STOCK AND SHAREMARKET.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 83, 5 October 1910, Page 8

STOCK AND SHAREMARKET.

WELLINGTON BUSINESS. Sales and quotations of investment and mining shares to-day, were as follows :—: — INVESTMENT. 10 a.m. — Wellington Gas, £10 shares, 10 (r) ; New Zealand Shipping, cum, £10 (r) ; Tarin^amutu Totara, £2 3s 6d (r). Quotations. 10 a.m. — National Bank, £5 15s (b) , £5 ]5s 6d (s) ; Bank- of New Zealand, £10 5s (b), £10 7s 6d (s) ; New Zealand Insurance, £4 0s 6d (b) ; Standard Insurance, £1 5s (b) ; Christchurch. Meat, £14 (b), ; £14 2s 6d (s) ; Meat Export, £2 12s 6d shares, £3 4s (b) ; Wellington Woollen (pref.), £2 16s (s) ; Taupiri, £1 10s 6d (s) ; Westport, ±,6 fts 6d (b); Westport Stockton, 7s (b) ; r eyland-O'Brien, £1 7s 6d (s) ; Manning and Co., £4 Is 6d (b) ; Consolidated Dental, £1 2s (s) ; Sharland (ord), £1 2s 3d (s) ; Ward and Co., £5 2s 6d (b), £5 5s (s). MINING. Sales. 10 a.m.— Talisman, £2 12s 6d (r) ; Waihi, £6 13s 6d, £6 12s 6d, £6 12s 9d (c). Noon.— Waihi, £6 12s 6d (r). 3.15 p.m.— Talisman, £2 12s 3d (r); Waihi Grand Junction, £1 16s, £1 15s 9d (c). Quotations. Noon. — Kuranui, 6d (s) ; Kui-anui Caledonian, Is 5d (b), Is 7d (s) ; May Queen, 3s lOd (b), 4s ld'(s); New Sylvia, 3s Gd (b) ; Old - Hauraki, 3s 9d (b), 3s lid (s) ; Saxon, Is 5d (b) ; Tairua. Broken Hills, Is 3d (b), Is 6d (s) ; Talisman, £2 12s (b), £2 12s 6d (s), and new issue, £1 15s (b), £1 15s 3d (s); Victoria, Is (b), Is 6d (s) ; Waihi Reefs, 4s lid (s) ; Waihi Extended, 2s 6d Is) ; Grand Junction, £1 16s (b), £1 16s" fad (s) j Waitangi, 2s (b), 2s Id (s,)j Watchman, 2s 9d (b), ?b lid (s)i Consolidated Goldfields, £1 Is 6d (b) ; New Big River, £2 14s (b) j Progress, 14s (b), 15s (s) ; Ross, 2s lOd ,(b), 3s (s). . BUSINESS ELSEWHERE. [BY TELEGRAPH — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, 4th October. The folio-wing business was done at the 3.15 p.m. call to-day : — Kuranui Caledonian, Is 6d ; Watchman, 2s lid ; Talisman Consolidated (new issue), £1 15s ; Waihi, £6 16s, £6 15s 6d, £6 15s, £6 14s 6d, £6 14s, £6 14s 6d ; Waihi Extended, 2s Bd, 2s 7d ; Waihi Grand Junction, £1 17s 3d, £1 17 a; Handsworth, 7£d ; May Queen, 4s ; Old Hauraki, 3s lOd ; Bank of New Zealand, £10 7s. AUCKLAND, This Day. Business done on 'Change to-day : — Watchman, 2s lOd ; Ross, 3s ; Crown, 4s 8d; Talisman. 535; Waihi, £6 12s 6d, £6 13s ; Waihi Reefs, 4s 7d ; Waihi Extended, 2s 6d ; Grand Junction, 36s 6d, 36s 9d ; Auckland Gas, 665 ; Auckland Trams (ord.), 24s 3d. DUNEDIN, 4th October. Stock Exchange sales : — Waihi, £6 16s, £6 15s 6d, £6 15s, £6 15s; Waihi Grand Junction, £1 17s 6d. Sales reported :— Waihi, £6 15s 6d, £6 14s; Waihi Grand Junction, £1 17s, £1 17s 2d ; New Sylvia, 3s lOd ; May Queen, 4s ; Old Ha'uraki, 3s lOd ; National Insurance, £1 lls 6d ; New Zealand Drug, £2 Hi,. LONDON QUOTATIONS. (Received October 5, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, 4th October. National Bank of Australasia shares are quoted at 5£ to s| ; New Zealand Loan and Mercantile, 96 ex div. ; City of Melbourne, 102 ; Board of Works, 100, ex div.

Mr. S. S. Cameron, M.R.C.V.S., of the Victorian Government Department of Agriculture, read a paper recently at the Chamber of Agriculture Convention, in Ballarat on the failure of Victorian horsebreeders to hold their own against those of New Zealand. He did not, he said, believe that climate had anything to do with it, but attributed the preference given to New Zealand-bred horses partly to fashion, partly to faulty rearing methods, and partly to haphazard or unscientific breeding. As regards rearing methods, Australian breeders were too inclined to depend on "natural" rearing in the paddock, without any help from shelter or hand-Feed-ing. With draught horses there had been indiscriminate and unenlightened crossing in' the breeding of horses for stud purposes. Messrs. J. C. Rimmer (Liverpool) and C. Danvers (Sydney), of the Liverpool, London, and Globe Insurance Co., arrived by the Ulimaroa from Sydney to-day. They were met on arrival by >lr. C. J. Cooper (Ghrmchurch/, general manager of tne company in New Zea-