AUCKLAND MINING MARKET.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10627, 4 June 1897, Page 3

AUCKLAND MINING MARKET.

(PEE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION,) (BY TELEGRAPH.) Auckland. Wednesday. Business showed a decided Improvemcut on tbo Exohange to-day, better rates being paid for ninny Hues. Bad* neoß done— Mo&notairi Extended, sales 3d, sellers 4d; Para Conenlid<\ted, bblbb 2s 91, sellers 2n Ud, buyers 2s 01 ; Soemdlnavian, sales 7Jd, sellers 8d : loua, sales la 6d, sellers Is 6d, buyers 1b sd ; Jupiter, Bales Is IJI, BBllora la sd, buyers 1b Id ; Kapal- Vermont, Bales 7* 2d to 7s 6d, cellera Sd 6d, buyers 7a 4d ; Rising San, 7d, sellers 7Jd, buyeis 6Jji ; Kußaell, ; sales 2d to 2Jd, sellers 3d, bnyers ljd ; I Talltman Extended, soles Is 3d to Is id, nellera la 6d, bayers la 3d ; WslUl . Extended, sales 9Jcl • sellers lOd, buyers 9d ; Walteksnti Prince, sales 2i, Bellero 4d, buyers 2d ; Caßqnerlng Hero, | eaUs 3d, saHers 4d ; Foar-ln hand, salos I Is lOd, sellers 2s 6d, buyers Is Sd ; GoldBtream, sales 4d, sellers 6d, bayere 4d ; Soeptre Contribatlng, sales 9£d, sellers lid; Mnnnrttalari Extended, ealos 31, sellers 4d ; Graoe Darling, aalus 2s 4d, 2i li, tellers 2n 4d, buyers 2) 2d ; New Zp \- land Tallamun, tales 19a, oeliere 19a Cd, buyers 18a 6d ; Porleca, vales lid, sellers Is. Waltekanrl return tor fonr weeke— £4031 from 1665 tons.

The half-yearly meeting of shareholder of the Walhl Codsolk Company, eallod (or Friday Insfc At the office of Mr H. Gllfil!i>n, Jan., Auckland, lapsed, The directors' report was read to those present. . It stated that operations at the mine had been confined to driving the northern

GCOtrtftiib from the Waihl trait shaft, which wop now in * distance of 430 feet, No reefs ha 3 been intersected, bnt several Beams had been Qat throogu, and, os the drive was paoaloff through an anprospected portion, of the ptojs6rty, the Hlreclora had coneSdeteu It pradent to oontlnnp tht same, especially aa they weco UDxloas to take na much advantage 6s ponelhie of the arrangement! made with the Wbibl Grand Junotion Company fcr ' the use of their shaft and winding oppll. ' ancßß. The directors were ol opinion that the development of the Grand Junotion I mine wonld hsvo an Important bearing ■ on the future of the Consols OomponyM i welfare. The balanoe-ahest showed the reeeipta for the half-year to have been £1269 18s 3d ; oqllh amounting to £025, and fixed deposit withdrawn to £500. The expenditure amonnted to £930 14s 2d, WBjtes and Bnpplles be.'nfr reebonolble for £697 19 d 3d. The credit baiauoe In bank was £339 is 6d.