STOCK AND SHAREMARKET.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 116, 18 May 1910, Page 8

STOCK AND SHAREMARKET.

WELLINGTON BUSINESS. The sales and quotations of investment and mining stocks ,to-day were as follow :— INVESTMENT. Sales. 10 a.m. — New Zealand Loan aad Mercantile, 11s 6d (r) ; Leylaud O'Brien, £1 4s 3d. Quotations. 10 a.m.— National BanK, £5 16s (b), £5 19s (s) ; Equitable Building, £9 5s 6d (b) ; Metropolitan Permanent (£10), £12 (s) ; National Mortgage, £3 3s (b) ; \vellington Investment T. and A., 11s 4d (b) ; Wellington Trust i^oan, £7 2s 9d (b) ; "Wellington Deposit, 7s 9d (b) ; Wellington Gas (£10), £17 15s (b) ; Gear Meat (£4), £10 5s (b) ; Wellington Meat Export (£2 12s .6d), £2 14s (b) ; NewZealand Shipping, £8 (b) ; Union S.S., £1 los (b) ; Hikurangi Coal, 19s 9d (b) ; Taupiri Coal, 19s 9d (s) ; Westport Coal, £6 8s (s) ; Westport-Stockton, 7s 3d (s) ; Donaghy Rope and Twine, £1 4s 9d (b) ; Sharland (ord.), £1 2s (s) ; Taranaki Petroleum (£1), 13s 9d (s^ • Taiiugamutu Totara, £1 2s (b) ; Ward and Company, £4 16s 6d (b) ; Whit combe and Tombs, £5 6s (b). MINING. 10 a.m.— Talisman, £2 12s 9d (r) : Grand Junction, €1 10s 6d (r) ; Ross, 9s 9d (c). Noon.— Waihi. £8 3k 9d (r), £8 3s 6d, £8 4s (c) ; Waitengi, 2s 9d (c) ; Ross, 9s 9d (r), 10s 6d (c). 3.15 p.m. — Talisman, £2 13s (r) ; Waihi, £8 4s 6cl (r) ; Ross Goldfields, 11s 6d (c). Quotations. Noon. — Kuramii Caledonian, Is 6d (b) ; May Queen, 4s 6d (b), 4s 8d (s) ; New .Sylvia, 3s lOd (b), 4s (s) ; Old Hauraki, 4s 4d (b), 4s 6d (s>; Saxon, Is 9d (b), Is lid (s): Tairua 8.H., Is 2d (b), Is 4d (s) ; Tairua G.H., 4s (b) ; Tairua Monarch, 3d (b), 5d (s) ; Talisman, £2 13s (b), £2 13s 3d (s) ; Grand Junction, £1 10s (h), £1 lls (s) ; Watchman, 2s 2d (b) ; Blackwater, £1 10s (t>), £1 10s 6d (s) ; Consolidated Goldlields, £1 0s 6d (b), £1 Is od (s). Private advices received in Wellington state that at the morning call in Auckland to-day Waihis were quoted at £8 4s buyers, and £8 5s .sellers : at the midday cull the quotations were £8 7s buyers, and £8 7s 6d sellers. AUCKLAND SALES. [BX TELEGRAPH — PKESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, 17th May. Business done at this afternoon's call of the Stock Exchange included: — May Queen, 4s 7d ; Waiotahi, 4s 5d : Watchman, 2s 4d, 2s sd; Old Hauraki, 4s 6d, 4s sd; Tairua Golden Hills, 4s sd ; Talisman Consolidated, 535 ; Waihi, 1665, 165s 6d ; Waihi Grand Junction, 31s ; Old Alburnia, lid ; New Zealand Crown. 4s 5d ; Bank of New Zealand, 203s 6d ; South British Insurance, 64s 6d ; Taupiri Coal, 19s 6d ; Auckland Trams (ordinary), 22s 9d ; Milne and (Jhoycc (preference), 235.

AUCKLAND, This Day. Business done on 'Change this morning : — Watchman 2s 4d, Ross Goldfields 9s 9d and 10s 3d, Talisman 53s 3d, Waihi £8 5s 6d to £8 7s 6d, Mount Lyell 13s Id. DUNEDIN PRICES. DUNEDIN, 17th May. Stock Exchange sales : — Talisman Consolidated (forward delivery), £2 13s; Waihi Grand Junction (forward delivery), £1 11s 9d. Sales reported. — Talisman Consolidated, £2 11s 9d ; Old Hauraki, 4s 6d ; May Queen, 4s 7d ; Waihi Extended, 2s 6d ; Waihi Grand Junction, £1 11s, £1 11s; Union Steam. £1 15s 3d, £1 13s 3d. LONDON QUOTATIONS. Bj Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received May 18, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, 17th May. Stock Exchange quotations : — Banks. — Bank of Australasia, buyers, £109 ; sellers, £l] 0; Union Bank buyers, £62 10s ; sellers, £63 10s ; National Bank of Australasia, buyers, £5 ss ; sellers, £5 10s (ex. div.). A private telegram states that the Arbitration Court will sit in Wellington on 15th June. An agitation ,for certain reforms in university methods, which has found some expression lately in newspaper correspondence, seems to be about to take definite shape. A public meeting has been arranged for the 31st inst., at which the Mayor has promised to preside, which will be addressed by several gentlemen who have interested themselves in the matter, and which those interested in educational concerns will be invited to attend. Dr. Anson, of Wellington, who has been on a visit to Sydney, returned by the UlimaToa this morning. Mr. Alfred Seifert, the well-known Manawatu flaxmiller, who has been spending some time in New South Wales for the benefit of his health, returned to Wellington by the Ulimaroa to-day.