STOCK AND SHAREMARKET.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 110, 11 May 1910, Page 8

STOCK AND SHAREMARKET.

WELLINGTON BUSINESS. , There was but little business on 'Change to-day. Following ar© prices and quotation* :—: — INVESTMENT. Sales. 10 a.m. — National Bank New Zealand, £5 15s (r); D.I.C. (pref.), £1 2s (r). Quotations. 10 a.m.— Bank New Zealand, £9 19s (b)j Equitable Building, £9 4s; Wellington Trust Loan, £7 2s 6d ; Wellington Deposit Mortgage, 7s 9d (b) ; Christchurch Meat,' £11 13s (b) ; Meat Export (£2 12s 6d), £2 Ms (b) ; New Zealand Shipping, £7 19s (b) ; Union Steam Ship (ex), £1 12s (b) ; Wellington Woollen (ord), £3 5s (b) ; Westport Coal, £6 6s 6d (b), £6 8s 6d (s) ; Ley-land-O'Brien, £1 4s 6d (s); Sharland (ord. and pref.), £1 2s (s) ; Taranaki Petroleum, 13s (b), 13s 9d (s) ; Ward and Co., £4 17s 6d (s). MINING. Sales. 10 a.m.— Talisman, £2 lls 10£ d (r) ; Waitangi, 2s Bd, 2s 9d (r). Noon. — No sale. 3.30 p.m. — Taranaki Petroleum, 13s 6d Quotations. Noon. — Kuranui-Caledonian, Is 7d (b), Is 9d (s); May Queen, 4s 6d (b), 4s 9d (s) ; New Sylvia, 4s (b) ; Old Hauraki, 4s 5d (b), 4s 6d (s) ; Saxon, lfi lOd (b), 2s (s) ; Tairua Golden Hills, 4s (b) ; Talisman, £2 lls 6d (b), £2 12s (s) ; Waihi, £8 Is (b), £8 3s (*) ; Grand Junction, £1 8s 9d (b) ; Waiotahi, 4s 3d (b); Waitangi, 2s 7d (b), 2s 9d (s) ; Watchman, Is lOd (b) ; Progress, 12s (b). AUCKLAND~PRICES. [B? TELEGRAPH — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, 10th May. The following business was done at tho afternoon call to-day : — New Sylvia, 4a, 4s Id; Waitangi Consolidated, 2s 7d, 2s Bd, 2s 9d ; Tairua Golden Hills, 4s, 4s Id, 4s 3d; Tairua Monarch, 4£d, 4d, 4£d; Waihi, 1645; May Queen, 4s sd ; Saxon, Is 9d ; Waiotahi, 4s 2d, 4s 3d ; Waihi GTand Junction, 295 ; Old Hauraki, 4s 8d ; Taupiri Coal, 19s 6d ; Wilson's Cement (pref.), 47s 6d; South British Insurance, 635; Auckland Trams (ord.), 22s 6d. AUCKLAND, This Day. Business done on 'Change this morning : Kuranui-Caledonian, Is 8d and Is 9d ; May Queen, 4s 6d to 4s lid ; Alburnia (pdj, Is ; Saxon, Is lOd ; Victoria, Is 6d and le 7d ; Waiotahi, 4s 4d and 4s 6d ; Waitangi, 2s 9d ; Hauraki, 4s 7d : Tairua Golden Hills, 4s 5d and 4s 8d; Tairua Monarch, sd ; Talisman, 525 ; Waihi, £8 4s to £8 6s; Grand Junction, 29s 9d and 30s 3d ; Taranaki Petroleum, 13s 9d and 13s 6d ; South British, 63s 3d; Wilson's Cement 7ord.), 47s 3d. DUNEDIN SALES. DUNEDIN, 10th May. Stock Exchange sales : — Old Hauraki, 48 7d, 4s 7£d; Talisman Consolidated (forward delivery), £2 12s. Sales reported :— Golden Bed, £1; Muddy Terrace, £1 7s 6d. LONDON QUOTATIONS. -By Telegraph. —Press Association.— Copyright. (Received May 11, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 10th May. Australian mortgage stock is quoted at 102 ; Dalgety's at 100. The free and undesirable tenant, for whose welfare the Wellington police 1 evince such an anxiety, has made an j appearance at Petone. In weather such J as now obtains the parks and shrubberies are not conducive- to restful slumber, and the vagrant person, being, in legal phraseology, still without lawful visible means of support, makes instinctively for empty houses, which he has located previously in view of such a contingency as dripping nights. No "tuppence. Three strangers to the district, coming in the category of undesirables, were arraigned before Messrs Inglis and Southgate, J.P.s, to-day at the Petone Court. Each was charged with being a rogue and a vagabond. The accused, Joseph Weslon, William Carthy, and William Wilson (it was stated) were considered undesirable residents of the locality in that two of them had been discovered in one of the Government cottages — apparently .without any monetary liabilities, or without any means of meeting the same even if these existed. Carthy, the youngest of the two, had been up before the court yesterday, when he was merely convicted on condition that he left the district. He had not availed himself of the opportunity, and this morn-ing was sent to safer quarters for three months. Weston (a six months' sentence) need have jio apprehensions as to his board and lodging | during the coming winter, while Wilson was sent to gaol for a month. A nine-roomed t>vo-storied house at the Lower Hutt was destroyed by fire early this morning. The building (owned by Mr. E. G. Pilcher, Wellington) was occupied by Mr. John Fisk. The furniture was insured far £100 in the Royal Office, and the house for £300 in the Commercial Unlpa Offlps*