again. Twenty million people use it. Is a box. — Advt. Mr Edward Collie publishes in our advertising columns a business noticp in reference to easy chairs. A meeting of the Hope 01 Wellington Tent of Rechabites will be held on Tuesda> evening. A notice regarding toe attigned eitate of T- M'Cord, grocer, TaranaJci-ttreet, is published in our adrertuin; eoiumxu.