REEFTON MINING AND STOCK EXCHANGE.

Inangahua Times, Volume XVI, Issue 298, 18 April 1892, Page 3

REEFTON MINING AND STOCK EXCHANGE.

Business has been slack during the week. Big Rivers sold at 78, buyers remaining at same Cumberland: a few hundred sold at 16s ; speculators are waiting lor the reef to be found in the low level before advancing on that price. Fiery Cross : a small parcel changed hands at 2s 9d. Golden Lead: buyers are offering 2s, and remain unsupplied. Gallants have a downward tendency ; sellers at 9d. The Globe mine is looking well "with Btrong buyers at 15s 9d. No. 2 Dark is also looking well in stopes; shareholders may expect a dividend at the end of the month; buyers at 4s 6d but no shares offering. Progress returns are not so good as expected, but are certain to improve next week. Drake : sales at Is 2d, the shaft is down the required distance and a start will be made to drive for the reef immediately. Alpine returns will certainly improve and regular dividends may be expected shortly when the north block is opened up; sales, 15s 9d. Mid-dat Quotations. Buyer. Seller, s. d. s. d.

The other day, in California, a Mr Avery was married to a Mimßbmß. The sub-editor headed the report of the ceremony "Avery-Small Wedding/; But the composito/knew butter than tiu^and altered it to "A Very Small wedding, Grubb continues todraw immense audiences at the Opera House in Wellington. The work of conversion is said to be going ahead very rapidly, and some remarkable cases of changed life are spoken of as a result of the mission. and all other insects, whilst quite harmless to domestic animals. In exterminating Beetles the success of this powder is extraordinary. It is perfectly clean in -application • Seethe article you purchase ■is" KEVto<*B," as imitations are noxious amHofeiectual. Sold in tins, 6d, Is, and 2a 6d,4ach, hy a chemists. Miss Hewitt, formerly of Dunedin High school but for the last seven years Principal of the Napier Girls' High School, died on Friday the Bth inst somewhat suddenly though she had been in ill-health for some years. Miss Hewitt was an ardent social reformer, amongst other things objecting on sanitary grounds to the burial of the dead. When her will was opened it was found that she desired her body to be cremated if possible, but in the absence of suitable appliances it was to be taken to sea and sunk. On Saturday afternoon therefore a steamer took the body six miles from shore, where it was committed to the sea, Dean Hovell reading the burial service. . Late the other night a man was seen to approach in a stealthy manner a deep pool in a retired spot in Dunedin. When he thought no one was observing him he dropped a bulky parcel into the, water and made off. Here were the materials for a delicious tragedy, a maddening mystery. Information was taken to the police station, and the intelligent inspector on duty recognising the' gravity of the situation, sent for a detachment of the tire brigade, and commenced pumping the water out of the pool. All night they pumped, and when the sun was winging his measured course across the eastern skies the mysterious parcel was displayed to li"ht, lying flat and squat on the bottom mud! A vast crowd pressed forward, thrilled to the finger tips with expectation. Was it dynamite cartridges, or the lnnbs of a man, or the head of a man, or the neac of a woman, or the body of a murdered child. It was neither of these. It was a case of Sharland's Moa Brand Baking Powder destroyed by the order of a combined company of rivals.— Advt.

Alexander Dredging 0 0 ... SO Big River 7 0 ... 7 6 Cumberland ... 15 6 ... 16 0 Exchange 0 0 ... 1 4 Fiery Cross ... 2 3 ... 2.9 General Gordon ... 0 0 ... 0 6 Golden Lead ... 2 0 ... 0 0 Gallant ...' ... 0 0 ... 0 9 Globe 15 3 ...15 9 Homeward Bound 0 0 ... 1 8 Hercules 0 0 ... 1 3 Keep-it-Dark ... 0 0 ... 12 8 Lord Edward ... 2 8 ... 3 0 No. 2 South Dark 4 6 ... 4 9 Progress 0 0 ... 15 9 Scotia 0 0 ... 0 6 Sir F.Drake ... 0 0 ... 1 2 Russell ... ... 011 ... 1 0 Specimen Hill ... 0 0 ... 0 6 Success 0 5 ... 0 6 tfnited Alpine ... 15 6 ... 16 0 Wealth ... ... 0 0 ... 2 0 Thomas F. Fenton, Jas. Kieton.